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  • Episode 0058: Big Learning Thought Experiments

    Episode 0058: Big Learning Thought Experiments
    2025/01/02
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: Last week it was Big Learning Energy, now we can talk a little bit about where that energy is going, and should we feel good about this?
    Links
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    • How Much Electricity https://www.theverge.com/24066646/ai-electricity-energy-watts-generative-consumption
    • Example AI-generated YouTube Video https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/perfect-secrecy-unbreakable-cipher/
    • Drew Gooden on YouTube´s Obsession with AI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ai5NWd8nuo
    • AI Slop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop
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    47 分
  • Episode 0057: Big Learning Energy

    Episode 0057: Big Learning Energy
    2024/12/26
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: As 2024 winds down to a close, this being the final episode of that calendar year, let us consider briefly the energy requirements of our celebrity tech companies training their AI models and compare that to us humans…
    Links
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    • How Much Energy do LLMs Consume? https://adasci.org/how-much-energy-do-llms-consume-unveiling-the-power-behind-ai/
    • Colossus https://www.datacenterfrontier.com/machine-learning/article/55244139/the-colossus-ai-supercomputer-elon-musks-drive-toward-data-center-ai-technology-domination
    • Sam Altman´s Nuclear Energy Startup… https://www.notebookcheck.net/Sam-Altman-s-nuclear-energy-startup-signs-one-of-the-largest-nuclear-power-deals-to-date.937044.0.html
    • AGI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence
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    33 分
  • Episode 0056: Thought Experiments

    Episode 0056: Thought Experiments
    2024/12/19
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: Have you ever been involved in a conversation or perhaps a presentation where you pose a hypothetical to make a point or to illustrate an idea and you find yourself defending your hypothetical instead of the point you were attempting to make? Thinking outside the box is not for the faint of heart…
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    • Thought Experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_experiment
    • Sabine on a poignant thought experiment fail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNRmNF55320
    • Motte-and-Bailey Fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy
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    44 分
  • Episode 0055: Sources

    Episode 0055: Sources
    2024/12/13
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: There has been some talk, some concern, about what happens when the big companies run out of new, human-authored content to train their AI models on, and the snake begins to eat its tail, so to speak. Might there be a similar problem for content creators if main stream media falls behind, shrinks away, leaving your own personal Joe Rogan as your primary source of news and insights?
    Links
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    • Gallup shows declining trust in Mainstream https://news.gallup.com/poll/651977/americans-trust-media-remains-trend-low.aspx
    • Columbia Investigative Journalism Summer Class https://journalism.columbia.edu/summer-investigative-reporting-course
    • Podcasts as news sources https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2023/04/18/podcasts-as-a-source-of-news-and-information/
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    42 分
  • Episode 0054: Crypto Chaos

    Episode 0054: Crypto Chaos
    2024/12/06
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: Cryptocurrency is all the rage, with hope in the marketplace that regulations will go their way and we can all benefit from the absolute chaos that is this mathematical magic of The Blockchain turned into anything from a financial transaction medium to a scam machine.
    Links
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    • Exposing the Hawk Tuah Scam - Coffeezilla https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUHq8AWR1Rg
    • Rug Pull (Exit Scam) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_scam
    • Cryptocurrency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency
    • Blockchain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain
    • Fiat Money https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money
    • Tokenomics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokenomics
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    34 分
  • Episode 0053: Rivers and Walls and Feeds

    Episode 0053: Rivers and Walls and Feeds
    2024/11/29
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: Our online world is mostly about infinite scroll, a reverse-chronological ordering of events, photos, brief messages, our unread emails and other messages. Are we always catching up, leaving out the items that fall off the bottom of our attention span, and is there a better way to do this?
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    51 分
  • Episode 0052: Logic and Reasonng

    Episode 0052: Logic and Reasonng
    2024/11/21
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: The end of Season 0, and with all of the tumult in the news and social media today, why not end Season 0 with some thinking about thinking?
    Links
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    • Never Split the Difference book https://www.blackswanltd.com/never-split-the-difference
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    54 分
  • Episode 0051: Pick a Path

    Episode 0051: Pick a Path
    2024/11/14
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: Tangentially related to the recent election outcome, but more generally this is about selecting a goal or collection of goals to accomplish based on principles, rather than politics or something else like power or money. This will be the topic throughout this episode.
    Links
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    57 分