Introduction

About a month ago, Tim Wittenberg offered to convert the sound files from the podcast into written transcripts using automatic voice recognition. The results needed quite a bit of editing, so I appealed for help on social media and got a small army of about 20 listeners who were generous enough to offer their time. So many thanks to Bart Vos, Benjamin, Chandler, Dan, Darius, Dave, David, Diana, Faizan, Felix, John, Carl, Kolya, Miguel, Norina, Ray, Susan, Wang, and Saava.