Off-Grid Social Network with Andre Staltz

Off-Grid Social Network with Andre Staltz

Author: Greatest Hits Archives - Software Engineering Daily May 26, 2017 Duration: 54:32
Social networks like Facebook and Twitter facilitate interactions between individuals. Every message I send to you on Facebook goes through Facebook’s servers before reaching you. This is known as the client-server model. Since the early days of the internet, engineers have always envisioned a peer-to-peer model, where I could communicate to you directly, without a

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Author: Language: en-us Episodes: 100

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Podcast Episodes
Parlaying Failure to Fortune with Paul Martino [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 53:20
In 2003, Paul Martino co-founded Tribe.net, one of the earliest social networking sites. Tribe had significant traction, with hundreds of thousands of users. In the early 2000s, hundreds of thousands of users was enough…
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…