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This is a fictional short story about the future of AI.

With the sudden emergence of AI deepfakes, telling what's real and what's not has become harder than ever. In this episode I introduce the topic of determining truth, provide a step by step process to achieve that goal, and wrap-up with some philosophical approaches to determine truth for further study.

This episode tells the tale of how I found my fortune by moving from Freson, CA to Los Angeles, how I went from an unemployed factory worker to a professional programmer. It's a strange and sometimes miraculous story. I don't think this is a viable route today, because software development has become a formal field of study at colleges and universities now -- but you never know. Th

This story originated as an essay, which I fgsn asked Chat-GPT to enhance and elaborate. Since it came out pretty good, I decided to use it as the script for this fictional podcast, to serve as an example of the new natural language processing AI models. Hope you enjoy.

This is a fictional interview with Thomas Jefferson written by ChatGPT, with minor edits by Dwight Patten and Ken Patten (me). Dwight plays Mr. Jefferson, while I act as host. Since Jefferson is speaking from beyond the grave, his voice is a bit distorted.

This episode is a recount of our epic journey in a white Ford T-Bird named Moby, from the West Coast to Salem, Massachusetts, the Witch City.

A talk on the artistic aspects of software development, beyond merely getting it to run without throwing an exception. Meant primarily for intermediate coders and anyone interested in the finer aspects of programming.Noteso Chat-GPT: https://chat.openai.como Google Copilot: https://github.com/features/copilot

Obviously, one fairly short podcast episode can't cover a subject like the history of online social media, but this one covers it from the perspective of one who lived it, and focuses on its evolution -- from amazing creations from a group of glory-seeking online geeks to a gold mine for big greedy corporations.RFC 1459: Internet Relay Chat Protocolhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rf

This is a technical overview of the well-tempered system of musical tuning. It starts with a brief overview of its history, evolution, and structure, followed by a discussion of various modulation techniques -- ways to go from one key to another.

This episode is the series namesake, its raison d'etre. It explain everything. In style is part sermon, part philosophical discussion, and part rant.