CPD via Stitcher - AI interview with George Hotz

This morning as I walked from the station to the University, I was listening, as I mostly do this time of the morning, to a podcast, I have a backlog at present to go through, but this mornings joy was a podcast on Data, a subject I am particularly interested in.

I currently run a course entitled IDD, or Integrated Digital Design., which for the most part looks at how data at a simple level is added and used in the design, my data page on Scays.co.uk is dedicated to this with a series of slide presentations and gets regular updates.

But this morning my attention was drawn to the bus stop I was walking past, and the way old paper time tables have now been replaced with digital time tables, ok so I have written about this before, so I started to ponder this subject, can I access this data in the same way I can with similar data like the training for trains running on the Dorridge Chiltern line.

The more I look into this subject the more I find new items to ponder, like AI, my next podcast was an interview with George Hotz, see right, on Autopilot, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the form of a Podcast by Lex Fridman, now this is a long interview and you have to stay with it, and some is just not relevant to construction, but several times I thought, oh, need to make a note of that, or could this also refer to construction, or FM, ie Facilities Management.

On a whole, it is a review of AI, with a bent towards cars autopilot, but it so outlines the thinking of AI and I could easily see it's relevance to Architecture, data and of course BIM.

The Interview is 119 minutes long and you need time to listen to it, I split it up into several timeouts. The podcast as a whole is excellent, as the name implies its all about AI, is this relevant to my CPD, of course, we can not teach or use Data, without taking in this subject.

I tend to use Stitcher as my prefered podcast player, just search for "Artificial Intelligence (AI)" Lex Fridman, within the App and look for this podcast, or search via this link there is also a video via Youtube of the interview if you're so inclined.

I am claiming 3 hours high-quality CPD for this, listening to the interview, making notes, and some quiet thinking time. Visit my private website to view my CPD Spreadsheet.

My podcast list moves to Google Chrome

Most mornings, before I actually start work, I take a look at my news feeds, I start with Facebook, for no other reason than, I like to see what comments and post have been made, then I go to the serious stuff. First it's the BBC News app, always good, but then I go to my Google News App, this I like, it has a better format and display.

Then I look at a new app I am using in Google Chrome for all my Podcasts. I use my iPhone to download the same ones for walking, but in my home office, I like to control them on my Screen, I could I suppose use the iTunes and this would sync with my iPhone, but it is not easy to use, and I get so fed up trying to make it work, I went else where, and this little app is just right, I can listen as I work, it tells me if new podcasts from my list are available and I can so easily stop and continue from the main bar.

Google Keep, continues to be very useful, this morning I read a couple of interesting articles on Smart Cities, so clipped them to Keep and added multiple tags to associate them with Big data, Smart Cities and just data. The one article asks the question, what is a a smart city, and comes to some surprising conclusions, it's worth a separate blog so watch this space.

Google Earth has relaunched with some interesting updates, I did a search for Zaha Hadid and Google Earth listed several of the practices projects, I choose, for no other reason than it looked interesting, the Spitellau Viaduct Housing, but was disappointed in the way the model had been overlaid, spinning it round, the model strays over the railway track and look like its floating in midair, apart from that, I like google Earth, once you learn to use it, I can spend hours playing, Las Vagas is a must.

I have just watched several youtube video on the SunFlower, Solar Panel, this is just what the industry needs, more efficiency, self cleaning, portable, and self protecting, ausum

Is this CPD, well yes, we as Technologists need to keep up with Technology, however we can, Podcasts do that for me, and Keep is becoming increasingly important to keep, pun notes.

Google earth is also important, its the future as far as mapping is concerned.