FFS Talk podcast

FFS Talk podcast

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FFS Talk podcast episodes

  • Episode 0063: Reaction
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: Thinking out loud about Crowd Wisdom, what happens when the crowd encounters some new information, or impression, or perception, that forces a rapid change in opinion, does the crowd become more wise, or can reaction be distraction?
      • Links
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      • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
      • Groupthink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink
      • Propaganda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda
      • Deb Roy - Birth of a Word (TED) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE4ce4mexrU
        • 35 min
      • Episode 0062: Teams and Factions
        Show Notes
        • Host: Dan Hugo
        • Summary: Sports enthusiasm is not a new thing and not unique to the US, but it is certainly a driver for much more than sports in recent and not-so-recent times. We do tend to gravitate toward like-minded individuals, to groups, and eventually to factions that can be a bit more energized than even their most ardent team supporters otherwise. Where does this lead?
          • Links
          • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
          • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
          • Groupthink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink
          • Political Compass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Political_Compass
            • 50 min
          • Episode 0061: Own Your Own
            Show Notes
            • Host: Dan Hugo
            • Summary: We talked about social media, chaos in that space with and between the big players, and taking back our online presence making use of the Fediverse to syndicate our own content, but what about everything else?
              • Links
              • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
              • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
              • POSSE https://indieweb.org/POSSE
                • 48 min
              • Episode 0060: Social Media Chaos
                Show Notes
                • Host: Dan Hugo
                • Summary: Legacy social media platforms in the US, well-known around the world at this point, are getting a lot of attention, and not necessarily in a great way as some are bolting from the old stalwarts in search of the next place to congregate. Is this a good thing, is Bluesky really the next big thing and for the right reasons? Should we be moving back toward self-publishing?
                  • Links
                  • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
                  • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
                  • Fediverse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse
                  • Fediverse Observer https://fediverse.observer/
                  • Fediverse Directory https://fedi.directory/
                  • Mastodon (similar to Bluesky) https://joinmastodon.org/
                  • Pixelfed (similar to Instagram) https://pixelfed.org/
                  • Peertube (similar to YouTube) https://joinpeertube.org/
                  • POSSE https://indieweb.org/POSSE
                  • Free Our Feeds https://freeourfeeds.com/
                    • 1 hr 4 min
                  • Episode 0059: Crowd Wisdom pt 1
                    Show Notes
                    • Host: Dan Hugo
                    • Summary: We hear a lot every day, more often than that even, about surveys and polls and what people think about the things you may or may not care about. These are numbers coming from, somewhere, and we so often know the numbers but not the questions. Is this good?
                      • Links
                      • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
                      • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
                      • Wisdom of Crowds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds
                      • Bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias
                        • 33 min
                      • Episode 0058: Big Learning Thought Experiments
                        Show Notes
                        • Host: Dan Hugo
                        • Summary: Last week it was Big Learning Energy, now we can talk a little bit about where that energy is going, and should we feel good about this?
                          • Links
                          • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
                          • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
                          • How Much Electricity https://www.theverge.com/24066646/ai-electricity-energy-watts-generative-consumption
                          • Example AI-generated YouTube Video https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/perfect-secrecy-unbreakable-cipher/
                          • Drew Gooden on YouTube´s Obsession with AI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ai5NWd8nuo
                          • AI Slop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop
                            • 48 min
                          • Episode 0057: Big Learning Energy
                            Show Notes
                            • Host: Dan Hugo
                            • Summary: As 2024 winds down to a close, this being the final episode of that calendar year, let us consider briefly the energy requirements of our celebrity tech companies training their AI models and compare that to us humans…
                              • Links
                              • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
                              • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
                              • How Much Energy do LLMs Consume? https://adasci.org/how-much-energy-do-llms-consume-unveiling-the-power-behind-ai/
                              • Colossus https://www.datacenterfrontier.com/machine-learning/article/55244139/the-colossus-ai-supercomputer-elon-musks-drive-toward-data-center-ai-technology-domination
                              • Sam Altman´s Nuclear Energy Startup… https://www.notebookcheck.net/Sam-Altman-s-nuclear-energy-startup-signs-one-of-the-largest-nuclear-power-deals-to-date.937044.0.html
                              • AGI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence
                                • 34 min
                              • Episode 0056: Thought Experiments
                                Show Notes
                                • Host: Dan Hugo
                                • Summary: Have you ever been involved in a conversation or perhaps a presentation where you pose a hypothetical to make a point or to illustrate an idea and you find yourself defending your hypothetical instead of the point you were attempting to make? Thinking outside the box is not for the faint of heart…
                                  • Links
                                  • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
                                  • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
                                  • Thought Experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_experiment
                                  • Sabine on a poignant thought experiment fail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNRmNF55320
                                  • Motte-and-Bailey Fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy
                                    • 44 min
                                  • Episode 0055: Sources
                                    Show Notes
                                    • Host: Dan Hugo
                                    • Summary: There has been some talk, some concern, about what happens when the big companies run out of new, human-authored content to train their AI models on, and the snake begins to eat its tail, so to speak. Might there be a similar problem for content creators if main stream media falls behind, shrinks away, leaving your own personal Joe Rogan as your primary source of news and insights?
                                      • Links
                                      • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
                                      • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
                                      • Gallup shows declining trust in Mainstream https://news.gallup.com/poll/651977/americans-trust-media-remains-trend-low.aspx
                                      • Columbia Investigative Journalism Summer Class https://journalism.columbia.edu/summer-investigative-reporting-course
                                      • Podcasts as news sources https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2023/04/18/podcasts-as-a-source-of-news-and-information/
                                        • 42 min
                                      • Episode 0054: Crypto Chaos
                                        Show Notes
                                        • Host: Dan Hugo
                                        • Summary: Cryptocurrency is all the rage, with hope in the marketplace that regulations will go their way and we can all benefit from the absolute chaos that is this mathematical magic of The Blockchain turned into anything from a financial transaction medium to a scam machine.
                                          • Links
                                          • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
                                          • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
                                          • Exposing the Hawk Tuah Scam - Coffeezilla https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUHq8AWR1Rg
                                          • Rug Pull (Exit Scam) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_scam
                                          • Cryptocurrency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency
                                          • Blockchain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain
                                          • Fiat Money https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money
                                          • Tokenomics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokenomics
                                            • 35 min

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