BookBytes 45: Weapons of Math Destruction

Adam and Jason finally learn about the guy who invented the Information Age and how the transmission of data over long distances is even possible.

Adam and Jason learn about how algorithms affect people in the everyday lives in very destructive ways as well as some ways to disarm them and how to use models for good.

Adam really wants cheap access to space, Jason really wants augmented reality, and they talk about other things that may or may not happen in the future.

Jason and Adam learn about making games for a fantasy console with a lot of constraints.

Adam, Jason, and Rizel talk about race and how to talk about race. They cover issues like privilege, intersectionality, police brutality, and microaggressions.

Jason has dipped in and out of Haskell over the years, Adam did very little of the problems, and Jason teaches Adam a lot about functional programming.

Going through Clojure was an eye opening experience for Jason, and for Adam it’s intriguing, but the learning curve is very steep.

Jason loved tinkering with Erlang, they both read a little bit of Learn You Some Erlang, and Adam had a hard time with concurrency.

Adam loves how it supports functional and object-oriented programming, Jason said it would take a long time to really wrap his head around it, and Adam had a hard time installing and running it.

Adam remembered using Prolog in college, Jason felt like he had no what he was doing, Adam thought it was fun and mind bending, and Jason felt like writing a Sudoku solver was like having cheat mode on.