Most people say LLM are just language prediction systems… but how do human minds work comparatively? Can ChatGPT think, understand, or comprehend? Can you?It’s been a while since Ben, Brian, and Lyle geeked out… join us.Sparks of Artificial Ge

Tech News and Non Woo Meditation

Jun 1st, 2022 28m 18s

NFT insider trading, tech experts urge to resist Crypto industry influences, larges plant is a Sea Grass in Australia, Safari is popular, Microsoft Excel reduces remote data types – and Lyle’s hot take on meditation.U.S. charges OpenSea ex-empl

Delegate, Automate, Concentrate

Jan 19th, 2022 1h 10m

Quincy Larson is founder and CEO of the non-profit software school freeCodeCamp, where anyone can go and lear to program for free. Quincy is making real change in the world.This episode was recorded for my podcast Lunch with LyleQuincy mention

The Software Arts: Algorithm - Arithmetic

Jan 4th, 2022 52m 43s

Professor Warren Sack joins me to speak about the history of Algorithm, including Donald Knuth – Art of Computer Programing, Five Axioms of Algorithms, and When Computers Were Human.This is Part 1 of 2 on Algorithm.

Lasers for listening and seeing, music production, and recycling

Sep 16th, 2021 37m 23s

In this non-edited episode of GeekSpeak Lyle calls Ben impromptu to chat about using lasers for listening to rooms remotely, lasers being used to view into rooms, Ben’s recent focus on Music Production, and finally a story about California bein

Internal Company Podcasts, Some Thoughts

Jan 27th, 2021 22m 51s

Due to the popularity of the WeAreNetflix podcast I am contacted a bit about my thoughts on company podcasts. The WeAreNetflix podcast started off based on an internal only podcast that Michael Paulson and I started as a hack-day project.This

Wildfire-Caused Water Contamination

Sep 7th, 2020 53m 9s

The San Lorenzo Valley in Santa Cruz County has a partial Do Not Drink / Do Not Boil order in affect: is that order appropriate, what causes Wildfire water contamination, and what are good actions we as a community can take?Our guest is Andrew

20 Years of Ubiquitous Rust

Aug 18th, 2020 57m 28s

Dedi finds a wifi solution they like, Greg is on the road for the first time since the pandemic, Miles is playing with Rust, and Lyle is happy to have the Geeks virtually together to celebrate 20 years of hosting the show.Amplifi vs UnifiMTV C

Motivations of Podcasting and Fretless Instruments

Aug 11th, 2020 48m 18s

Ben Jaffe deciding to end his fantastic podcast Linear Digressions, Lyle celebrating 20 years hosting GeekSpeak, and geeking out on playing instruments that do not have “frets” like the Cello and Trombone.

Vacation with Chainsaws, Motors, and Glasses

Jul 16th, 2020 25m 24s

My vacation included fixing motors, accepting glasses, and milling redwood with chainsaws.My Replacement Fan MotorThermal Fuse CutoffNew Thermostat Switch with "Firestat"Milling RedwoodHere are some pix from our milling.The Logs: Me with my o

The Software Arts: Language

May 24th, 2020 53m 39s

Warren Sack is back for a conversation of the Natural and Institutional Language from the French Encyclopédistes, touching on The Wealth of Nations, Babbage, Lovelace, Donald Knuth, Information Theory, Work vs Work, James Prescott Joule, Functi

Highschool Social Software Usage

Mar 20th, 2020 40m 46s

On this episode Lyle interviews his daughter Gwendolyn about the social software she uses in High School – iMessage, Instagram, SnapChat, TikTok.And they play with Lyle’s new RodeCASTER Pro.Rode RODECaster Pro Integrated Podcast Production Stu

Elevating fears of Dropping Thoughts over Time

Feb 21st, 2020 1h 8m

Ben and Lyle chat about elevators, the fear of dropping things, Podcasting, how we experience thoughts, drawing, learning, music, meditation, Time Tracking, Theme:Focus, Memory and being Present.Are you a 1,2,3,4 or 5 in this apple visualizatio

Translation: The Software Arts (chapter 2)

Jan 6th, 2020 1h 9m

What does it mean to implement “hailing a cab” in software and how does this new translation stack up to the existing institution?Discussions based around “The Software Arts: Chapter 2”, "Translation"with the author Warren Sack.We talk about

Introduction to The Software Arts

Oct 24th, 2019 39m 49s

This episode kicks off a limited series of discussions with Warren Sack centered around his book The Software Arts, MIT Press, forward by John RajchmanThe Software Arts offers an alternative history of software that places the liberal arts at

Micro Extensions Expand State of Emergency

Aug 27th, 2019 1h 35m

MicroLEDs, Google Chrome Extensions are more private, macOS is locking things down, Expanse and other shows we are watching, and a post show covering wonderfully geeky PostGraphile.MicroLED Displays Could Show Up in Products as Soon as 2020Lyle

Simplecast - Podcasting and Business Development

Jul 30th, 2019 1h 16m

Brad Smith (@brad), the founder and CEO of Simplecast, talks with me about the creation of Simplecast from initial musings to venture capital infused growth, and building partnerships. Brad is also an expert on the podcasting landscape and walk

Lyle's Back Surgery and Podcasting Conversations

Jun 30th, 2019 45m 5s

Lyle Troxell and Ben Jaffe about the current state of the Geek Speak podcast, conversation styles, and Lyle’s L5 S1 Back Surgery Fusion with instrumentation.

Oruk-hai's Eugenics Star Trek in 1996

May 25th, 2019 1h 1m

New Geek Rich Zurad joins Ben and Lyle to cover the JRR universe badly, the Star Wars vs Star Trek argument, cover some of the podcasts they like, and their pet health problems.This gravity-powered battery could be the future of energy storage

Lyle Update from Amsterdam

May 17th, 2019 12m 58s

For the Netflix podcast I did a quick jaunt to Amsterdam – here is an audio-blog type entry of my time there – Lyle.Lyle's Photos Amsterdam - Kinda over-doing it.BanksyLaugh now - Moco MuseumYayoi Kusama - Moco MuseumExit Through the Gift Shop

Ben Joins Netflix

Apr 24th, 2019 1h 2m

Ben Jaffe and Lyle Troxell talk about the culture at Facebook and at Netflix and about vulnerability at work.Lyle tells a story about doing a branching talk about branching narratives. A quick chat about Star Trek Next Generation and even Ben’

Web Auth; Predicting Wind; Anti-Vax Videos

Mar 22nd, 2019 1h 9m

Wind prediction with AI, Anti-Vax movies pulled from Amazon Prime, Web Authn, and Home Automation and the cloud.Alphabet Subsidiary Trained AI to Predict Wind Output 36 Hours in AdvanceAmazon Removes Anti-Vaccine Content After CNN Business Repo

Software: Android, Ruby, ORM, & Podcasting

Mar 9th, 2019 50m 47s

Miles and Lyle chat about software development esp. about Ruby and ORMs which leads to a bit about the GeekSpeak Rails website, podcast chapter marks, recording podcasting, including hardware and budgets. A bit of inside baseball.Kotlin and And

Fake Images Undergo Existential Crisis

Mar 1st, 2019 41m 32s

Generative Adversarial Networks are a pattern of Machine Learning that can do some amazing things – in this episode we chat about them effecting our concepts of truth.And we include an episode of Linear Digressions from Ben and Katie to really

Updating Broken Laptops with Bad Languages

Feb 23rd, 2019 39m 7s

Miles walks us through buying a used 2015 MacBook Pro and upgrading it with a better hard drive. And we talk programing languages: Kotlin, Swift, Groovy, Java, Python and more. It’s a programing rich episode of GeekSpeak.Netflix Takes Broadban