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The Talk Show With John Gruber

275: ‘Fake Faces’ With Glenn Fleishman

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2020

⏱️ 181 minutes

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Summary

Special guest Glenn Fleishman returns to the show. Topics include iPhone encryption, the privacy implications of widely-available reverse image search for faces, deep-learning-powered algorithmically-generated faces, and Jeopardy’s “Greatest of All Time” tournament.

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0:00.0

Oh man Glen, Flashtman you're back on the show. We have so much to talk about

0:05.2

We'll never get to all of it, but we can try

0:10.2

It's a good problem to have thanks badly back. Oh

0:13.7

What week

0:15.8

What do you want to start with? I say we start with

0:18.5

Let's start with jeopardy. So number one. I knew this. I don't know that we've ever really spoken about it at length

0:24.6

And if we have I've forgotten about it, but you were on jeopardy

0:30.5

When when were you on?

0:32.5

2000 I taped in August 2012 my episodes went up October 2012 and I won I won two episodes by the skin invite teeth

0:40.9

This how I describe it. I still had my now I'm too old. It's a young man's game young person's game

0:47.6

But I won two episodes and over $30,000

0:51.1

Which is kind of neat because my whole life people had said you should go on jeopardy

0:54.2

You seem to remember a lot of trivia and things that aren't important and I was like yes, I do and

0:59.4

And it's well you got to both it's

1:02.8

At least two skills. It's more you know, it's like and it like any kind of athletic competition. It's multi-

1:09.0

Various you need you obviously need to know the trivia, but you've also got to be fast. I

1:14.0

Don't I don't have the I there's no way even if I got like an exception and got to buzz in 10 seconds late

1:22.1

I wouldn't get shut out on jeopardy. I would I would get a couple in

1:27.1

But I'm too slow and I've always been too slow my mind is really it's you saw that thing

1:31.9

There's an article a few months ago about how they've finally done the metabolic testing on grandmaster chess players

1:37.0

Mm-hmm. Yes, those folks they burn like thousands of calories today

1:41.0

Yes, so they know he said it people in the chess world said, you know

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