
Programming Throwdown
Programming Throwdown educates Computer Scientists and Software Engineers on a cavalcade of programming and tech topics. Every show will cover a new programming language, so listeners will be able to speak intelligently about any programming language.
Technology
Software How-To
169: HyperLogLog
Intro topic: Testing your car batteryNews/Links:
Tec...
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Nov 27 2023 1h 29m
168: Godot
Intro topic: What are expectations on developers tha...
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Nov 20 2023 1h 28m
167: Desktop User Interfaces
Intro topic: Jogging MetricsNews/Links:
Unholy LLM
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Oct 23 2023 1h 26m
166: Speedy Database Queries with Lukas Fittl
Links:https://pganalyze.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/...
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Oct 16 2023 1h 12m
165: Differential Equations
Intro topic: Revisiting the power of SpreadsheetsNew...
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Sep 25 2023 1h 16m
164: Choosing a Database For Your Project With Kris Zyp
Things to consider when choosing a database
Speed &a...
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Sep 11 2023 1h 31m
163: Recursion
Episode 163 - RecursionIntro topic: Electric CarsNew...
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Aug 14 2023 1h 29m
162: Interactive Fiction
In the latest episode of Programming Throwdown, we d...
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Jul 24 2023 1h 8m
Chapter 1 17 sec
Introductions
Chapter 2 8 mins
To hard mode or not to hard mode
Chapter 3 7 mins
No moats in Google
Chapter 4 4 mins
Stable Diffusion blows Jason’s mind
Chapter 5 2 mins
Putting beats together
Chapter 6 4 mins
GPT4All
Chapter 7 7 mins
White Sand
Chapter 8 3 mins
Fortuna
Chapter 9 8 mins
Patrick’s ‘dirty’ secret
Chapter 10 6 mins
Wordnet
Chapter 11 3 mins
Procedural generation
Chapter 12 3 mins
On tabletop RPGs
Chapter 13 6 mins
Inform
Chapter 14
Farewells
161: Leveraging Generative AI Models with Hagay Lupesko
MosaicML’s VP Of Engineering, Hagay Lupesko, joins u...
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Jul 10 2023 1h 32m
160: Position Localization
Where are you now? It’s a question that may seem eas...
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Jun 26 2023 1h 30m
Chapter 1 10 mins
Steam Deck
Chapter 2 5 mins
Summoning Salt on Mario
Chapter 3 7 mins
100k stars
Chapter 4 1 min
ChatGPT spam call
Chapter 5 4 mins
Build Your Own DB (from scratch)
Chapter 6 5 mins
DuckDB
Chapter 7 2 mins
Jason has an idea
Chapter 8 3 mins
Fighting Fantasy Classics
Chapter 9 6 mins
Patrick’s bread
Chapter 10 6 mins
Support the show
Chapter 11 2 mins
Awkward CRM emails
Chapter 12 4 mins
Rill
Chapter 13 16 mins
Position localization in detail
Chapter 14 8 mins
Common filter
Chapter 15 3 mins
Simultaneous localization
Chapter 16
Farewells
159: GraphQL with Tanmai Gopal
GraphQL is one of the biggest API enablers in softwa...
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Jun 12 2023 1h 23m
158: Software Supply Chain with Bill Manning
In today’s episode, Jason and Patrick dive deeply wi...
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May 22 2023 1h 21m
157: Kubernetes with Craig Box
There’s more than what meets the eye when it comes t...
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May 8 2023 1h 24m
156: Perl and Regular Expressions
Should AI research be paused? How far ahead have dee...
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Apr 24 2023 1h 17m
Chapter 1 2 mins
Introductions
Chapter 2 4 mins
Stanford Alpaca
Chapter 3 33 sec
AI’s advantage in knowledge repository access
Chapter 4 3 mins
3rd party plugins
Chapter 5 2 mins
The AI open letter
Chapter 6 7 mins
Scott Aaronson
Chapter 7 4 mins
Will Smith eating spaghetti
Chapter 8 4 mins
Images
Chapter 9 6 mins
Dig This Vegas
Chapter 10 8 mins
The challenges of unlimited PTO
Chapter 11 2 mins
Jason’s tool of the show
Chapter 12 3 mins
Slay the Spire
Chapter 13 12 mins
Patrick’s history with PERL
Chapter 14 8 mins
Frustrations with refactoring
Chapter 15 2 mins
Regex as supertool
Chapter 16 3 mins
Life Pro Tip
Chapter 17
Farewells
155: The Future of Search with Saahil Jain
When it comes to untangling the complexities of what...
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Apr 10 2023 1h 8m
154: Python Again with Jason C. McDonald
A second Jason joins this episode of Programming Thr...
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Mar 27 2023 1h 36m
153: ChatGPT
ChatGPT has made a mark on the world as we know it, ...
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Mar 13 2023 1h 33m
152: The Future Database with Sam Lambert
Databases are key to almost any project, large or sm...
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Feb 27 2023 1h 33m
151: Machine Learning Engineering with Liran Hason
Machine Learning Engineer is one of the fastest grow...
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Feb 13 2023 1h 18m
150: Code Reviews with On Freund
Patrick and I are always stressing the importance of...
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Jan 24 2023 1h 13m
149: Workflow Engines with Sanjay Siddhanti
At scale, anything we build is going to involve peop...
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Jan 9 2023 59m
S1: Holiday 2022 Special
S1: Holiday 2022 SpecialToday we field questions fro...
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Dec 26 2022 1h 12m
148: Package Management with Max Howell
Package managers are an often-overlooked aspect of a...
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Dec 12 2022 1h 43m
147: Quantum Computing with Yonatan Cohen
Yonatan Cohen – Co-Founder & CTO of Quantum Mach...
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Nov 28 2022 1h 6m
146: RubyShield, Ruby Central, and Shopify with Mike Dalessio and Evan Phoenix
In this tour-de-force, Mike Dalessio – Engineering D...
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Nov 14 2022 1h 37m