Podcast This Machine terbaik (2024)

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AI Agents for Data Analysis with Shreya Shankar - #703 48:24

15h ago48:24

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Today, we're joined by Shreya Shankar, a PhD student at UC Berkeley to discuss DocETL, a declarative system for building and optimizing LLM-powered data processing pipelines for large-scale and complex document analysis tasks. We explore how DocETL's optimizer architecture works, the intricacies of building agentic systems for data processing, the …

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Patreon Preview – 370. Paranoid Android 5:23

4d ago5:23

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We dive into a weird but revealing article about the phalanx of private security that Elon Musk has amassed around him, spending a small fortune on ex-operators who plan escape routes for his events, clear rooms before he enters, and assess (perceived) threats to his personal safety. His “mushrooming security apparatus” has caused a feedback loop o…

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369. The Third Most Amazing Race (ft. Gaby Del Valle) 1:11:52

6d ago1:11:52

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We are joined by Gaby Del Valle who has written a great—and distressingly relevant—essay for The Baffler, which reports on the “eugenic foundations of the war on woke.” We dig into the beliefs of innate biological hierarchy and genetic superiority that underpin so much of mainstream right-wing politics. Whether it’s the convergence of Christian nat…

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Stealing Part of a Production Language Model with Nicholas Carlini - #702 1:03:30

8d ago1:03:30

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Today, we're joined by Nicholas Carlini, research scientist at Google DeepMind to discuss adversarial machine learning and model security, focusing on his 2024 ICML best paper winner, “Stealing part of a production language model.” We dig into this work, which demonstrated the ability to successfully steal the last layer of production language mode…

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Patreon Preview – 368. Building the Most Lethal University 8:46

13d ago8:46

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Keeping with our recent theme of exploring the relations between the military and tech sector, we jump off a great essay in The Baffler to discuss a crucial part of this complex: university research. Universities – especially, academics in STEM faculties – must be understood as defense contractors who are partners with the military (and adjacent ag…

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367. A Brief History of Apocalypse 1:19:58

15d ago1:19:58

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To mark the occasion of his new best selling airport book, we take a deeper look at Yuval Noah Harari’s impoverished thought and intellectual style via a great review essay by Daniel Immerwahr. We see how Harari’s doomsday scenarios are based on an extreme form of technological determinism + a romanticized humanism-as-critique + a disinterest in ma…

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Supercharging Developer Productivity with ChatGPT and Claude with Simon Willison - #701 1:14:15

15d ago1:14:15

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Today, we're joined by Simon Willison, independent researcher and creator of Datasette to discuss the many ways software developers and engineers can take advantage of large language models (LLMs) to boost their productivity. We dig into Simon’s own workflows and how he uses popular models like ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude to write and test hundr…

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Preview – 366. American Dynamism: Or, Libertarian Fascism with Silicon Valley Characteristics 7:33

20d ago7:33

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We do a deep dive into Andreessen Horowitz’s American Dynamism Strategy and Little Tech Agenda, which together lay out a clear ideology of how tech startups are integral to the American empire. All this venture capital firm asks for is your belief in a16z as a conduit for the spirit of innovation, your trust in America as a vessel for the progressi…

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365. The Pentagon Primes in Silicon Valley (ft. Michael Richardson) 1:29:26

26d ago1:29:26

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We chat with friend of the show Michael Richardson—author of the new book Nonhuman Witnessing—about the ongoing, deepening relationships between Silicon Valley and the US military. We check up on new activities from old enemies—Y Combinator, Anduril, Palantir, among others—and get into the changing cultures on both sides as they converge around def…

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Automated Design of Agentic Systems with Shengran Hu - #700 59:30

28d ago59:30

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Today, we're joined by Shengran Hu, a PhD student at the University of British Columbia, to discuss Automated Design of Agentic Systems (ADAS), an approach focused on automatically creating agentic system designs. We explore the spectrum of agentic behaviors, the motivation for learning all aspects of agentic system design, the key components of th…

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Patreon Preview - 364. CopGPT 7:49

29d ago7:49

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We chat about a heinous crossover as Axon – major police tech firm, maker of tasers and body cameras – creates a new AI product with ChatGPT that automates police reports using audio recordings from body cameras. We get into this whole political economy of cop power and carceral tech. Then we talk about how all the economists are Big Mad because of…

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363. Go Directly to Jail. Do Not Pass Go. 1:25:16

1M ago1:25:16

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{Producer’s note: this episode has an electronic buzz in parts due to a dying microphone. I cleaned it up as much as possible, but it couldn’t be totally removed. So it goes!}We go deep on the recent federal antitrust case against Google, which ruled that the company is a monopoly (obviously). We get into the details of the case, before spinning of…

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The EU AI Act and Mitigating Bias in Automated Decisioning with Peter van der Putten - #699 45:34

1M ago45:34

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Today, we're joined by Peter van der Putten, director of the AI Lab at Pega and assistant professor of AI at Leiden University. We discuss the newly adopted European AI Act and the challenges of applying academic fairness metrics in real-world AI applications. We dig into the key ethical principles behind the Act, its broad definition of AI, and ho…

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Patreon Preview - 362. Alex Karp’s Freak Flag Flies 7:12

1M ago7:12

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We get into a new profile of Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, which is written by Maureen Dowd, one of the NYT’s most credulous opinion writers, and thus the perfect person to coax Karp into being as weird as he wants to be. This piece reveals a lot of core lore about Karp and shines light on a man who is riddled with contradictions and has turned that …

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Funny Business: Does humour sell in B2B marketing? 19:23

1M ago19:23

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Is B2B marketing missing a huge opportunity by not appealing to people’s sense of humor? 'Funny' could cut through, get you remembered, and greatly influence a buyer’s committee. Is there a risk? Should you trust your agency to know how to pitch the funny? Listen to find out more. In this episode of Quiet Part Loud, This Machine Content Director Ni…

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361. The Artists vs. the Machines (ft. Brian Merchant) 1:00:49

1M ago1:00:49

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We’re joined by Brian Merchant to chat about his reporting on the frontlines of labor exploitations in video games development and animation studios where companies are using AI to replace and degrade jobs, fracture and disempower the workforce, and push the quality of artistic works down even further. When executives explicitly say they are going …

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The Building Blocks of Agentic Systems with Harrison Chase - #698 59:17

1M ago59:17

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Today, we're joined by Harrison Chase, co-founder and CEO of LangChain to discuss LLM frameworks, agentic systems, RAG, evaluation, and more. We dig into the elements of a modern LLM framework, including the most productive developer experiences and appropriate levels of abstraction. We dive into agents and agentic systems as well, covering the “sp…

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Patreon Preview – 360. Bubbles and Black Markets 8:26

2M ago8:26

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We get into the collapse of investor confidence in the AI boom, then turn to the thriving black markets for smuggling vast quantities of AI microchips into China and the geopolitics of technological progress and economic sanctions as AI becomes a site of proxy wars by other means.••• Burst Damage https://www.wheresyoured.at/burst-damage/ ••• With S…

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Simplifying On-Device AI for Developers with Siddhika Nevrekar - #697 46:37

2M ago46:37

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Today, we're joined by Siddhika Nevrekar, AI Hub head at Qualcomm Technologies, to discuss on-device AI and how to make it easier for developers to take advantage of device capabilities. We unpack the motivations for AI engineers to move model inference from the cloud to local devices, and explore the challenges associated with on-device AI. We dig…

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359. We Are All Cyborgs (ft. Danya Glabau, Laura Forlano) 1:13:11

2M ago1:13:11

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We are joined by Danya Glabau and Laura Forlano, authors of Cyborg, a new book that explores how this archetype of sci-fi stories is also a critical theory for understanding the tangle of socio-technical relations that constitute our lives. The cyborg helps us think in terms of embodiment and environments, break down boundaries and barriers, and tr…

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Patreon Preview – 358. Se7en Voice What’s in the Benchmark? 8:52

2M ago8:52

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We first get an update on regulatory arbitrage in the weed vape industry, then discuss how the benchmarks used to rank AI models—and make claims about their "intelligence" relative to humans—are largely low quality, out-of-date, not fit for purpose, or just meaningless and deceptive. Yet they are widely treated by industry as authoritative standard…

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Genie: Generative Interactive Environments with Ashley Edwards - #696 46:51

2M ago46:51

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Today, we're joined by Ashley Edwards, a member of technical staff at Runway, to discuss Genie: Generative Interactive Environments, a system for creating ‘playable’ video environments for training deep reinforcement learning (RL) agents at scale in a completely unsupervised manner. We explore the motivations behind Genie, the challenges of data ac…

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357. CrowdStrike ClusterFuck 1:14:43

2M ago1:14:43

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We first talk about how all news stories, even the most world historic ones, feel ephemeral and disposable, and how this is the perverse effect of a (news/social/cultural) media ecosystem that is designed around logics of optimizing for content production and audience attention. Then we get into the CrowdStrike outage and how it reveals (and requir…

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Bridging the Sim2real Gap in Robotics with Marius Memmel - #695 57:21

2M ago57:21

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Today, we're joined by Marius Memmel, a PhD student at the University of Washington, to discuss his research on sim-to-real transfer approaches for developing autonomous robotic agents in unstructured environments. Our conversation focuses on his recent ASID and URDFormer papers. We explore the complexities presented by real-world settings like a c…

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Patreon Preview – 356. Car Dealerships Are an Affront to God 6:11

2M ago6:11

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We talk about that paragon of capitalism, car dealerships, and the deceptive, manipulative, extractive tactics they have perfected to make the experience as hellish as possible — particularly by turning the dealership’s finance and insurance department into an engine of 100 percent pure parasitic profit.••• Escape From the Box https://prospect.org/…

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Building Real-World LLM Products with Fine-Tuning and More with Hamel Husain - #694 1:20:05

2M ago1:20:05

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Today, we're joined by Hamel Husain, founder of Parlance Labs, to discuss the ins and outs of building real-world products using large language models (LLMs). We kick things off discussing novel applications of LLMs and how to think about modern AI user experiences. We then dig into the key challenge faced by LLM developers—how to iterate from a sn…

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355. The Rise of Shadow Finance 1:24:27

2M ago1:24:27

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We are a bit ahead with recording, but we had to talk about the Trump assassination attempt and JD Vance being tapped for vice president (for like the first 30 minutes). Then we get into a great essay on how private financial markets — or the shadow finance system that is unregulated, unaccountable, and undemocratic — have become the dominant form …

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Premium – 354. Capital Questions Gen AI 10:03

3M ago10:03

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We take a look at recent reports where venture capitalists like Sequoia and the investment banks like Goldman Sachs are starting to wonder out loud whether AI will ever be able to generate enough revenue and consumer demand to make the bubble feel solid. The returns on AI necessary for this massive infrastructure buildout to make sense are looking …

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Mamba, Mamba-2 and Post-Transformer Architectures for Generative AI with Albert Gu - #693 57:54

3M ago57:54

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Today, we're joined by Albert Gu, assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, to discuss his research on post-transformer architectures for multi-modal foundation models, with a focus on state-space models in general and Albert’s recent Mamba and Mamba-2 papers in particular. We dig into the efficiency of the attention mechanism and its limi…

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Vernon Wright - Ratcatcher 12:19

3M ago12:19

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Form #MP0871692090. === Credits === Produced by Halfwit Podcasts ( https://www.HalfwitPodcasts.com ). Written by Matt Spaziani ( https://vocal.media/authors/matt-spaziani ). Vernon Wright is voiced by Jonathan Swenson ( https://www.jgswenson.com ). Based on the journal role-playing game "The Machine" by Adira & Fen Slattery ( https://adira.itch.io/…

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353. Slaughterbots, Roll Out! 1:17:47

3M ago1:17:47

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We refocus on the war in Ukraine and the country’s pivot toward being the “Silicon Valley for autonomous drones and other weaponry.” Thanks to a combination of foreign investment, entrepreneurial governance, DIY scrappiness, and a ‘by any means necessary’ attitude, the future of cheap, lethal, autonomous warfare is being forged and tested in Ukrain…

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Decoding Animal Behavior to Train Robots with EgoPet with Amir Bar - #692 43:16

3M ago43:16

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Today, we're joined by Amir Bar, a PhD candidate at Tel Aviv University and UC Berkeley to discuss his research on visual-based learning, including his recent paper, “EgoPet: Egomotion and Interaction Data from an Animal’s Perspective.” Amir shares his research projects focused on self-supervised object detection and analogy reasoning for general c…

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Vernon Wright - December 3rd, 2008 (III) 10:36

3M ago10:36

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Its hold on me is finally dissipating, and my life will be mine again. Thank you. === Credits === Produced by Halfwit Podcasts ( https://www.HalfwitPodcasts.com ). Written by Matt Spaziani ( https://vocal.media/authors/matt-spaziani ). Vernon Wright is voiced by Jonathan Swenson ( https://www.jgswenson.com ). Based on the journal role-playing game …

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Patreon Preview – 352. Big Vape, Small Cigs 5:25

3M ago5:25

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We chat about an interesting case study in technology governance: the rise of vapes and the return of cigarettes. How do you create new markets for a product that is highly addictive but also extremely regulated (even banned)? The answer is to flaunt regulation, disrupt competitors, and create an image of coolness using social media influencers. Pl…

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351. How AI is Boiling the Oceans 1:14:48

3M ago1:14:48

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We get into how the massive global expansion of data centres — thanks largely to demand from training and operating AI — is putting major strain on energy systems and requiring the generation of more electricity. How’s all that new energy demand being met? Some renewables, a lot of fossil fuels, but also maybe futuristic magic technology? Big tech …

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How Microsoft Scales Testing and Safety for Generative AI with Sarah Bird - #691 57:12

3M ago57:12

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Today, we're joined by Sarah Bird, chief product officer of responsible AI at Microsoft. We discuss the testing and evaluation techniques Microsoft applies to ensure safe deployment and use of generative AI, large language models, and image generation. In our conversation, we explore the unique risks and challenges presented by generative AI, the b…

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Vernon Wright - November 29th, 2008 8:33

3M ago8:33

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Behold the empty husk I've made myself. I still can’t look my saviors in the eye. === Credits === Produced by Halfwit Podcasts ( https://www.HalfwitPodcasts.com ). Written by Matt Spaziani ( https://vocal.media/authors/matt-spaziani ). Vernon Wright is voiced by Jonathan Swenson ( https://www.jgswenson.com ). Based on the journal role-playing game …

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Premium – 350. Most Data Work is Bullshit 6:41

3M ago6:41

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We chat a bit about some upcoming international travel, then do a reading series by a data scientist who wrote a great blog post about how most of the work done by data scientists in large organizations feels totally worthless, pointless, unfulfilling, and unnecessary — in other words, the definition of bullshit. And yet data science is valorized a…

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Long Context Language Models and their Biological Applications with Eric Nguyen - #690 45:41

3M ago45:41

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Today, we're joined by Eric Nguyen, PhD student at Stanford University. In our conversation, we explore his research on long context foundation models and their application to biology particularly Hyena, and its evolution into Hyena DNA and Evo models. We discuss Hyena, a convolutional-based language model developed to tackle the challenges posed b…

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349. Death By A Thousand Prices (ft. David Dayen, Lindsay Owens) 1:22:06

3M ago1:22:06

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We are joined by David Dayen (editor, American Prospect) and Lindsay Owens (director, Groundwork Collaborative) to discuss the special issue of the American Prospect they put together on “how pricing really works.” We drill down into why pricing is the perfect window for seeing how power works in the economy. We explore the great many tactics and t…

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Vernon Wright - November ?, 2008 (II) 8:58

3M ago8:58

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Never knows best… === Credits === Produced by Halfwit Podcasts ( https://www.HalfwitPodcasts.com ). Written by Matt Spaziani ( https://vocal.media/authors/matt-spaziani ). Vernon Wright is voiced by Jonathan Swenson ( https://www.jgswenson.com ). Based on the journal role-playing game "The Machine" by Adira & Fen Slattery ( https://adira.itch.io/th…

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348. Lost Futures of AI (ft. Evgeny Morozov) 2:10:56

3M ago2:10:56

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We are joined once again by Evgeny Morozov to discuss his new podcast series, A Sense of Rebellion, which tells the story of a wild bunch of eccentric hippies who had grand ideas for how to design interactive technologies and intelligent environments and cybernetic systems that are radically different from today’s smart tech and AI. Morozov takes u…

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Accelerating Sustainability with AI with Andres Ravinet - #689 47:46

3M ago47:46

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Today, we're joined by Andres Ravinet, sustainability global black belt at Microsoft, to discuss the role of AI in sustainability. We explore real-world use cases where AI-driven solutions are leveraged to help tackle environmental and societal challenges, from early warning systems for extreme weather events to reducing food waste along the supply…

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Vernon Wright - November... 12th, 2008 8:56

4M ago8:56

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Will I ever be truly free from the mundane? === Credits === Produced by Halfwit Podcasts ( https://www.HalfwitPodcasts.com ). Written by Matt Spaziani ( https://vocal.media/authors/matt-spaziani ). Vernon Wright is voiced by Jonathan Swenson ( https://www.jgswenson.com ). Based on the journal role-playing game "The Machine" by Adira & Fen Slattery …

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Patreon Preview – 347. The Insulin Empire, Part 2 (ft. Athena Sofides) 8:52

4M ago8:52

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We keep rolling with our discussion about the Insulin Empire with Athena.••• The Insulin Empire https://thebaffler.com/after-the-fact/the-insulin-empire-ongweso-jr-sofides ••• Mutual Aid Diabetes https://mutualaiddiabetes.com/ ••• T1International https://www.t1international.com/ Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes…

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346. The Insulin Empire, Part 1 (ft. Athena Sofides) 1:14:40

4M ago1:14:40

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We are joined by Athena Sofides who co-wrote (with Ed) a brilliant essay in The Baffler, which provides an in-depth analysis of insulin, the social health factors of diabetes, and the global oligopoly of pharmaceutical corporations that exert total control over – and extract max profits from — this medicine that many millions of diabetics depend up…

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Gen AI at the Edge: Qualcomm AI Research at CVPR 2024 with Fatih Porikli - #688 1:10:41

4M ago1:10:41

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Today we’re joined by Fatih Porikli, senior director of technology at Qualcomm AI Research. In our conversation, we covered several of the Qualcomm team’s 16 accepted main track and workshop papers at this year’s CVPR conference. The papers span a variety of generative AI and traditional computer vision topics, with an emphasis on increased trainin…

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Vernon Wright - November 9th, 2008 8:40

4M ago8:40

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We are going back to the basics and it honestly feels right. === Credits === Produced by Halfwit Podcasts ( https://www.HalfwitPodcasts.com ). Written by Matt Spaziani ( https://vocal.media/authors/matt-spaziani ). Vernon Wright is voiced by Jonathan Swenson ( https://www.jgswenson.com ). Based on the journal role-playing game "The Machine" by Adir…

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Energy Star Ratings for AI Models with Sasha Luccioni - #687 48:26

4M ago48:26

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Today, we're joined by Sasha Luccioni, AI and Climate lead at Hugging Face, to discuss the environmental impact of AI models. We dig into her recent research into the relative energy consumption of general purpose pre-trained models vs. task-specific, non-generative models for common AI tasks. We discuss the implications of the significant differen…

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Patreon Preview – 345. Thuggish Ruggish Live Nation 8:00

4M ago8:00

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We do a reading series on a major anti-trust lawsuit brought by the Department of Justice against Live Nation / Ticketmaster and the absolutely wild tactics the company used to intimidate competitors, enforce market domination, and totally lockdown the live entertainment industry. Then we wrap up with the new licensing deals between OpenAI and The …

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