Episode description

This week, Dan has some weather, Cash makes a battery, homework can be a silly drag, management is about scalability and quantification, how to figure out how much you have to do, 80s movies can be problematic, ultracrepidarianism, making fish wanna get nasty, and you gotta give people ONE suggestion.

Great listener feedback on the evolution of pro kitchens, real-life risk aversion, and a terrific use of Echo's drop-in functionality.

Also, the possibilities and shortcomings of Machine Learning are discussed.

Links for this episode:

• SF Sketchfest 2018: Roderick on the Line
  Tuesday January 16, 2018 8:00pm - 9:30pm Gateway Theatre 215 Jackson Street San Francisco, CA 94111
• Ungainly X-Mann Meetup #20 — Merlin Mann
  MERLIN MANN (Back to Work, Roderick on the Line, Reconcilable Differences, Do By Friday, You Look Nice Today, et al.) invites you to drop by Two Cats Comics on the evening of Thursday, January 18th to hang out, talk about comics, and just say, “Hi.” It's free and it's fun.
• “The Labour of Two Days, Is That for Which You Ask Two Hundred Guineas!” “No; I Ask It for the Knowledge of a Lifetime.” | Quote Investigator
  “The Labour of Two Days, Is That for Which You Ask Two Hundred Guineas!” “No
• “But You Did That in Thirty Seconds.” “No, It Has Taken Me Forty Years To Do That.” | Quote Investigator
  “But You Did That in Thirty Seconds.” “No, It Has Taken Me Forty Years To Do That.”
• Ultracrepidarianism - Wikipedia
  Ultracrepidarianism is the habit of giving opinions and advice on matters outside of one's knowledge.
• Baghdad Battery - Wikipedia
  
• Congo tetra - Wikipedia
  
• C.G.P. Grey - How Machines Learn
  

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