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  • Throttling and Rate Limiting

    July 3 2023

    Tonight on GeekNights, we consider the surprising challenges of throttling and rate limiting. In the …

  • The Line of Technology Adoption

    June 5 2023

    Tonight on GeekNights, we briefly consider when and why to adopt a new technology. In …

  • Computer Noise

    May 8 2023

    Tonight on GeekNights, we talk about the noise that computers make. It used to be …

  • Computer Fonts

    April 10 2023

    Tonight on GeekNights, we consider computer fonts. In the news, the world lost a …

  • Archiving the Internet

    March 27 2023

    Tonight on GeekNights, we consider the immense challenge of archiving the Internet. This is a …

  • E-Waste and Worthless Tech

    March 13 2023

    Tonight on GeekNights, we consider what to do about E-Waste and worthless old technology. Old …

  • GPT-3 and Autoregressive Language Models

    February 27 2023

    Tonight on GeekNights, we consider the technology and ramifications of Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) …

  • Online Advertising and Adtech

    January 30 2023

    Tonight on GeekNights, Rym is back from his ski trip, so we resume our regularly …

  • Microsoft Windows

    January 2 2023

    Tonight on GeekNights, we talk about everybody's favorite operating system: Microsoft Windows. In the …