In this episode I talk with Taziamoma Abraham, a software engineer and cloud developer at Amazon Web Services (AWS). We talk about how Taz got into tech, AI's disruptive power in industries, Roblox servers with AAA
quality games, wild crypto bets, Taz's experience with an unruly professor and cloud services amongst many other topics. Hope you enjoy!

FROM THE PODCAST:
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Roblox 101: How to Make Money From Your Video Games from PC Mag:
https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/roblox-101-how-to-make-real-money-from-your-video-games


Roblox Games Are Better Than AAA Games Now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPHrLI_DYD4&ab_channel=Optimus

Vercel Website: https://vercel.com/

OpenAI Introducing the Realtime API:
https://openai.com/index/introducing-the-realtime-api/

Number of Documents by Language:
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Number-of-documents-by-language_fig2_309465000


Hungry for Energy, Amazon, Google and Microsoft Turn to Nuclear Power:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/16/business/energy-environment/amazon-google-microsoft-nuclear-energy.html


Google signs deal to use small modular nuclear reactors to power AI data
centers:
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4934027-google-signs-deal-to-use-small-modular-nuclear-reactors-to-power-ai-data-centers/


Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) Miner:
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/asic.asp

‘Dumb Money’ Is on GameStop, and It’s Beating Wall Street at Its Own
Game:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/27/business/gamestop-wall-street-bets.html


How does AWS lambda work behind the scenes?:
https://blog.bytebytego.com/p/how-does-aws-lambda-work-behind-the

What is MLOps?: https://aws.amazon.com/what-is/mlops/

How Much Longer Can Computing Power Drive Artificial Intelligence
Progress? CSET Issue Brief:
https://cset.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/AI-and-Compute-How-Much-Longer-Can-Computing-Power-Drive-Artificial-Intelligence-Progress.pdf


OpenAI searches for an answer to its copyright problems:
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/30/24230975/openai-publisher-deals-web-search



SONG INTRO/OUTRO:
No Problem by Chance the Rapper

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CONNECT
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|-Video Chapters-|
0:00 - Intro
1:05 - Getting into tech as a kid
3:02 - Video games
5:20 - Roblox servers
6:10 - ChatGPT powered apps
10:29 - AI near real time voice translation
11:45 - Adapting to an AI world
12:58 - Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
13:51 - AI energy consumption
17:05 - Purpose built chips
18:42 - Cryptocurrencies
24:13 - My ill fated GameStop bet
27:40 - Sam Houston State University
29:09 - Dr. Dirtbag
35:26 - Potentially teaching
41:55 - Issues with remote teaching
44:02 - Cloud services
51:56 - Opportunities in AI/ML
54:04 - Legal issues of data scraping
56:20 - AI Master's Degree
1:01:35 - Itaewon in Seoul, party city
1:03:35 - Double meaning of "Karaoke"
1:06:46 - Taz's favorite anime
1:09:14 - Taz's sword collection
1:10:10 - Conclusion

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