Tea: Bai Hao Yin Zhen (“White Hair Silver Needle”), a white tea. Damon talks about a sea change in internet usage and recent attempts by bad folks to take down the web. Michael goes over the basic ideas of machine learning and how you may already be using it. Also: brussel sprouts, clean barns, the flavor of missing children, emotional buying, the slow motion vision in a moment of horror, the Facebook Pixel, violations of the Fair Housing Act, smart devices and the Internet of Things, installing antivirus software on your refrigerator, the start of Skynet, face recognition, figuring out who your “sweetheart” is, Westworld, and rabbit holes.
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Show notes
- Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users By Race
- Oops. Michael was wrong. Not “Zapf’s” but Zipf’s Law
- Possibility that the Voynich manuscript is a hoax
- Internet usage stats from StatCounter
- DDOS attack against Dyn
- Data on current DDOS attacks
- The Channel Master (Episode 5)
- The Justice Pitcher (Episode 4)
- Honeypot toaster gets hacked
- Austin, TX, requires smart thermostats in new construction
- Solar power in Nevada
- The Hacker’s Guide to Tea
- Some common arrangements of “neurons” in a neural net
- Vocabulary in tweets predicting heart disease
- TensorFlow
- Machine learning in Google Assistant
- 24/7 Ask A Librarian at the Seattle Public Library
- It’s Mr. Snuffleupagus, and his first name is Aloysius
- Build a Neural Net Live video
- Ready Player One and I, Robot on Amazon (affiliate links)
- Commodore 64 still in use in Poland
- Oldest tea shop in Japan, Tsuen Honten
- Earth Day Money, a LETSystem community currency in Shibuya
Our theme music was written by Lisa Purdy.
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