Programming Throwdown

173: Mocking and Unit Tests Intro topic: Headphones News/Links: https://physicsfestival.tamu.edu/https://youtu.be/6mZRWFQRvmw?t=27012https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05440https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/04/what-we-know-about-the-xz-utils-backdoor-that-almost-infected-the-world/ Book of the Show https://amzn.to/3xyEKLohttps://amzn.to/49ycDJj Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Tool of the Show https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.playdigious.shapez&hl=en_US&gl=UShttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/shapez-factory-game/id6450830779https://store.steampowered.com/app/975370/Dwarf_Fortress/ Topic: Mocking and Unit Tests https://docs.python.org/3/library/unittest.mock.htmlhttps://github.com/mockito/mockitohttps://github.com/google/googletest ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

172: Transformers and Large Language Models Intro topic: Is WFH actually WFC? News/Links: https://vadimkravcenko.com/shorts/falsehoods-junior-developers-believe-about-becoming-senior/https://wiki.purduesigbots.com/software/control-algorithms/basic-pure-pursuithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYR7mmcwT2whttps://www.wescottdesign.com/articles/pid/pidWithoutAPhd.pdfhttps://blog.google/technology/developers/gemma-open-models/ Book of the Show https://amzn.to/3uEhg6vhttps://amzn.to/3UZtP7b Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Tool of the Show https://stadia.google.com/controller/index_en_US.htmlhttps://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-sshfs-to-mount-remote-file-systems-over-ssh Topic: Transformers and Large Language Models ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Intro topic: Monitor setups News/Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuJ5UuknsHUhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2024/01/22/palworld-accused-of-using-genai-with-no-evidence-so-far/?sh=26a9651b4239https://andreasjhkarlsson.github.io/jekyll/update/2023/12/27/4-billion-if-statements.htmlhttps://ai.meta.com/blog/seamless-m4t/ Book of the Show https://amzn.to/3SrmgnPhttps://amzn.to/47JUCXJ Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Tool of the Show https://www.fireproofgames.com/games/the-roomhttps://www.incredibuild.com/ Topic: Compilers and Interpreters (Request by Jessica W.) https://www.craftinginterpreters.com/https://nandgame.com/ ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Predictions: Jason Patrick Early career, finding role at FAANG, liaising vs shipping code. Startup? 3 part. 1. How and when current hype for AI will end? 2. Shape of the show 3. Upcoming in tech What are essential programmer knowledge items? CS Student, how to organize life and goals? What purpose life should serve? What kind of programmer were you in college? Happy Holidays! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Intro topic: Testing your car battery News/Links: https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/google-layoffs-california-companies-18465600.phphttps://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/real-time-cloudscapes-with-volumetric-raymarching/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Rascalshttps://www.theverge.com/23906313/meta-quest-3-review-vr-mixed-reality-headset Book of the Show https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/40671.pdfhttps://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2023/10/20/eureka-robotics-research/Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Tool of the Show https://store.steampowered.com/app/1457320/Techtonica/https://amzn.to/3Qpmb20 Topic: HyperLogLog ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Intro topic: What are expectations on developers that have nothing to do with programming News/Links: https://smartguess.is/blog/your-estimate-is-less-than-that/https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel-blog/announcing-python-in-excel-combining-the-power-of-python-and-the/ba-p/3893439https://makingsmallercircles.com/articles/7-habits-of-highly-effective-software-engineers/https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-5-Shipping Book of the Show https://amzn.to/3St3L35https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-pete-and-sebastian-show/id570256898Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Tool of the Show obsidian.mdhttps://github.com/inkle/ink Topic: Godot ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Intro topic: Jogging Metrics News/Links: https://huggingface.co/Undi95/Unholy-v1-12L-13Bhttps://www.blameless.com/blog/the-reverse-red-herringhttps://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/https://sampruden.github.io/posts/godot-is-not-the-new-unity/https://gist.github.com/reduz/cb05fe96079e46785f08a79ec3b0ef21 Book of the Show https://amzn.to/48qlg9Ahttps://amzn.to/3LChBffPatreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Tool of the Show Topic: Desktop user interfaces ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

- pganalyze: https://pganalyze.com/ - Weekly series "5mins of Postgres": https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDV_1Dz2Ixgl1nT_3DUZVFw - How Postgres chooses which index to use: https://pganalyze.com/blog/how-postgres-chooses-index - CMU databases courses: https://db.cs.cmu.edu/courses/ - Postgres community: https://www.postgresql.org/community/ As well as social links: - Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@lukas - Twitter/X: @pganalyze, @LukasFittl - GitHub: @pganalyze, @lfittl - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lfittl/ , https://www.linkedin.com/company/pganalyze/ ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Intro topic: Revisiting the power of Spreadsheets News/Links: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02585-7https://pyro.ai/examples/normalizing_flows_i.htmlhttps://finbarr.ca/how-is-llama-cpp-possible/https://chat.lmsys.org/ Book of the Show https://amzn.to/44dsgDzhttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.InkleLtd.Overboard Nhl=en_US&gl=USPatreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Tool of the Show https://amiaopensource.github.io/ffmprovisr/ Topic: Differential Equations What is Jacobian? | The right way of thinking derivatives and integrals https://medium.com/@pukumarathe/eulers-method-and-runge-kutta-4th-order-method-in-python-b4a0068a8ebehttps://scientific-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/notebooks_rst/3_Ordinary_Differential_Equations/02_Examples/Lotka_Volterra_model.htmlhttps://youtu.be/52n2qKgwW_Qhttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.08973.pdf ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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Episode 163 - Recursion Intro topic: Electric Cars News/Links: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/15ab4ct/my_qr_code_snake_game_is_now_only_101_bytes/https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/08/whats-going-on-with-the-reports-of-a-room-temperature-superconductor/https://github.com/openworm/OpenWormhttps://news.itsfoss.com/vim-creator-passed-away/ Book of the Show https://amzn.to/43YqANRhttps://amzn.to/3DJkUN8Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Tool of the Show https://remarkable.com/ Topic: Recursion ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

In the latest episode of Programming Throwdown, we delve into the captivating world of interactive fiction. We explore: Wordnet, Inform, and how games in the past have been the forerunners of today’s NLP challenges. 00:00:22 Introductions 00:00:39 To hard mode or not to hard mode 00:08:58 No moats in Google 00:16:37 Stable Diffusion blows Jason’s mind 00:21:31 Putting beats together 00:23:38 GPT4All 00:27:44 White Sand 00:35:28 Fortuna 00:38:55 Patrick’s ‘dirty’ secret 00:47:20 Wordnet 00:53:56 Procedural generation 00:57:29 On tabletop RPGs 01:00:48 Inform 01:07:27 Farewells Resources mentioned in this episode: Join the Programming Throwdown Patreon community today: https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Subscribe to the podcast on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@programmingthrowdown4793 News/Links: https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neitherhttps://stable-diffusion-art.com/qr-code/https://learningmusic.ableton.com/https://gpt4all.io/index.htmlhttps://wordnet.princeton.edu/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InformBook of the Show https://amzn.to/43CPMKAhttps://www.generativefiction.com/Tool of the Show https://www.gatsbyjs.com/https://store.steampowered.com/app/1296610/Peglin/ If you’ve enjoyed this episode, you can listen to more on Programming Throwdown’s website: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/ Reach out to us via email: programmingthrowdown@gmail.com You can also follow Programming Throwdown on Facebook | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Player.FM | Youtube Join the discussion on our Discord Help support Programming Throwdown through our Patreon ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

MosaicML’s VP Of Engineering, Hagay Lupesko, joins us today to discuss generative AI! We talk about how to use existing models as well as ways to finetune these models to a particular task or domain. 00:01:28 Introductions 00:02:09 Hagay’s circuitous career journey 00:08:25 Building software for large factories 00:17:30 The reality of new technologies 00:28:10 AWS 00:29:33 Pytorch’s leapfrog advantage 00:37:24 MosaicML’s mission 00:39:29 Generative AI 00:44:39 Giant data models 00:57:00 Data access tips 01:10:31 MPT-7B 01:27:01 Careers in Mosaic 01:31:46 Farewells Resources mentioned in this episode: Join the Programming Throwdown Patreon community today: https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Subscribe to the podcast on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@programmingthrowdown4793 Links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hagaylupesko/https://twitter.com/hagay_lupeskohttps://github.com/lupeskohttps://www.mosaicml.com/https://www.mosaicml.com/careershttps://twitter.com/MosaicMLhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/mosaicml/https://www.amazon.com/Amp-Unlocking-Hypergrowth-Expectations-Intensity/dp/1119836115https://huggingface.co/ If you’ve enjoyed this episode, you can listen to more on Programming Throwdown’s website: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/ Reach out to us via email: programmingthrowdown@gmail.com You can also follow Programming Throwdown on Facebook | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Player.FM | Youtube Join the discussion on our Discord Help support Programming Throwdown through our Patreon ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Where are you now? It’s a question that may seem easy to answer on the surface, but in truth hides more complexity than people expect. In today’s episode, we tackle the latest on AI, creative endeavors, and more before diving into the meaty discussion of position localization. 00:01:13 Steam Deck 00:11:22 Summoning Salt on Mario 00:16:49 100k stars 00:24:26 ChatGPT spam call 00:25:31 Build Your Own DB (from scratch) 00:29:50 DuckDB 00:35:07 Jason has an idea 00:37:58 Fighting Fantasy Classics 00:41:52 Patrick’s bread 00:47:52 Support the show 00:53:54 Awkward CRM emails 00:56:07 Rill 01:00:29 Position localization in detail 01:17:15 Common filter 01:25:22 Simultaneous localization 01:28:59 Farewells Resources mentioned in this episode: Join the Programming Throwdown Patreon community today: https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Subscribe to the podcast on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@programmingthrowdown4793 News/Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EsFyogVvkwhttps://twitter.com/AlphaSignalAI/status/1649524105647906819https://build-your-own.org/database/https://twitter.com/TivadarDanka/status/1649721970886594561https://duckdb.org/Book of the Show: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tinmangames.ffhub&hl=en_US&gl=UShttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/fighting-fantasy-classics/id1261201650https://amzn.to/44kW4iETool of the Show: https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/3.1.x/https://www.rilldata.com/If you’ve enjoyed this episode, you can listen to more on Programming Throwdown’s website: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/ Reach out to us via email: programmingthrowdown@gmail.com You can also follow Programming Throwdown on Facebook | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Player.FM | Youtube Join the discussion on our Discord Help support Programming Throwdown through our Patreon ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

GraphQL is one of the biggest API enablers in software development, but just how complicated can things be? Tanmai Gopal – Hasura’s CEO extraordinaire – talks with Jason and Patrick about how the secret sauce gets made. They dive deeply from how APIs function to having them managed in practice – among several other topic, making this a must-listen episode. 00:01:19 Introductions 00:01:48 Tanmai’s late start in programming 00:05:48 Plinko 00:13:06 Coursera 00:23:28 The question of API development 00:30:30 API layer functionality 00:34:58 How Hasura leverages JSON 00:39:08 GraphQL 00:42:49 Worse than an API call 00:49:15 The potential REST minefield 00:53:41 JSON Web Tokens 01:11:34 Scaling writes 01:15:17 Careers with Hasura 01:22:35 Farewells Resources mentioned in this episode: Join the Programming Throwdown Patreon community today: https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Subscribe to the podcast on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@programmingthrowdown4793 Links: If you’ve enjoyed this episode, you can listen to more on Programming Throwdown’s website: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/ Reach out to us via email: programmingthrowdown@gmail.com You can also follow Programming Throwdown on Facebook | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Player.FM | Youtube Join the discussion on our Discord Help support Programming Throwdown through our Patreon ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

In today’s episode, Jason and Patrick dive deeply with JFrog’s Senior Solutions Engineer, Bill Manning. With the conversation tackling the depth and complexity of software supply chains, vulnerabilities and more, Bill deftly offers grounded advice to listeners old and new. 00:00:26 Introductions 00:00:40 Bill’s plethora of job titles 00:09:33 The excitement of learning a language 00:15:08 Mechanical keyboards 00:21:17 Bill’s advice on adapting 00:27:55 What a supply chain is 00:34:28 Castle analogies 00:40:55 Unpacking legalities 00:52:11 Log4J 00:54:41 What JFrog does 01:01:16 What can go wrong 01:08:08 Getting started in this space 01:14:15 Careers in JFrog 01:20:23 Farewells Resources mentioned in this episode: Join the Programming Throwdown Patreon community today: https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Subscribe to the podcast on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@programmingthrowdown4793 :https://jfrog.com/https://join.jfrog.com/More Throwdown? Check out this prior episode: If you’ve enjoyed this episode, you can listen to more on Programming Throwdown’s website: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/ Reach out to us via email: programmingthrowdown@gmail.com You can also follow Programming Throwdown on Facebook | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Player.FM | Youtube Join the discussion on our Discord Help support Programming Throwdown through our Patreon ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

There’s more than what meets the eye when it comes to Kubernetes, and Craig Box – ARMO’s VP of Open Source & Community –is one of several who have seen its many twists and turns since its inception. He talks with Jason and Patrick about Kubernetes’ origins in pop culture, utility in the modern workflow, and possible future in today’s episode. 00:01:31 Introductions 00:03:39 Craig’s early internet speed experience 00:07:46 An adventure towards Google 00:16:55 Project Seven 00:21:17 Mesos 00:26:42 The origin of Kubernetes 00:28:36 DS9’s influence on naming conventions 00:37:49 Getting more results with the same resources 00:47:13 IPv4 00:53:44 Craig’s thoughts on learning Kubernetes 01:06:59 Kubescape 01:18:12 Working at ARMO 01:23:16 Programming Throwdown on Youtube 01:23:55 Farewells Resources mentioned in this episode: Join the Programming Throwdown Patreon community today: https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Subscribe to the podcast on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@programmingthrowdown4793 :https://twitter.com/craigboxhttps://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/from-google-to-the-world-the-kubernetes-origin-story More Throwdown? Check out this prior episode: If you’ve enjoyed this episode, you can listen to more on Programming Throwdown’s website: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/ Reach out to us via email: programmingthrowdown@gmail.com You can also follow Programming Throwdown on Facebook | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Player.FM | Youtube Join the discussion on our Discord Help support Programming Throwdown through our Patreon ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Should AI research be paused? How far ahead have deepfakes come? Join Patrick and Jason as they tackle their answers to these timely questions – plus an in-depth discussion on Perl in practice – with today’s episode of Programming Throwdown. Resources mentioned in this episode: Join the Programming Throwdown Patreon community today: https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h News/Links: https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4allhttps://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgw8ek/ai-will-smith-eating-spaghetti-hill-haunt-you-for-the-rest-of-your-lifehttps://github.com/TheRealOrange/icer_compressionhttps://digthisvegas.com/https://xkcd.com/208/https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/https://godbolt.org/Book of the Show: https://amzn.to/40PFgxHhttps://amzn.to/3lWVEO9 Tool of the Show: https://store.steampowered.com/app/646570/Slay_the_Spire/ If you’ve enjoyed this episode, you can listen to more on Programming Throwdown’s website: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/ Reach out to us via email: programmingthrowdown@gmail.com You can also follow Programming Throwdown on Facebook | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Player.FM Join the discussion on our Discord Help support Programming Throwdown through our Patreon ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

When it comes to untangling the complexities of what lies ahead for search engines in this age of AI, few are as deeply versed in the subject as You.com Engineer Saahil Jain. Jason and Patrick talk with him in this episode about what search even is, what challenges lie ahead, and where the shift in paradigms can be found. 00:01:16 Introductions 00:02:06 How physics led Saahil to programming 00:07:20 Getting started at Microsoft 00:13:39 Analyzing human text input 00:22:22 The exciting paradigm shift in search 00:29:02 Rationales for direction 00:33:40 Image generation models 00:39:55 Knowledge bases 00:45:12 FIFA 00:49:29 Understanding the query’s intent 00:51:18 Expectations 00:55:38 A need to stay connected to authority repositories 01:03:45 About working at You 01:08:18 Farewells Resources mentioned in this episode: Join the Programming Throwdown Patreon community today: https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Links: http://saahiljain.me/saahil @ you.comhttps://github.com/saahil9jain/https://www.linkedin.com/in/saahiljain/https://twitter.com/saahil9jainhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2106.14463https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11467https://you.com/https://twitter.com/YouSearchEnginehttps://discord.gg/f9jRFH5gHP More Throwdown? Check out these prior episodes: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2022/09/143-evolution-of-search-with-marcus.htmlhttps://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2019/10/episode-94-search-at-etsy.html If you’ve enjoyed this episode, you can listen to more on Programming Throwdown’s website: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/ Reach out to us via email: programmingthrowdown@gmail.com You can also follow Programming Throwdown on Facebook | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Player.FM Join the discussion on our Discord Help support Programming Throwdown through our Patreon ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

A second Jason joins this episode of Programming Throwdown! Jason McDonald – Python evangelist, author, and more – talks to Patrick and Jason about his experience with the programming language, how his disability helped and hindered his software career, and where its strengths and weaknesses lie. 00:01:05 Introductions 00:02:27 Jason’s pivotal Doctor Who regeneration 00:04:49 The power of dialog boxes 00:10:10 Python’s power 00:12:37 How disability discrimination can look 00:17:40 Making vs playing games 00:23:47 Jason’s POV on intention 00:28:04 Why Jason stayed with Python 00:40:11 Every language’s Thing 00:49:42 Duck typing 00:52:48 Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) 01:14:16 Dependencies 01:34:08 Finding Jason online 01:35:20 Farewells Resources mentioned in this episode: Join the Programming Throwdown Patreon community today: https://www.patreon.com/join/programmingthrowdown Links: https://mastodon.cloud/@codemouse92https://github.com/CodeMouse92https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bug-hunters-caf%C3%A9/id1556496590https://www.ruralsourcing.com/https://www.linkedin.com/company/rural-sourcing/https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Simple-Python-Idiomatic-Programmers/dp/1718500920https://www.amazon.com/Kill-Fire-Manage-Computer-Systems/dp/1718501188https://www.amazon.com/Dreaming-Code-Programmers-Transcendent-Software/dp/1400082471https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Pythonhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_Flying_CircusMore Python? Check out these prior episodes: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2016/03/episode-52-scientific-python.htmlhttps://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2022/07/139-scientific-python-with-guido.htmlIf you’ve enjoyed this episode, you can listen to more on Programming Throwdown’s website: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/ Reach out to us via email: programmingthrowdown@gmail.com You can also follow Programming Throwdown on Facebook | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Player.FM Join the discussion on our Discord Help support Programming Throwdown through our Patreon ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★