Programming Throwdown

Programming Throwdown

Programming Throwdown educates Computer Scientists and Software Engineers on a cavalcade of programming and tech topics. Every show will cover a new programming language, so listeners will be able to speak intelligently about any programming language.

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June 30, 2025 97 mins

Intro topic: Getting an entry-level job

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Intro topic: Video Game Prices

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March 17, 2025 112 mins

Intro topic: Grills

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February 3, 2025 103 mins

Intro topic: Lego event space & retail store: https://www.instagram.com/bambeecave 

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December 3, 2024 105 mins
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November 4, 2024 88 mins

Intro topic:  Buying a Car

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September 24, 2024 118 mins
  • James Morse: Software Engineer at Cisco
    • System Administrator to DevOps
    • Difference between DevOps and MLOps
    • Getting Started with DevOps
  • Luke Marsden: CEO of Helix ML
    • How to start a business at 15 years old
    • BTRFS vs ZFS
    • MLOps: the intersection of software, DevOps and AI
    • Fine-tuning AI on the Cloud
    • Some advice for folks interested in ML Ops
  • Yuval Fernbach: CTO MLOps & JFrog
    • Starting Qwak
    • Going from a jupyter...
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August 16, 2024 100 mins

175: Resume Writing

Intro topic:  DSLR Photography vs Camera Phone

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April 29, 2024 95 mins

173: Mocking and Unit Tests


Intro topic:  Headphones

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172: Transformers and Large Language Models


Intro topic: Is WFH actually WFC?

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February 12, 2024 85 mins

Intro topic: Monitor setups

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December 24, 2023 98 mins

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 Studen...

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November 27, 2023 89 mins

Intro topic: Testing your car battery

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November 20, 2023 88 mins

Intro topic: What are expectations on developers that have nothing to do with programming

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October 23, 2023 86 mins

Intro topic: Jogging Metrics

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- pganalyze: https://pganalyze.com/

- Weekly series "5mins of Postgres": https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDV_1Dz2Ixgl1nT_3DUZVFw

- How Postgres chooses which index to use: https://pganalyze.com/blog/how-postgres-chooses-index

- CMU databases courses: https://db.cs.cmu.edu/courses/

- Postgres community: https://www.postgresql.org/community/


As well as social links:

- Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@lukas

- Twitter/X: @pganaly...

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September 25, 2023 76 mins

Intro topic: Revisiting the power of Spreadsheets

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    Things to consider when choosing a database

    • Speed & Latency
    • Consistency, ACID Compliance
    • Scalability
    • Language support & Developer Experience
    • Relational vs. Non-relational (SQL vs. NoSQL)
    • Data types
    • Security
    • Database environment
      • Client vs Server access


    Info on Kris & Harper:

    • Website: harperdb.io
    • Twitter: @harperdbio, @kriszyp
    • Github: @HarperDB, @kriszyp


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    August 14, 2023 89 mins
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