In a sense, 1521 is Mexico’s 1619. A foundational moment that for centuries has been shaped by just one perspective: a European one. The story of how Hernán Cortés and a few hundred Spaniards conquered the mighty Aztec Empire, in the heart of what’s now modern Mexico City, has become a foundational myth of European […]
#278: Unforeseeable Issues September 27th, 2023 · 29 minutes Encountering bugs and feedback that our development and beta testing didn’t or couldn’t uncover. This episode of Under the Radar is sponsored by: Things: Now updated for Apple’s new operating systems. Try it today. Stream this episode Links and Show Notes The bug David filed for […]
On Saturday, September 9th, the Gotham Gal and I arrived at JFK airport after an eight-hour flight from Paris. While waiting for our luggage, I got pushed a notification in my web3 wallet that there was an NFT drop underway that I could participate in. So I clicked on the link, signed the transaction, and […]
It’s all about sound or better yet about controlling it. So in your normal daily life, there are normal background sounds that break the silence without becoming annoyingly loud and to which you quickly get accustomed. They become normal to the point that even though you still hear them you no longer pay much attention […]
On this week’s episode of the Android Central Podcast, Shruti Shekar, Jerry Hildenbrand, Michael Hicks, and Nick Sutrich discuss Fitbit teasing it’s next device, the upcoming Xiaomi Watch 2 Pro, what the Google trial is about & why you should care, Android smartwatches vs. the Apple Watch, why the Apple Watch upgrade makes the Galaxy […]
Intro topic: Revisiting the power of Spreadsheets News/Links: LK-99 Isn’t a Superconductor https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02585-7 Normalizing Flows https://pyro.ai/examples/normalizing_flows_i.html How is llama.cpp possible? https://finbarr.ca/how-is-llama-cpp-possible/ Chat with open source large language models https://chat.lmsys.org/ Book of the Show Patrick: Math with Bad Drawings by Ben Orlin https://amzn.to/44dsgDz Jason: Overboard! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.InkleLtd.Overboard Nhl=en_US&gl=US Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Tool of the Show Patrick: ffmprovisr […]
(Covers of some of the books discussed in this post) If your first reaction to the title of this post is something along the lines of, “Wait, isn’t critical regionalism just 40 years old?,” then everything you think know about critical regionalism is partial, in both senses of the term: incomplete and biased. Yes, Kenneth […]
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#456: Unredacted Christmas September 21st, 2023 · 61 minutes We’re in hog heaven, because someone accidentally uploaded an unredacted PDF of Microsoft documents as part of the FTC V. Microsoft case. iPhone 15 reviews are out! Simone is finally, actually going to upgrade. Stream this episode Source link
Episode 120 (The Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin: Highlights of a Study of Counts, Behavior, Turnover, Movement, and Habitat) The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows. Music We move between three different pieces from Camille Saint-Saens’: Suite, Op. 90: II Menuet, and two from Carnival of… Source […]