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Does Neutral Point of View Exist - Computing Up Eighteenth Conversation Dec 01, 2018

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Michael corners Dave-the-extreme-relativist on the meaning of neutrality.

T2sday Updates - Computing Up Seventeenth Conversation Oct 13, 2018

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Dave's new thing. Also, Allen Ginsberg, and fricken leximited.

Doing Standup - Computing Up Sixteenth Conversation Sep 29, 2018

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Some professors think they're, like, funny.

Uploading and Immortality - Computing Up Fifteenth Conversation Aug 31, 2018

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Dave and Michael talk about achieving immortality by 'uploading' yourself into a computer.

(Note: There's also this book.)

[Episode thumbnail based on public domain image.]

God exists - Computing Up Fourteenth Conversation Jul 31, 2018

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God exists in a perfectly real sense that is sure to please almost no one.

Richard Gerrig on Narrative Worlds - Computing Up Thirteenth Conversation Jun 30, 2018

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Michael and Dave talk to Professor Richard Gerrig about the power and the computation and cognitive science of stories and narrative worlds. Watch out! There be monsters!

[Title photograph courtesy of Richard Gerrig]

The Internet - Computing Up Twelfth Conversation May 27, 2018

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We are in the bronze age of the internet.

[Title background image is a 2005-era partial internet map, created by Matt Britt using data from the OPTE project, licensed under CC-BY-2.5]

Charles Isbell is Reinventing Computer Education - Computing Up Eleventh Conversation Feb 11, 2018

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Michael talks to Professor Charles Isbell about computing education and topics ranging from Sebastian Thrun to whether computer science is a lame name.

[Title photograph courtesy of Charles Isbell]