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May 03, 2023Episode 614: Sloppy Boy
Try to make sure fear is always preceded by curiosity.
Links:
(1) AI Generated Ad - Synthetic Summer. No real people featured - By Private Island - YouTube
Amazon.com: Netatmo Weather Station Indoor Outdoor with Wireless Outdoor Sensor - Compatible with Amazon Alexa & Apple HomeKit : Patio, Lawn & Garden
Söhne Mono fonts · Klim Type Foundry
1 hr 24 min
April 18, 2023Episode 613: That's Hair and That's Robot
Merlin has a lot of thoughts about AI stuff.
Links:
The Nice Guys (2016) - IMDb
1 hr 5 min
April 12, 2023Episode 612: See All of Your Face
Dan's house continues to get smarter, and Merlin has some very good media picks.
Links:
boygenius - the film - YouTube
Ancient Warfare Expert Rates 10 Battle Tactics In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? - YouTube
Watch DAVE Streaming Online | Hulu (Free Trial)
Amazon.com: Google Nest Doorbell - (Wired, 2nd Gen) - Video Security Camera - Ash : Tools & Home Improvement
Bram Stoker's Original Dracula Penguin Classic Books - Etsy
Ricky Jay 52 assistants medium - YouTube
The Day Today - Peter O'Hanra-Hanrahan - YouTube
Amazon.com : Ajinomoto Ajipanda bottle 70g : Grocery & Gourmet Food
1 hr 5 min
April 04, 2023Episode 611: Running FFMpeg on Myself
Dan has big updates about his smart home setup, and Merlin is getting intimate with a robot.
Links:
The Future is a Dead Mall - Decentraland and the Metaverse - YouTube
Folding Ideas - YouTube
Dreyfus model of skill acquisition - Wikipedia
— The Dreyfus model of skill acquisition is a model of how learners acquire skills through formal instruction and practicing, used in the fields of education and operations research. Brothers Stuart and Hubert Dreyfus proposed the model in 1980 in an 18-page report on their research at the University of California, Berkeley, Operations Research Center for the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research.[1] The model proposes that a student passes through five distinct stages and was originally determined as: novice, competence, proficiency, expertise, and mastery.
1 hr 29 min
March 23, 2023Episode 610: Hero Light
DISCUSSED: Steve Buscemi is celebrated, and The Big Lebowski is congratulated; the guys continue their dive into the state of smart home hardware with a focus on switches.
Links:
Michael Warburton on Twitter: "STEVE BUSCEMI served from 1980-1984 on Engine Co. 55 in Manhattan’s Little Italy. He donned the uniform once more when he voluntarily returned to his Station the day after 9/11 and spent a week of 12hr shifts digging through the rubble with his former FDNY colleagues. https://t.co/Z2xEtqecw1" / Twitter
Arena Brains (1987) - RARE 80's VIDEO - Starring Ray Liota, Steve Buscemi And Michael Stipe - YouTube
How Many Acoustic Panels do I Need? | Audimute
Honey Nut Cheerios - Wikipedia
Big Lebowski on Twitter: "[Walter]: Has the whole world GONE CRAZY?! AM I THE ONLY ONE HERE WHO GIVES A SHIT ABOUT THE RULES?! MARK IT ZERO! https://t.co/3mg9NfINH8" / Twitter
Aurora Smart Bulb Dimmer Switch | Lutron
Eve Energy | evehome.com
Eve Button– All FAQs | evehome.com
Eve Room | evehome.com
Welcome to Bunch - Bunch.app
— Bunch is a macOS automation tool that takes a folder of plain text files containing lists of apps and commands to launch and provides an easy-to-use menu for triggering them.
HomeControl Menu for HomeKit on the Mac App Store
1 hr 31 min
March 14, 2023Episode 609: A Reverse Egg
Dan is curious about AI voice transcription, and Merlin has yet more smart home advice for a new homeowner.
Links:
How an 18th Century Sailing Battleship Works - YouTube
GitHub - openai/whisper: Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision
1 hr 10 min
March 01, 2023Episode 608: Charles Entertainment Berry
DISCUSSED: Merlin has some been analyzing a very misleading song about beaches, and Dan has been visiting more with ChadGPT.
Links:
You're not going to believe what I'm about to tell you - The Oatmeal
Kokomo, Indiana - Wikipedia
— the ornriest town on earth
gragland/chatgpt-chrome-extension: A ChatGPT Chrome extension. Integrates ChatGPT into every text box on the internet.
wong2/chatgpt-google-extension: A browser extension that enhance search engines with ChatGPT
liady/ChatGPT-pdf: A Chrome extension for downloading your ChatGPT history to PNG, PDF or a sharable link
1 hr 5 min
February 21, 2023Episode 607: Age of Garbage
DISCUSSED: Dan has a new iPad keyboard, and Merlin is intrigued by ChatGPT. Also, Merlin almost tunes his guitar.
Links:
OpenAI
I tried using AI. It scared me. - YouTube
Fixing Gmail labels to attach to messages, not threads « Tom Scott
What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?
ChatGPT writes Merlin some code
ChatGPT shows Merlin some sed
ChatGPT sells Merlin on tabs vs. spaces
ChatGPT tells Merlin the best seasons of "Survivor"
VS Code Themes
Amazon.com: Logitech Combo Touch iPad Pro 11-inch (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th gen - 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022) Keyboard Case - Detachable Backlit Keyboard, Click-Anywhere Trackpad - Oxford Gray; USA Layout : Electronics
ShareGPT: Share your wildest ChatGPT conversations with one click.
1 hr 15 min
February 07, 2023Episode 606: Goodnight, Night
DISCUSSED: Dan's takes some smart baby steps into home automation, and Merlin has a lot to say about everything.
Links:
Obsidian
— Obsidian is a powerful and extensible knowledge base
that works on top of your local folder of plain text files.
Obsidian Canvas - Obsidian
— An infinite space to visualize and make sense of your ideas.
1 hr 13 min
January 31, 2023Episode 605: A Case for a Life
DISCUSSED: Dan begins a new journey into smart home living, and Merlin is excited about common misconceptions.
Links:
List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia
— Each entry on this list of common misconceptions is worded as a correction; the misconceptions themselves are implied rather than stated.
(via Sam Enright)
The Cabinet of Wikipedian Curiosities – Sam Enright
— Carl Sagan was involved in this plan to nuke the moon for unclear reasons, including “a possible boosting of domestic morale”.
Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
The Food Expiration Dates You Should Actually Follow - The New York Times
The Thoughts of a Spiderweb | Quanta Magazine
— Spiders appear to offload cognitive tasks to their webs, making them one of a number of species with a mind that isn’t fully confined within the head.
Reconcilable Differences #200: The Genius Who Keeps Retiring - Relay FM
Home Assistant
“Monorail!” How Conan O’Brien Came Up With an Iconic ‘Simpsons’ Episode - The Ringer
An Oral History of 'Marge vs The Monorail', the Episode That Changed 'The Simpsons'
Home | Archive of Our Own
— A fan-created, fan-run, nonprofit, noncommercial archive for transformative fanworks, like fanfiction, fanart, fan videos, and podfic
1 hr 5 min

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Back to Work is an award winning talk show with Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin discussing productivity, communication, work, barriers, constraints, tools, and more.