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

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

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

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! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ..read more

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

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

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

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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