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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Picture Me Coding
We Read the News and Everyone’s On Drugs
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In this episode we looked at the tragic story of tech company CEOs doing drugs and the various knock-on effects.
We also played a lightning round of "Aspiring to be a nation state or on drugs?" with various headlines.
This is the final episode of Picture Me Coding for 2024 and we’ll be taking a break for a few weeks after this. But we’ll be back next year!
Mike made a playlist of all the music we talked about this year too! Find it here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6jbM32yzvi8MK3zv2cXPSr?si=f40f8df000404a11
REFERENCES ROUNDUP
- NYT: “The C.E.O.s Are Tripping. Can Psychedelics Help the C-Suite?”
- The Verge: “Google reveals quantum computing chip with ‘breakthrough’ achievements”
- Google blog announcement of quantum computing breakthrough
- Scott Aaronson: Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » The Google Willow thing
- TechCrunch: “Court orders Automattic to restore WP Engine’s access to WordPress.org”
- Wordpress’s Mullenweg interview with The Verge.
- Goodbye, unreliable weather forecasts? Google DeepMind's AI model sets new benchmark for 15-day predictions | TechRadar
- Google Blog: Introducing Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era
- the Spectator “Are you ready for agentic AI?”
- Google Genai: new Python repo with “Part” data type
- Azure’s AI Agent Service announcement
- Toms Hardware: “AI GPU Clusters with one million GPUs are planned for 2027”
- Big Tech Embraces Nuclear Power to Fuel AI and Data Centers - IEEE Spectrum
- https://subseacables.blogspot.com/2024/10/breaking-story-facebook-building-subsea.html
