- 1 hour 1 minuteBookBytes 46: A Mind at Play
Adam and Jason finally learn about the guy who invented the Information Age and how the transmission of data over long distances is even possible.
A Mathematical Theory of Communication
Talks at Google - A Mind at Play
Solving Wordle using information theory
Claude Shannon demonstrates "Theseus" Machine Learning @ Bell Labs
19 September 2022, 12:00 am - 56 minutes 34 secondsBookBytes 45: Weapons of Math Destruction
Adam and Jason learn about how algorithms affect people in the everyday lives in very destructive ways as well as some ways to disarm them and how to use models for good.
Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History - Lord of the Rankings
28 February 2022, 12:00 am - 54 minutes 27 secondsBookBytes 44: Soonish
Adam really wants cheap access to space, Jason really wants augmented reality, and they talk about other things that may or may not happen in the future.
15 November 2021, 12:00 am - 33 minutes 16 secondsBookBytes 43: Pico-8 Zine
Jason and Adam learn about making games for a fantasy console with a lot of constraints.
The (full) Star Wars Cantina on Mario Paint Composer 2.0
Annotated Celeste code on GitHub
21 June 2021, 12:00 am - 1 hour 11 minutesBookBytes 42: So You Want to Talk About Race
Adam, Jason, and Rizel talk about race and how to talk about race. They cover issues like privilege, intersectionality, police brutality, and microaggressions.
BookBytes: You Look Like a Thing And I Love You
BookBytes: Ara the Star Engineer
Double consciousness (W. E. B. Du Bois)
Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
White Men: Time to Discover Your Cultural Blind Spots
How Pittsburgh's Freedom House Pioneered Paramedic Treatment
21 March 2021, 12:00 am - 1 hour 4 minutesBookBytes 41: Seven Languages in Seven Weeks - Haskell
Jason has dipped in and out of Haskell over the years, Adam did very little of the problems, and Jason teaches Adam a lot about functional programming.
Seven Languages in Seven Weeks
30 November 2020, 12:00 am - 58 minutes 23 secondsBookBytes 40: Seven Languages in Seven Weeks - Clojure
Going through Clojure was an eye opening experience for Jason, and for Adam it’s intriguing, but the learning curve is very steep.
23 November 2020, 12:00 am - 57 minutes 32 secondsBookBytes 39: Seven Languages in Seven Weeks - Erlang
Jason loved tinkering with Erlang, they both read a little bit of Learn You Some Erlang, and Adam had a hard time with concurrency.
Seven Languages in Seven Weeks
16 November 2020, 12:00 am - 1 hour 1 minuteBookBytes 38: Seven Languages in Seven Weeks - Scala
Adam loves how it supports functional and object-oriented programming, Jason said it would take a long time to really wrap his head around it, and Adam had a hard time installing and running it.
9 November 2020, 12:00 am - 58 minutes 57 secondsBookBytes 37: Seven Languages in Seven Weeks - Prolog
Adam remembered using Prolog in college, Jason felt like he had no what he was doing, Adam thought it was fun and mind bending, and Jason felt like writing a Sudoku solver was like having cheat mode on.
2 November 2020, 12:00 am - 57 minutes 32 secondsBookBytes 36: Seven Languages in Seven Weeks - Io
Adam thought Io is a weird language, it changed Jason's perspective, and Adam thought the interview with the creator was insightful.
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