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Dave & Gunnar Show episodes

  • Episode 188: Lemonade Stand for Plagues

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: Wearables. Literally.

    • 'It’s a Moral Imperative:' Archivists Made a Directory of 5,000 Coronavirus Studies to Bypass Paywalls
      • Coronavirus Is Not The ‘Corona Beer Virus,’ What People Are Googling
      • See also: Plague Inc. maker: Don’t use our game for coronavirus modeling
        • Lemonade Stand
        • PharmaSim
        • To-Read: Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 1: The Structures of Everyday Life by Fernand Braudel
        • Beria: Stalin's First Lieutenant
        • Cry for help? Dave read 9M words in Pocket, equivalent to 122 books. He’s a one-percenter.
        • Kid’s Bulletproof Hoodie (Unisex)
        • Turn Your Cat's Face Into A Wearable Mask
        • AirPod Carrying Strap
        • New USB cable kills your Linux laptop if stolen in a public place
        • Getting Your Team to Do More Than Meet Deadlines
          • See also this shameless plug: 10 tips to run more effective meetings in 2020

            • Cutting Room Floor

            • OpenStreetMap Haiku project generates poetry about your location
            • Welsh Password Generator
            • New tweet generator mocks venture capitalists
            • LaCroix flavor generator
              • See also

                • We Give Thanks

                • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                  • 31 min
                • Episode 187: Empathy at Scale

                  This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Facebook content moderator jobs, scooter repo man jobs, AI job interviews, and a pogo stick franchise opportunity?

                  • Helmet
                    • Meantime
                    • The Spy
                    • Fantastic Mr. Fox
                    • The Western Literary Canon in Context
                    • The Trauma Floor
                    • Bodies in Seats
                    • A face-scanning algorithm increasingly decides whether you deserve the job
                    • They said you could leave electric scooters anywhere — then the repo men struck back
                    • Nice Bones You Got There, Shame If a Startup Was to Start Renting Out Pogo Sticks

                      • Cutting Room Floor

                      • It’s possible to build a Turing machine within Magic: The Gathering
                      • Ikea Tarot Cards
                      • Disturbing baby shower cake
                      • Alex Trebek Affirmation Soundboard
                      • I Saw Mommy Kissing Yog-Sototh + Other Lovecraftian Christmas Songs
                        • Sheet music for personal use only

                          • We Give Thanks

                          • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                            • 44 min
                          • Episode 186: The Gig Economy of Dead Drops

                            This week Dave and Gunnar talk about reinventing the human-computer interface, reinventing self-storage, reinventing wardriving, and reinventing the middle seat.

                            • RHEL 8.1 is out!
                            • Gunnar says sketching is great.
                            • Folding laundry like a boss and with tools
                            • Your next phone case could have the feel of human skin
                              • Partner with Dadbag? (See D&G 147)
                              • The Gig Economy’s Storage Hustle
                              • East Cleveland, OH
                              • New ‘warshipping’ technique gives hackers access to enterprise offices
                              • Who Gets the Armrests When You Fly Economy?
                              • Airlines are finally fixing the middle seat

                                • Cutting Room Floor

                                • 10 Facts About the Beastie Boys's 'Sabotage' Video
                                • (53) Incredibly Stylish Mugshots From The 1920s
                                • 100,000 Faces Generated by AI

                                  • We Give Thanks

                                  • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                                    • 28 min
                                  • Episode 185: In Your Brain, Nobody Can Hear You Scream

                                    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about reviving pig brains from the dead, making human-monkey chimeras, and whether we should be doing either

                                    • Dave wears makeup
                                      • See Dave w/makeup on the IBM Government Cloud Virtual Summit Agenda - Special Hybrid Cloud Edition
                                      • Concepts
                                      • This War of Mine
                                      • The Great Courses at Gunnar's library!
                                      • Viewer mail: John Scott writes on LinkedIn “The Chinese tried to do the same thing via Red Flag Linux (https://lnkd.in/ev_aKQd) - it didn't work. I would bet this won't either, just way too much embedded IP in Android. + the Chinese way will be to blatantly rip off parts of the Android code base, meaning that down stream companies could be sued for IP violation by Google and others. Gunnar Hellekson David Egts might have some thoughts…”
                                      • Follow up from D&G 165… BrainEx: Scientists Are Giving Dead Brains New Life. What Could Go Wrong?
                                        • See also: Part-revived pig brains raise slew of ethical quandaries
                                        • 'It just really ethically scares me': Caution urged as scientists look to create human-monkey chimeras
                                        • Palate cleanser: This Robot Fish Powers Itself With Fake Blood

                                          • Cutting Room Floor

                                          • Police warn against using gun-shaped cellphone cases after traffic stop encounter; cases are banned in Chicago
                                          • Honestly, a Video Game That Strands You On a Boring Six-Hour Flight Is Just What I Need Right Now

                                            • We Give Thanks

                                            • John Scott
                                            • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                                              • 36 min
                                            • Episode 184: Orrin Inside

                                              This week Dave talks with Steve Orrin about silicon, security, Ceph, and sharks

                                              • Intel Corporation
                                                • Networking
                                                • FPGAs and programmable devices
                                                • AI
                                                • IoT
                                                • Storage
                                                • Ceph
                                                • 5G
                                                • World's First Autonomous Shark Detecting UAV
                                                • Black Hat
                                                • DEF CON
                                                  • AFRL to launch sophisticated cyber challenge at DEFCON 27
                                                  • Eclypsium
                                                  • Exascale computing
                                                    • Aurora supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory

                                                      • We Give Thanks

                                                      • Steve Orrin for joining us on the show!
                                                      • Emily Burdeshaw for suggesting that Steve join the show!

                                                        • Special Guest: Steve Orrin.

                                                        29 min
                                                      • Episode 183: Failure Is an Option

                                                        This week Dave and Gunnar talk about failing with public relations, failing with smart TVs, failing with zip files, and failing with collaboration tools

                                                        • Emma Long Metropolitan Park
                                                        • How Amazon and the Cops Set Up an Elaborate Sting Operation That Accomplished Nothing
                                                        • Samsung asks users to please virus-scan their TVs
                                                        • A better zip bomb
                                                        • Microsoft says Teams now has 13M daily active users
                                                          • The Slackification of the American Home

                                                            • Cutting Room Floor

                                                            • Mining Bitcoin on the Apollo Guidance Computer
                                                            • CPAP Facehugger

                                                              • We Give Thanks

                                                              • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                                                                • 26 min
                                                              • Episode 182: Stochastic Fakery

                                                                This week Dave and Gunnar talk about faking faces, faking friends, faking holes, faking dominance, and faking work

                                                                • Stochastic terrorism: Deplatforming 8chan, the First Amendment, the Communications Decency Act, and accountability
                                                                • Artificial Intelligence Is Coming for Our Faces
                                                                  • Which Face Is Real?
                                                                  • GROVER — A State-of-the-Art Defense against Neural Fake News
                                                                  • Catching a Unicorn with GLTR: A tool to detect automatically generated text
                                                                  • Experts: Spy used AI-generated face to connect with targets
                                                                  • NVIDIA's AI fixes photos by recognizing what's missing
                                                                    • Censorship of images in the Soviet Union
                                                                    • Development of "whole body model automatic generation AI" which generates whole body image of non-existent person
                                                                    • China has unveiled its 'first female AI news anchor'
                                                                    • Speech2Face: Learning the Face Behind a Voice
                                                                    • Want to Look Dominant? Tilt Your Head Down, Study Says
                                                                    • 'Netflix Hangouts' Chrome extension helps skivers binge shows at work

                                                                      • Cutting Room Floor

                                                                      • Highway patrol pulls over hearse in Las Vegas high-occupancy vehicle lane. Is the body an occupant?
                                                                      • Unnecessary Inventions

                                                                        • We Give Thanks

                                                                        • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                                                                          • 28 min
                                                                        • Episode 181: Freedom Is Slavery

                                                                          This week Dave and Gunnar talk about AI vs. AI, people vs. AI vs. people, AI vs. people, and people vs. people (in that order)

                                                                          • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
                                                                          • Dark
                                                                          • Camping towels
                                                                          • Researchers Fool ReCAPTCHA With Google’s Own Speech-To-Text Service
                                                                          • One year later, restaurants are still confused by Google Duplex
                                                                            • Hey Alexa, Why Is Voice Shopping So Lousy?
                                                                            • Google launches CallJoy, a virtual customer service phone agent for small businesses
                                                                            • Uber’s premium customers can now push a button to tell their drivers to be quiet
                                                                            • Quake III Arena is the latest game to see AI top humans
                                                                              • Capture the Flag: the emergence of complex cooperative agents
                                                                              • Centaur: How combined human and computer intelligence will redefine jobs
                                                                              • Princesses need pockets: A plea for jeans that fit our lives and our waistlines
                                                                                • Articles of Interest #3: Pockets
                                                                                • Tyranny of Structurelessness by Jo Freeman

                                                                                  • Cutting Room Floor

                                                                                  • Even more secret Telegrams: how to do a private covert channel over users blocking each other on Telegram
                                                                                  • For less than $10, anyone can make an AI write a fake UN speech
                                                                                  • User Inyerface

                                                                                    • We Give Thanks

                                                                                    • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                                                                                      • 36 min
                                                                                    • Episode 180: Everything's Better with Googly Eyes

                                                                                      This week Dave and Gunnar talk about blood, sweat, tears, DNA, and googly eyes

                                                                                      • Barton Springs Pool
                                                                                      • Teschner’s Rude Boy
                                                                                      • Cops Draw Blood to Catch Impaired Drivers
                                                                                      • Coming Soon to a Police Station Near You: The DNA ‘Magic Box’
                                                                                      • NY Time’s The Daily: A New Way to Solve a Murder
                                                                                      • Scammers May Be Using DNA Testing to Defraud Medicare and Steal Identities
                                                                                      • Scientists Add Googly Eyes to Donation Buckets, See a 48% Increase in Donations

                                                                                        • Cutting Room Floor

                                                                                        • 'Clean Home' With 'Private Bathroom' on Airbnb Just a Roadside Shipping Container, Guest Says
                                                                                        • H.P. Loveshack
                                                                                        • Grilled cheese sandwich cart idea

                                                                                          • We Give Thanks

                                                                                          • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                                                                                            • 35 min
                                                                                          • Episode 179: Jabbrrbox
                                                                                            • Welcome Jeremy!
                                                                                            • Jabbrrbox
                                                                                              • Micro-offices—anywhere—for the mobile workforce
                                                                                              • Jabbrrbox 2018 Showroom Tour
                                                                                              • Privately owned public space (POPS)
                                                                                              • Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
                                                                                              • Priority Pass
                                                                                              • Clear
                                                                                              • Registered Traveller for U.S. Citizens
                                                                                              • Uber Black launches Quiet Driver Mode
                                                                                              • Cafe X Robotic Coffee Bars

                                                                                                • We Give Thanks

                                                                                                • Jeremy Jennings of Jabbrrbox for being our special guest star!

                                                                                                  • Special Guest: Jeremy Jennings.

                                                                                                  39 min

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                                                                                                David Egts and Gunnar Hellekson discuss privacy, security, robots, and internet ephemera.