It's Just a Model is a biweekly conversation with Ron and Peet on the interstitium of innovation, tech, design, philosophy and behaviour.

Your hosts are Ron Kersic and Peet Sneekes.

In this podcast, we’ll be talking about the good, the bad and the interesting, all wrapped into an informal, unscripted conversation.

CHAPTERS

00:00 — Intro
01:20 — The Bitter Lessons
14:00 — "The December Event" in Coding
28:35 — Dominant Designs
33:30 — Actors and AI
40:14 — What is Old is New Again
45:45 — Wander/Wonder Machines
52:25 — Fashion!

LINKS

The Bitter Lesson — http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
Deep Blue — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_(chess_computer)
Meta classes — https://www.cs.sjsu.edu/~pearce/modules/lectures/uml2/details/index2.htm
Roadside Picnic — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadside_Picnic
Project Glasswing — https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing
Zero-Day Vulnerability — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-day_vulnerability
John McAfee — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McAfee
Dominant Design — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominant_design
FAFO — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJf6iFA2xCY
MemPalace — https://millaj.com/mempalace
Ben Affleck's InterPositive — https://www.inc.com/leila-sheridan/ben-affleck-just-sold-his-stealth-ai-startup-to-netflix-for-600-million-heres-what-it-actually-does/91315812
The Accountant — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Accountant_(2016_film)
Zettelkasten — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten
Agents & Wiki — https://gist.github.com/karpathy/442a6bf555914893e9891c11519de94f
RAG — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrieval-augmented_generation
Golfen Gate Claude — https://www.anthropic.com/news/golden-gate-claude
Wrong on the Internet — https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/386:_Duty_Calls
Lidewij Edelkoort — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidewij_Edelkoort
Devils Wears Prads — https://weareactors.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/The-Devil-Wears-Prada-Monologue.pdf
An Engine, Not a Camera — https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262633673/an-engine-not-a-camera/
Ana Andjelic — https://www.linkedin.com/in/anaandjelic/

ABOUT US

It's Just A Model podcast: https://itsjustamodel.com
Ron Kersic - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronkersic// ronkersic
Peet Sneekes - https://peetsneekes.com

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