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Engineering Philosophy with Tyler Cowen
Feb 1, 2019Tap to summarizeTyler Cowen’s book Stubborn Attachments outlines a framework that individuals can use to make decisions grounded in economic philosophy. In his previous books, Tyler examined recent economic history. Stubborn Attachments gives his perspective for navigating the future. Tyler is a professor of economics at George Mason University. He is also the host of Conversations with Tyler, a podcast that includes guests such as Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin, Stripe co-founder Patrick Collison, and Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan. Tyler blogs frequently at Marginal Revolution. Tyler’s previous appearance on Software Engineering Daily centered around his earlier books, including The Complacent Class. In this episode, Tyler describes the philosophy outlined in Stubborn Attachments, then we discuss how his philosophy relates to software engineering, podcasting, and economics. To find all 900 of our old episodes, including past episodes with writers, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists, check out the Software Engineering Daily app in the iOS and Android app stores. Whether or not you are a software engineer, we have lots of content about technology, business, and culture. In our app, you can also become a paid subscriber and get ad-free episodes–and you can have conversations with other members of the Software Engineering Daily community. The post Engineering Philosophy with Tyler Cowen appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
Transcribe →Self-Driving Engineering with George Hotz
Aug 8, 2018Tap to summarizeIn the smartphone market there are two dominant operating systems: one closed source (iPhone) and one open source (Android). The market for self-driving cars could play out the same way, with a company like Tesla becoming the closed source iPhone of cars, and a company like Comma.ai developing the open source Android of self-driving cars. George Hotz is the CEO of Comma.ai. Comma makes hardware devices that allow users with “normal” cars to be augmented with advanced cruise control and lane assist features. This means you can take your own car–for example, a Toyota Prius–and outfit your car to have something similar to the Tesla Autopilot. Comma’s hardware devices cost under $1000 to order online. George joins the show to explain how the Comma hardware and software stack works in detail–from the low level interface with a car’s CAN bus to the high level machine learning infrastructure. Users who purchase the Comma.ai hardware drive around with a camera facing the front of their windshield. This video is used to orient the state of the car in space. The video from that camera also gets saved and uploaded to Comma’s servers. Comma can use this video together with labeled events from the user’s driving experience to crowdsource their model for self-driving. For example, if a user is driving down a long stretch of highway, and they turn on the Comma.ai driving assistance, the car will start driving itself and the video capture will begin. If the car begins to swerve into another lane, the user will take over for the car and the Comma system will disengage. This “disengagement” event gets labeled as such, and when that data makes it back to Comma’s servers, Comma can use the data to update their models. George is very good at explaining complex engineering topics, and is also quite entertaining and open to discussing the technology as well as other competitors in the autonomous car space. I have not been able to get many other people on the show to talk about autonomous cars, so this was quite refreshing! I hope to do more in the future. The post Self-Driving Engineering with George Hotz appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
Transcribe →Episode 100 with Pranay Mohan
Dec 1, 2015Tap to summarize“Software is this really unique field that is growing so rapidly that people are almost forced to specialize into one subdomain – and that kind of stratification is good for your job and for your employers, but it’s not necessarily good for you as an individual trying to grow in the field of software.” This is episode 100 of Software Engineering Daily, and is a behind the scenes episode on the show that explores the challenges and motivations behind building a daily software podcast. Pranay Mohan is the Producer of Software Engineering Daily. Questions What is the goal of Software Engineering Daily? Why did you start working on Software Engineering Daily? What is your background – what did you study? Where do you stand on the debate of college versus coding bootcamps? What is keeping Software Engineering Daily from being a go-to podcast for software engineers? What is your favorite episode? How have we made mistakes while working on Software Engineering Daily? Links Reconsider by DHH Lifestyle Businesses Product Hunt Podcasts Automated Trading and OCaml with Yaron Minsky Java and Developer Advocacy with Trisha Gee The post Episode 100 with Pranay Mohan appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
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