Programming Throwdown

163: Recursion

Episode 163 - RecursionIntro topic: Electric CarsNews/Links: Snake Game in 101 Bytes in a QR Codehttps://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/15ab4ct/my_qr_code_snake_game_is_now_only_101_bytes/ Superconductor Rumors aboundhttps://arstechnica.com/science/2023/08/whats-going-on-with-the-reports-of-a-room-temperature-superconductor/ OpenWormhttps://github.com/openworm/OpenWorm Creator of vim passes away https://news.itsfoss.com/vim-creator-passed-away/ Book of the Show Patrick:Little Book of Common Sense Investing by Jack Bogle https://amzn.to/43YqANR Jason: Mistborn Saga: https://amzn.to/3DJkUN8 Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=hTool of the Show Jason:reMarkable https://remarkable.com/ Patrick: Stellarium (iOS and Android) Topic: Recursion What is it Divide-And-Conquer Fibonacci numbers How to (not) teach recursion Practical Applications Graph operations Tree retrieval, balancing Graph Search Spatial partitioning PitfallsStack size How to solve problems with recursion (1) Consider the base cases (2) Build the recursive step (3) Look for ways the recursion will not terminate and fix (4) (rest are optional) Remove global contexts (5) Add memoization (6) Build solutions incrementally ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

162: Interactive Fiction

In the latest episode of Programming Throwdown, we delve into the captivating world of interactive fiction. We explore: Wordnet, Inform, and how games in the past have been the forerunners of today’s NLP challenges. 00:00:22 Introductions00:00:39 To hard mode or not to hard mode00:08:58 No moats in Google00:16:37 Stable Diffusion blows Jason’s mind00:21:31 Putting beats together00:23:38 GPT4All00:27:44 White Sand00:35:28 Fortuna00:38:55 Patrick’s ‘dirty’ secret00:47:20 Wordnet00:53:56 Procedural generation00:57:29 On tabletop RPGs01:00:48 Inform01:07:27 FarewellsResources mentioned in this episode:Join the Programming Throwdown Patreon community today: https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Subscribe to the podcast on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@programmingthrowdown4793 News/Links:Google: We have no moat and neither does OpenAIhttps://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither Stable Diffusion QR Codes https://stable-diffusion-art.com/qr-code/  Beginning to Make Musichttps://learningmusic.ableton.com/ GPT4Allhttps://gpt4all.io/index.html Wordnet:https://wordnet.princeton.edu/ Inform:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inform Book of the ShowPatrick:White Sand https://amzn.to/43CPMKA Jason: The Fortuna https://www.generativefiction.com/ Tool of the ShowJason:Gatsby.js https://www.gatsbyjs.com/ Patrick: Peglin https://store.steampowered.com/app/1296610/Peglin/   If you’ve enjoyed this episode, you can listen to more on Programming Throwdown’s website: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/ Reach out to us via email: programmingthrowdown@gmail.com You can also follow Programming Throwdown on Facebook | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Player.FM | Youtube Join the discussion on our DiscordHelp support Programming Throwdown through our Patreon ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

161: Leveraging Generative AI Models with Hagay Lupesko

MosaicML’s VP Of Engineering, Hagay Lupesko, joins us today to discuss generative AI!  We talk about how to use existing models as well as ways to finetune these models to a particular task or domain. 00:01:28 Introductions00:02:09 Hagay’s circuitous career journey00:08:25 Building software for large factories00:17:30 The reality of new technologies00:28:10 AWS00:29:33 Pytorch’s leapfrog advantage00:37:24 MosaicML’s mission00:39:29 Generative AI00:44:39 Giant data models00:57:00 Data access tips01:10:31 MPT-7B01:27:01 Careers in Mosaic01:31:46 FarewellsResources mentioned in this episode:Join the Programming Throwdown Patreon community today: https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Subscribe to the podcast on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@programmingthrowdown4793 Links:Hagay Lupesko:Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hagaylupesko/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/hagay_lupesko Github: https://github.com/lupesko MosaicML:Website: https://www.mosaicml.com/ Careers: https://www.mosaicml.com/careers Twitter: https://twitter.com/MosaicML Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mosaicml/ Others:Amp It Up (Amazon): https://www.amazon.com/Amp-Unlocking-Hypergrowth-Expectations-Intensity/dp/1119836115 Hugging Face Hub: https://huggingface.co/  If you’ve enjoyed this episode, you can listen to more on Programming Throwdown’s website: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/ Reach out to us via email: programmingthrowdown@gmail.com You can also follow Programming Throwdown on Facebook | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Player.FM | Youtube Join the discussion on our DiscordHelp support Programming Throwdown through our Patreon ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

160: Position Localization

Where are you now? It’s a question that may seem easy to answer on the surface, but in truth hides more complexity than people expect. In today’s episode, we tackle the latest that they’ve found online on AI, creative endeavors, and more before diving into the meaty discussion of position localization. 00:01:13 Steam Deck00:11:22 Summoning Salt on Mario00:16:49 100k stars00:24:26 ChatGPT spam call00:25:31 Build Your Own DB (from scratch)00:29:50 DuckDB00:35:07 Jason has an idea00:37:58 Fighting Fantasy Classics00:41:52 Patrick’s bread00:47:52 Support the show00:53:54 Awkward CRM emails00:56:07 Rill01:00:29 Position localization in detail01:17:15 Common filter01:25:22 Simultaneous localization01:28:59 FarewellsResources mentioned in this episode:Join the Programming Throwdown Patreon community today: https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Subscribe to the podcast on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@programmingthrowdown4793News/Links:The History of Super Mario Bros 3 100% World Records (Summoning Salt)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EsFyogVvkw AutoGPT hits 100k starshttps://twitter.com/AlphaSignalAI/status/1649524105647906819 Build Your Own Database from Scratchhttps://build-your-own.org/database/ Asking generative art AI to render mathematical theoremshttps://twitter.com/TivadarDanka/status/1649721970886594561 DuckDB:https://duckdb.org/ Book of the Show:Jason: Fighting Fantasy Classicshttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tinmangames.ffhub&hl=en_US&gl=US https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fighting-fantasy-classics/id1261201650 Patrick: Evolutions in Bread: Artisan Pan Breads and Dutch-Oven Loaves at Homehttps://amzn.to/44kW4iE Tool of the Show:Jason: Jinja https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/3.1.x/ Patrick: Rill https://www.rilldata.com/ If you’ve enjoyed this episode, you can listen to more on Programming Throwdown’s website: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/ Reach out to us via email: programmingthrowdown@gmail.com You can also follow Programming Throwdown on Facebook | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Player.FM | Youtube Join the discussion on our DiscordHelp support Programming Throwdown through our Patreon ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

159: GraphQL with Tanmai Gopal

GraphQL is one of the biggest API enablers in software development, but just how complicated can things be? Tanmai Gopal – Hasura’s CEO extraordinaire – talks with Jason and Patrick about how the secret sauce gets made. They dive deeply from how APIs function to having them managed in practice – among several other topic, making this a must-listen episode.  00:01:19 Introductions00:01:48 Tanmai’s late start in programming00:05:48 Plinko00:13:06 Coursera00:23:28 The question of API development00:30:30 API layer functionality00:34:58 How Hasura leverages JSON00:39:08 GraphQL00:42:49 Worse than an API call00:49:15 The potential REST minefield00:53:41 JSON Web Tokens01:11:34 Scaling writes01:15:17 Careers with Hasura01:22:35 FarewellsResources mentioned in this episode:Join the Programming Throwdown Patreon community today: https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Subscribe to the podcast on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@programmingthrowdown4793Links: Tanmai Gopal: Website: https://hasura.io/blog/@tanmaig/  Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanmaig/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/tanmaigo  Github: https://github.com/coco98  Hasura: Website: https://hasura.io/  Careers: https://hasura.io/careers/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/HasuraHQ  Github: https://github.com/hasura  Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hasura  Others: Good Strategy, Bad Strategy (Amazon): https://www.amazon.com/Good-Strategy-Bad-Strategy-audiobook/dp/B07R6XQ8YP  Modern Application Development (IIT Madras, archived): https://archive.nptel.ac.in/courses/106/106/106106156/ If you’ve enjoyed this episode, you can listen to more on Programming Throwdown’s website: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/ Reach out to us via email: programmingthrowdown@gmail.com You can also follow Programming Throwdown on Facebook | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Player.FM | Youtube Join the discussion on our DiscordHelp support Programming Throwdown through our Patreon ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★