Geek Speak with Lyle Troxell
A weekly talk show about technology, science, and human creativity that excites, educates, and fosters curiosity. Discussions touch upon how technology affects society and how we react to that change. Hosts are passionate about explaining complex concepts in simple, easy to digest, chunks. We bridge the gaps between Geeks and the rest of humanity.
Tue, June 06, 2023
Large Language Models and Human Minds
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 General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4 - Microsoft Research
Wed, June 01, 2022
Tech News and Non Woo Meditation
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-employee in first NFT insider trading case | Reuters Tech Experts Urge Washington To Resist Crypto Industry's Influence - Slashdot The World's Largest Plant Is a Self-Cloning Sea Grass in Australia - Slashdot New data shows only two browsers with more than 1 billion users | Ars Technica Microsoft is killing Money in Excel along with Wolfram Alpha data types Samsung To Close LCD Business - Slashdot Question your Perception episode with Ben Jaffe on Lunch with Lyle Muller-Lyer Illusion: Optical Illusions in Psychology The True Purpose of Mindfulness
Wed, January 19, 2022
Delegate, Automate, Concentrate
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 Lyle Quincy mentioned two corses on freeCodeCamp Learn Responsive Web Design by Building 20 Projects Relational Database Course
Tue, January 04, 2022
The Software Arts: Algorithm - Arithmetic
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.
Thu, September 16, 2021
Lasers for listening and seeing, music production, and recycling
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 being better about communicating recycling possibilities on packaging. NLOS Keyhole Imaging Can See Inside a Closed Room Ben Here (Ben Jaffe's music) Recycling symbol can’t appear on non-recyclable items, California bill says | Ars Technica Gary Anderson - the creation of the "chasing arrows" Recycling symbol (pdf) This Episode as Video on YouTube
Wed, January 27, 2021
Internal Company Podcasts, Some Thoughts
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 episode is 20min of me talking about company internal podcasts. Feel free to ask me questions about this episode on twitter. - @lyle Lower Street - an example podcast provider One example of a company providing Private Podcast support – I have no affiliation. Blog Building an Internal Company Podcast Create, Publish, Host & Secure Your Private Podcast | Lower Street How To Launch A Private Podcast With Exclusive Access Episode with Michael Paulson - Engineering FlatBuffers Programing sans JSON WeAreNetflix Podcast
Mon, September 07, 2020
Wildfire-Caused Water Contamination
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 J Whelton , Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Environmental and Ecological Engineering at Purdue University. Professor Whelton has studied two other Wildfires in California with water contamination and has some thoughts on our situation for the #CZULightningComplex Topics by Time 13:49 Water Utility vs State Responsibility 22:28 Can you smell VOCs 24:07 Danger Long Term vs Acute 25:11 Stuck in the Pipes? 26:28 SVOCs 27:18 Can we just flush the system? 29:47 If you lived here… 31:00 Activate Mutual Aid 31:47 Testing Issues – UCSC help? 34:13 When would you be less concerned 36:49 What changes should we make? 39:15 California level issue? 43:20 Take Aways 44:24 Home Water Treatment Wildfire caused widespread drinking water distribution network contamination - Proctor - 2020 - AWWA Water Science - Wiley Online Library San Lorenzo Valley Water District Fire Response, How You Can Help – Community Foundation Santa Cruz County Listener Miles Z made some notes while listening - here they are: In case of doubt, consult the interview, as I am not an expert. The notes are about in the same order as the interview. =miles= Contamination and Testing/Monitoring The state (CA) only requires the water district to test at the source of the water, i.e. where they start pumping it into the distribution system. The rest (downstream testing) is up to the water district. Contamination can come from multiple sources, including backflow when the system becomes depressurized and air contaminated with smoke leaks into the pipes. It can also result from homes that were equipped with plastic pipes that burned. As well as the pipes we know about that burned, i.e. the 5 miles of HDPE pipe through the forest. The monitoring tests that the water district routinely runs downstream are limited to only particular VOC’s (Volatile Organic Compounds) and are targeted at only those that might be produced by adding chlorine to the system. These less stringent tests are for THM’s (trihalomethanes) which are a form of VOC . These tests are not adequate to certify the safety of water possibly contaminated from a fire (as described above). In the Paradise fire, the State refused to take ultimate respons
Tue, August 18, 2020
20 Years of Ubiquitous Rust
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 Unifi MTV Cribs: Quarantine edition Sketchup Blender Actix, the Rust Web Framework Web Framework Benchmarks Go, The Programming Language Waze Reports: Cloudy with a Chance of Pananoia e3 and Star Wars Home Networking - Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X
Tue, August 11, 2020
Motivations of Podcasting and Fretless Instruments
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.
Thu, July 16, 2020
Vacation with Chainsaws, Motors, and Glasses
My vacation included fixing motors, accepting glasses, and milling redwood with chainsaws. My Replacement Fan Motor Thermal Fuse Cutoff New Thermostat Switch with "Firestat" Milling Redwood Here are some pix from our milling. The Logs: Me with my orange cap and our family friend Jack. My wife Maggi finishing a log: Samples of what we are making: I have Glasses Here I am with new readers…. and a great scotch, I mean it was still vacation!
Sun, May 24, 2020
The Software Arts: Language
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, Functions & Operations and much more. Learn why the true language of Software is not Physics.
Fri, March 20, 2020
Highschool Social Software Usage
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 Studio RCP B&H All possible pythagorean triples, visualized - YouTube Cat puts paw in water and freaks out funny vine - YouTube The SnapChat video we record during this episode.
Fri, February 21, 2020
Elevating fears of Dropping Thoughts over Time
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 visualization exercise? Toggl - Free Time Tracking Software Qbserve app - Mac Time Tracking and Productivity Improvement
Mon, January 06, 2020
Translation: The Software Arts (chapter 2)
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 the differences of the humanities understanding of translation where meaning is lost, created, or changed, and compare it with the software concepts of perfect translation like compiling code. Make sure to check out Part 1 . Francis Bacon - Wikipedia History of calculus - Wikiquote Ludwig Wittgenstein - Wikipedia Software is not problem solving... What I am saying is that software is an art and a form of design. Where you don’t necessarily know what the problem is. Narrative Intelligence In the after-show Warren mentions a chapter he pulled from the book about narrative.. here is a paper and talk on the subject: Narrative Intelligence JS.everywhere(2013): Warren Sack – JS in Research – YouTube
Thu, October 24, 2019
Introduction to The Software Arts
This episode kicks off a limited series of discussions with Warren Sack centered around his book The Software Arts , MIT Press, forward by John Rajchman The Software Arts offers an alternative history of software that places the liberal arts at the very center of software’s evolution. Join us in this discussion... Warren’s book is available from MIT Press – grab a copy and enjoy a multi-episode virtual book club with me and the author. We plan to release an episode for each chapter: Introduction (this episode) Translation Language Algorithm Logic Rhetoric Grammar Conclusion Reading along is not necessary to enjoy this series or episodes. And feel free to give us feedback and ask questions. Please contact us via Twitter: @WarrenSack , @Lyle . Where are the numbers? - Tracy Chou Eric A. Havelock Marshall McLuhan
Tue, August 27, 2019
Micro Extensions Expand State of Emergency
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 2020 Lyle Surgery Update Google to Minimize the Data Collected by Chrome Extensions macOS Lockdown and merging with iOS Expanse fans, no need to worry—Amazon orders season 5 of its new sci-fi show We’ve got our first peek at S4 of The Expanse and an airdate: December 13 Louisiana declares state of emergency in response to ransomware attack Is the Phone Dead Graphile | Powerful, Extensible and Performant GraphQL APIs Rapidly
Tue, July 30, 2019
Simplecast - Podcasting and Business Development
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 walks us through some wonderful changes that Apple and Google have recently made that should help the podcasting community. And, of course, this wouldn’t be GeekSpeak if we didn’t get technical – Brad is a geek and is proud of it. Podcast Hosting, Distribution & Analytics - Simplecast Podnews podcasting news Google Podcasts rolling out to desktop, iOS in Google Search - 9to5Google Lyle's Setup for Podcasting
Sun, June 30, 2019
Lyle's Back Surgery and Podcasting Conversations
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.
Sat, May 25, 2019
Oruk-hai's Eugenics Star Trek in 1996
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 - Archpaper.com
Fri, May 17, 2019
Lyle Update from Amsterdam
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 Museum Yayoi Kusama - Moco Museum Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) - IMDb
Wed, April 24, 2019
Ben Joins Netflix
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’s broken dryer. Bandersnatch - Branching Narrative Black Mirror Episode Puss In Book - Branching Narrative Title Why Netflix move away from the 5 Stars Brené Brown and Vernā Myers Discuss Inclusion and Diversity
Fri, March 22, 2019
Web Auth; Predicting Wind; Anti-Vax Videos
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 Advance Amazon Removes Anti-Vaccine Content After CNN Business Report W3C Approves WebAuthn, Web Standard for Password-Free Logins
Sat, March 09, 2019
Software: Android, Ruby, ORM, & Podcasting
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 Android Ruby Programming Language Object-relational impedance mismatch Django and a Better ORM ID3
Fri, March 01, 2019
Fake Images Undergo Existential Crisis
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 explain how GANs really work. This Person Does Not Exist Is the Best One-Off Website of 2019 How to recognize fake AI-generated images Neural Nets Play Cops and Robbers (aka generative adversarial networks) — Linear Digressions
Sat, February 23, 2019
Updating Broken Laptops with Bad Languages
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 Broadband to the Broken Screen NGFF M.2 nVME SSD Adapter Card Multiplatform Project: iOS and Android - Kotlin Programming Language Why has the Groovy programming language lost its momentum? - Quora ttfkam/pg_gnufind: GNU find output as PostgreSQL foreign tables (multicorn)
Wed, January 09, 2019
Hacking NES Across Kazakhstan for Better Netflix
Software engineer and “I’ll show it to you at hackday… chap”, Guy Cirino joins Lyle for a chat about hacking at Netflix, driving across Asia, high energy particle physics at CERN , and improving streaming video better for everyone. Netflix Stream Possible Video Netflix Hack Day — Winter 2015 – Netflix TechBlog – Medium GeekSpeak About AR Tech: Martian Telescope Senses Wrecked Teslas GeekSpeak Episode: Engineering FlatBuffers Programing sans JSON TeleFlix - Full Blog Post The real Hawkins National Labs from Stranger Things - BNL, the g-2 experiment Scintillator - Wikipedia CMS | CERN Superconducting Super Collider - Wikipedia Mongol Rally - Wikipedia The Magic Modem: A Global Network Emulator – @Scale Blog of Some Guy 14quick.org - Final Fantasy 14 Done Quick for Charity What Is Extra Life? | Extra Life FINAL FANTASY XIV Extra Life 2018 Live from Netflix HQ! - YouTube GeekSpeak Episode: Ready Player One Free Code Camp with Quincy Larson Raspberry Pi Zero W - Raspberry Pi Texas Instruments TI-99/4A - Wikipedia NES Processor -> CPU - Nesdev wiki Applesoft BASIC Programming Reference Manual - Apple Computer : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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