Picture Me Coding
Picture Me Coding is a music podcast about software. Each week your hosts Erik Aker and Mike Mull take on topics in the software world and they are sometimes joined by guests from other fields who arrive with their own burning questions about technology.
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Podcasting since 2023 • 86 episodes
Picture Me Coding
Latest Episodes
The Turing Test
This episode is about the Turing Test, and Alan Turing's original description of the test in Computing Machinery and Intelligence. We also discuss a recent work by two UCSD researchers that claims that current LLMs pass the Turin...
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Season 3
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Episode 85
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58:33
Ubiquitous Computing
In 1988 Mark Weiser of Xerox PARC coined the term "ubiquitous computing", and in 1991 he spelled out the particulars of this concept in a Scientific American article called "The Computer for the 21st Century". We discuss whether or not We...
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Season 3
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Episode 84
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1:00:45
The Two Problems With Regular Expressions
This week we're talking about regular expressions, aka, regex. These are a favorite tool of programmers, but they also have a dark side. Do regex cause more problems than they solve? Can they be evil? We also discuss the...
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Season 3
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Episode 83
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56:09
The History of Unix, Part 2: Unix not Eunuchs
A continuation of our discussion about the history of Unix and its development at Bell Labs. Erik wonders why Unix became successful and which features were novel and important. Mike just wants to talk about cool pranks Group 1127 pulled ...
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Season 3
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Episode 82
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53:07
