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2017-10-27 |
Deep Learning & Artificial Intelligence, Pt. I | Curious Minds Podcast AlphaGo's victory on S. Korea's champion Le SeDol was a shock to many in the computer world - but was only a natural development in the story of Artificial Intelligence, as it unfolds in the last few years. What is Deep Learning, and how can computers ... |
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2017-09-02 |
The Awful and Wonderful History of the Mir Space Station | Curious Minds Podcast The Mir Space Station was a true Soviet engineering wonder, an achievement comparable with the US landing on the Moon. Yet in its later years, Mir survived some horrific & hair-raising accidents... The post The Awful and Wonderful History of the Mi... |
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2017-07-27 | Archimedes is famous for being Ancient Greece's greatest engineer. Yet a random discovery - a prayers book found in an old church in Turkish Istanbul, casts this mysterious genius in an even more surprising light. The post The Lost Manuscript of Archim... |
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2017-06-29 |
The Dark Avenger [From: Malicious.Life] | Curious Minds Podcast In 1989, a message was found in a virus: "Eddie Lives…Somewhere in Time!". 'Eddie' was a particularly nasty virus, and its discovery led a young Bulgarian security researcher down a rabbit hole, on a hunt for the prolific creator of the Eddie virus: Th... |
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2017-02-04 | After describing the Software Crisis in the previous episode, we discuss the various methodologies and practices implemented over the years to combat the complexities of software development. We'll tell the sad story of the FBI's VCF project - perhaps ... |
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2017-01-23 | Software errors and random bugs are rather common: We’ve all seen the infamous Windows “blue screen of death”... But is there really nothing we can do about it? Are these errors – from small bugs to catastrophic mistakes – inevitable? In this episode, ... |
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2016-12-18 |
Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense (SDI) Initiative, AKA– “Star Wars”| Curious Minds Podcast In 1983, president Ronald Reagan shocked the world when he announced that the United States was developing an ultra-modern defense system against intercontinental ballistic missiles. Hundreds of billions of dollars were invested in the system’s develop... |
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2016-11-16 |
The History of File Sharing, Part 2: Grokster& BitTorrent| Curious Minds Podcast The fall of Napster (see Part I of this series) has left a vacuum in the world of file sharing - and as the saying goes, the Internet abhors vacuum... Various File Sharing programs such as Gnutella, Kazaa and others quickly filled the void. In this epi... |
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2016-11-02 |
The History of File Sharing, Part 1 (of 2): The Rise& Fall of Napster| Curious Minds Podcast Napster, a revolutionary Peer-to-Peer file sharing software, was launched in 1999 - and forever changed the media world. In this episode, we'll tell the story of Sean Fanning and Sean Parker, its creators, and talk about the legal battle it fought with... |
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2016-10-04 |
Heroes Of Podcasting #5: Aaron Mahnke, Lore Podcast| Curious Minds Podcast Heroes of Podcasting: An interview with Aaron Mahnke about the role of storytelling in podcasting, his inspirations and how he started Lore.The postHeroes Of Podcasting #5: Aaron Mahnke, Lore Podcast | Curious Minds Podcast appeared first onCurious Min... |
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