Programming Throwdown Episode 102, Bayesian Thinking with Max Squar.

Take it away, Jason.

Hey, everybody. So this is going to be an awesome episode. I know so many people have asked for more content on AI and on machine learning.

And today we have Max Sclar, who's the engineer at the Foursquare's Innovation Lab. I was going to

talk to us about Bayesian thinking,

Bayesian inference, and this whole universe. So thanks so much for coming on the show.

Thank you so much for having me. I love talking about this stuff. So let's get into it. I'm excited.

Cool. Awesome. How are you doing? How are you handling the COVID situation?

Well, as reasonably as one can expect, I guess, you know, every week on the podcast, people can hear my mood going up and down and have commented as such.

But I also experience mood swings. There's something about, you know, being in the same place for everything

that that causes you to have these ups and downs because, yeah, it seems to be a universal thing.

I feel like I was mentioning this to someone yesterday. Like, do you ever, like, go through your

Apple photos or Google photos or whatever and, you know, just go through your past, like, the last five years,, 10 years and just scroll. I'm like, what's it going to be like scrolling through these months? It's like all of a sudden I'm living my life and then, oh, it's a bunch of pictures in my room and then a bunch of pictures of sirens going by and then more pictures of my room than a bunch of wires. I'm like, oh, let's skip this. Let's skip this part.

Yeah, it's so true.

Yeah, what I heard the other day, which was really resonated, was that 2020 is kind

of like when you get bored at SimCity and you just turn on all the disasters at once.

It's kind of like what things have degenerated to.

It's funny. I read like a full review of one of the things that I wasted my time on during this pandemic, which unfortunately,

I feel like I'm not alone when I feel like I could be getting so much done, but I wasted so

much time was watching like a review of the original SimCity on YouTube.

So I found out I was I was reading an article that there's a game called Sim

Refinery that Maxis made I think four Chevron and further employees and someone was able to get a copy of it.

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