TEH 272: Practical uses of AI. Trying to get on a bus. What’s up with Satellites.

In This Episode: Practical uses of AI. Trying to get on a bus. What’s up with Satellites.

This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.

Our guest is …

(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)

Top Stories

• o:00 LN: This week’s AI: Google Flow
  • “A Corgi in a space suit walking on the surface of Mars where he encounters the Curiosity rover.” https://labs.google/fx/tools/flow/shared/video/1f04a3af-79d7-4a53-8c94-f83442f3b179 
  • 4:00 GR: My use of AI this week: mini golf app https://oliomo.com/minigolfscorepad/
  • 8:00 LN: Investigation: “Does this EULA restrict the number of machines I can install the product on:”
  • 12:00 Interpreting manuals
• 18:00 LN: Is AI poisoning search results in a different way?
  • Images: “corgi playing guitar”
  • “-ai” may or may not help?
• 24:00 GR: Tap-to-ride is cool, but also needlessly confusing
  • Seattle: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/seattle-light-rail-broke-records-for-world-cup-how-many-riders-paid/ “Data shows that between 58% and 74% of riders paid …”
• 40:00 GR: Sun-Reflecting Satellites: https://www.cnet.com/science/space/the-fcc-just-approved-a-sun-reflecting-satellite-and-astronomers-already-hate-it/
  • Very weird set of plusses and minuses

Ain’t it Cool

• 49:00 LN: Silo
• 50:00 GR: The Emerald Mile (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/15803144-the-emerald-mile)

BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion

• 51:00 LN: Stop Spreading Manure – https://askleo.com/9419 
• 52:00 GR: https://macmost.com/keep-small-notes-always-in-reach-on-your-mac-with-stickies.html

Transcript

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Video

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