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Not Daily Podcast

Not Daily Podcast

We use our approximate knowledge of many things to craft unanswerable questions. We mix cognitive science and philosophy with pop culture, tech and science to start with raw perspectives. Refining them through steamed up yet rational conversation we generally stumble upon odd answers. Hosted pseudo monthly by two humans.

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39:50

Conversations: optimal communication and midnight gospel

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2022/06/28

Who won the debate? Vlad's support for voice chat, or Yoann's insistence for asynchronous IM? You'll find out here!But before, we go over things we took out from the previous episode as well as listeners’ comments. We discuss how tools allow a media-rich communication experience, what the future of communication will be after brain upload, the history of asynchronous IM, the terminology of signal processing, parallelism vs. really fast context switching...In a pretty unusual twist, we

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40:51

Why this call should (not) have been an email?

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2022/05/31

Today, we take the infamous thought that a lot of employees have had: “This meeting could have been an email!” and turn it into a debate! Let the duel between oral and written communication begin and crown the One True Communication Form!We examine obvious and counterintuitive takes about which of these modes better conveys nuances and emotions, linearity vs. non-linearity, synchronicity vs. asynchronicity...Could it be that we’re all subjects to the lobbying of extroverts overlord? What features

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44:04

Conversations: Calendars and Eco

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2022/04/26

We continue our conversation with you about what the ideal schedule should be. We mentioned how important it was to break monotony, so how about adding randomness and making every week different? They could all be special!Or maybe the answer is to be found in the sky! As listeners pointed out, this whole mess is because of the lack of synchronicity between rotation periods of the sun, the moon and the earth!After that, Yoann presents a game that drove him addicted to a point he had not felt for a

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35:57

What is the best week?

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2022/03/27

We prepare for the revolution and try to imagine what an ideal week reimagined from scratch would be like.We try to look rationally at periodicity and divisions of time and their history, but that only brings us so far.We agree that what really matters is the day-to-day feel, so we try to gauge what the perfect balance of productivity and rest would be. Of course, we want our solution to resist the age of automation, and even extend to a post-scarcity era!Fortunately, Yoann has been working for

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41:18

Conversations: Japanese psychology and nightmares

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2022/02/17

We look back on last episode's dive into the field of Japanese psychoanalysis, and discuss what we missed. In particular, we tackle the concepts of Lacanian's Lalangue, the Big Other, and dreams! We also discuss the castration tale of Sada, and Luke Ogasawara hypothesis that Japanese people are either paranoid or pervert. Quite a lot of risque topics :)We end by casually talking about Yoann's recurring nightmares about Japanese arcade games...Join us

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49:15

Can Japanese psychoanalysis cure us all?

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2022/01/11

We've been preparing this episode for quite a while and this time we have sources! We confront our knowledge of Japanese language and lacanian psychoanalysis to try and understand the Japanese psyche!We start off by Lacan's famous statements about the fact that Japanese people have no need for psychoanalysis. We'll see what he was talking about through a brief history of the incredible chaotic mess that is the Japanese language. Did he know it well enough?In any case, we felt it was

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42:16

Conversations: How I cheated at twitter.

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2021/12/01

Welcome back to the conversation! This time, we didn't have many listeners' messages, but we know why that is! We come back to our adventure on twitter hacking, by first wondering about the position of twitter in the ever changing landscape of technology with the good old question: was it better in the past?We then move to data science, wondering how many data points you need to draw meaningful conclusions from all the stuff we've been trying out.Once we get our metrics down, it's

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40:19

How to use data science and hack twitter for maximal...

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2021/10/27

In this episode, we open the doors to the behind the scenes of podcast production. We disclose without taboo or secret everything about how we measure our number of listeners and how trustworthy those tools are. But …we also talk money!We decided to do a little contest: with the same amount of money dedicated to advertising, we competed to see who could make the best ad campaign. Of course, we each tried a bunch of different things, but we both centered our attempts around twitter.What can you buy

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42:43

Conversations: Synesthesia and brain plasticity

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2021/09/30

In this informal episode, we continue talking with our good friend Geraldine who shares her experience of synesthesia, telling us what it is like to see letters as colors!Then we talk a bit about brain plasticity and memory encoding, trying to take a very pragmatic approach and giving you tips to probe your own brain! Are memories always pictorial? Can you imagine something that you've never experienced in the past? Geraldine helps us by bringing her knowledge about Hobbes to the table!Finally,

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43:29

How to unlock new abilities in your brain?

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2021/09/08

There’s a lot of different ways for imagination to work. Some people can imagine clear pictures, while some others can’t. Vlad recently switched from one group to the other.To understand what happened, we dive into an investigation where we’re joined by our good friend Geraldine, a researcher in philosophy of science.We analyze his transformation, wondering whether he unlocked a new meta-cognitive capability or if he just developed new awareness of existing processes, or what other senses might be

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34:11

Conversations: I changed my mind about machine learning

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2021/08/03

We respond to listener's comments about the previous episode: we discuss the most recent project of artist Sam Lavigne, and catch up on what we missed about special attacks in mangas. We go over legendary swords to try and understand why some objects get special names, and invoke Baudrillard to wonder if there is such a thing as a single object anymore. We discuss differences between spoken and written word, and parallels between anime special techniques and sports.In the second half, the

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36:25

Why do manga characters scream the name of their...

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2021/07/11

From Naruto's Rasengan to Dragon Ball's Kamehameha, attack names are an iconic part of mangas and animes (especially shounen). So much so that they appear in stories about food or sports. But why? Where do they come from? What are they for? And why on earth do they need to be yelled?Our journey through these questions takes us through different perspectives: we consider titles and annotations that imbue semantic in art, the difference between mangas and western comics, the parallels with

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34:53

Conversations: The work of Sam Lavigne

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2021/06/16

In this episode of conversations, we followup on homestuck^2 by seeing how the new work from Andrew Hussie, Psycholonials, adds another layer of metanarrative on this already pretty big cake ^^We then revisit the question of contemporary pantheon, trying to give more concrete examples and deciding who to put in between Obi Wan Kenobi, Dumbledore, Tiger Woods... We also discuss a bit our true gods, our values (pure ideology, snif snif). Have we became worshippers of health? Or rather wellbeing? It

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41:00

What does a modern pantheon look like?

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2021/05/16

The premise of the episode is simple: is there anything in our current life that could be considered as the evolution of the rich pantheons and mythologies that the greek and roman people had.We expected to fight about who to include or not, but the discussion actually went straight to “What is a god actually?” and we revisit how pantheons evolved from polytheism, to monotheism, to humanism to end up with cult of personality or companies (dare I say capitalism?).In a second time, we dove into other

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35:34

Conversations: Let me tell you about Homestuck^2

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2021/04/19

This is our second episode of conversations, and we start by explaining the why and how of this change, before following up on previous episodes:We come back on the difference between cats and dogs highlighted in telephone drawing games, before coming back to NFT.The fact that some NFT have dead links already makes us wonder if it's really going to keep value, and what is the role of the auctioneer here. We still can't pinpoint who exactly prophesied the final form of capitalism with the

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34:44

Does NFT create a new ontological reality?

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2021/03/30

This is our first episode where we deep dive into one serious topic, and what better choice than the NFTs that everyone is talking about!We briefly explain what NFTs are, and take case study to figure out what it is that people are buying. If you don't have any right on the digital art that the NFT represents, what on earth are you getting for your money? What are the implications for the notion of money? for the notion of things even?Is NFT really helpful for artists? How is it different from a

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36:55

Conversations: I became an Ai in a telephone game

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2021/03/08

We're trying something new with our podcast: to keep the episodes more focused, we'll release the conversational part where we answer to the listeners, address followups, and discuss less heavy questions separate from our main episodes!This is the first of such episodes, where we discuss everything we missed in last episode about the perfect reading corner, namely UV lights, reading rhythm, and audio ambiance.After that, we move on to chit chat about a game that has become more popular

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44:03

Cyranoids and How to make the perfect reading...

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2021/01/31

We discover that at the end of his life, Stanley Milgram was working on a little known Cyranoid experiment. He showed that if you put a child into an adult body, nobody will notice something is off.In the main part, we try to make the perfect environment to read more. We briefly go over pretty basic productivity tips (making habits, compartmentalization) before diving in our usual craziness featuring the tinderization of storytelling, reading in VR, the ease of entry vs compartmentalization

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37:52

AfterDinnerConversation and Are purchases the...

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2020/12/31

We discover quantum time locks and Twisted Wonderland.We then discuss Vlad's holiday project, a minimalist website to store his short stories, and move on to discussing a magazine Yoann discovered recently which focuses on philosophical short stories. As an example, we comment briefly the story “Rainbow People Of The Glittering Glade”.Finally, we get into the holiday spirit by celebrating the true meaning of Christmas: purchases. But is buying something the ultimate form of expression of your

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38:49

Time capsules and What makes a villain?

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2020/11/30

We reflect on the possibility that the economy is so important to some people because it fills in for the symbolic dimension of meaning that is lacking from the dystopias we discussed last time.We talk a bit about a message from the past that Vlad received, and how to make a good time capsule for your future self.This time, our main section is about villains and propaganda. We talk a lot about Disney movies in general and Aladdin in particular to try and understand what it means to be a villain,

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