Hot Topic #3 ▶ 25 Sep 2019 - Recent Revelations in Robotics

Lots of robotics news this week -- Boston Dynamics' latest iteration of their humanoid "Atlas" robot, MIT debuts a dense-object-sorting robot, NASA has a shape-shifting robot slated to roam a moon of Saturn, a fiber-optic nervous system, and more!

short & sweet & hard-to-beat!

+ Eric Newman & Ryan Cwynar

Hot Topic #3 ▶ Recent Revelations in Robotics

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Pull Request #90 ▶ 21st-Centry Media + Web Component Performance

(originally recorded 15 Dec 2022)

Eric + Joel discuss the current state of modern media creation / produciton / distribution

AND walk through how to make performant front-end web components, regardless of framework.

+ Eric Newman + Joel Cox

#90 ▶ 21st-Centry Media + Web Component Performance

Pull Request #89 ▶ AI Art

(originally recorded 18 Nov 2022)

Eric + Joel discuss the burgeoning field of AI Art -- stable diffusion, deep-fakes, DALE-2, and more!

+ Eric Newman + Joel Cox

#89 ▶ AI Art

Pull Request #88 ▶ ETH Merge (Part 2)

PART 2 of the Ethereum ($ETH) Merge /// Out-of-Order!
(recorded 22 Sept 2022 /// one week after the Merge)

⚡️REMEMBER⚡️ /// Ethereum ($ETH) changed from a "proof-of-work" to "proof-of-stake" transaction  hashing scheme.

We examine the ramifications of the Merge, how much energy has actually been saved so far, its effect on prices, and more!.

And miners are still f█████

PS – now with better audio!

+ Eric Newman, Joel Cox, Ryan Cwynar

#88 ▶ ETH Merge (Part 2)

Pull Request #87 ▶ ETH Merge (Part 1)

PART 1 of the Ethereum ($ETH) Merge /// Out-of-Order! 

⚡️BREAKING NEWS⚡️ /// Ethereum ($ETH) has changed from a "proof-of-work" to "proof-of-stake" transaction  hashing scheme.

We explain what happened, what's going on about it, and the ramification it has for the crypto space at-large.

Also miners are f█████

PS – now with better audio!

+ Eric Newman, Joel Cox, Ryan Cwynar

#87 ▶ ETH Merge (Part 1)

Pull Request #83 ▶ Persons of Influence ▶ Michael Elder (mikeyeldey95) Part 2

PART 2 of our interview with chip-tuner Michael Elder.

His new album, mikeyeldey95, is contained inside a real-life Sega Genesis / Mega Drive cart, surrounded by a fake Windows 95 shell.

We ask him the "how"s, "why"s, and other things about his brilliant creation.

GET HIS ALBUM ▶ https://mikeyeldey.itch.io/mikeyeldey95

+ Eric Newman

Hot Topic #3 ▶ Recent Revelations in Robotics

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