This would have made for an interesting article, but as a podcast transcript it's virtually unreadable. It also reads like they're talking to children. The Wikipedia article is much better, but too short:
For some reason that particular site sticks me into a CAPTCHA loop. (it does work after I open it incognito though, but I still get hit with a CAPTCHA the first time)
TLDR: Sharla Boehm helped invent packet switching, a.k.a. "hot potato routing", and wrote the first implementation which proved that it could work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharla_Boehm
I bet someone read the paper she co-authored and that might have had some influence on the code that they ended up writing. Her husband worked on ARPAnet, surely he would have mentioned that paper to someone!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharla_Boehm
It would be called "machine learning" because that's the buzzword du jour.
> She was teaching the network to learn how to respond to nodes dropping out.
That's just called "writing software" not "teaching the network."
> Machine learning was definitely nonexistent at that point.
Are you sure about that?
> And yet, if you look at this 1964 paper, it's kind of unquestionably what it is.
The document: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM3103.html
The claim: highly questionable.
The paper is interesting in it's own right, but, to hype it up in this way is gross.
Do we know which?