Month: July 2025

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Talk Python To Me - #512: Building a JIT Compiler for CPython

Do you like to dive into the details and intricacies of how Python executes and how we can optimize it? Well, do I have an episode for you. We welcome back Brandt Bucher to give us an update on the upcoming JIT compiler for Python and why it differs from JITs for languages such as C# and Java.

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BITCOIN SEASON 2: Bitcoin Was Always Political w/ Casey Rodarmor

Casey Rodarmor discusses Bitcoin politics, ordinals/runes development, stablecoins, and his wild new project adding Chinese numerology and divination features to Bitcoin ordinals protocol.


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Casey Rodarmor, creator of Bitcoin Ordinals and Runes protocols, joins us to talk about his frustration with Bitcoin politics, why he thinks Bitcoiners are becoming too cozy with politicians, the future of ordinals and runes adoption, his thoughts on stablecoins, and his fascinating new project to integrate Chinese numerology and divination systems into Bitcoin through SAT-based fortune telling.


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**NOTES:**

• Bitcoin currently trading at $110,000

• Runes has built-in 4-year hype cycle for names

• One-letter rune names unlock in final phase

• Casey blames lack of creativity for runes adoption

• Stablecoins expand dollar demand globally

• Chinese numerology integration planned for ordinals


Timestamps:

00:00 Start

00:55 Tired of Ordinals & Runes?

03:25 Bitcoin is feeling weird

06:41 Politicians

10:02 Arch Network

10:34 Bitcoin & politics

12:02 Stablecoins

14:02 Hell Money Podcast

15:20 Numerology

22:04 Vaporware?

23:35 Interesting stuff right now


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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Is the UK seeing a Christian revival?

Tim Harford looks at some of the numbers in the news and in life. This week:

Is church-going making a comeback in the UK?

Is it true that every day, 1000 people begin claiming personal independence payments, or PIP?

When the government talks about how it “returns” illegal immigrants, what does it mean?

Can a new telescope really see golf balls on the moon?

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More or Less is produced in partnership with the Open University.

Presenter: Tim Harford Producers: Lizzy McNeill, Nicholas Barrett, David Verry Series producer: Tom Colls Production co-ordinator: Brenda Brown Sound mix: Gareth Jones Editor: Richard Vadon

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NBN Book of the Day - Michael Cook, “A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity” (Princeton UP, 2024)

A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity (Princeton UP, 2024) by Michael A. Cook

This book describes and explains the major events, personalities, conflicts, and convergences that have shaped the history of the Muslim world. The body of the book takes readers from the origins of Islam to the eve of the nineteenth century, and an epilogue continues the story to the present day. Michael Cook thus provides a broad history of a civilization remarkable for both its unity and diversity.
After setting the scene in the Middle East of late antiquity, the book depicts the rise of Islam as one of the great black swan events of history. It continues with the spectacular rise of the Caliphate, an empire that by the time it broke up had nurtured the formation of a new civilization. It then goes on to cover the diverse histories of all the major regions of the Muslim world, providing a wide-ranging account of the key military, political, and cultural developments that accompanied the eastward and westward spread of Islam from the Middle East to the shores of the Atlantic and the Pacific.
At the same time, A History of the Muslim World contains numerous primary-source quotations that expose the reader to a variety of acutely insightful voices from the Muslim past.

Michael Cook is the Class of 1943 University Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. His books include Ancient Religions, Modern Politics: The Islamic Case in Comparative Perspective (Princeton), A Brief History of the Human Race, and The Koran: A Very Short Introduction.

Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature.

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The NewsWorthy - Megabill Moves Forward, ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ & Summer Wage Bumps – Wednesday, July 2, 2025

The news to know for Wednesday, July 2, 2025! 

We’ll tell you how the Senate secured exactly enough votes to pass as many of President Trump’s priorities as possible—all at once—and what still needs to happen before the mega-bill becomes law. 

Also, what to know about what’s being called “Alligator Alcatraz,” and the White House’s latest warning for undocumented immigrants. 

Plus: why federal education funding didn’t go out yesterday as it was supposed to, how one tech company is protecting its clients from AI bots, and what one of the biggest music groups in the world told fans this week. 

 

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What A Day - The Big Republican Spending Bill Debacle Disaster Adventure

The Senate passed President Donald Trump's spending bill on Tuesday after Vice President JD Vance arrived to break a 50-50 tie. The bill is now headed back to the House where Republican Speaker Mike Johnson can only afford to lose three members and still pass the bill by a party line vote. To learn more about what this means for Republicans' big beautiful bill and the looming July Fourth deadline, we spoke with Nicholas Wu, a congressional reporter for Politico.

And in headlines: President Trump tours "Alligator Alcatraz," Florida's new migrant detention center, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says Trump's tariff wars pretty much stopped it from cutting interest rates, and the Trump-Musk feud is reignited.

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The Best One Yet - 🤠 “Yeehaw$$$” — Stetson’s cowboy revival. Luckin’ 1st US coffee. Elon’s last stand.

Luckin Coffee’s 1st US location opened in NYC… and it’s got an anti-Starbucks strategy #ZeroPlace.

Elon Musk is fighting to block Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill… because clean energy gets runover.

Stetson invented the cowboy hat, now it’s living its best life… Being founded in 1865 is its competitive advantage.

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WSJ Tech News Briefing - How a Tiny Himalayan Country Became a Bitcoin Mining Paradise

Wounded by the pandemic, Bhutan turned to the unlikely industry of bitcoin mining to expand its economy. The WSJ’s Shan Li takes us through how the plan is working. Plus: Tech leaders want their AI chatbots to offer more personality in the race to encourage usage. WSJ columnist Tim Higgins discusses how Elon Musk is rethinking xAI chatbot Grok. Katie Deighton hosts.


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Short Wave - Is The Milky Way On A Collision Course?

The Andromeda galaxy lies just beyond (...OK, about 2.5 million light-years beyond) our galaxy, the Milky Way. For the past hundred years or so, scientists thought these galaxies existed in a long-term dance of doom — destined to crash into one another and combine into one big galactic soup. But today on the show, Regina and computational astrophysicist Arpit Arora explain why a recent paper out in the journal Nature Astronomy suggests this cosmic game of bumper cars may never come to a head at all.

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NPR's Book of the Day - In ‘Lessons in Chemistry’ a chemist is the star of… a cooking show?

Bonnie Garmus' novel Lessons in Chemistry got a lot of buzz when it was first released in 2022. Elizabeth Zott is a talented chemist but because it's the 1960s, she faces sexism in her quest to work as a scientist. So instead, she has a cooking show that is wildly popular. In this encore episode, Garmus told NPR's Scott Simon that the character of Elizabeth lived in her head for many years before she started writing this novel.

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