Episode 6: Ben Kamphaus
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My guest for this episode is Ben Kamphaus. We discuss his career spanning archeology, anthropology, programming, music, and science fiction.
His novella, Rites of the Renouncer, is available from Amazon as an e-book or paperback. The companion album is available at PatternShift, various streaming music services, and Bandcamp.
Previews of Wake of the Wanderer, the second album and novel in the Vaskania Prime series, are also available, with full releases planned for Fall 2019.
Video of Ben's talk at the Clojure/conj 2018 conference, AI Systems: Foundations for Artificial Minds, is on YouTube along with annotated slides.
Also discussed in this episode:
- u-he, maker of the Zebra software synthesizer
- Skeuomorphism
- Vim
- Vimscript
- ENVI geospatial imaging software (Wikipedia)
- N-dimensional viewer in ENVI and example of its use
- Hyperspectral Imagery
- Dimensionality reduction (Wikipedia)
- Principal component analysis (PCA) (Wikipedia)
- Cognitect
- Clojure programming language
- Python programming language
- R programming language
- Julia programming language
- Pattern Shift (Bandcamp)
- Pascal programming language (Wikipedia)
- C programming language (Wikipedia)
- QBasic
- 8086 (Wikipedia)
- GWBasic (Wikipedia)
- PHP programming language
- Indiana Jones (Wikipedia)
- MIT Open Courseware
- IDL programming language
- Scientific Python
- Four Corners (U.S. Geographic area) (Wikipedia)
- Pueblo / Anasazi (Wikipedia)
- Four-field approach (Wikipedia)
- Ultimate Bulletin Board
- VBScript (Wikipedia)
- Lua programming language
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- GI Science
- GPS
- CAD software (Wikipedia)
- Photogrammetry
- Clojure programming language
- C programming language (Wikipedia)
- Java programming language
- C++ programming language (Wikipedia)
- Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT)
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- University of Buffalo
- Python programming language
- MATLAB
- NumPy
- man pages (Wikipedia)
- UNIX Shell (Wikipedia)
- Inheritance (Wikipedia)
- Polymorphic dispatch (Wikipedia)
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP)
- Scheme programming language (Wikipedia)
- Lisp syntax (Wikipedia)
- Scala programming language
- Datomic
- Graying of academia (Boston Globe)
- Achondroplasia (Dwarfism)
- Autism
- Music, Language, and Autism (book)
- The Player of Games
- Faster-than-light travel
- Generation ships (Wikipedia)
The music selection heard in the episode is Untethered Dreamers, from the album Rites of the Renouncer, Copyright © Ben Kamphaus 2019, used with permission.
The theme music is Mandelbrot Set from the album Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow by Jonathan Coulton, used under a Creative Commons BY-NC 3.0 License, edited and shortened.