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119: The Coming Wave - Ch. 7 P. 1 - The Asymmetric Hyper-Evolution of AI

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118: The Coming Wave - Ch. 6 - You Can't Just Go Around Announcing Supremacy at Things

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117: The Coming Wave - Ch. 5 P.2 - Humans Are Long Overdue for a Refactor

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116: The Coming Wave - Ch. 5 P. 1 - You Know that Guy Who's Spending Millions to Look Pasty?

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115: The Coming Wave - Ch. 4 P. 2 - The Axolotl of Wisdom Disapproves of Your Bolognese

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114: The Coming Wave - Ch. 4 P. 1 - AI's John Henry Moment

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113: The Coming Wave - Ch. 3 - Futile Containment and The Map in the Shogun's Sand

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112: The Coming Wave - Ch. 2 - Tech Proliferation: As Unstoppable as Bertha Benz

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111: The Coming Wave - Ch. 1 - Suleyman's Twin Tsunamis

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110: Elon Musk - Does the World Need Elon Musk?

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109: Elon Musk - The Trillionaire's Yin and Yang

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108: Elon Musk - Here's $700k to Move Some Servers

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107: Elon Musk - The Jet, the Laptop, and the Limbic Resonance

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106: Elon Musk - The Search for Loyalists has turned up Turd Burger

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105: Elon Musk - The Cesspool of Twitter

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104: Elon Musk - A Hardscrabble Cowboy Walks Into a Starbucks

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103: Elon Musk - The Silence of Human Joints

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102: Elon Musk - Please Elon, Just Stay Off Twitter

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101: Elon Musk - Trading Horses for Handjobs

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100: Predictions

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099: Elon Musk - The Encanting Spellmasters Behind Great Human Achievement

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098: Elon Musk - Burn the Boats, Build the Starship

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097: Elon Musk - Musk Goes "Open-Loop"

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096: Elon Musk - The Early Beginnings of D.O.G.E.

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095: Elon Musk - I Don't Want to Eat a Goat Eyeball, I Just Want to Go to Mars.

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094: Elon Musk - King Arthur only had One Merlin. Elon has Nine.

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093: Elon Musk - Elon's Sophie's Choice

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092: Elon Musk - Three Strikes and You're in Space

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091: Elon Musk - The Chaos Monster's Design Dilemma

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090: Elon Musk - Spawning SpaceX from a Doomed Dnepr Deal

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089: Elon Musk - Arm Wrestling: The One True Way to Resolve Engineering Disagreements

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088: Elon Musk - The Early Years Spent Fighting over Food in the Woods

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087: Gödel, Escher, Bach - Epilogue - Appreciating Douglas Hofstadter's Exquisite Parade of Curiosities

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086: Gödel, Escher, Bach - Ch. 20 - The End of the GEB Era

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085: Gödel, Escher, Bach - Ch. 19 - AI Predictions of Futures Past

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084: Gödel, Escher, Bach - Ch. 17 & 18 - Cheese Burger or Pineapple Burger... Still Haven't Decided

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083: Gödel, Escher, Bach - Bonus - You Can't Whack Circles Out of People

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082: Gödel, Escher, Bach - Ch. 16 - The Human OS

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081: Gödel, Escher, Bach - Ch. 15 - Achieving Infinite Tatas

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080: Gödel, Escher, Bach - Ch. 14 - This Podcast is False

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079: Gödel, Escher, Bach - Ch. 13 - The GlooP is a Lie

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078: Gödel, Escher, Bach - Ch. 13 - Just Put it in an Earthenware Pot

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077: Gödel, Escher, Bach - Ch. 12 - Antagonizing Wasps for Good of Humanity

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076: Gödel, Escher, Bach - Ch. 11 - And Then You Experience a Chunk of Grandma

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075: Gödel, Escher, Bach - Ch. 10 - Bootstrapping Complete

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074: Gödel, Escher, Bach - Ch. 7-9 - pt2 - The Children Yearn for the Mines... of Raw Knowledge

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073: Godel, Escher, Bach - Ch. 7-9 - pt1 - Diving Barechested into Discrete Mathematics

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072: Gödel, Escher, Bach - Ch. 6: Aliens Don't Love Bach Like We Love Bach

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071: Gödel, Escher, Bach - Ch. 6: 288 Dirty Limericks Written by Isaac Asimov

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070: Gödel, Escher, Bach - Ch. 5: All Real Trees are Upside Down

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069: Gödel, Escher, Bach - Ch. 4: Quake Deathmatch in an M.C. Escher Painting

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068: Gödel, Escher, Bach - Ch. 4: Hofstadter's Recursive Coffins

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067: Gödel, Escher, Bach - Ch 3: Grounded in Unreality

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066: Gödel, Escher, Bach - Ch 2: You Can't Give the Horse More Apples

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065: Gödel, Escher, Bach - Ch 1: Douglas Hofstadter Trolls Us From 1979

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064: Gödel, Escher, Bach- Introduction: Gödel's Incomplete Thought

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063: Gödel, Escher, Bach- Introduction: Dude, You're F*#ing Bach

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062: Masters of Doom - Epilogue: Hypothetical Code Battles and Closing Thoughts

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061: Masters of Doom - Ch. 16: Rocket Man and Space Deliveries

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060: Masters of Doom - Ch. 15: Vacations to an Abandoned Abortion Clinic

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059: Masters of Doom - Ch. 14: Carmack's Master Plan File

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058: Masters of Doom - Ch. 13: Deathmatch, IRL

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057: Masters of Doom - Ch12 - Judgment, Betrayal, and Bill Gates Killing Demons

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056: Masters of Doom - Ch 11 - Quake: The 90s MMORPG that never was.

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055: Masters of Doom - Ch10 - We Edited the Violence Out of This One

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054: MoD - Ch. 9: John Carmack: The Michelangelo of 90's Video Game Development

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053: MOD - Ch8. DEMONS!

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052: MOD - Ch7. The Church of Tom Cruise

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051: MOD - Ch6. Eat Up Their Gibs!

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050: MOD - Ch 5. Id Stands for...

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049: MOD - Ch 4. Gotta get out of Shreveport

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048: MOD - Ch 3. 100% More Man-Beef

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047: MOD - Ch 2. "Here's your loofah, Daddy"

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046: MOD - Ch 1. The Rock Star

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045: A Billion Dollar Mistake

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044: Catala: Because Legalese Wasn't Already Pedantic Enough

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043: OpenUSD: Voted Open Source's "Most Likely to be Mistaken for a Crypto Scam"

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042: Ask for Forgiveness Not for Permission

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041: Pray, Mr. Babbage

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040: The Means of Production

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039: The Design of Everyday Things: Closing Thoughts

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038: The Design of Everyday Things Ch 7: Welcoming Our Robot Overlords

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037 - The Design of Everyday Things Ch 7: The Harsh Realities of the Business World

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036: The Design of Everyday Things Ch 6: It's the Good Advice That You Just Didn't Take

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035: The Design of Everyday Things Ch 6: Ignore Your Users

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034: The Design of Everyday Things Ch 5: The Anatomy of Mistakes

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033: The Design of Everyday Things Ch 5: It's not your Fault

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032: The Design of Everyday Things Ch 4: The Sound and the Signifiers

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031: The Design of Everyday Things Ch. 4: Facing into the Corner of Elevators for Fun and Profit

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030 - The Design of Everyday Things Ch. 3: Memory and Models and Mappings... Oh My!

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029 - The Design of Everyday Things Ch. 3: Don't Forget the Secret Phrase!

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028 - The Design of Everyday Things Ch. 2: Human Error

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027 - The Design of Everyday Things Ch. 2: Which side is your door handle on?

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026 - The Design of Everyday Things Ch. 1: POET

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025 - Art of Game Design Ch. 30-32: Let's Get Down to Business

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024 - Art of Game Design Ch. 29: It's Indistinguishable from Magic

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023 - From the Archive: Switch Statements and Pattern Matching

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022 - From the Archive: Productivity and Charles Babbage

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021 - Art of Game Design Ch. 26, 27: It Makes the Dreamwork

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020 - Art of Game Design Ch. 20-23: Story Driven or Character Driven?

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019 - Art of Game Design Ch. 16 - 19: Crafting Your Game's Story

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018 - Art of Game Design Ch. 15 - The Juice is Worth the Squeeze

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017 - Art of Game Design Ch 13-14: Perfectly Balanced, as all things should be.

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016 - Stop! Collaborate and Listen

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015 - Art of Game Design: Test Playthrough

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014 - Art of Game Design Ch 12: Mechanics

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013 - Art of Game Design Ch. 8B: Prototyping

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012 - Art of Game Design Ch. 9-11: Don't Hate the Player

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011 - Art of Game Design Ch. 8: Strange Loops

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010 - Art of Game Design Ch. 7B: Brainstorm!

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009 - Art of Game Design Ch. 7: Perchance to Dream

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008 - Art of Game Design Ch. 5, 6: Of Mechanics + Math Games

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007 - Art of Game Design Ch. 2-4: It's All About Experience

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006 - Art of Game Design Ch. 1: WE ARE GAME DESIGNERS

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005 - Refactoring Ch. 5 - 12: The Catalog

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004 - Refactoring Ch. 4: Building Tests

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003 - Refactoring Ch. 3: Bad Smells in Code

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002 - Refactoring Ch. 2: Principles in Refactoring

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001 - Refactoring Ch. 1: A First Example