The Weekly Squeak - Alien Robots

Interview with Monique Morrow

In this episode I speak with Monique Morrow about creating technology that people actually need.

Listen to the episode here.

In Technology News…

No particular thread running through these three stories this week, but an article that summarises why I gave up Bitcoin, the (apparent) death of RSS and robots that can follow diagrams. Interestingly this advance puts one more step along the path of general gaming AI which is something that has fascinated me for a long time.

As a Bitcoin maker who covered the oil industry as a journalist, I see parallels between the two that may haunt cryptocurrency

Before the internet was consolidated into centralized information silos, RSS imagined a better way to let users control their online personas.

Robots capable of reading diagrams could work in more varied environments and be easier to communicate with.

The Acropolis looms over everything in Athens

In Alien Productivity News…

Err, not really any common thread here, but it's better than "miscellaneous". Did you know that Aliens might have tried to contact us, and we probably didn't notice? And while I am not much of a fan of "improve your life" posts, I have already been following a few of the ideas mentioned in the second link, and they are working for me 😄.

Isaac Chotiner interviews Avi Loeb, the chair of Harvard’s astronomy department, about the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua and the possibility that it was sent by an extraterrestrial civilization.

We’ve all got a fixed 24 hours in a day and 7 days in a week. But in 2019, you can feel like you have more time every week by making different choices about how you allocate your hours. Here are 5 strategies.