426 Rare Earth Embargo and more with Big Sky Bitterroot Rabbit Hole Sherry finish
They riff on technology in general and cover the possibilities of the US returning some of the mining produciton to America, especially the rare earths. Also discussing energy, batteries, and the general research topics. They smoke the Big Sky Bitterroot and sip the Rabbit Hole PX Sherry cask finish.
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425 All AI Company Struggles plus Ferio Tego and Eagle Rare
Researchers staffed an entire company with II (aka AI) employees. I still think we should call it inorganic intellegence rather than artificial, but no one would find our podcast if I used II in the title. Anyway, it doesn't go well and we discuss it a bit. All the while we smoke a Ferio Tego Metropolitan Host Maduro and we drink the Eagle Rare 10. https://futurism.com/professors-company-ai-agents
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424 Microsoft Turns 50 with Sake Bomb and El Dorado Rum
This is the 50th anniversary of Microsoft. They just riff on Microsoft. Talk a little IBM and Watson. They smoke the Espinosa 601 La Bomba Sake Bomb and sip the El Dorado 12 Year old rum. https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/microsoft-just-turned-50-can-its-dominance-last-another-2/#dt-heading-the-founding--1975
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423 Waste Stream to Energy with Rocky LB1 and Benchmark Full Proof
Everyone loves a waster stream becomes free energy story. This is a good one. Researchers at the Distance University of Madrid have uncovered an innovative way to harness the energy of waste air currents. Plus they tell us how to do what they did. Very nice. While discussing this we smoke the Rocky Patel LB1 Toro and drink the Benchmark Full Proof boubon. https://jasondeegan.com/spain-uncovers-a-new-source-of-energy-no-one-saw-coming/
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422 AI Becomes a Teenager plus Hemingway Best Seller & Lone Elm White Port finish
This week they discuss AI's pushing back against their work. Suggesting programers do their own work. They enjoy this AI becoming an adolescent with an Arturo Fuente Hemingway Best seller and drink Lone Elm's newest finish barrel product, the White Port finish whiskey. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ai-coding-assistant-refuses-to-write-code-tells-user-to-learn-programming-instead/
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