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Casual Chat
by Andrew Liu & Hongbo Tian
Find it frustrating to keep up with tech? Every episode, Casual Chat breaks down recent developments in tech such that casual listeners (i.e. you) can understand their implications (while being entertained).
Episodes
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#13: How to Effectively Pitch Anything
Hong and Andrew do a book review of Pitch Anything, by Oren Klaff, which covers the emotional aspects of pitching that everybody gets wrong. Show notes: 00:35 - Introducing Pitch Anything 00:55 - The shortcomings of the methodical personality 02:02 - The problem with (Hong’s) scientific writing...
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#12: The Case for Tracking Every Minute of Your Life
Ever have those moments where you feel like the day just flew by? Our chatters felt the same way and wanted to learn more. Hongbo (@c0fpv) shares his reasons for time tracking his daily life and compares it with how Andrew (@liuandrewk) has recently started time tracking. Links: The time tracking...
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#11: Apple and Intel's Nasty Breakup
Andrew (@liuandrewk) and Hong (@c0fpv) chat about Apple's departure from Intel CPUs and Intel's attempts to get back into the limelight. The conversation then delves into a tangent about upgrading to Windows 11. Links: Intel's anti-Apple ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp0xzapm-zY Intel's CEO...
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#10: A Disastrous Week for Facebook
Facebook's been having a rough week. On October 4, 2021, there was a complete outage of all Facebook-owned systems, including Instagram and WhatsApp. The next day, a whistleblower testifies before congress about how Facebook prioritizes profits over public safety, implying that the company may…
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#9: A Tale of Two Betrayals - ARM China goes Rogue, ProtonMail sells out activist's data
The company behind ARM processors is currently in disarray. The business has split up into two independent companies, and their CEO is holed up in China. Andrew (@liuandrewk) and Hong (@c0fpv) go over the hilarious story that caused the company to be in these circumstances. Later, they discuss…
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#8: How to Make Software Engineers Obsolete
Github has released a new editor tool called Copilot. It claims to be able to generate code for entire functions. Andrew (@liuandrewk) and Hong (@c0fpv) explore whether Copilot will live up to the hype and the future of licensing issues around training machine learning models off of source code....
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#7: A Case of (Self-driving) Road Rage
In this episode, Andrew (@liuandrewk) and Hong (@c0fpv) debate the safety of self-driving cars after a Waymo car hits a pedestrian in SF. Later, they dive into Tesla's decision to rely solely on camera vision for its autopilot system and discuss whether that's a wise choice. ~~~ Links: * Waymo…
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#6: Big Tech's Race to Control Podcasting
In this episode, Andrew (@liuandrewk) discusses Spotify's acquisition of various podcasting startups and shares his predictions of the industry with Hong (@c0fpv). Hong shares his experiences as an indie creator, and the chatters compare the strategies of Spotify, Apple, and YouTube in the race…
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#5: Major Upcoming Innovations to CPUs
In this episode, Hongbo (@c0fpv) tells Andrew (@liuandrewk) about a few novel innovations that will change the way CPUs get designed. The discussion slowly converges towards a lesson in hardware fundamentals. ~~~ Links: * AMD develops stacked v-cache technology:...
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#4: The Wonderful World of FPV Drones
You might have heard of drone flying, but there's an entire subculture of drone pilots who pilot via a first-person view of the drone. In this episode, Hong (@c0fpv) tries to indoctrinate Andrew (@liuandrewk) into trying out FPV drones and explains what makes the hobby so special. ~~~ Follow us…
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#3: Should the British Monarchy Still Exist?
In this episode, Andrew (@liuandrewk) questions the modern purpose of the British monarchy and whether it's worth the taxpayers' hard-earned money. Hong (@c0fpv) happens to be British and shares his view on the queen and British traditions. ~~~ Links: * Russell Brand's reaction video to the…
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#2: Buying a GPU in a Global Chip Shortage
In this episode, Hongbo (@c0fpv) spends 10 minutes complaining to Andrew (@liuandrewk) about the global chip shortage and why it's so hard to buy a GPU right now. ~~~ Follow us on Twitter: * Casual Chat: https://twitter.com/TheCasualChat * Andrew: https://twitter.com/liuandrewk * Hong:...
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#1: Sticking It to the Man in the GameStop Short Squeeze
In the inaugural episode, Andrew (@liuandrewk) updates Hong (@c0fpv) on his latest financial investments amid the Gamestop short squeeze. Hong questions why Andrew isn't broke. ~~~ Links: * The r/wallstreetbets subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/ * Robinhood intervenes with GME:...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Find it frustrating to keep up with tech? Every episode, Casual Chat breaks down recent developments in tech such that casual listeners (i.e. you) can understand their implications (while being entertained).
HOSTED BY
Andrew Liu & Hongbo Tian
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Casual Chat currently has 13 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
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Find it frustrating to keep up with tech? Every episode, Casual Chat breaks down recent developments in tech such that casual listeners (i.e. you) can understand their implications (while being entertained).
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Casual Chat is created and hosted by Andrew Liu & Hongbo Tian.
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