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.
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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Intro topic: Monitor setups
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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?
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Intro topic: Testing your car battery
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Intro topic: What are expectations on developers that have nothing to do with programming
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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/
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- Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@lukas
- Twitter/X: @pganaly...
Intro topic: Revisiting the power of Spreadsheets
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Book of the Show
...Things to consider when choosing a database
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Episode 163 - Recursion
Intro topic: Electric Cars
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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 Introductions
00:00:39 To hard mode or not to hard mode
00:08:58 No moats in Google
00:16:37 Stable Diffusion blows Jason’s mind
00:21:31 Putting beats together
00:23:38 GPT4All
00:27:44 White Sand
00:35:28 F...
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 Introductions
00:02:09 Hagay’s circuitous career journey
00:08:25 Building software for large factories
00:17:30 The reality of new technologies
00:28:10 AWS
00:29:33 Pytorch’s leapfrog advantage
00:37:24 MosaicML’s missio...
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 on AI, creative endeavors, and more before diving into the meaty discussion of position localization.
00:01:13 Steam Deck
00:11:22 Summoning Salt on Mario
00:16:49 100k stars
00:24:26 ChatGPT spam call
00:25:31 Build Your Own DB (from scr...
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 Introductions
00:01:48 Tanmai’s late start in programming
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In today’s episode, Jason and Patrick dive deeply with JFrog’s Senior Solutions Engineer, Bill Manning. With the conversation tackling the depth and complexity of software supply chains, vulnerabilities and more, Bill deftly offers grounded advice to listeners old and new.
00:00:26 Introductions
00:00:40 Bill’s plethora of job titles
00:09:33 The excitement of learning a language
00:15:08 Mechanical keyboards
00:21:17 Bill’s a...
There’s more than what meets the eye when it comes to Kubernetes, and Craig Box – ARMO’s VP of Open Source & Community –is one of several who have seen its many twists and turns since its inception. He talks with Jason and Patrick about Kubernetes’ origins in pop culture, utility in the modern workflow, and possible future in today’s episode.
00:01:31 Introductions
00:03:39 Craig’s early internet speed experience
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Should AI research be paused? How far ahead have deepfakes come? Join Patrick and Jason as they tackle their answers to these timely questions – plus an in-depth discussion on Perl in practice – with today’s episode of Programming Throwdown.
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When it comes to untangling the complexities of what lies ahead for search engines in this age of AI, few are as deeply versed in the subject as You.com Engineer Saahil Jain. Jason and Patrick talk with him in this episode about what search even is, what challenges lie ahead, and where the shift in paradigms can be found.
00:01:16 Introductions
00:02:06 How physics led Saahil to programming
00:07:20 Getting started at Micros...
A second Jason joins this episode of Programming Throwdown! Jason McDonald – Python evangelist, author, and more – talks to Patrick and Jason about his experience with the programming language, how his disability helped and hindered his software career, and where its strengths and weaknesses lie.
00:01:05 Introductions
00:02:27 Jason’s pivotal Doctor Who regeneration
00:04:49 The power of dialog boxes
00:10:10 Python’s po...
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