Radio War Nerd EP243 — Neural Networks, Directed Energy Weapons & the RWN Community

Guest: Nick Bedi Recorded: August 25, 2020 First: We discuss northeast Mozambique's insurgency and ISIS...then, Ames reads a letter from Belorussian author Vladimir Kozlov on his insider view of the anti-Lukashenko protests... At 27:27 - We go mondo war nerd with friend of the show Nick Bedi — DevOps engineer, ex-Raytheon security guard, and founder of the Radio War Nerd facebook community. Nick explains to two aging humanities majors what neural networks are and how they relate to AI and military use; and we get into laser weapons and the inverse square law that gets in the way of everything... Total time: 2:03:14 Direct link to this episode's mp3 here