Big Business with Tyler Cowen

Big Business with Tyler Cowen

Author: Greatest Hits Archives - Software Engineering Daily August 12, 2019 Duration: 57:40
Large software companies have become a target for criticism. Google, Facebook, Amazon and other prominent technology giants find themselves under a kind of scrutiny that is reminiscent of banks in 2008 and oil companies in the early 1900s. Across the planet, there is a growing sentiment that “big tech” has too much power, and that

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Author: Language: en-us Episodes: 100

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Bad Men with Bob Hoffman [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:04:03
In the 1960s, advertising agencies were high-dollar creative producers. A client would come to an ad agency and pay millions of dollars for artistic messaging that would convince a consumer to buy a product. How could yo…
Analyse Asia with Bernard Leong [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:05:50
In America, the tech companies we focus on are commonly known as FAANG: Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google. We all know what these companies do because they impact our daily lives. In Asia, there are three giant te…
Word2Vec with Adrian Colyer [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 54:46
Machines understand the world through mathematical representations. In order to train a machine learning model, we need to describe everything in terms of numbers. Images, words, and sounds are too abstract for a compute…
Serverless Startup with Yan Cui [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 51:55
After raising $18 million, social networking startup Yubl made a series of costly mistakes. Yubl hired an army of expensive contractors to build out its iOS and Android apps. Drama at the executive level hurt morale for…
Quantum Computing with Vijay Pande [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 49:50
Quantum computing is based on the system of quantum mechanics. In quantum computing, we perform operations over qubits instead of bits. A qubit is a vector, which can take on many more values than 0 or 1. The technology…
Self-Driving Deep Learning with Lex Fridman [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 52:28
Self-driving cars are here. Fully autonomous systems like Waymo are being piloted in less complex circumstances. Human-in-the-loop systems like Tesla Autopilot navigate drivers when it is safe to do so, and lets the huma…
Culture Fit with Ammon Bartram [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 52:08
“Culture fit” is a term that is used to describe engineers that have the right personality for a given company. In the hiring process, “lack of culture fit” is used to turn away engineers who are good enough at coding bu…
Computer Logic with Chris Dixon [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 49:30
The history of computing can be thought of as a series of ideas rather than objects. From Aristotle’s formalization of the syllogism, to Alan Turing’s model for an all-purpose computing machine, to Satoshi Nakamoto’s dis…
Search Engine Land with Danny Sullivan [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 55:52
Search engines run our lives. The path we take to information is dictated by Google, Facebook, Amazon, and other forms of search. Search engines feel objective and truthful, but are built through ongoing experimentation…
Google Early Days with John Looney [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:05:21
John Looney spent more than 10 years at Google. He started with infrastructure, and was part of the team that migrated Google File System to Colossus, the successor to GFS. Imagine migrating every piece of data on Google…