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PyTorch 1.0 vs TensorFlow 2.0 (Practical AI #16) Oct 15, 2018

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Chris and Daniel are back together in another news/updates show. They discuss PyTorch v1.0, some disturbing uses of AI for tracking social credit, and learning resources to get you started with machine learning.

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Gettin' Plexy wit it (Backstage #2) Oct 12, 2018

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Adam, Jerod, and Tim get together to talk about Plex! Plex is a media server which allows you to store your movies, TV shows, music, photos, etc. Turns out, you can actually use it together with an antenna to watch live TV and DVR content. They chat about what has Adam so excited, the pros and cons (or as Adam said, “trade-offs”), and how to get started.

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Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
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Tim Smith – Twitter, GitHub

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The nitty gritty on BitMidi (JS Party #47) Oct 12, 2018

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Where does Feross get all those wonderful toys? He builds them with JavaScript, of course! BitMidi – a website for listening to your favorite MIDI files – is his latest creation. In this episode, Jerod “sits down” with Feross to learn all about it.

How do MIDIs even work? Why won’t they play on the web anymore? Can WASM save the day (hint: yes)? How does Feross get so many eyeballs on his creations? Is Preact awesome for building sites like this? What’s the future of BitMidi look like? Don’t ask us, listen to the episode!

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Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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A call for kindness in open source (Changelog Interviews #318) Oct 10, 2018

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Adam and Jerod talk to Brett Cannon, core contributor to Python and a fantastic representative of the Python community. They talked through various details surrounding a talk and blog post he wrote titled “Setting expectations for open source participation” and covered questions like: What is the the purpose of open source? How do you sustain open source? And what’s the goal?

They even talked through typical scenarios in open source and how kindness and recognizing that there’s a human on the other end of every action can really go a long way.

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Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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Eryn O'Neil isn't afraid to speak her mind (Away from Keyboard #8) Oct 10, 2018

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Eryn O’Neil grew up in the southwestern suburbs of Chicago. When it came time for college, it was easy for her to move a few states over and go to college in a small town in Iowa. She now lives in Minneapolis, and after years of being self-employed, she just finished a months-long journey to find her next job.

Eryn talks to me about being the first female engineering manager at her new company, what excites her about technology, the hurdles of married life, and staying healthy in a demanding industry.

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Eryn O'Neil – Twitter, GitHub
Tim Smith – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

Grinnell College - Wikipedia
Modern Tribe
Inadvertent Algorithmic Cruelty by Eric Meyer

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Artificial intelligence at NVIDIA (Practical AI #15) Oct 08, 2018

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NVIDIA Chief Scientist Bill Dally joins Daniel Whitenack and Chris Benson for an in-depth conversation about ‘everything AI’ at NVIDIA. As the leader of NVIDIA Research, Bill schools us on GPUs, and then goes on to address everything from AI-enabled robots and self-driving vehicles, to new AI research innovations in algorithm development and model architectures. This episode is so packed with information, you may want to listen to it multiple times.

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Bill Dally – Website
Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Fantastic bugs and how to squash them (JS Party #46) Oct 05, 2018

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Safia, Suz, KBall and Nick get together to talk about bugs! Not those pesky things you’re scared to squash because they might suddenly jump on you — this is all about JavaScript bugs; how you prevent some of the common ones, what tools you can use to reduce bugs in your code, and a panel group therapy session where they discuss the most difficult bug they’ve had to fix.

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Safia Abdalla – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Suz Hinton – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub
Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Topics covered in today’s show:

Most common JavaScript bugs
Hardest JavaScript bugs tackled by the hosts
Tools to reduce the number of bugs in your code

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#Hacktoberfest isn’t just about a free shirt (Changelog Interviews #317) Oct 01, 2018

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#Hacktoberfest is a once per year event in the month of October celebrating open source. For many it’s an on ramp to open source, PRs galore for maintainers, and t-shirts for those who submit 5 or more pull requests. In the end, however, it’s about the awareness of open source and its significance to the greater good to humanity as we know it.

Adam and Jerod talk with Daniel Zaltsman, Dev Rel Manager at DigitalOcean and key leader of Hacktoberfest to cover the backstory, where this project began, its impact on open source, how it has had to scale each year by many orders of magnitude, and of course we cover how you can play your part in #Hacktoberfest and give back to open source.

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Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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For #Hacktoberfest, you could improve our transcripts or improve our show notes.

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OpenAI, reinforcement learning, robots, safety (Practical AI #14) Oct 01, 2018

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We met up with Wojciech Zaremba at the O’Reilly AI conference in SF. He took some time to talk to us about some of his recent research related to reinforcement learning and robots. We also discussed AI safety and the hype around OpenAI.

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Wojciech Zaremba – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Woj’s talk at O’Reilly AI
OpenAI
OpenAI blog
The Dota playing team of AIs from OpenAI
Microsoft Tay Chatbot
Reinforcement learning Wikipedia
Berkeley course CS294-112 on Reinforcement learning. Includes pdf notes and YouTube videos of the lectures.

Books

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The CSS expertise kerfuffle (JS Party #45) Sep 28, 2018

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Suz, Nick, and KBall are joined by special guest Aimee Knight to talk about CSS, how it’s often trivialized and how that in turn affects the people who write it, what CSS in JS is, and how to get started with it.

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