airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien

An airhacks.fm conversation with Alfonso Peterssen (@TheMukel) about: discussion about Alfonso's early programming experience and participation in the IOI competition, studying computer science and functional programming with Martin Odersky, internships at Google and Oracle Labs working on compilers and the Espresso project implementing a JVM in Java, espresso mentioned in "#208 Gr

An airhacks.fm conversation with Anton Arhipov (@antonarhipov) about: Anton appeared previously on "#273 The Long Road to Java and Kotlin", discussion about Anton Arhipov's artwork using circles and a compass, attending the JVM Language Summit in 2011 where Kotlin was introduced by JetBrains, initial skepticism about the need for a new JVM language, JSR-305 Annotations for Software

An airhacks.fm conversation with Gil Tene (@giltene) about: starting with hacking adventure games on a VAX-11/780 as a teenager, building computers and making money in high school, providing access to Usenet, early programming experiences with Pascal and C/C++, moving to Silicon Valley in 1994 and witnessing the rise of Java, working on fault-tolerant computer systems at Stratus Co

An airhacks.fm conversation with Dr. Zoran Sevarac (@zsevarac) about: Zoran previously on airhacks.fm: "#169 Deep Learning with Modern Java Code", discussion about the latest updates and features in DeepNetts, a full-stack Java AI platform, University of Minnesota's drug testing application using DeepNetts, Jefferson Lab's particle research using DeepNetts Community Edition, includ

An airhacks.fm conversation with Jonathan Schneider (@jon_k_schneider) about: from Pentium 2 machine and a rural high school to becoming a Java refactoring entrepreneur, self-taught C++ in high school, officer in the U.S. Army and deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, worked on Java projects at an insurance company between deployments, joined Netflix to work on engineering tools, chall

An airhacks.fm conversation with Nicolai Parlog (@nipafx) about: Nicolai previously on "#206 Java 19: Millions of Threads in No Time", discussion about the underscore feature in Java 22 and its importance in pattern matching, using the underscore for unused lambda parameters and deconstruction of records, avoiding default branches when switching over sealed types, the deprecation a

An airhacks.fm conversation with Dimitris Andreadis (@dandreadis) about: Dimitris appeared previously on "#64 Quarkus 1.0 and SpringBoot", discussion about integrating AI language models (LLMs) with Java applications using quarkus and langchain4j, OpenShift AI, the benefits of using Quarkus for AI integration, Drools and ML, the potential of using AI for rule engines and decision m

An airhacks.fm conversation with Erik C. Thauvin (@ethauvin) about: early computer experiences with Logo and Tandy Model 3, writing horse race handicapping software as a kid, working at Apple at 16 writing resource editor for Mac, starting consulting firm and building custom software, attending Sun Tech Days to learn about Palm Pilot and Java, writing linkblog with Tomcat and JSP,

An airhacks.fm conversation with Paul Sandoz (@paulsandoz) about: Paul previously appeared on "#277 Project Babylon", article about Automatic differentiation of Java code using code reflection, using Project Babylon for automatic differentiation, emulating C# LINQ in Java, writing Triton programs in Java for GPU execution, using Project Panama for native interoperability with C/C++

An airhacks.fm conversation with Dmytro Liubarskyi (@langchain4j) about: continuous Windows 95 re-installation on Pentium 2 then Pentium 3, early interest in J2ME development and websites, transition to Java and enterprise software development, motivation behind creating langchain4j, integration with embedding models, vector databases, and ONNX Runtime, langchain4j core abstracts: