web02.fireside.fm Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:13:31 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Dave & Gunnar Show - Episodes Tagged with “Coronavirus” https://dgshow.org/tags/coronavirus Sun, 10 May 2020 07:00:00 -0500 David Egts and Gunnar Hellekson discuss privacy, security, robots, and internet ephemera. en-us episodic Not our circus, not our monkey. David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson David Egts and Gunnar Hellekson discuss privacy, security, robots, and internet ephemera. no privacy, security, robots, internet, open source, technology David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson gunnar@hellekson.com Episode 195: Space Marine or Flying Liquor Store? https://dgshow.org/195 a328f25f-5959-4b2d-955c-daae59b152c4 Sun, 10 May 2020 07:00:00 -0500 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave and Gunnar talk about AI-generated music, AI-generated romantic interests, and looking ahead to travel and expanding vocabularies in a post-COVID world. 36:42 no This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about AI-generated music, AI-generated romantic interests, and looking ahead to travel and expanding vocabularies in a post-COVID world. Moomin (https://www.moomin.com/en/) Jukebox: a neural net that generates music (https://openai.com/blog/jukebox/) Man Says He's Fallen in Love With an AI Chatbot (https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/20/04/11/1353236/man-says-hes-fallen-in-love-with-an-ai-chatbot) ELIZA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA) This is what air travel could look like in a post-coronavirus world (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-is-what-air-travel-could-look-like-in-a-post-coronavirus-world-2020-04-21) Uber is testing rooftop ads on its ridesharing fleet (https://www.engadget.com/2020-02-24-uber-rooftop-ads-adomni.html) 11 New Words and Phrases Inspired by the Coronavirus (https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/623726/new-words-inspired-coronavirus) Cutting Room Floor * Mosh Pit Simulator (http://moshpitsimulator.com/) * AI-generated anime: Selfie 2 Waifu (https://waifu.lofiu.com/) * AI-generated memes: This Meme Does Not Exist (https://imgflip.com/ai-meme) We Give Thanks * The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! Moomin, Jukebox, AI, Replika, ELIZA, air travel, Aviointeriors, Janus, Uber, Adomni, Coronavirus, vocabulary This week Dave and Gunnar talk about AI-generated music, AI-generated romantic interests, and looking ahead to travel and expanding vocabularies in a post-COVID world.

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  • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
]]> Episode 190: Calendar bankruptcy, or when was the last time you got good news in a telegram? https://dgshow.org/190 20ebbbde-a69c-4b37-97cd-35ccee6ad18f Tue, 31 Mar 2020 17:00:00 -0500 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave and Gunnar talk about location identification, dance identification, and blood pressure identification 38:32 no This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about: location identification, dance identification, and blood pressure identification Removing a GPS tracking device from your car isn’t theft, court rules (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/removing-a-gps-tracking-device-from-your-car-isnt-theft-court-rules/) People can be identified by the way they dance (https://newatlas.com/science/dance-style-identification/) Preventative health at your fingertips: U of T researchers accurately measure blood pressure using phone camera (https://www.utoronto.ca/news/preventative-health-your-fingertips-u-t-researchers-accurately-measure-blood-pressure-using) Job screening Voight-Kampff test (https://bladerunner.fandom.com/wiki/Voight-Kampff_test) How to Reach Out to Someone Whose Career You Admire (https://hbr.org/2019/07/how-to-reach-out-to-someone-whose-career-you-admire) Only Check Email When You Have Time to Respond (https://lifehacker.com/only-check-email-when-you-have-time-to-respond-1841042340) Related shameless plug: Remote working: 14 tips to improve emails at a critical time (https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2020/3/remote-working-14-email-tips) Corona Calendar Tips! Cutting Room Floor * Reusable stained glass airplane window sticker (https://magicalsuperstore.com/) * 'I am going to say quiet words in your face just like I did with Trump': a conversation with the Zuckerbot (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/dec/22/zuckerbot-mark-zuckerberg-facebook-botnik) We Give Thanks * The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! GPS, dancing, dancing biometrics, biometrics, blood pressure, Voight-Kampff, email, calendar, COVID-19, Coronavirus, stained glass, airplane window, Zuckerbot This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: location identification, dance identification, and blood pressure identification

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  • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
]]> Episode 188: Lemonade Stand for Plagues https://dgshow.org/188 248ee2c7-07d4-4a8b-bcdf-0838f9ff3ce1 Thu, 06 Feb 2020 06:00:00 -0600 David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson full David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: Wearables. Literally. 30:50 no This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about: Wearables. Literally. 'It’s a Moral Imperative:' Archivists Made a Directory of 5,000 Coronavirus Studies to Bypass Paywalls (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3b3v5/archivists-are-bypassing-paywalls-to-share-studies-about-coronaviruses) Coronavirus Is Not The ‘Corona Beer Virus,’ What People Are Googling (https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2020/01/30/coronavirus-is-not-the-corona-beer-virus-what-people-are-googling/) See also: Plague Inc. maker: Don’t use our game for coronavirus modeling (https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/plague-inc-maker-dont-use-our-game-for-coronavirus-modeling/) Lemonade Stand (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemonade_Stand) PharmaSim (https://www.interpretive.com/business-simulations/pharmasim/) To-Read: Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 1: The Structures of Everyday Life by Fernand Braudel (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/103431.Civilization_and_Capitalism_15th_18th_Century_Vol_1) Beria: Stalin's First Lieutenant (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/730885.Beria) Cry for help? Dave read 9M words (https://getpocket.com/stats/2019/89ce5beb94) in Pocket, equivalent to 122 books. He’s a one-percenter. Kid’s Bulletproof Hoodie (Unisex) (https://wonderhoodie.com/products/kids-bullet-proof-hoodie?variant=13837983449143) Turn Your Cat's Face Into A Wearable Mask (https://kotaku.com/turn-your-cats-face-into-a-wearable-mask-1833057330) AirPod Carrying Strap (https://shop.nordstrom.com/s/tapper-airpod-carrying-strap/5092788/lite) New USB cable kills your Linux laptop if stolen in a public place (https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-usb-cable-kills-your-linux-laptop-if-stolen-in-a-public-place/) Getting Your Team to Do More Than Meet Deadlines (https://hbr.org/2019/11/getting-your-team-to-do-more-than-meet-deadlines) See also this shameless plug: 10 tips to run more effective meetings in 2020 (https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2020/1/how-run-effective-meetings-10-tips) Cutting Room Floor * OpenStreetMap Haiku project generates poetry about your location (https://www.engadget.com/2019/12/17/openstreetmap-haiku/) * Welsh Password Generator (https://welshpassword.wheresalice.info/) * New tweet generator mocks venture capitalists (https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/05/new-tweet-generator-mocks-venture-capitalists/) * LaCroix flavor generator (https://lacroix.glitch.me/) * See also (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5849539/Hilarious-tweet-goes-viral-suggesting-new-LaCroix-flavor-names.html) We Give Thanks * The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! coronavirus, Corona beer, Plague Inc., Lemonade Stand, PharmaSim, Civilization and Capitalization, Beria, Pocket, bulletproof hoodies, pet masks, AirPod carrying straps, BusKill, udev, proactive time, pro-time, meetings, OpenStreetMap, haiku, Welsh, venture capitalists, LaCroix This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: Wearables. Literally.

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  • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
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