FFS Talk podcast

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

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The hype is growing faster than the power bills for AI, with the new coolness found in the ability to run your entrepreneurial endeavors entirely by way of Agents and Skills and Tokens. Oh My! Is this really a good idea? Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Is so-called whataboutism a valid argument, rationalizing, or simply insidious? Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Whataboutism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: These are interesting times, it is perhaps a good thing to be able to see opportunity in the chaos Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Reexamining The Federalist Papers and some history and basically the state of affairs that we started with nearly 250 years ago, our two party system could be a part of the problem. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo History of US Political Parties https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_p...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The so-called Resource Curse is a well-known concept, it has been around for a long time, and the place I call home, Las Vegas, Nevada, has definitely suffered from it. In these modern times there is a new curse in town, and it appears we might be ready to switch to that one… Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buy...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: There is a quote often attributed to Woody Allen, that Showing Up is 80% of Life. There may be more nuance than that. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Showing Up Quote https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/06/10/showing-up/ The 3.5% Rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3.5%25_rule

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We have all heard the expression, “Stay in your lane,” or something similar, and there is a different side to that coin, this is about both. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Everything is tech, and if it is not yet tech, there are plans to make it tech, most likely by bolting on some AI and hoping people will buy it. Is this how it all ends? Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Age verification online has become the new hot topic, in a time of so many hot topics, and this is going to be another example of good intentions going wrong. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Voting is something that happens during elections, but it can also happen at other times and in other ways. The general notion of voting and casting votes could be better-understood. 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 rivers and walls and feeds back in episode 53, now is as good a time as ever to look at this one-dimensional feed that has captured the world in various forms while two-dimensional views are really what we need. Maybe even three. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Artificial Intelligence is going to take all jobs in 18 months leaving you more time to relax and enjoy life for as long as you have money saved up… the hype around AI Coders is pure chaos. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Anthropic Claud makes a C Compiler https://www.anthropic.com/engi...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Look around in your travels and note how many people have cameras (in their phones, in their pockets, on their bodies) and how many cameras mounted on traffic signal poles, buildings, and drones are looking at everything. Always looking… Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Passive participation sounds like something you find on your tax forms (I think it is, actually), but here we are going to ponder modernity when it comes to happenings around us, especially where social media is involved. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We are not talking about databases, but there is a concept in databases where a change set can either be committed for all to see or rolled back to make the change set but a memory that need not be seen. If only such things were possible in the real world… Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhug...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: There are probably a few of these sorts of things to which this suggestion applies, that Apathy can be a good thing in moderation. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo