Two Bit Geeks

Quickly drawing on machine learning, practicing good spoiler hygiene, taking a trip with Doctor Strange, the audacious Arrival and Ted Chiang, a language of pure logic, thinking without language and testing episode storage capacity. Discuss the podcast on Reddit. Support the podcast on Patreon. Quick, Draw! [00:39] Google doodles with machine learning The nature and role of spoilers [03:25] Darth Vader does the hula dance J.J. Abrams’ Into Darkness mea culpa Doctor Strange [13:00] Homer’s space coyote chili pepper vision quest A treasure trove of tropes “The most widely cited and influential thought experiment about consciousness” With great power comes great responsibility Arrival [24:20] Remembering the Story of Your Life The wonderful Ted Chiang, in his own words Down the wikipedia rabbit-hole with Sapir-Whorf Can we think without language? [42:20] A taste of logical “Lojban” Deciphering inscrutable Hegel Faulkner attempts to go beyond in As I Lay Dying .i coi do mi tavla fo la .lojban. .i