Intro topic: Revisiting the power of Spreadsheets

News/Links:

• LK-99 Isn’t a Superconductor
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02585-7
• Normalizing Flows
  • https://pyro.ai/examples/normalizing_flows_i.html
• How is llama.cpp possible?
  • https://finbarr.ca/how-is-llama-cpp-possible/
• Chat with open source large language models
  • https://chat.lmsys.org/
    
    

Book of the Show

• Patrick: Math with Bad Drawings by Ben Orlin
  • https://amzn.to/44dsgDz
• Jason: 
  • Overboard! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.InkleLtd.Overboard Nhl=en_US&gl=US 

Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h

Tool of the Show

• Patrick: 
  • ffmprovisr https://amiaopensource.github.io/ffmprovisr/
• Jason:
  • Pandas read_ods() read_excel()

Topic: Differential Equations

• Why should programmers learn about DiffEq
  • Law of Large Numbers
• What are differential equations?
  • When you know the rate of change
  • EigenVectors & EigenValues
  • What is Jacobian What is Jacobian? | The right way of thinking derivatives and integrals
    
    
• Special cases
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Ordinary Differential Equations
• Why solvers are important
  • Numerical Stability at larger step sizes
  • Example: https://medium.com/@pukumarathe/eulers-method-and-runge-kutta-4th-order-method-in-python-b4a0068a8ebe 
• Fun Examples
  • Predator-Prey relationships in scipy
    • https://scientific-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/notebooks_rst/3_Ordinary_Differential_Equations/02_Examples/Lotka_Volterra_model.html 
  • Physics Engines for games
    • https://youtu.be/52n2qKgwW_Q 
  • PageRank
    • https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.08973.pdf 

Things to consider when choosing a database

• Speed & Latency
• Consistency, ACID Compliance
• Scalability
• Language support & Developer Experience
• Relational vs. Non-relational (SQL vs. NoSQL)
• Data types
• Security
• Database environment
  • Client vs Server access

Info on Kris & Harper:

• Website: harperdb.io
• Twitter: @harperdbio, @kriszyp
• Github: @HarperDB, @kriszyp

Episode 163 - Recursion

Intro topic: Electric Cars

News/Links:

• Snake Game in 101 Bytes in a QR Code
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/15ab4ct/my_qr_code_snake_game_is_now_only_101_bytes/
• Superconductor Rumors abound
  • https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/08/whats-going-on-with-the-reports-of-a-room-temperature-superconductor/
• OpenWorm
  • https://github.com/openworm/OpenWorm
• Creator of vim passes away
  • https://news.itsfoss.com/vim-creator-passed-away/
    
    

Book of the Show

• Patrick:
  • Little Book of Common Sense Investing by Jack Bogle https://amzn.to/43YqANR
• Jason: 
  • Mistborn Saga: https://amzn.to/3DJkUN8

Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h

Tool of the Show

• Jason:
  • reMarkable https://remarkable.com/
• Patrick: 
  • Stellarium (iOS and Android)

Topic: Recursion

• What is it
  • Divide-And-Conquer
  • Fibonacci numbers
• How to (not) teach recursion
• Practical Applications
  • Graph operations
    • Tree retrieval, balancing
    • Graph Search
  • Spatial partitioning
• Pitfalls
  • Stack size
• How to solve problems with recursion
  • (1) Consider the base cases
  • (2) Build the recursive step
  • (3) Look for ways the recursion will not terminate and fix
  • (4) (rest are optional) Remove global contexts
  • (5) Add memoization
  • (6) Build solutions incrementally

In the latest episode of Programming Throwdown, we delve into the captivating world of interactive fiction. We explore: Wordnet, Inform, and how games in the past have been the forerunners of today’s NLP challenges.

00:00:22 Introductions

00:00:39 To hard mode or not to hard mode

00:08:58 No moats in Google

00:16:37 Stable Diffusion blows Jason’s mind

00:21:31 Putting beats together

00:23:38 GPT4All

00:27:44 White Sand

00:35:28 Fortuna

00:38:55 Patrick’s ‘dirty’ secret

00:47:20 Wordnet

00:53:56 Procedural generation

00:57:29 On tabletop RPGs

01:00:48 Inform

01:07:27 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

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News/Links:

• Google: We have no moat and neither does OpenAI
  • https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither
• Stable Diffusion QR Codes
  • https://stable-diffusion-art.com/qr-code/ 
• Beginning to Make Music
  • https://learningmusic.ableton.com/
• GPT4All
  • https://gpt4all.io/index.html
• Wordnet:
  • https://wordnet.princeton.edu/
• Inform:
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inform

Book of the Show

• Patrick:
  • White Sand https://amzn.to/43CPMKA
• Jason: 
  • The Fortuna https://www.generativefiction.com/

Tool of the Show

• Jason:
  • Gatsby.js https://www.gatsbyjs.com/
• Patrick: 
  • Peglin https://store.steampowered.com/app/1296610/Peglin/ 

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MosaicML’s VP Of Engineering, Hagay Lupesko, joins us today to discuss generative AI!  We talk about how to use existing models as well as ways to finetune these models to a particular task or domain.

00:01:28 Introductions

00:02:09 Hagay’s circuitous career journey

00:08:25 Building software for large factories

00:17:30 The reality of new technologies

00:28:10 AWS

00:29:33 Pytorch’s leapfrog advantage

00:37:24 MosaicML’s mission

00:39:29 Generative AI

00:44:39 Giant data models

00:57:00 Data access tips

01:10:31 MPT-7B

01:27:01 Careers in Mosaic

01:31:46 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

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Links:

• Hagay Lupesko:
  • Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hagaylupesko/
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/hagay_lupesko
  • Github: https://github.com/lupesko
• MosaicML:
  • Website: https://www.mosaicml.com/
  • Careers: https://www.mosaicml.com/careers
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/MosaicML
  • Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mosaicml/
• Others:
  • Amp It Up (Amazon): https://www.amazon.com/Amp-Unlocking-Hypergrowth-Expectations-Intensity/dp/1119836115
  • Hugging Face Hub: https://huggingface.co/

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Where are you now? It’s a question that may seem easy to answer on the surface, but in truth hides more complexity than people expect. In today’s episode, we tackle the latest on AI, creative endeavors, and more before diving into the meaty discussion of position localization.

00:01:13 Steam Deck
00:11:22 Summoning Salt on Mario
00:16:49 100k stars
00:24:26 ChatGPT spam call
00:25:31 Build Your Own DB (from scratch)
00:29:50 DuckDB
00:35:07 Jason has an idea
00:37:58 Fighting Fantasy Classics
00:41:52 Patrick’s bread
00:47:52 Support the show
00:53:54 Awkward CRM emails
00:56:07 Rill
01:00:29 Position localization in detail
01:17:15 Common filter
01:25:22 Simultaneous localization
01:28:59 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:
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News/Links:

• The History of Super Mario Bros 3 100% World Records (Summoning Salt)
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EsFyogVvkw
• AutoGPT hits 100k stars
  • https://twitter.com/AlphaSignalAI/status/1649524105647906819
• Build Your Own Database from Scratch
  • https://build-your-own.org/database/
• Asking generative art AI to render mathematical theorems
  • https://twitter.com/TivadarDanka/status/1649721970886594561
• DuckDB:
  • https://duckdb.org/

Book of the Show:

• Jason: Fighting Fantasy Classics
  • https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tinmangames.ffhub&hl=en_US&gl=US
  • https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fighting-fantasy-classics/id1261201650
• Patrick: Evolutions in Bread: Artisan Pan Breads and Dutch-Oven Loaves at Home
  • https://amzn.to/44kW4iE

Tool of the Show:

• Jason: Jinja 
  • https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/3.1.x/
• Patrick: Rill 
  • https://www.rilldata.com/

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GraphQL is one of the biggest API enablers in software development, but just how complicated can things be? Tanmai Gopal – Hasura’s CEO extraordinaire – talks with Jason and Patrick about how the secret sauce gets made. They dive deeply from how APIs function to having them managed in practice – among several other topic, making this a must-listen episode. 

00:01:19 Introductions

00:01:48 Tanmai’s late start in programming

00:05:48 Plinko

00:13:06 Coursera

00:23:28 The question of API development

00:30:30 API layer functionality

00:34:58 How Hasura leverages JSON

00:39:08 GraphQL

00:42:49 Worse than an API call

00:49:15 The potential REST minefield

00:53:41 JSON Web Tokens

01:11:34 Scaling writes

01:15:17 Careers with Hasura

01:22:35 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

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Links:

•  Tanmai Gopal:
  •  Website: https://hasura.io/blog/@tanmaig/
  •  Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanmaig/
  •  Twitter: https://twitter.com/tanmaigo
  •  Github: https://github.com/coco98
•  Hasura:
  •  Website: https://hasura.io/
  •  Careers: https://hasura.io/careers/
  •  Twitter: https://twitter.com/HasuraHQ
  •  Github: https://github.com/hasura
  •  Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hasura
•  Others:
  •  Good Strategy, Bad Strategy (Amazon): https://www.amazon.com/Good-Strategy-Bad-Strategy-audiobook/dp/B07R6XQ8YP
  •  Modern Application Development (IIT Madras, archived): https://archive.nptel.ac.in/courses/106/106/106106156/

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In today’s episode, Jason and Patrick dive deeply with JFrog’s Senior Solutions Engineer, Bill Manning. With the conversation tackling the depth and complexity of software supply chains, vulnerabilities and more, Bill deftly offers grounded advice to listeners old and new.

00:00:26 Introductions

00:00:40 Bill’s plethora of job titles

00:09:33 The excitement of learning a language

00:15:08 Mechanical keyboards

00:21:17 Bill’s advice on adapting

00:27:55 What a supply chain is

00:34:28 Castle analogies

00:40:55 Unpacking legalities

00:52:11 Log4J

00:54:41 What JFrog does

01:01:16 What can go wrong

01:08:08 Getting started in this space

01:14:15 Careers in JFrog

01:20:23 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

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• Links:
  • Bill Manning:
    • Website: https://about.me/billmanning
    • Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/williammanning/
    • Twitter: https://twitter.com/williammanning
  • JFrog:
    • Website: https://jfrog.com/
    • Careers: https://join.jfrog.com/
    • Artifactory: https://jfrog.com/artifactory/
    • Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/jfrog-ltd/
  • Others:
    • Liquid Software: https://liquidsoftware.com/
    • SolarWinds hack incident: https://www.wired.com/story/the-untold-story-of-solarwinds-the-boldest-supply-chain-hack-ever/
    • Transitive dependencies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitive_dependency

More Throwdown? Check out this prior episode:

• 153: ChatGPT: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2023/03/153-chatgpt.html

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There’s more than what meets the eye when it comes to Kubernetes, and Craig Box – ARMO’s VP of Open Source & Community –is one of several who have seen its many twists and turns since its inception. He talks with Jason and Patrick about Kubernetes’ origins in pop culture, utility in the modern workflow, and possible future in today’s episode. 

00:01:31 Introductions

00:03:39 Craig’s early internet speed experience

00:07:46 An adventure towards Google

00:16:55 Project Seven

00:21:17 Mesos

00:26:42 The origin of Kubernetes

00:28:36 DS9’s influence on naming conventions

00:37:49 Getting more results with the same resources

00:47:13 IPv4

00:53:44 Craig’s thoughts on learning Kubernetes

01:06:59 Kubescape

01:18:12 Working at ARMO

01:23:16 Programming Throwdown on Youtube

01:23:55 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

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• Links:
  • Craig Box:
    • Substack: https://substack.com/profile/107796914-craig-box
    • Github: https://github.com/craigbox
    • Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/crbnz/
    • Twitter: https://twitter.com/craigbox
  • ARMO:
    • Website: https://www.armosec.io/
    • Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/armosec/
  • Others:
    • The Project Seven origin story: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/from-google-to-the-world-the-kubernetes-origin-story
    • 7 of 9 on Memory Alpha: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Seven_of_Nine

More Throwdown? Check out this prior episode:

• E135: Kubernetes with Aran Khanna: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2022/06/135-kubernetes-with-aran-khanna.html

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Should AI research be paused? How far ahead have deepfakes come? Join Patrick and Jason as they tackle their answers to these timely questions – plus an in-depth discussion on Perl in practice – with today’s episode of Programming Throwdown. 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

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News/Links:

• GPT4All & Stanford Alpaca
  • https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all
• Giant AI Experiments 6 month pause open letter
  • https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/
• Will Smith Eating Spaghetti generated video
  • https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgw8ek/ai-will-smith-eating-spaghetti-hill-haunt-you-for-the-rest-of-your-life
• Robust image compression implementation from a NASA paper
  • https://github.com/TheRealOrange/icer_compression
• Dig This Vegas
  • https://digthisvegas.com/
• XKCD:
  • https://xkcd.com/208/
• AI Open Letter:
  • https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/
• Godbolt:
  • https://godbolt.org/

Book of the Show:

• Jason: It Doesn’t Have To Be Crazy At Work
  • https://amzn.to/40PFgxH
• Patrick: Prince of Fools by Mark Lawrence
  • https://amzn.to/3lWVEO9

Tool of the Show:

• Jason: 
  • ReMarkable 2: https://remarkable.com/store/remarkable-2
• Patrick: 
  • Slay the Spire: https://store.steampowered.com/app/646570/Slay_the_Spire/

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