e534 — Hiding in Plain Sight

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Published 24 November 2025

e534 with Michael, Andy and Michael – AI and ML training data, camouflage, ppen source Zork, Deadpool VR, NPH movies and a whole lot more.

Michael, Andy and Michael start things off with with an intriguing AI analysis of the heist from the Louvre. The Ars Technica article takes the examples of mathematical machine learning and human psychology to show how both were defeated what was considered to be ordinary versus suspicious. This is a terrific reminder on the importance of the training data sets used for AI models and how the “performance of normality became the perfect camouflage”. Michael R highlights the On Intelligence book, and Michael M brings up visual pattern recognition of the human form which ghillie suits help disguise.

Switching to a hackster.io article, the die is cast – or rather the die is 3d printed. Andy shares his thoughts on this bluetooth enabled die, and mentions how dice have featured prominently in the the podcast over the years. E132 from 2016 appears to be the earliest reference to dice in the show notes.

Next up is Microsoft’s announcement to open source the Zork family of text based adventure games from Infocom. Zork is another favorite of the podcast, and e78 from 2014 is the earliest reference! Then the team discusses the Deadpool VR game. The Kotaku article mentions that Neil Patrick Harris does the Deadpool voice acting in the game. This leads the cohosts down the rabbit hole of NPH acting with a number of movies and TV shows.

Oh, and the reason for the “I don’t want a McRib” part of the show title was because the Kotaku article kept serving up McDonalds McRib ads to Michael M, while Michael R with his PiHole does not get such ads.

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Selected Links

AI

Ars Technica article: How Louvre thieves exploited human psychology to avoid suspicion—and what it reveals about AI

Wikipedia article: On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines by Jeff Hawkins

IMDb: Now You See Me: Now You Don’t 2025 movie

Wikipedia article: Ghillie Suit

Bluetooth Dice

hackter.io article: Travis Bumgarner’s Dice of Sending Are Bluetooth-Connected Dice for Fairer Digital Roleplays

Games at Work e132: Wake Up! (For earliest description of dice)

Games and NPH

The Verge article: Microsoft makes Zork open-source

Games at Work e78: The Show is Already in Progress (for earliest reference to Zork)

Kotaku article: Deadpool VR Is A Game For Deadpool Fans And Nobody Else

marvel.Fandom.com : Wade Wilson (Earth-616)

IMDb: A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas

IMDb: Starship Troopers

IMDb: Doogie Howser, M.D.

IMDb: Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale

Web 11.0 mashup junkie, and co-founder / co-host of the GamesAtWork.biz podcast. My views are my own.

Michael Martine