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INCONSISTENT UPLOAD SCHEDULE UNTIL (at least) NOVEMBER, apologies for the inconvenience A podcast on ancient civilizations and new technologies.

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July 14, 20244 min

Abortion in Augustan Rome

July 13, 20242 min

Google and SynthID: Actual Uses

HI EVERYONE I'M SO SORRY FOR THE IMPROMPTU HIATUS AND THUS DELAYED PART 2! Next episode is out this Sunday (I promise!!!)This episode is part two of our duology on Google DeepMind and SynthID. If you haven’t yet, I suggest you listen to part 1 before listening to this episode.

May 30, 20243 min

Google and SynthID: What is it?

A couple weeks ago, Google’s DeepMind announced the introduction of their new watermarking method to SynthID, whose toolkit can identify AI-generated content and can embed digital watermarks on AI-generated content, such as images, audio, text, or video. These watermarks are imperceptible to humans but can be detected by the device.

April 5, 20245 min

Hittite Rituals: Meanings of Blood PART 2

Briefly touching on the life of Bronze Age Anatolians

March 28, 20243 min

Hittite Rituals: Meanings of Blood PART 1

Briefly touching on the life of Bronze Age Anatolians

March 8, 20242 min

OPINION: MWC

The MWC (Mobile World Congress) occurs every year in Barcelona. It is one of the biggest trade shows of the year, and as the name suggests, specializes in mobile devices.

March 3, 20243 min

Libation- the Liquid Sacrifice

wine for everyone

February 29, 20245 min

We Love Copper – Chalcolithic Age

Today we're going to talk about the Copper Age, also known as the Chalcolithic Age.

February 26, 20242 min

NVIDIA, In Less Than 3 Minutes

A couple days ago NVIDIA’s market cap briefly reached the 2 trillion dollar mark. While I have mentioned NVIDIA in this podcast before during our episode about Meta, IBM, and the AI Alliance, I believe it’s time to dedicate an entire episode to the self-described “World Leader in Artificial Intelligence Computing”. This is everything you need to know about NVIDIA in less than three minutes.

February 22, 20241 min

OpenAI’s Sora: Safety

This is the second part of a 2-part series on Sora. Both parts have been released at the same time. Today I will be talking about Sora, OpenAI’s text-to-video generator.