Month: May 2024

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Consider This from NPR - Larry Demeritte will be the first Black trainer in the Kentucky Derby in decades

Larry Demeritte is the first Black trainer participating in the Kentucky Derby in 35 years. And while the betting-books have his colt West Saratoga running at long odds, Demeritte, who is battling chronic illness and cancer, is feeling confident.

For the 70-something veteran trainer, this is his first time at the Derby, but he is part of a rich history of Black horsemen who helped shape the Kentucky Derby into the iconic race it is today.

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Motley Fool Money - Customer is Key This Earnings Season

Whether it's smartphones or soy lattes, consumers are pickier right now. The companies that are keeping things convenient and creating value offerings are winning, the ones that aren’t are struggling.


(00:21) Ron Gross and Jason Moser discuss:

- Apple’s sluggish hardware sales and massive $110B buyback program, and Amazon’s killer cloud and ad segment growth.

- CVS’s Medicare struggles, Wayfair working out of declines, and Coke keeping things business-as-usual.

- The different fates in fast food for Starbucks, Domino’s, and McDonald’s.


(19:11) Ron and Jason break down two stocks on their radar: Wingstop and Crowdstrike.


Stocks discussed: AAPL, AMZN, CVS, W, KO, SBUX, DPZ, MCD, CRWD, WING


Host: Dylan Lewis

Guests: Jason Moser, Ron Gross

Engineers: Dan Boyd

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CrowdScience - Why am I bad at maths?

When CrowdScience listener Israel from Papua New Guinea received a bad grade on a maths test in third grade, he looked around the class and realised that almost all the other students had received a better result. Since then, he has always wondered: why are some people better at maths than others? And Israel isn’t the only one to think about this: our listeners from all over the world describe their relationships with numbers, which run the full gamut from love to hate. So are we all in control of our own mathematical fate, or are some people just naturally bad at it? Presenter Anand Jagatia hears about studies of identical and non-identical twins showing how genetics and environment interact to shape our mathematical abilities. Our numerical abilities are not set in stone. It’s always possible to improve, and getting rid of negative feelings and anxiety around maths could be the key, says psychologist Iro Xenidou-Dervou. Some countries seem to support children’s maths skills better than others. China and Finland both rank highly in international league tables; education experts in both countries discuss whether there are any keys to a successful mathematics education. And there is something underlying our ability to do maths in the first place: our number sense. We hear what happens when this number sense does not work as intended – and what can be done about it. Contributors: Professor Yulia Kovas – Goldsmiths University of London, UK Professor Pekka Räsänen – University of Turku, Finland Assistant Professor Zhenzhen Miao – Jiangxi Normal University, China Dr Iro Xenidou-Dervou – Loughborough University, UK Professor Brian Butterworth – University College London, UK Presented by Anand Jagatia Produced by Florian Bohr Editor: Cathy Edwards Production Co-ordinator: Liz Tuohy Studio Manager: Jackie Margerum

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Lost Debate - The Perils of the Trump Cases

Ravi welcomes Amy Davidson Sorkin from The New Yorker to the show to explore the legal challenges of the various cases against Donald Trump, including the immunity case before the Supreme Court, and the potential consequences of a conviction before the election. They then turn to Joseph Fischer v. United States and discuss how the Supreme Court might rule on whether prosecutors can use federal obstruction laws to charge individuals involved in the January 6 Capitol attack.


Tim Daly, founder of The Education Daly and CEO of EdNavigator, then joins Ravi to explain why experts considered Finland the exemplar of quality education for many years and what we can learn from its steep decline. Ravi and Tim talk about how Finland's education system impacted advocacy around No Child Left Behind and why it's important to develop a deeper understanding of what drives educational success.


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Big Technology Podcast - Emails From Elon, AI Revenue Questions, Chatbot Boyfriends

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) Ranjan's visit to India and his use of Perplexity to gain cultural understanding and context 2) AI news' reliability 3) How social media drives the college protest 4) The need to elevate the reasonable voice 5) Elon Musk email Alex with details about X's AI news play 6) Could X's AI news plan work? 7) X warming to news? 8) AI monetization challenges 9) Risking the trough of disillusionment in AI 10) Apple earnings and the iPhone sales decline 11) A weird choose your own adventure with Claude 12) WSJ reporter turns ChatGPT into her boyfriend 13) Can relationships with AI be meaninful?

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SCOTUScast - Bissonnette v. LePage Bakeries Park St., LLC – Post-Decision SCOTUScast

On April 12, 2024, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Bissonnette v. LePage Bakeries Park St., LLC. At issue was whether a transportation worker need not work in the transportation industry to be exempt from coverage under Section 1 of the Federal Arbitration Act.

Join us to hear Professor Samuel Estreicher break down the decision and discuss its potential ramifications.

Featuring:
Prof. Samuel Estreicher, Dwight D. Opperman Professor of Law and Director, Center for Labor, New York University School of Law
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CoinDesk Podcast Network - UNCHAINED: Why EigenLayer Gave Away More Tokens After Widespread Criticism of Its Stakedrop

Celestia’s co-founder and its COO talk about how their modular blockchain makes it easier for blockchains to scale. 


Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Fountain, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Pandora, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform.

Celestia, a data availability layer for blockchains, was launched last October to much fanfare. The platform takes a modular approach to blockchains, allowing developers to post data onto it without the need for smart contracts or execution. This makes it extremely useful for scaling roll-ups and other layer two technologies. 

Celestia co-founder Mustafa Al-Bassam and COO Nick White join Unchained to discuss what Celestia is and how it works, how data availability sampling allows for more scalability, how Celestia compares with other data availability layers, whether Celestia could become a data availability layer for Bitcoin, and comparisons between Celestia and Solana. 


Show Highlights:

  • Mustafa’s background and how his project called LazyLedger ended up becoming Celestia
  • Nick’s vision for modular blockchains
  • Why Mustafa believes in the “10,000 rollup” endgame
  • Why Mustafa thinks that gaming and NFT chains work better on a modular blockchain
  • What Celestia is and how it resembles the publication of an article in a newspaper
  • What data availability sampling (DAS) is and how it works to ensure that the data is available and accurate for validators
  • How DAS allows for more scalability
  • What types of applications can be built with this type of modular architecture
  • Mustafa’s explanation of the concept of Blob stream and blob space
  • How a rollup can be an independent or sovereign layer, not just a layer 2 to a layer 1
  • How Celestia competes with other DA layers, like the future EigenDA
  • The role of the TIA token in the Celestia ecosystem 
  • How Mufasa hacked the CIA when he was 16 years old and how he transitioned into crypto
  • Whether Celestia could become a DA layer for Bitcoin layer 2 rollups
  • Whether Solana could end up becoming an Ethereum layer 2 using Celestia for data availability 
  • The proposal to extend the functionality of Celestia without smart contracts in the base layer 


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Guests | 

Nick White, COO at Celestia Labs

Previous appearances on Unchained: Three Crypto Pioneers on Crypto’s Monolithic vs. Modular Debate

Mustafa Al-Bassam, cofounder and CEO at Celestia Labs

Links | 

Modular vs. Monolithic

Alchemy: Modular vs. Monolithic Blockchains

Visa: Monolithic vs. modular blockchain

Chris Burniske’s tMonolithic vs. modular blockchain | Visaweet on modular vs monolithic

“The horrific inefficiencies of monolithic blockchains” by polynya

Blockworks: A spicy salvo launched in the monolithic vs modular debate

Unchained: What Is the Blockchain Trilemma?

Celestia

Celestia’s explanation of modular blockchains

Data availability

Data availability sampling

An introduction to sovereign rollups

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A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs - An Alert: Someone Plagiarising Me

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The next proper episode will be up in a couple of days – I’m recording it tonight – but I just wanted to make a brief announcement. It has recently been brought to my attention that the French language podcast Un dernier disque avant la fin du monde has, for nearly two years, been making French-language versions of my podcast without giving me credit (the episodes before that don’t seem to be ripped off from me), and has been monetising them on Patreon – including making his own French-language versions of some of my Patreon bonuses. This is not a case of someone just taking inspiration from my work. It’s not someone doing episodes on the same songs and possibly leaning a little too heavily on me as a source. That kind of thing is forgivable. This is someone who has been doing word-for-word translations, without my permission, and without crediting me or even notifying me, and posting them as his own work. As far as my schoolboy French indicates he’s not even lightly paraphrasing. He clearly listens to my podcast, so I am going to give him until Monday to take all those episodes down and post an apology before I contact a lawyer. I’m posting this publicly so that anyone who has been listening to his show and wondering about the similarity, or listening in the belief I authorised his work, knows that this is the work of a plagiarist, not something I’ve endorsed in any way. And if anyone *wants* to do translated versions of my work, they can contact me and make proper arrangements. I put too much time and effort into my job to have someone pass my work off as theirs without a fight.