The Technium

LLMs eat software development

The Technium — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 11:16:43 -0700

LLMs for software development can go way beyond Github Copilot. In this episode, we talk about how these models could change the workflow for existing developers, but more importantly how they could change the very idea of what software is.

Links/Resources:

https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/11/llama/

https://github.com/RootbeerComputer/backend-GPT

https://lukebechtel.com/blog/gpt4-generating-code

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Dependent Types: Runtime assertions at compile time...whaaa? (S04E08)

The Technium — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 09:47:53 -0700

Dependent types are a more expressive type system in programming languages used to catch a larger class of errors at compile time. What are would be typically assertions at runtime can now be caught at compile time.

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Resources:

ActivityPub: A Pu Pu Platter of Internet Content (S04E07)

The Technium — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 13:44:06 -0800

Activity Pub is a decentralized social networking protocol. It allows different web applications to interact so that their users can share information, even if the websites or applications are running different software.

00:00 S04E07 Activitypub
02:13 What is Activity Pub?
15:02 Interoperability
33:00 A New Kind of Social
43:53 Providing Distribution
53:03 The Use Cases
01:07:41 Ideology
01:14:25 The Wild West
01:24:07 Deconstructed Content
01:34:52 Taking a Position

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APL: You need a special keyboard to program in this language (S04E06)

The Technium — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 15:20:56 -0800

APL is an array based programming language developed by Kenneth Iverson in the 1960s. Its central data type is the multi-dimensional array and hence it's very useful for workloads involving a lot of matrix math. APL predominantly uses symbols and it leverages consistent composability and execution rules to enable it as a notation as a tool for thought.

Links/Resources:
* https://mathspp.com/blog/why-apl-is-a-language-worth-knowing
* https://www.quora.com/What-made-APL-programming-so-revolutionary?share=1
* https://tryapl.org/
* A Personal View of APL
* Notation as a Tool for Thought
* Heaviside Operator Calculus
* Conway’s Game of Life in APL
* Maxwell’s Equations: From 20 to 4
* Alan Kay’s answer to “What made APL so revolutionary?”
* Testimonies
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27463149
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27464005
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27465512
* https://github.com/razetime/ngn-k-tutorial/blob/main/01-intro.md
00 - Objectives and Prerequisites | "Learn APL with Neural Networks"
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3315454.3329960

Chapters:
[00:00:00] Intros
[00:03:36] What is APL?
[00:05:42] Yes, it uses weird symbols
[00:06:51] A language should change your thinking
[00:13:08] Notation as a tool of thought
[00:20:33] Connections to functional programming
[00:28:23] What it feels like to program in APL
[00:33:10] APL and IBM = big bucks
[00:35:20] The echos of APL in modern data science tools
[00:43:52] APL for big data pipelines
[00:48:56] APL for Machine learning
[00:54:59] APL for JSON manipulation
[01:03:18] APL as a spreadsheet language
[01:16:11] Superhuman programming: APL and LLMs
[01:26:59] Making APL more explainable
[01:38:18] Outro

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io_uring: Two rings makes computers go Brrrrr (S04E05)

The Technium — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 13:47:28 -0800

io_uring is a new asynchronous, API to enable fast and efficient system calls in the Linux kernel. It promises faster user-land programs that heavily use file system IO on Linux, for all applications, not just databases.

00:00 S04 E05 io_uring
02:55 What is io_uring?
05:59 What's wrong with existing async interfaces?
17:25 Copying is slow
19:05 Two ring buffers
28:07 What would the effect for the end user be?
34:50 Different operating modes
37:27 C10K for Filesystem IO
43:04 Speed is simplicity
47:07 Deconstructed databases
01:02:12 Effect systems
01:06:26 System functionality in programming language
01:10:55 OS as Actor Model
01:16:08 The Kernel is Userland

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Xanadu: The lost vision of the hypertext future (S04E04)

The Technium — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 11:11:49 -0800

Xanadu was the first hypertext project founded in 1960 by Ted Nelson. It aims to facilitate a type of media called hypermedia, which is non-sequential writing in which the reader can choose their own path through an electronic document.

Links/Resources:
http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/14.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu
https://mimix.io/en/blog/xanadu
https://sentido-labs.com/en/library/201904240732/Xanadu%20Hypertext%20Documents.html
https://www.notion.so/blog/ted-nelson
https://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/
https://xanadu.com.au/ararat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_-5cGEU9S0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMKy52Intac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gPM3GqjMR4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGKbRcvIZT8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyzgoeeloJA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xYwgJW7T8o
https://jasoncrawford.org/the-lessons-of-xanadu
https://blockprotocol.org/
https://github.com/subconsciousnetwork/noosphere/blob/main/design/explainer.md
https://maggieappleton.com/xanadu-patterns
https://aaronzlewis.com/blog/2019/05/01/spreading-threading/
https://www.zombo.com/
https://stratechery.com/concept/aggregation-theory/
https://maggieappleton.com/tools-for-thought
https://cdixon.org/2015/01/31/come-for-the-tool-stay-for-the-network

Chapters:
[00:00:00] Intros
[00:03:22] What is Xanadu?
[00:15:49] Transclusion and Bidirectionality
[00:26:32] Versioning
[00:29:47] Vision divorced from implementation
[00:35:13] Baked in Payments
[00:46:15] Hypermedia as Envisioned
[00:56:20] Tiktok as Hypermedia
[01:01:52] Alternative business model for the web
[01:16:19] Failure to Launch
[01:26:15] Linearization as a forge
[01:31:51] Success of Xanadu's Vision
[01:37:04] Passing the torch

ChatGPT Part 2 (S04E03)

The Technium — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 12:00:00 -0800

ChatGPT is a language model by OpenAI which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.

00:00 S04E03 ChatGPT Part 2
02:30 Expanding Humanity's Limits
11:33 Tool-assisted speedrun of Science
16:18 As a Civic Moderator
24:32 Social Upheaval
28:40 Platform Risk
49:51 Billion Dollar Solo Founder
58:35 Running out of Data
01:03:22 In other industries
01:24:52 Limitations
01:31:50 Build something that gets better as AI gets better

Links:

https://chat.openai.com/

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vJFdjigzmcXMhNTsx/simulator#Simulators

http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

https://xyproblem.info/

https://yaofu.notion.site/How-does-GPT-Obtain-its-Ability-Tracing-Emergent-Abilities-of-Language-Models-to-their-Sources-b9a57ac0fcf74f30a1ab9e3e36fa1dc1

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ChatGPT Part 1 (S04E03)

The Technium — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 13:10:26 -0800

00:00 S04E03 ChatGPT Part 1
02:58 What is ChatGPT?
06:17 Lineage of ChatGPT
10:01 General Reasoning from Training on Code
25:13 Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
29:37 Dumb compute, stacked high
42:00 Talking to an Alien Intelligence
45:14 What's it good at and bad at?
56:05 The XY problem
01:03:36 GPT in Education
01:13:26 Eating High Status Jobs, Fulfilling Latent Demand

Links:
- https://chat.openai.com/
- https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vJFdjigzmcXMhNTsx/simulator#Simulators
- http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
- https://xyproblem.info/

Nix Package Management (S04E02)

The Technium — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 12:00:00 -0800

Nix is a functional package manager. It creates completely reproducible builds and package management, including support for multiple versions of packages side-by-size with no issues.

Chapters:

[00:00:00] Intro

[00:02:41] What is Nix?

[00:05:01] The Problem with Package Management

[00:09:41] How Nix Works

[00:15:08] Reproducible Environment = Less Bit Rot?

[00:17:46] Nix vs. Docker

[00:21:32] Adoption at Growing Startups

[00:26:05] Use Case: Consistency Across Environments

[00:28:04] Use Case: Provisioning New Dev Machines

[00:32:24] Use Case: Portable Editor Configs

[00:35:05] Why Hasn't This Taken Off?

[00:40:27] Leaky Abstractions

[00:44:17] Security and other enterprise value props

[00:52:31] Improving the documentation

[00:56:34] Nix for software archival/archaeology

[01:02:21] Reducing DevOps/SRE burden

[01:07:51] Integrating Nix directly into programming languages

[01:09:57] Someone should build the Heroku for Nix

[01:25:17] How to take a position on Nix

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Visual Programming (S04 E01)

The Technium — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 01:28:04 -0800

'Visual Programming' refers a style of programming that allows the user to specify a programs in a two-(or more)-dimensional fashion. Visual programming environments represent the data, control flow, or program state in a graphical way, allowing them to be directly manipulated. It has been a hot area of research from the very beginning of personal computing, to today.

This week we will cover a few major visual programming environments, why visual programming has remained compelling over the decades, and whether there is untapped potential for VP today.

Chapters:

[00:00:00] Intros

[00:03:50] What is Visual Programming?

[00:05:42] Origins

[00:14:34] Block-based Visual Programming

[00:20:26] Wire and Dataflow-based Visual Programming

[00:31:51] An Umbrella Term

[00:36:31] Conceptual History

[00:48:23] The Duality of Direct Manipulation

[00:58:40] Direct Manipulation of Running State

[01:11:25] Programming by Example

[01:21:17] Fill in the Details for Me

[01:28:49] Strengths of Visual Programming

[01:43:36] Leveraging the Visual Cortex

[01:50:58] Second Order Effects

Links/Resources:

SketchPad demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cq8S3jzJiQ
Pygmilion
- Paper: http://worrydream.com/refs/Smith%20-%20Pygmalion.pdf
- Demo:: https://youtu.be/xNW8wUpbqQM?t=319
Grail
- Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cq8S3jzJiQ
Hypercard
- Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cq8S3jzJiQ
Viewpoint https://scottkim.com/2020/06/07/viewpoint/
Scratch
- https://www.bryanbraun.com/2022/07/16/scratch-is-a-big-deal/
Labview (imperative control flow): https://www.ni.com/en-us/shop/labview.html
Unreal Engine Blueprint (functional)
- https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/blueprints-visual-scripting-in-unreal-engine/
- https://blueprintsfromhell.tumblr.com/
Max/MSP for musicians
- https://cycling74.com/products/max
Others
- https://cables.gl/
- https://nodes.io/

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Lightning Network: Payments so small, it's a stream (S03 E10)

The Technium — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 14:45:00 -0700

Lightning Network is a network of payment forwarders layered on top of Bitcoin to enable small, fast micropayments with low fees.

Links/Resources:
- https://lightning.network/
- https://www.swanbitcoin.com/a-look-at-the-lightning-network/
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20150301190111/http://lightning.network/lightning-network.pdf](https://web.archive.org/web/20150301190111/http://lightning.network/lightning-network.pdf)
- [https://lightning.network/lightning-network-technical-summary.pdf](https://lightning.network/lightning-network-technical-summary.pdf)
- [https://open.spotify.com/episode/1usKtNJonBszrq5lzad8eh?si=RvuAtKbjSqmyfT--FkNogg](https://open.spotify.com/episode/1usKtNJonBszrq5lzad8eh?si=RvuAtKbjSqmyfT--FkNogg) About routing
- [https://www.kevinrooke.com/post/when-sending-money-is-instant-and-free](https://www.kevinrooke.com/post/when-sending-money-is-instant-and-free)
- [https://www.kevinrooke.com/post/the-lightning-networks-next-big-use-case](https://www.kevinrooke.com/post/the-lightning-networks-next-big-use-case)
- [https://bitfury.com/content/downloads/whitepaper_flare_an_approach_to_routing_in_lightning_network_7_7_2016.pdf](https://bitfury.com/content/downloads/whitepaper_flare_an_approach_to_routing_in_lightning_network_7_7_2016.pdf)
- [https://1ml.com/](https://1ml.com/)
- [https://explorer.acinq.co/](https://explorer.acinq.co/)
- [https://github.com/davidshares/Lightning-Network](https://github.com/davidshares/Lightning-Network)
- [https://docs.lightning.engineering/](https://docs.lightning.engineering/)
- [https://twitter.com/kerooke](https://twitter.com/kerooke)
- [https://blog.coinbase.com/is-the-bitcoin-lightning-network-for-real-26e47029687f](https://blog.coinbase.com/is-the-bitcoin-lightning-network-for-real-26e47029687f)
- [https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/01/05/rollup.html](https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/01/05/rollup.html) (good summary on payment channels and how they compare to rollups, even though this is on ethereum network)
- [https://www.impervious.ai/](https://www.impervious.ai/)
- [https://diar.co/volume-2-issue-25/](https://diar.co/volume-2-issue-25/)
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUAyW4pdooA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUAyW4pdooA)
- [https://github.com/bcongdon/awesome-lightning-network](https://github.com/bcongdon/awesome-lightning-network)

Show notes
- Patio11: https://twitter.com/patio11
- Flare routing: https://bitfury.com/content/downloads/whitepaper_flare_an_approach_to_routing_in_lightning_network_7_7_2016.pdf
- The nature of the firm https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1468-0335.1937.tb00002.x

Chapters:

[00:02:21] What is Lightning Network?
[00:08:53] How does it work?
[00:18:51] Payments without Infrastructure
[00:25:34] Routing the Network
[00:36:00] Low value, High volume
[00:39:42] Micropayments for API metering
[00:43:09] Micropayments for Open Source
[00:49:12] Idea Accrediation Network
[01:01:20] Structuring Our Society
[01:15:01] Micropayments Change Relationships of the Firm
[01:21:36] Taking a position

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Hypercore: Lego Blocks for P2P Apps (S03E09)

The Technium — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 07:00:00 -0700

Hypercore is a set of building blocks to build distributed peer-to-peer applications. It provides a variety of data structures, as well as a discovery mechanism to share data between peers. It is a suite of tools that are the Lego blocks to build peer-to-peer apps.

Chapters:
[00:00:00] Intros
[00:02:16] What is Hypercore?
[00:12:58] HyperDrive: A P2P File System
[00:17:45] IPFS vs Hypercore
[00:21:01] Bitfinex is using HyperBee
[00:23:20] A Web of Data vs. Web of Pages
[00:27:19] P2P Data Structures: Better Than P2P Files
[00:29:52] IOT: a perfect candidate for decentralization?
[00:34:30] P2P Databases for Civic Good
[00:39:41] P2P Databases for Scientific Good
[00:55:08] Impediments to adoption
[01:03:54] Is this too futuristic even for us?
[01:12:59] Outros

Resources:
[How the Hypercore Protocol Works](https://hypercore-protocol.org/protocol/)
[Hypercore Protocol](https://hypercore-protocol.org/)
[Dat Ecosystem](https://dat-ecosystem.org/)
[On Dat://](https://www.kickscondor.com/on-dat)
[What are the differences between IPFS and hyperdrive?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44859200/what-are-the-differences-between-ipfs-and-hyperdrive)
[why-hypercore/FAQ.md at master · tradle/why-hypercore](https://github.com/tradle/why-hypercore/blob/master/FAQ.md)
[Dripline: Taking the Mauve Pill: Exploring Alternatives to the Centralized Web](https://hypha.coop/dripline/p2p-primer-part-1/)
[Dripline: Finding friends and staying safe: comparing peer discoverability and security in p2p networks](https://hypha.coop/dripline/p2p-primer-part-3/)
[Dripline: Data Fast and Slow: Exploring Data Models and Mutability](https://hypha.coop/dripline/p2p-primer-part-2/)
[Thinking about Filesystems, Databases, and Hypercores](https://paulfrazee.medium.com/thinking-about-filesystems-databases-and-hypercores-85de9d52d5b0)
[Productizing P2P](https://paulfrazee.medium.com/productizing-p2p-bff5aed95f6a)
https://github.com/automerge/pushpin
https://github.com/kickscondor/duxtape

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Datomic: Immutable database for new web architecture S03E08

The Technium — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 11:00:00 -0700

Datomic is an immutable database that borrows ideas from functional programming. We discuss how an immutable database changes the architectural possibilities of web apps.

Links/Resources:
- [Datomic with Rich Hickey](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TYfcyvSpEQ)
- [Database as Values with Rich Hickey](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6DKjEbdYos)
- [Intro To Datomic with Rich Hickey](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKcqYZZ9RDY)
- [KotlinConf 2018 - Datomic: The Most Innovative DB You've Never Heard Of by August Lilleaas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hicQvxdKvnc)
- [Love Letter To Clojure: And A Datomic Experience Report - Gene Kim](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mbp3SEha38) - [Turning the database inside out](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU9hR3kiOK0)
- [Datomic - a scalable, immutable database system by Marek Lipert](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGrCsIiiTUs)
- ["Real-World Datomic: An Experience Report" by Craig Andera (2013)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WeFdAXZz30)
- [https://tonsky.me/blog/unofficial-guide-to-datomic-internals/](https://tonsky.me/blog/unofficial-guide-to-datomic-internals/)
- [https://www.infoq.com/articles/Architecture-Datomic/](https://www.infoq.com/articles/Architecture-Datomic/)
- [https://www.infoq.com/presentations/The-Design-of-Datomic/](https://www.infoq.com/presentations/The-Design-of-Datomic/)
- [Talking about Datomic, Datalog, GraphQL, APIs](https://www.notion.so/Datomic-52000e1e65d345509cbcde4681d5522f)
- [What Datomic does to REST](https://web.archive.org/web/20210421110723/http://dustingetzcom.hyperfiddle.com/:what-datomic-does-to-rest/) - [Unofficial guide to Datomic Internals](https://tonsky.me/blog/unofficial-guide-to-datomic-internals/)
- [Datomic Documentation Overview](https://docs.datomic.com/on-prem/overview/overview.html)
- [The web after tomorrow](https://tonsky.me/blog/the-web-after-tomorrow/)
- [APIs are about policy](https://acko.net/blog/apis-are-about-policy/)

Chapters:
0:00 Intros
[00:02:21] What is Datomic?
[00:05:01] The Immutable Database
[00:14:59] The N+1 Problem
[00:20:59] Inference and Logical Programming
[00:26:45] Database in the browser
[00:39:24] Reducing the Impedence Mismatch
[00:42:09] The Change in Perspective
[00:51:14] Data as Social Artifact

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Urbit: The Thousand Year Operating System (S03 E07)

The Technium — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 10:04:31 -0700

Urbit is an operating system for a global networked computer with a global filesystem. It has its own virtual machine, programming language, OS kernel, and identity layer. It dubs itself as “A clean-slate OS and network for the 21st century.”

Links/Resources:
- https://media.urbit.org/whitepaper.pdf
- https://developers.urbit.org/overview
- https://developers.urbit.org/guides/core/hoon-school
- [https://vimeo.com/75312418
- http://moronlab.blogspot.com/2010/01/urbit-functional-programming-from.html
- https://urbit.org/blog/precepts-discussion
- COMMENTARY
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6438320
- https://alexkrupp.typepad.com/sensemaking/2013/12/a-brief-introduction-to-urbit.html
- https://thebaffler.com/latest/mouthbreathing-machiavellis
- https://wejn.org/2021/02/urbit-good-bad-insane/#tldr
- https://twitter.com/basileSportif/status/1544963208099909633
- https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right-where-peter-thiel-is-placing-his-biggest-bets

Chapters:
[00:00:00] Intros
[00:01:54] What is Urbit?
[00:06:30] The Functional Kernel Avro
[00:13:46] Application Network Ames
[00:18:07] Code Update Mechanism
[00:23:38] Hoon Lang and Nock VM
[00:33:56] Personal Computing through Digital Sovereignty
[00:38:53] A Personal Computing Experience You Own
[00:43:46] Cypherpunk Values
[00:45:32] A Computer as an Heirloom
[00:51:48] Philosophical Origins and Its Influence on Design
[01:01:09] Capitalism Softens Radical Ideas
[01:05:40] A computer you can't break
[01:12:48] A ghost in the shell for 100+ years
[01:17:05] What if the internet had identity and payments built in from the beginning?
[01:27:29] A Global ID
[01:30:37] A Digital Extension of the Self
[01:43:31] The Takeaway Despite the Roots

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Hyperfiddle: Compiler Managed Network Connections (S03 E06)

The Technium — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 12:21:43 -0700

Hyperfiddle is an app builder in Clojure/Clojurescript that uses a compiler to manage the network connections in the app for you. We discuss what makes code easy vs simple, arches for software, home-cooked apps, and the implications of a compiler for everything.

Links/Resources:
- [https://www.hyperfiddle.net/](https://www.hyperfiddle.net/)
- [https://hyperfiddle.notion.site/Reactive-Clojure-You-don-t-need-a-web-framework-you-need-a-web-language-44b5bfa526be4af282863f34fa1cfffc](https://www.notion.so/Reactive-Clojure-You-don-t-need-a-web-framework-you-need-a-web-language-44b5bfa526be4af282863f34fa1cfffc)
- [https://www.hytradboi.com/2022/uis-are-streaming-dags](https://www.hytradboi.com/2022/uis-are-streaming-dags)
- [https://hyperfiddle.notion.site/UIs-are-streaming-DAGs-e181461681a8452bb9c7a9f10f507991](https://www.notion.so/UIs-are-streaming-DAGs-e181461681a8452bb9c7a9f10f507991)
- How hyperfiddle changed over time
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20180217034740/http://www.hyperfiddle.net/](https://web.archive.org/web/20180217034740/http://www.hyperfiddle.net/)
- First video proof of Hyperfiddle's "distributed dataflow" architecture for server-streamed UI. "UI as an Expression” [https://twitter.com/dustingetz/status/1474050461745528839](https://twitter.com/dustingetz/status/1474050461745528839)
- [https://github.com/hyperfiddle/hyperfiddle-2020](https://github.com/hyperfiddle/hyperfiddle-2020)
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6888V9YsObM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6888V9YsObM)

Show Notes:
- Have you tried rubbing a database on it? https://www.hytradboi.com/
- Self-adjusting Computations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6a5G5i4gQU
- Sloth ecosystems https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU9Tn_Qkjb8
- Simple Made Easy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4
- Apps can be home-cooked meals https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/
- Bundling and Unbundling https://reallifemag.com/bundling-and-unbundling/
- Alan Kays: STEPS http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2012001_steps.pdf and the Niles Compiler https://github.com/damelang/nile https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wiki/damelang/nile/socal.pdf

Chapters:

0:00 Intros
[00:02:05] What is Hyperfiddle?
[00:08:53] Managed Network through a Compiler
[00:15:49] Arches for Software
[00:19:21] Beyond Low Code
[00:26:39] Abstractions: Simple vs Easy
[00:29:14] Core of what's hard about apps
[00:33:16] The Eight Fallacies
[00:34:54] Home-cooked apps
[00:40:28] The Piped Piper Dream
[00:45:57] Reports for everyone!
[00:51:35] A compiler to help manage state?
[00:55:12] A Compiler for the Metaverse
[01:01:44] Making Integration Smoother
[01:04:38] OG "bare metal"
[01:12:01] Hypertext as Application State
[01:20:03] Compilers do hard things all the time

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Generative AI Models (S03 E05)

The Technium — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 10:44:21 -0700

Generative AI models are quickly reaching the point where their work is indistinguishable from that of humans. This include 3D models, voice, and other media types that were not previously possible to create without significant expertise

Resources
[Google's New AI: Flying Through Virtual Worlds! 🕊️](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-Pf9lCFi4E)
[OpenAI Dall-E 2 - AI or Artist? Which is Better? 🧑‍🎨](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtkBIOK_28A)
[NVIDIA's New AI: Next Level Image Editing! 👌](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS4jCvzey-4)
[NVIDIA's New AI Draws Images With The Speed of Thought! ⚡](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbid5rvCGos)
[https://gptcrush.com/](https://gptcrush.com/)
[Google's Imagen AI: Outrageously Good! 🤖](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyOW6fmkgrc)
[http://gaugan.org/gaugan2/](http://gaugan.org/gaugan2/)
[DALL·E 2 and The Origin of Vibe Shifts](https://every.to/divinations/dall-e-2-and-the-origin-of-vibe-shifts)

Chapters:
0:00 Intros
3:42 The amazing progress
7:32 Dall-E 2 and Imagen
11:11 NERF for 3d Scene Generation
17:03 GauGan for Image Editing
18:42 Models can understand the world
21:45 Democratizing Content Creation
24:46 Content to fill the metaverse
28:58 AI = An Army of Interns
31:17 Will Human Skills Atrophy?
34:31 What is the role of humans in creation?
45:03 What is the value of art anymore?
52:43 NFTS, Artists, and "Vibes"
58:59 Feedback Loops and Memeification
1:09:03 Why isn't everyone losing their minds?!

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Zig: System programming without the warts (S03 E04)

The Technium — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 15:45:22 -0700

Zig is a system programming language without the ugliness of C. We discuss its compile time features, its strive towards simplicity, and the potential for resource-efficient software.

Links/Resources:
• https://ziglang.org/learn/overview/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv2I7qTux7g
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4oYSByyRak
• https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/assorted-thoughts-on-zig-and-rust/
• https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/how-safe-is-zig/
• https://ziglearn.org/

Chapters:

0:00 Intros
4:54 The Explicitness of Zig
12:16 Compile Time Programming
17:39 A Nice Build System that's Nice to You
19:59 Zig's Integration with C is that it's a C compiler
24:37 Compile time as Metaprogramming
26:23 Compile time for String Interpolation
28:33 Compile time for Queries
31:12 Maybe We'd Get Faster Programs!
33:55 Counter-forces to resource-efficient computing
41:16 System programmers as far as the eye can see
44:11 Zig as Pedagogy
45:48 Cross-compilation and DSL it to the Blockchain!
51:10 Proliferation of Zig Everywhere

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Multi-modal and Multi-task Models (S03 E04)

The Technium — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 23:10:45 -0700

Multimodal and multitask models are machine learning models that can generalize. Multimodal models can generalize to understand different types of input, for example images and text. Multitask models can generalize their knowledge by applying what they’ve learned about one task to solve another task.

Links/Resources:
• MUM: https://blog.google/products/search/introducing-mum/
• Gato: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSQJZHfAg18
• MIA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9kA8nSJdYw
• Flamingo: https://www.deepmind.com/blog/tackling-multiple-tasks-with-a-single-visual-language-model
• Flamingo explaining a funny photo: https://twitter.com/MelMitchell1/status/1522642194741538817
• Is LaMDA Sentient?: https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview-ea64d916d917

Chapters:
0:00 Intros
2:33 Multimodal and Multitasks Models
6:50 Deepmind's Gato: The All-Rounder Athlete
14:43 Google's MUM: The Search Assistant
18:12 Deepmind's Multimodal Interactive Agent: The Domestic Helper
22:31 Deepmind's Flamingo: Reasoning about Pictures
26:45 Why are these mind-blowing?
31:20 Machine Learning has come a looooong way
35:21 Could Flamingo be the real JARVIS?
38:56 Could MIA assist the elderly?
43:05 Multimodal AI for self driving cars
51:15 Multitask = A Shared Brain That Learns Everything
1:00:19 Could these models transcend human knowledge?
1:08:50 Breaking news: AI models are sentient
1:10:37 Is this just a local maximum or a path to AGI?
1:11:50 Outros

Plan 9: The OS Where Everything is a File (S03 E02)

The Technium — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 21:12:22 -0700

Plan 9 is distributed operating system and it is designed to make a network of disparate computers function as a single system no matter where they are.

Links/Resources:
https://9p.io/wiki/plan9/papers/

Chapters:
0:00 Intros
2:49 What is Plan 9?
6:15 Unique Features
9:23 Everything is a File
16:53 Assembling a Distributed Computer
21:42 Powerful Abstractions Make Writing Powerful Programs Easy
29:01 Was Plan 9 The Original Kubernetes?
34:33 Can Principled Software Succeed in the Marketplace?
40:14 Running WebAssembly on Plan 9
44:16 Running An Intranet on a Distributed OS
45:38 Remote File Systems for Local-first Software
51:27 How do we get this future?

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Matrix: Let a Thousand Chat Clients Bloom (with Eric Migicovsky) S03 E01

The Technium — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 16:40:00 -0700

Matrix is a decentralized chat protocol that is end-to-end encrypted. It lets users communicate with each other using different clients and even
run their own independent chat servers.

Links/Resources:
- https://matrix.org/docs/guides/introduction
- https://salibra.com/p/the-death-of-jabber-8ea395e82f5b- http://jabbermania.blogspot.com/2013/06/how-google-pulled-plug-on-public-jabber.html- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25850832- https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/matrix-vs-xmpp

- Beeper: https://www.beeper.com/
- Moxie's post on decentralization: https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html

Chapters:
0:00 Intros
2:23 What is Matrix?
3:58 A Brief History of Chat
11:51 Origins of Matrix
15:14 What attracted people to Matrix?
22:35 Motivation for Beeper
25:14 Bridges to other networks32:09 Separation between protocol and client38:42 Chat overload
43:19 Network Fragmentation
47:48 The Chat Future to Look Forward To
52:14 A Future of Specialized Clients
58:01 Chat bots and Chat tools
1:02:57 How do we get this future?

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Semantic Web (The Technium Podcast S02 E10)

The Technium — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 12:26:34 -0700

The semantic web was an effort to mark up webpages with facts about their content. The dream was to enable computers, to understand the world by reading these webpages. We discuss why the effort failed, how it relates to symbolic AI/knowledge graphs, and how the vision could still be realized today.

Links/Resources:

Introducing the Knowledge Graph
https://twobithistory.org/2018/05/27/semantic-web.html
Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia
Whatever happened to the Semantic Web? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16806657
http://ai.stanford.edu/blog/introduction-to-knowledge-graphs/
Aggregation Theory: https://stratechery.com/concept/aggregation-theory/

Chapters:

0:00 Intros

2:12 What is the Semantic Web?

3:59 The Early 2000's

8:32 The Idealism of the Semantic Web

11:30 How it worked

18:19 Roots in Symbolic AI

22:53 The OG Web 3.0

25:28 Why Did the Semantic Web Fail?

35:46 A Misalignment with the Medium

41:10 Crypto and Semantic Web Collide

43:25 Deep Learning and the Semantic Web Collide

47:09 Vestiges of the Semantic Web

49:44 Path to Intelligent Agents

55:03 Incentive structures

1:02:49 Token Curated Registries and the Semantic Web

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TLA+ and Formal Methods (The Technium Podcast S02 E09)

The Technium — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 15:06:39 -0800

TLA+ is a language for formally modeling and verifying the correctness of programs, especially concurrent and distributed ones. We discuss how it could be used to improve the practice of software engineering and what it would take for formal methods to gain more popularity.

Links/Resources:

Chapters:

0:00 Intros

2:14 What is TLA+?

5:10 Bugs in Concurrent and Distributed Programming

12:58 What's it like to use?

19:09 Global State Machine

20:34 Testimonials of Industrial Use Cases

24:56 Why is it not more popular?

27:32 How do we currently design our programs?

37:16 Everyone is a distributed systems programmer now

41:29 Thick client app management

49:47 Can haz use for Security?

53:08 TLA+ is for the design, not implementation

59:35 TLA+ all the things

1:02:55 Formal methods in Crypto?

1:08:19 Intrigued with Formal Methods

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Transformers: One Model to Rule them All (The Technium Podcast S02 E08)

The Technium — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 12:48:07 -0800

Transformers are a building block of Machine Learning systems that have seen great success recently at subsuming all other techniques.

We discuss at a high level, its attention mechanism and its multimodal properties, and the types of applications this can be put to use now and in the future.

Links/Resources:

Introductions to transformers
Attention is All you Need https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf
Attention: https://distill.pub/2016/augmented-rnns/
Transformers replacing CNNs https://becominghuman.ai/transformers-in-vision-e2e87b739feb
AI models consolidating https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1468370605229547522?ref_src=twsrc^tfw
GTP implementation https://github.com/karpathy/minGPT/blob/master/mingpt/model.py
Google introduces new arch to reduce cost of transformers https://analyticsindiamag.com/google-introduces-new-architecture-to-reduce-cost-of-transformers/
LaMDA by Google https://gpt3demo.com/apps/lamda-google

Chapters:

0:00 Intros
1:57 What are Transformers?
4:59 How does it work at a high level?
9:27 Self Attention Mechanism
14:03 Input structure agnostic
16:59 Stack it high, pump it with data
25:28 More MultiModal Learning
27:22 The Narrow Waist
34:34 Transformers for Compilation
40:24 Specialized Hardware
43:52 Multimodal Applications
47:19 Generating Media as a Self-sustaining Entity
52:42 The Jobs this Destroys
58:02 Two machines need to talk to each other
1:04:42 A Young Lady's Primer
1:11:19 Try them out!

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CORBA: Failed Distributed Architecture (The Technium Podcast S02 E07)

The Technium — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 09:43:02 -0800

CORBA is an acronym that stands for common object request, broker architecture. It provides interoperability among distributed objects regardless of whether they're remote or local, regardless of whether they're written in different languages or in different locations of the network.

We discuss its influence on distributed systems, and where we are today with these large scale systems

Links/Resources:

Chapters:

0:37 Intros
2:20 What is CORBA?
4:08 90's Throwback
7:25 The Idea of Distributed Objects
9:55 How does it work?
13:16 The Promise of Interoperability
15:35 Influence on Computing Today
18:52 Why did CORBA fail?
24:39 Lots of People Missed the Web
30:09 Distributed Computing
36:06 The REST model of Distributed
40:35 RPC lives on today
47:13 Hard to get this right
52:08 Negotiating Interfaces from Scratch

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Unison Programming Language (The Technium Podcast S02 E06)

The Technium — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 11:22:13 -0800

Unison is a programming language for distributed systems by leveraging immutable and content addressable code.

We discuss the many implications of a language whose code is content addressable, from fast rename, easy caching, to feature flagging.

Links/Resources:

- Unison Lang https://www.unisonweb.org/
- Unison at StrangeLoop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCWtkvDQ2ZI
- Unison and its Scala-based Runtime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knqlWboqf_U
- What color is your function? https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-your-function/
- Python Environment XKCD https://xkcd.com/1987/

Chapters:

0:48 Intros
2:32 What is Unison?
6:46 Advantages of Content Addressable Code
15:39 Realizing the Scale before it's Too Late
22:03 Controlled Refactoring Experience
25:54 Abilities or Algebraic Effects
31:08 Programming the Whole Network
34:57 Facilitating the Culture around Coding
50:37 A Library Ecosystem
1:00:50 Reproducibility and Old Computers
1:07:55 Hot Patch Your Server
1:10:37 The Road to Popularity

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Smalltalk (The Technium Podcast S02 E05)

The Technium — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 18:38:07 -0800

Smalltalk was one of the first object oriented programming languages and a software authoring environment that was highly influential in the history of computing.

We discuss its designer Alan Kay, his vision of personal computing, and the lasting influence of Smalltalk despite its limited commercial adoption.

Links/Resources:

Actor Model - https://www.brianstorti.com/the-actor-model/
- https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6272
Smalltalk Demo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uknEhXyZgsg
Smalltalk Build your own Debugger - https://youtu.be/NqKyHEJe9_w?t=355
Early History of Smalltalk - http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/
- “A remarkable number of artists, scientists, philosophers are quite dull outside of their specialty (and one suspects within it as well). The first siren's song we need to be wary of is the one that promises a connection between an interesting pursuit and interesting thoughts. The music is not in the piano, and it is possible to graduate Juilliard without finding or feeling it.”
Why was smalltalk not a commercial success?
- http://www.wirfs-brock.com/allen/posts/914
- https://gbracha.blogspot.com/2020/05/bits-of-history-words-of-advice.html
Lively and Caffine
- https://lively-kernel.org/

Chapters:

0:00 Intros

1:57 The Retro Future

2:34 Origin and Motivation of Smalltalk

7:20 Object Orientation is about message passing

11:51 Meta-circular inspiration

14:31 Smalltalk is an entire environment

18:59 Designed with the GUI in mind

24:35 The Music isn't in the Piano

27:21 Taking a bet on the future

31:42 Surprising things about Smalltalk

34:27 Learning to Program By Reading "Literature”

39:56 Did Smalltalk Achieve It's Goals?

44:43 The Failure of Enterprise Smalltalk

52:30 Even Good Ideas Have to Survive the Marketplace

55:23 Big Ideas Meet Reality

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Dynamicland (The Technium Podcast S02 E04)

The Technium — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 11:12:39 -0800

Dynamicland is a communal computer where the computer is the room. It's a new dynamic, medium to think about systems with other people.

We discuss taking computation out of the realm of abstraction and putting it in the realm of the physical world, it, and how it breaks down barriers to entry.

Chapters:
0:00 Intros
2:10 What is Dynamicland?
11:17 The Communal Aspect of Computing
18:30 Computing other than Symbol Manipulation
31:29 The Concrete System
38:43 Realtalk is Declarative
43:39 Leverage the Real World for Compute
46:21 Squint beyond the Art Project
49:07 Having your thoughts out in the open
53:55 The Libraries of the Future
1:01:25 Interactive decision making
1:06:59 Throwaway Computing
1:19:46 Dynamicland for Games
1:23:08 A wish for the future

Links/Resources:
- Dynamicland website: https://dynamicland.org/
- Research Agenda: http://worrydream.com/cdg/ResearchAgenda-v0.19-poster.pdf
- Humane representation of thought: https://vimeo.com/115154289
- Seeing Spaces: http://worrydream.com/SeeingSpaces/
- Embodiment and Visualization: https://vimeo.com/114252897
- Notes about the experience
- https://dynamicland.org/research-notes/social-dynamics-of-programming-together/
- https://omar.website/posts/notes-from-dynamicland-geokit/
- http://vitor.io/on-dynamicland**](http://vitor.io/on-dynamicland)
- https://tashian.com/articles/dynamicland/
- https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the-next-big-thing-is-a-room/
- https://futureofcoding.org/notes/bret-victor/dynamicland.html

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NFTs: Beyond Art (Technium Podcast S02 E03)

The Technium — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 14:15:40 -0800

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are unique digital collectibles that are represented on a blockchain in the form of a token. NFTs make it possible to own digital media assets in the same way that you can own a digital currency asset, like Bitcoin.

We discuss various applications of NFTs outside of art, and its potential as a building block for future applications.

Links/Resources:

Girl with House on Fire Meme. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/disaster-girl
Ethereum Name Service https://ens.domains/
Party Bid to Fractionalize NFTs https://www.partybid.app/
Flash Loans https://coincodecap.com/flash-loan
Aavegotchi https://aavegotchi.com/
Uniswap https://uniswap.org/
3LAU and NFTs https://decrypt.co/59788/musician-3lau-sells-album-in-nft-form-for-11-million
Demand Curves https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/economics/demand-curve/
Davie Bowie on the relationship of media and the internet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiK7s_0tGsg&t=636s
Skeuomorph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph
ERC-998 Composable standard https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-998.md
Neolastics https://neolastics.com/
Latent Space https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/442352/what-is-a-latent-space
Jack Dorsey Tweet for $2.9 million https://v.cent.co/tweet/20
Schelling Point https://medium.com/@willemvandenbergh_85885/on-schelling-points-network-effects-and-lindy-inherent-properties-of-communication-c4eb69b55c60
Invoice Refactoring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoring_(finance)
Accruing Value in a Value Chain https://stratechery.com/2015/netflix-and-the-conservation-of-attractive-profits/
The Technium NFT! https://opensea.io/assets/matic/0x2953399124f0cbb46d2cbacd8a89cf0599974963/73071695664951725756103887812533794393262849524101052862455651661423314993153

Chapters:

0:14 Intros
2:00 What are Non-fungible Tokens?
7:21 Ethereum Name Service domains are NFTs
20:05 "Non-fungible" only notable in the digital world
22:54 NFTs are Digital Native Objects
26:21 Fractionalizing NFTs
31:46 NFTs as Collateral
36:02 NFT as Social Proof
42:15 NFT as meme-ified finance
44:36 Permissionless Composability of NFTs
51:15 NFTs for Community Building
55:41 The Curator Economy
1:00:29 Creator Feedback Loop with Fans
1:07:15 Permissionless Remixing
1:10:28 We're still making Skeuomorphs
1:13:43 Content Agnostic and Responsive
1:20:37 Owning the Latent Space
1:24:09 Financialization of Memes
1:30:50 NFTs as boring assets
1:42:27 NFTs Scaled Up and Down
1:49:50 Yet Another Building Block

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Interplanetary File System (Technium Podcast S02E02)

The Technium — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 19:54:25 -0800

IPFS is a distributed storage network. The content is accessible through peers located anywhere in the world that might relay information store it or both, and IPFS finds data by its content address rather than its locations.

We discuss the main principles behind IPFS, the current use cases, and how it changes the basic unit economics of some businesses, as well as its interplanetary future.

Chapters:

00:00 Intros
02:25 What is IPFS?
13:58 Three Principles of IPFS
15:01 Content-addressable URIs
18:44 Content Linking in a DAG
21:27 Distributed Hash Table for Discovery
22:48 Pinning Content
30:58 Censorship-resistance
36:38 Used for NFTs
39:04 Used for Video and Music Streaming
42:56 Use for Package Manager
49:14 Use for Machine Learning
54:38 Interplanetary Linked Data
56:37 A Key Building Block
59:22 As a Public Good
01:06:36 Developers Tools on top of IPFS
01:10:07 Shifting Operational Burden
01:18:15 The Interplanetary Future

Links/Resources:

Content Addressing https://simpleaswater.com/ipfs-cids/
Linked Data https://ontola.io/what-is-linked-data/
Distributed Hash Tables https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/15-744/S07/lectures/16-dht.pdf
Napster, Kaaza, Gnutella https://www.slideshare.net/uschmidt/peertopeer-systems/20-Comparison_Napster_Gnutella_KaZaAType_of
Juan Benet of IPFS https://research.protocol.ai/authors/juan-benet/
ProtoSchool https://proto.school/
Marc Andressen’s Blog Archive https://pmarchive.com/
Left Pad Debacle https://www.davidhaney.io/npm-left-pad-have-we-forgotten-how-to-program/
NPM as a private company https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO8hZlgK5zc&t=46s
Transfer Learning https://builtin.com/data-science/transfer-learning
Deno Programming language https://deno.land/
IPLD https://ipld.io/
Jack Dorsey Regrets Shutting down API https://www.revyuh.com/news/software/developers/twitters-founder-admits-that-shutting-down-the-api-was-worst-thing-we-did-it-affected-users-and-developers/
Datomic https://www.datomic.com/

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End-User Programming (Technium Podcast S02E01)

The Technium — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 11:22:45 -0800

End-user programming is a vision of computing that allows people who are not professional software developers to program their own computers.

We discuss some of our favorite end-user programming environments, the qualities that make an end-user programming environment successful and what the world would look like if everyone could program.

Chapters:
0:00: Intros
3:15: What is end-user programming?
6:28: Hypercard: An Early Pioneer
15:22: Quality #1 : Embodiment
17:52: Quality #2: Liveness
19:51: Quality #3: In-Place Toolchain
23:10: Elitism: Programmers vs. Script Kiddies
26:37: Yahoo Pipes: A Web 2.0 Programming Environment
32:25: What makes an environment successful?
40:28: Twitter, Hashtags, and "Situated Software”
47:36: Is programming just inherently hard?
1:04:26: Modern EUP Environments
1:10:39: The World If Everyone Could Program
1:15:01: Programming in the Metaverse

Links/Resources:
[0] https://www.inkandswitch.com/end-user-programming/]
[1] https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/
[2] https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/07/21/software-exoskeletons/
[3] https://www.gwern.net/docs/technology/2004-03-30-shirky-situatedsoftware.html

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Ep 010 - The Constrained Power of Datalog

The Technium Podcast — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 21:44:45 -0800

This week, we mull on an obscure programming language called Datalog and its outsized impact on the world

Ep 009 - CLIP and DALL-E and the creativity of generative networks

The Technium Podcast — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 17:19:55 -0800

In this episode, we muse about the creativity of machine learning models and what it means for the future of content creation/ownership

Ep 008 - Zero Knowledge Proofs

The Technium Podcast — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 09:00:14 -0800

This week on The Technium, we talk about Zero Knowledge Proofs, a relatively new cryptographic primitive that lets people prove they know a secret without divulging it.

Eps 007 - Webassembly and write once, run anywhere

The Technium Podcast — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 05:07:09 -0700

In this week's episode, we ruminate on Webassembly and the dream of writing once and running everywhere.

Ep 006 - The DAO for collective action

The Technium Podcast — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 23:26:13 -0700

This week, we talk about the Decentralized Autonomous Organization. How could they bring a new flavor to collective action without a centralized authority?

Ep 005 - Functional Programming Everywhere

The Technium Podcast — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 11:12:33 -0700

This week on the Technium, we talk about functional programming invading mainstream programming languages

Ep 004 - React Reconciler

The Technium Podcast — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 09:51:52 -0700

In this week's episode, we talk about the React Reconciler. What is it? How would it help with building cross-platform frontends? What else could it be applied to?

Ep 003 - The Metaverse

The Technium Podcast — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 22:47:16 -0700

In this week's episode, we talk about "The Metaverse". What is it, and why it excites technologists about a possible vision of the future.

Ep 002 - Local-first software

The Technium Podcast — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 22:46:04 -0700

In this week's episode, we talk about Ink and Switch's manifesto on local-first software, a vision on building software that merges the best parts of both web apps and desktop apps.

Ep 001 - Communing with Ghosts

The Technium Podcast — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 22:44:55 -0700

In this week's episode, we talk about tools for thinking, note taking apps, and the retro vision for the web.