Episode 211 - John Eric Hoffman

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

Jessecase, Comedy, News, Mattkirshen, Standup, Andywood, Science & Medicine, Science, Brookswheelan

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2016

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Software engineer and Google employee John Eric Hoffman welcomes Matt and Andy to his house (next door to Todd Glass's, coincidentally) to talk about machine learning, neural networks, Maxwell's Demon, DeepDream, natural language processing and the recent short sci-fi film written by AI (and co-starring past guest Humphrey Ker).

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0:00.0	Probably Science
0:02.0	Hey everyone, welcome to Probably Science.
0:13.0	We're back from Portland, but we're still on the road.
0:16.0	Oh yeah.
0:16.5	This is our first in-town road episode in quite a while, I think.
0:20.0	Yeah, I'm Matt Kirshin.
0:21.2	That was Andy Wood.
0:22.0	Yep.
0:22.6	We are in a bit of L.A. that we've been to before for probably science, although
0:27.7	neither of us realized that at the time.
0:29.3	This is the craziest.
0:30.8	You gave me directions, or you gave me the address.
0:32.9	And as I was pulling up, I was like, fuck, Matt copied and pasted the wrong address from his contact list
0:38.9	because I'm at Todd Glass's house. God damn it. How much farther do I have to drive now?
0:43.8	Yeah. It turns out our guest, our guest today lives next door to Todd and didn't realize.
0:48.9	Literally next door to Todd. Todd is on the road. Otherwise, we would have attracted him into this show. But we have a fantastic guest.
0:55.8	Friend, software engineer, someone who works at Google, someone who is part of our occasional trivia team.
1:05.5	Mr. John Eric Hoffman.
1:07.1	Hello, all.
1:08.2	Thanks for joining us.
1:09.1	Thanks for letting us join you.
1:10.6	No, absolutely. It's my pleasure. You for letting us join you. No, absolutely.
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