FFS Talk podcast

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We have all encountered some form of automation kiosk at a retail establishment, maybe a McDonald’s or a movie theater or self-checkout at a grocery store, the early beginnings, or maybe you have encountered an automated bartender or barista, a moving food server bot or a self-driving car or self-flying drone, these are a little bit more, and then there is what c...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Politics is messy business, one reason it is often off limits a discussion topic at your local, as it should be elsewhere. What else is there understood by so few yet divisive to such a degree? Hold that thought, these are always potential topics for future episodes… Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The Obama announcement in December 2014 about policy leaning in to coding literacy and direction came as there was a general move toward these, today there are some apparent doubts thanks to AI, but should we still? Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo PodLink for FFS Talk https://pod.link/1...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Last week we did Reasoned Reporting, this week how about the Emotional version? Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Pod.iink for FFS Talk https://pod.link/1829341893 AI Disclosure Unless otherwise specified, ALL writing and speaking contained in this episode of FFS Talk is 100% Human. Cover...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The human response is calibrated at two different levels, one emotional and the other, the second to respond, logical or reasoned. When we are receiving or otherwise consuming News Reports, we have four possibilities to consider, let’s look at two of them. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhug...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: In these exciting times, the notion that we can have some computer somewhere running some AI model do everything for us is gaining momentum and popularity, is this good? Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Pod.iink for FFS Talk https://pod.link/1829341893 AI Disclosure Unless otherwise spec...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Who doesn’t love free, whatever it might be? Well there are some caveats, perhaps… Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo No Free Lunch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_such_thing_as_a_free_lunch xkcd Dependency https://xkcd.com/2347/ AI Disclosure Unless otherwise specified, ALL writing and s...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: More and more of the products we use are phoning home to tell the mother ship about what the product is doing and how and where we are using it. Is this okay? Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo AI Disclosure Unless otherwise specified, ALL writing and speaking contained in this episode of...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Odds are you use AI tools for something, sometimes or all the time, and thanks to momentum you probably take the response as truth. Is that a good idea? Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo METR examination of the OpenAI/HuggingFace incident (Ajeya Cotra on Dwarkesh Patel) https://www.youtub...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Anyone can find, or give, advice about anything on YouTube and other media outlets, no matter your education or expertise. One disclaimer and you’re off the hook, and so among other things we have more advice on how to meet women than anyone should encounter in a lifetime. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymea...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Are you on the leading or cutting edge and you believe that makes you better in some way than those who are not? Think again… Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: As a follow-on to the Handle Grab episode, is it a good thing to have so many social media platforms and to keep track of them to engage fans and customers? Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: It is human nature to want to place blame somewhere, usually somewhere else, and this is easily seen in the ongoing pursuit of a villain in the Pandemic Timeline, though this is not the only example by any means. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Who Destroyed Three Mile Island by Nickola...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Keep in clean if you will, bigger may be better sometimes, more may be also, but not always. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Diminishing Returns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminishing_returns Jevons Paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Not so often lately, but through the history of the internets there were new social networking and social media platforms coming onto the scene all too frequently, and we always needed to get the same name on the new platforms that we already had on the existing platforms. Didn’t we? Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https:/...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A lot of people use LinkedIn, allegedly around 1.3 Billion registered users worldwide. That is a lot of people, but how many of them respond to your outreach? Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Norms, Social Norms, Structural Norms, all of these are the things we all sort of expect if we know about them, and we can on occasion be surprised. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Barnga (book) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1201748.Barnga

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We all use them, they are easy to create, and they can be convenient in many situations. Yet they can also be misused, and they often are. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: If you have ever set out to meet a group of people by way of introductions, you may have experienced this trap, where you end up meeting a limited cross section of a population, which may not be quite what you were after. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Selection Bias https://en.wikiped...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: AI is showing up in all sorts of places, for a few different reasons, the question is whether this is good or maybe not so much. In other words, what works, what does not, and what are we going to do about it? Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I am not an actual educator, no credentials or classroom experience to speak of at all really, but based on my own life experiences, working with young people here and there, and conversations on this topic, along with some research of course, I think the Flipped Classroom is the way to go in the AI era. Surely this is a debate-worthy topic… Links FFS Talk Home h...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We have all been there on either or both sides of this. You want to support your colleague, so you buy a ticket, you like their post, you reshare blindly on social media, or maybe your colleagues are doing this to you. I mean for you. Or is it to you? Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Maths are hard for some, and generally off-putting for more, even though having some idea what the numbers are is usually a good thing. We should all Do The Maths more often, or have our pocket supercomputers do it for us, at the very least. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We talked about Apathy in Episode 0113 and Optimism in Episode 0126, today we ponder the wonder of not knowing. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Ignorance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignorance Cognitive Dissonance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance Unknown Unknowns http...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: No, not the mysterious object in 2001: A Space Odyssey, but the notion that an organized whole that acts as a single unified controller of resources, information, people, or maybe just everything. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo