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**Justin Garrison:** Yup. And then the last thing I was gonna point out that he did was in the '50s he was the first person doing machine learning, back in the '50s. He had this mechanical mouse that he would train how to solve mazes, and he had one of the very first computer-human interfaces for playing chess. Or it w... |
So it was super-fascinating. His life was incredible. And so "A mind at play" was a really good book, but also, there's a documentary that I rented, and I'm gonna watch it before this -- |
**Autumn Nash:** Will you send it to me? |
**Justin Garrison:** Yeah, I'll send it to you. It's called "The bit player." You can rent it... I think it's only on Amazon. It was the only place I found it. But it's a documentary about it. |
**Autumn Nash:** Do you ever read about these people and wish that they were still alive, so you can meet them in real life? Like, somebody like Albert Einstein, and like this guy, and Grace Hopper... Some people, you're just like "Dude, they're probably so fun and eccentric, but brilliant..." You know? |
**Justin Garrison:** Yeah. |
**Autumn Nash:** If there's one person from history that you could meet in real life, who would it be? |
**Justin Garrison:** That's too hard. |
**Autumn Nash:** Like an inventor, or someone like that. |
**Justin Garrison:** I would love to meet Tesla. I've read so many books about him... |
**Autumn Nash:** He got screwed by Edison hard, dude. |
**Justin Garrison:** Oh, man. He was a horrible businessperson. He was not the businessperson. |
**Autumn Nash:** \[01:19:47.15\] Because he was so creative. And Edison was a better businessperson, but kind of a douche. |
**Justin Garrison:** A lot of these lives, it's really unfortunate to hear how they don't see the outcome of what they invented, and what they did... |
**Autumn Nash:** That's like a major correlation between art and technology too, because look at like -- a lot of times it's like they're using it to work through other problems also. Look at Van Gogh, and Monet, and people were like "Their art's terrible. Impressionism is horrible." And you're lik "Dude, he's gonna be... |
**Justin Garrison:** Those are all kind of tragedies, where -- even if you think of like Ada Lovelace. She was like alone and on laudanum for the ending of her life, and... |
**Autumn Nash:** Yes...! |
**Justin Garrison:** Like, all of these things happened, that's just like "Uhh..." |
**Autumn Nash:** Mary Carrie - literally, they killed themselves for science, and we wouldn't have X-rays without them. That's amazing. |
**Justin Garrison:** Right. Yeah. |
**Autumn Nash:** That's my kids' favorite scientist. |
**Justin Garrison:** There's a lot. But for Claude, I actually don't remember how he ended up passing away... |
**Autumn Nash:** Einstein had kind of a happy life, sort of... But the first part of it was sad. They called him all kinds of names, and thought he was not that bright, when he was a frickin' genius. He actually got a D in physics, which is like hilarious, because now they're like teaching the theory of relativity. |
**Justin Garrison:** Yeah. So anyway, I just wanted to go over that, because again, this interview reminded me of the book, and his life was pretty remarkable, and everything that's -- |
**Autumn Nash:** I'm gonna go look him up. I want to know how his life went. |
**Justin Garrison:** Yeah. The book is good. I'll watch the documentary, and I'll send it your way, too. It'll be in the show notes for the podcast. |
**Autumn Nash:** I love the rabbit holes that we go down, of like interesting things. I can't believe we get to do this on a podcast. It's awesome. |
**Justin Garrison:** Right. I personally love technical history... Partially because I was born in the '80s, but I never had a computer until the 2000s... And so I feel like I missed out on a golden era of the internet and computing. And so there's a lot of it that I try to relive through books, and figure out what hap... |
**Autumn Nash:** But it's so crazy that so many major breakthroughs happened before computers were ever really a thing, if you think about it. |
**Justin Garrison:** Yeah. They all led up to it. All these things that are new in the last 20 to 30 years have at least 100 years of lineage of like where people started doing it... |
**Autumn Nash:** Which is funny, because I wonder what else you could learn from history to create the new influential computer breakthrough... Now that we got super-philosophical... |
**Justin Garrison:** Thanks, everyone, for listening to this show. When this episode comes out, I actually am going to be at a couple conferences in June. So if anyone's out there and going to conferences, I will be at SRE Day in San Francisco, and Cloud Native Security Day in Seattle. |
**Autumn Nash:** We're gonna have so much fun. We have to hit up all the donut spots, we've got to go to coffee spots, we've got to -- we're getting all the food. It's gonna be so much fun. |
**Justin Garrison:** But if anyone's at those conferences and wants to meet up, feel free to reach out. I'm available online, and I'll hopefully see you around. |
**Autumn Nash:** You're gonna sneak me into the security one like in your backpack, right? |
**Justin Garrison:** Sure. Yeah. I've got a big luggage bag. We'll just carry you right in. |
**Autumn Nash:** Okay, cool. We can get a surf bag. It'll be awesome. |
**Justin Garrison:** So thanks, everyone, for listening, and we'll talk to you again soon. |
• Old computers and nostalgia for retro tech |
• Discussion of the iMac and its price point |
• Justin's old desktop with a turbo button |
• Overclocking and clock speed |
• The Computer Museum and its potential revival |
• Old Linksys WRT54G routers |
• WebAssembly (WASM) and its applications |
• Kubernetes, Docker, and TerraForm |
• The Cloud Foundation website and its complexity |
• Bailey and Taylor's interview on wasmCloud and the Bytecode Foundation |
• WebAssembly (WASM) and WASI (WebAssembly System Interface) |
• Benefits for large enterprises: abstraction, contract-driven design, decoupling |
• Portability and ease of adoption through standardized interfaces |
• Composability and flexibility in software development |
• Comparison to other technologies (CORBA, SQL Alchemy) |
• WebAssembly Systems Interface (WASI) is being standardized as part of the WebAssembly Standardized Interfaces |
• The project aims to provide common interfaces for various use cases, focusing on 80% of the common case |
• Custom interfaces can be created using "bring your own components" in wasmCloud, allowing developers to write their own custom providers |
• These custom providers can be written in any language that compiles to WebAssembly, and conform to specific standards |
• The project is built on top of WIT (WebAssembly Interface Types) and WebAssembly component model, enabling interface-driven development and semantic API creation |
• wasmCloud provides a framework for creating microservices that communicate with each other using standardized interfaces |
• The goal is to make it easy for developers to create distributed systems without having to learn the details of WebAssembly itself |
• WebAssembly components can solve the cold start problem in Java microservices by launching them quickly and efficiently. |
• wasmCloud uses Wasmtime to embed WebAssembly components in a serverless way, allowing for ahead-of-time compilation and caching of compilation. |
• wasmCloud is not limited to Lambda-style interfaces, but also supports long-running processes through an event-driven architecture. |
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