{"id":5803,"date":"2020-12-15T22:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T03:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/?p=5803"},"modified":"2020-12-14T16:27:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T21:27:26","slug":"episode-622-the-goose-is-getting-fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2020\/12\/15\/episode-622-the-goose-is-getting-fat\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 622: The Goose is Getting Fat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgflip.com\/42h6h3.jpg?resize=366%2C338&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"fat goose - Imgflip\" width=\"366\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Listen below with the audio player or <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe53l-1vB\">Click Here<\/a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2023\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5803-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep622_201216.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep622_201216.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep622_201216.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep622_201216.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Tech_Ep622_201216.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fzbKhd6mg1g?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>Feedback<\/b><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Question of the week:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/technoramapodcast\/posts\/10157439232421671\">Technorama<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/chuck.tomasi\/posts\/10159698890498455\">Chuck<\/a> \u201c<i>What\u2019s wrong with you people?<\/i>\u201d &#8212; Office Space<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kreg.steppe\/posts\/10157472164271319\">Kreg<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><b>On This Day In History for December 16, 2020<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>This is the 351st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 15 days remaining in 2020.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was on this date in 1843, that The discovery of octonions by John T. Graves, who denoted them with a boldface O, was announced to his mathematician friend William Hamilton, discoverer of quaternions, in a letter on this date.<\/li>\n<li>That same date in 1907, The American Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world.<\/li>\n<li>83 years ago today, Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempted to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again.<\/li>\n<li>Also on December 16, 1947, William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain built the first practical point-contact transistor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>English novelist, Jane Austen, born on this date in 1775.<\/li>\n<li>Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German chemist, physicist, and philosopher was born on that same date in 1776.<\/li>\n<li>Viktor Bunyakovsky, the Russian mathematician and academic was born 216 years ago today.<\/li>\n<li>George Santayana, Spanish philosopher, novelist, and poet was born on that same date in 1863.<\/li>\n<li>Bertha Lamme Feicht, the American electrical engineer was born 151 years ago today.<\/li>\n<li>Born December 16, 1882, German physicist and engineer Walther Meissner.<\/li>\n<li>Arthur C. Clarke, British science fiction writer was born on that same date in 1917.<\/li>\n<li>Born December 16, 1928, American philosopher and author Philip K. Dick.<\/li>\n<li>American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer, Billy Gibbons, born on this date in 1949.<\/li>\n<li>Also turning 51 today is American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic Nobel Prize laureate Adam Riess.<\/li>\n<li>American computer scientist and academic, Jen Golbeck is 44 today.<\/li>\n<li>American actress, musician, and model, Krysten Ritter, born on this date in 1981.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Listener Birthdays<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>17 &#8211; Jorge Schrauwen<\/li>\n<li>20 &#8211; Phil Burchill the 9 year old I started listening to Technorama with turned 21 this year (2017)!<\/li>\n<li>21 &#8211; James Ballard KarakSindru<\/li>\n<li>22 &#8211; Bo Pace<\/li>\n<li>22 &#8211; Luke &#8220;Chuck&#8217;s Stalker&#8221; Smith (2000)<\/li>\n<li>22 &#8211; Jason Pelloni, Tampa, FL<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that\u2019s the way it was, on this day in history for December 16, 2020<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our website and look for the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSenNyl8MEsC_eVDvCerLe8wNvhgtjg2d7F0Yj0IFYl4dOU2uA\/viewform\">Birthday Calendar<\/a> link.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><b>News<\/b><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/japans-asteroid-sample-returns-home-poised-to-reveal-solar-systems-secrets\/\">Japan&#8217;s asteroid sample returns home, poised to reveal solar system&#8217;s secrets &#8211; CNET<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/12\/08\/world\/mars-water-fuel-how-to-get-scn\/index.html\">Scientists say they have come up with potential way to make oxygen on Mars &#8211; CNN<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/nvidia-ada-gan-ai-190518240.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAE7sujouNUFqLwEaZ_i9_9ctrm9nr6eMOSZ0HF1bHJ-o7zKvXHa9lx2R_aTn9EICyqhWX9FWyA0fC_tshFdt1hYsTnH0FF2jzVH4wlSCWLgMdXWdQod9hb-Tdos4R4lZbjIoLBxDu5uT2mbOLMrkno95U3AWZOiS0L23aOHOtcWn\">NVIDIA found a way to train AI with very little data | Engadget<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/erectile-dysfunction-drug-and-anti-depressant-accidenta-1845848785\">Erectile Dysfunction Drug and Anti-Depressant Accidentally Swapped in Factory<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><b>Hacks &amp; Strange Stories<\/b><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2019\/11\/these-rats-learned-to-drive-tiny-cars-for-science\/\">Rats love driving tiny cars, even when they don\u2019t get treats | Ars Technica<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><b>Shout out to the chat room<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>Watch us live every Sunday night at 9:30PM ET on Facebook. 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