Only This

Only This

By Ken PattenTechnology
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Only This episodes

  • A Conversation with Boston Sully (AI)

    An UNCENSORED 1 on 1 conversion with Boston Sully, an up and coming AI comic. I prepared 11 questions for Sully, and his answers will be straight from the AI, no censorship. Note that Sully is built on the Deepseek-R1 LLM, and has access to current information on the Web. 

    12 min
  • Is That Really True?

    With the sudden emergence of AI deepfakes, telling what's real and what's not has become harder than ever. In this episode I introduce the topic of determining truth, provide a step by step process to achieve that goal, and wrap-up with some philosophical approaches to determine truth for further study.

    14 min
  • How I Made It in L.A.

    This episode tells the tale of how I found my fortune by moving from Freson, CA to Los Angeles, how I went from an unemployed factory worker to a professional programmer. It's a strange and sometimes miraculous story. I don't think this is a viable route today, because software development has become a formal field of study at colleges and universities now -- but you never know. This is how I did it.

    26 min
  • The Squirrel Man

    This story originated as an essay, which I fgsn asked Chat-GPT to enhance and elaborate. Since it came out pretty good, I decided to use it as the script for this fictional podcast, to serve as an example of the new natural language processing AI models. Hope you enjoy.

    11 min
  • Thomas Jefferson (AI) on the Debt Crisis

    This is a fictional interview with Thomas Jefferson written by ChatGPT, with minor edits by Dwight Patten and Ken Patten (me). Dwight plays Mr. Jefferson, while I act as host. Since Jefferson is speaking from beyond the grave, his voice is a bit distorted.

    10 min
  • The Art of Programming

    A talk on the artistic aspects of software development, beyond merely getting it to run without throwing an exception. Meant primarily for intermediate coders and anyone interested in the finer aspects of programming.

    Notes
    o Chat-GPT: https://chat.openai.com
    o Google Copilot: https://github.com/features/copilot

    24 min
  • A Brief History of Online Social Media

    Obviously, one fairly short podcast episode can't cover a subject like the history of online social media, but this one covers it from the perspective of one who lived it, and focuses on its evolution -- from amazing creations from a group of glory-seeking online geeks to a gold mine for big greedy corporations.

    RFC 1459: Internet Relay Chat Protocol
    https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1459

    15 min
  • Musical Keys and Modulation

    This is a technical overview of the well-tempered system of musical tuning. It starts with a brief overview of its history, evolution, and structure, followed by a discussion of various modulation techniques -- ways to go from one key to another.

    19 min

About Only This

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A series of eclectic podcasts about real stuff, no bullshit, propaganda, conspiracy theories, religious fairytales, or other nonsense (unless clearly labeled as fiction). Just reality -- only this.