Computing Up
Conversations about computation writ large, with Michael Littman and Dave Ackley.
Latest episodes
Jul 27, 2019 • 49min
Technologies more true: Glen Weyl is recomputing democracy - Computing Up Twenty-Sixth Conversation
Glen Weyl joins Michael and Dave to talk about democracy, mechanism design, quadratic finance, blockchain, and the RadicalXChange. [Image courtesy of Gley Weyl]
Jun 30, 2019 • 39min
Is Progress Real? - Computing Up Twenty-Fifth Conversation
Democratic debates and Dave darkness raise the question of whether progress is even possible.
Jun 1, 2019 • 36min
Is the Answer Intersubjectivity? - Computing Up Twenty-Fourth Conversation
Intersubjectivity is what everybody is talking about.
May 1, 2019 • 44min
David Jensen: Because Causality - Computing Up Twenty-Third Conversation
David Jensen, Professor and Director of the Knowledge Discovery Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, talks with Michael and Dave because of causality. [Cover image used by permission of David Jensen]
Mar 31, 2019 • 37min
Bitter, Better, and Beyond - Computing Up Twenty-Second Conversation
Michael and Dave discuss Rich Sutton's The Bitter Lesson and Rod Brook's A Better Lesson.
Mar 2, 2019 • 36min
What is Computation? - Computing Up Twenty-First Conversation
Michael is preparing an award lecture on computation while Dave, with the sniffles, tries to help.
Feb 1, 2019 • 33min
Computational vs Systems Thinking - Computing Up Twentieth Conversation
Discussion of Dave's 2018 'Christmas Rant' about systems thinking. The video (12 min) The death of a Blepharisma
Dec 29, 2018 • 35min
Programming in Grad Student - Computing Up Nineteenth Conversation
When people ask what programming language Michael uses, he basically has to say 'Graduate Students'.
Dec 1, 2018 • 37min
Does Neutral Point of View Exist - Computing Up Eighteenth Conversation
Michael corners Dave-the-extreme-relativist on the meaning of neutrality.
Oct 13, 2018 • 33min
T2sday Updates - Computing Up Seventeenth Conversation
Dave's new thing. Also, Allen Ginsberg, and fricken leximited.
