156: Perl and Regular Expressions

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:

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News/Links:

• GPT4All & Stanford Alpaca
  • https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all
• Giant AI Experiments 6 month pause open letter
  • https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/
• Will Smith Eating Spaghetti generated video
  • https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgw8ek/ai-will-smith-eating-spaghetti-hill-haunt-you-for-the-rest-of-your-life
• Robust image compression implementation from a NASA paper
  • https://github.com/TheRealOrange/icer_compression
• Dig This Vegas
  • https://digthisvegas.com/
• XKCD:
  • https://xkcd.com/208/
• AI Open Letter:
  • https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/
• Godbolt:
  • https://godbolt.org/

Book of the Show:

• Jason: It Doesn’t Have To Be Crazy At Work
  • https://amzn.to/40PFgxH
• Patrick: Prince of Fools by Mark Lawrence
  • https://amzn.to/3lWVEO9

Tool of the Show:

• Jason:
  • ReMarkable 2: https://remarkable.com/store/remarkable-2
• Patrick:
  • Slay the Spire: https://store.steampowered.com/app/646570/Slay_the_Spire/

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