It was my great pleasure to sit down with Carin Meier and have a conversation that – as usual – ranged across a wide variety of interesting topics. We talked a lot about Carin’s current professional interest in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, but we also took a swing through gardening along the way. I always have fun talking to Carin, and this time was no exception. I think you’ll enjoy it too!

Oh, and her advice is excellent – be sure to check that out at the end of the episode.

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Links and Notes

• The Cognicast, the podcast I started and which Carin also hosted
  • The first episode where I interviewed her
  • The second one
• “Our Shared Joy of Programmig”, the Strange Loop talk Carin gave wherein she had robots dance on stage, and for which I gave her a disco ball
• Bergisons G Seat, a motorized chair that gives a sensation of motion for flight simulation
  • This video is a good overview if you prefer that format.
• Carin works at Reify Health, who are hiring!
• Terraform, a cloud ops tool
• GitHub Copilot, which uses AI techniques to write code
• OpenAI, an AI research and deployment company.
• GPT3, one of their projects, an autoregressive language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text.
• Derivative works in software
• Vector Symbolic Architectures (VSAs) aka Hyperdimensional Computing
  • Carin recommends this paper if you are interested in the topic
• Prolog
• Possumus Ergo Faciemus – “We Can, Therefore We Do”. My family’s somewhat tongue-in-check motto.