The Hedge

Who should be held liable when AI fails? Who is liable when an AI system "breaks into" a network or system, causing a major breach? Listen in as Tom and Russ discuss two articles covering these topics on this roundtable episode of the Hedge.

Network engineers do not need to become full-time coders to succeed--but some coding skills are really useful. In this episode of the Hedge, David Barrosso (you can find David's github repositories here), Phill Simonds, and Russ White discuss which programming skills are useful for network engineers.

 
Just about everyone is watching the financial markets, either wondering how much better they can get, or when the AI financing bubble is going to crash. Dough Dawson, from POTs and PANs, joins Tom and Russ to talk about the logic of a coming crash, and consider where engineers should be looking for potential future career fields to weather the storm.
 
https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-322.mp3
 
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There are many "unsung technologies" in the Internet. While we often think of TCP/IP, various models, Ethernet, and DNS, we don't often think about the lowly socket interface. What is the history of the socket, and why is it important in the world of the Internet? George Michaelson joins Colin Doyle and Russ White to discuss the history and importance of sockets.
 
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Over time, services like DNS and email have been centralized, leaving the Internet itself much more centralized. In this episode of the Hedge, Doug Jacobson joins Tom Ammon and Russ White to discuss centralization and service consolidation.
 
https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-320.mp3
 
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