Niall & Cathal

History Machine Podcast

History EN ↓ 30 episodes

Niall and Cathal here, two Irish guys with an interest in history and crunching numbers. The idea for this podcast came from us having a lot of notions and a few historic ideas. Our shared interest in military history led us to ask questions like:"Which was the best army?""Who was the best commander?"or "Can a good general redeem a bad army?"But how can you answer those questions without doing extensive research and speculation into each army and individual general? Well, we created a neural network (the History Machine!) to help work out the answers for us! We'll use the History Machine to cr...

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Episode 4: Punic Wars 08.01.2019 1:30:01

For the fourth episode of the History Machine Podcast, Cathal and Niall discuss possibly the ancient worlds biggest showdown: the Punic wars. Rome is about to take centre stage in Europe, but not before dealing with their greatest threat to date Hannibal Barca. Scipio, Hamilcar, Hasdrubal, Mago, Fabian, legendary battles, history on a knife edge and more with help from the neural network AI: Histo...

Episode 3: Greece Part 2 07.12.2018 56:29

For the third episode of the History Machine Podcast, Cathal and Niall discuss a Greece without a Persian threat, Athens, Sparta, the Peloponnesian War, an Expedition to Sicily, Lysander, Epaminondas and more with help from the neural network AI: History Machine. Rankings, numbers, hype and more. Tune in to see if the real winners of the Peloponnesian War and why it had such a lasting effect.

Episode 2: Greece 05.11.2018 1:02:35

For the second episode of the History Machine Podcast, Cathal and Niall discuss Greece, Athens, Sparta, Thermopylae, Marathon, Salamis and more with help from the neural network AI: History Machine. Rankings, numbers, hype and more. Tune in to see if the 300 last stand was glorious or insanity.

Episode 1: Egypt 05.09.2018 51:39

For the first episode of the History Machine Podcast, Cathal and Niall discuss Egypt, Ptolemy, Cleopatra and more with help from the neural network AI: History Machine. Rankings, numbers, hype and more. Tune in to see if we should look upon the works of Ozymandias and despair.

Episode 0: Introduction 01.08.2018 3:44

For the introduction episode of the History Machine Podcast, Niall gives a brief breakdown of what exactly the History Machine AI is and how and why it works. With it we can get our figures and back up our claims. Tune in to see how we can apply artificial technology to antiquity. And if this interests you, then you can also listen to our other episodes available now as well.