Programming Throwdown
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Programming Throwdown attempts to educate Computer Scientists and Software Engineers on a cavalcade of programming and tech topics. Every show will cover a new programming language, so listeners will be able to speak intelligently about any programming language.
Programming Throwdown
1w ago
173: Mocking and Unit Tests
Intro topic: Headphones
News/Links:
Texas A&M University Physics Festival
https://physicsfestival.tamu.edu/
Rust vs Cpp at Google
Lars Bergstrom (Google Director of Engineering): Rust teams at Google are as productive as the ones using Go and 2x those using Cpp
https://youtu.be/6mZRWFQRvmw?t=27012
Is Cosine Similarity Really About Similarity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05440
Xz utils supply chain attack
Andres Freund at Microsoft
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/04/what-we-know-about-the-xz-utils-backdoor-that-almost-infected-the-world ..read more
Programming Throwdown
2M ago
172: Transformers and Large Language Models
Intro topic: Is WFH actually WFC?
News/Links:
Falsehoods Junior Developers Believe about Becoming Senior
https://vadimkravcenko.com/shorts/falsehoods-junior-developers-believe-about-becoming-senior/
Pure Pursuit
Tutorial with python code: https://wiki.purduesigbots.com/software/control-algorithms/basic-pure-pursuit
Video example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYR7mmcwT2w
PID without a PHD
https://www.wescottdesign.com/articles/pid/pidWithoutAPhd.pdf
Google releases Gemma
https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemma-open-m ..read more
Programming Throwdown
3M ago
Intro topic: Monitor setups
News/Links:
BlueScuti, Willis, beats Tetris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuJ5UuknsHU
PalWorld accused of being an AI Product
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2024/01/22/palworld-accused-of-using-genai-with-no-evidence-so-far/?sh=26a9651b4239
4 Billion if-statements to determine if a number is even or odd
https://andreasjhkarlsson.github.io/jekyll/update/2023/12/27/4-billion-if-statements.html
Seamless M4T
https://ai.meta.com/blog/seamless-m4t/
Book of the Show
Patrick:
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
https://amzn.to/3SrmgnP
Jason:
Pr ..read more
Programming Throwdown
4M ago
Predictions:
Jason
VR for Work
Lowering AI training cost/ improved efficiency
RISC-V takeoff
Patrick
Ai claim of AGI
Ai peer reviewer
Ai Video Generator
More space vehicles reaching orbit
Early career, finding role at FAANG, liaising vs shipping code. Startup?
3 part. 1. How and when current hype for AI will end? 2. Shape of the show 3. Upcoming in tech
What are essential programmer knowledge items?
CS Student, how to organize life and goals? What purpose life should serve?
What kind of programmer were you in college?
Happy Holidays!
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Programming Throwdown
5M ago
Intro topic: Testing your car battery
News/Links:
Tech Layoffs still going on
https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/google-layoffs-california-companies-18465600.php
Real-time dreamy Cloudscapes with Volumetric Raymarching
https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/real-time-cloudscapes-with-volumetric-raymarching/
Robot Rascals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Rascals
Meta Quest 3
https://www.theverge.com/23906313/meta-quest-3-review-vr-mixed-reality-headset
Book of the Show
Patrick:
HyperLogLog Paper
https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google ..read more
Programming Throwdown
6M ago
Intro topic: What are expectations on developers that have nothing to do with programming
News/Links:
Pushing for a lower dev estimate is like negotiating weather with a Meteorologist
https://smartguess.is/blog/your-estimate-is-less-than-that/
Announcing python in excel
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel-blog/announcing-python-in-excel-combining-the-power-of-python-and-the/ba-p/3893439
7 Habits of Highly Effective Software Engineers
https://makingsmallercircles.com/articles/7-habits-of-highly-effective-software-engineers/
Raspberry pi 5 begins shipping
https://www.phoronix ..read more
Programming Throwdown
7M ago
Intro topic: Jogging Metrics
News/Links:
Unholy LLM
https://huggingface.co/Undi95/Unholy-v1-12L-13B
The reverse red herring
https://www.blameless.com/blog/the-reverse-red-herring
The "ens–tification" of TikTok
https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/
Response letter to Godot is not the new Unity
https://sampruden.github.io/posts/godot-is-not-the-new-unity/
https://gist.github.com/reduz/cb05fe96079e46785f08a79ec3b0ef21
Book of the Show
Patrick:
Math Games with Bad Drawings by Ben Orlin
https://amzn.to/48qlg9A
Jason:
The Invisible Ho ..read more
Programming Throwdown
7M ago
Links:
https://pganalyze.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lfittl/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/pganalyze/
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Programming Throwdown
7M ago
Links:
https://pganalyze.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lfittl/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/pganalyze/
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Programming Throwdown
8M ago
Intro topic: Revisiting the power of Spreadsheets
News/Links:
LK-99 Isn’t a Superconductor
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02585-7
Normalizing Flows
https://pyro.ai/examples/normalizing_flows_i.html
How is llama.cpp possible?
https://finbarr.ca/how-is-llama-cpp-possible/
Chat with open source large language models
https://chat.lmsys.org/
Book of the Show
Patrick: Math with Bad Drawings by Ben Orlin
https://amzn.to/44dsgDz
Jason:
Overboard! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.InkleLtd.Overboard Nhl=en_US&gl=US
Patreon Plug https://w ..read more