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July 17, 2023

Lex Fridman Podcast - #390 – Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies

Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and author of Sapiens, Homo Deus, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, and Unstoppable Us. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/yuval-noah-harari-transcript

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OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(08:36) – Intelligence
(27:31) – Origin of humans
(37:53) – Suffering
(58:35) – Hitler
(1:17:07) – Benjamin Netanyahu
(1:35:30) – Peace in Ukraine
(1:52:20) – Conspiracy theories
(2:06:59) – AI safety
(2:21:16) – How to think
(2:31:00) – Advice for young people
(2:33:41) – Love
(2:43:50) – Mortality
(2:48:14) – Meaning of life

July 14, 2023

Big Technology Podcast - Zuck’s New Mojo, Elon’s New AI Company, Striking Actors’ AI Fears

Ranjan Roy of Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the week's tech news. We cover: 1) The revitalization of Zuck’s image 2) Twitter’s payments to creators 3) Whether Threads has staying power 4) Microsoft, Activision & the FTC’s failure to reign in Big Tech 5) Elon’s new AI company, xAI 6) OpenAI’s Code Interpreter plugin 7) SAG-AFTRA actors joining the writer’s strike, fearing AI's impact.

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July 14, 2023

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - Beyond Bots – Ilia Zintchenko, Ntropy

Today we are dropping another special episode of the Code Story podcast, as part of our series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financial services, brought to you by our friends at Ntropy. As a reminder, Ntropy is the most accurate financial data standardization and enrichment API. They can take in any data source, any geography, and understand / enrich a financial transition in milliseconds. Made for developers, for fast, easy implementation. Check out their product at Ntropy.com.

Guest: Ilia Zintchenko, CTO & Co-founder of Ntropy

Questions:

We talked with Nare about Ntropy and LLM's. But let's dig in more.... what is your LLM stack? How did you choose it, what were the considerations?
What are the system costs in doing this?
How do you optimize on reliability - what sort of lever are you pulling to ensure reliability?'
How are you thinking about predictive vs generative learning?
You guys have been using small and large LM's since the beginning - why is this significant?
What data sources have you been using, and are there some that are better than others?'
Have you had to scrub these data sources in any way to prep them for your LM?
What is the major benefit that Ntropy is providing by using LLM?
What would you go back and change if you could?

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Website: https://www.ntropy.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iliazintchenko/

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July 14, 2023

PHPUgly - 343: Mom Said I Can’t

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July 14, 2023

The Stack Overflow Podcast - How terrifying is giving a conference talk?

ICYMI, listen to our episode with Agile pioneer Jim Highsmith: The meeting that changed how we build software (Ep. 579).

Explore Connell’s website or his talks.

Connell will be speaking at DDD East Midlands again this year: October 7, 2023 (with apologies to our British listeners for the date format).

He’s also on GitHub, Twitter, and Stack Overflow (naturally).

Thanks to Connell for answering his own question: Why does this SelectMany perform several SQL queries instead of a single join?.

July 14, 2023

The Government Huddle with Brian Chidester - The One with the Federal Generative AI Strategists

Kathleen Featheringham, Vice President of Federal AI/Machine Learning, and Frank Reyes, Cloud Solutions Leader at Maximus joins the show to discuss the many ways that artificial intelligence can support IT modernization at an accelerated pace for government agencies. We also talk about the many government use cases for generative AI to drive efficiency, AI’s impact on the workforce, and how this technology can improve services, provide a better citizen experience, and increase cybersecurity postures in Federal agencies.

July 13, 2023

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S8 Bonus: Einat Sitbon, iFocus Health

Einat Sitbon has always been intrigued by nature, and all of its parts. She studied biology in school, all the way through getting her PhD in Computational Biology. This field also introduced her to computation in general, and programming. Outside of tech, she is married with 2 kids, and loves to hike. Her and her family share a love of fiction and fantasy books, and made mention her love of NK Jemision and JRR Tolkien.

Einat's and her sister are very close, and at one point, her sister mentioned that her son was ADHD. They found it difficult to understand how there wasn't a tool to help measure the concentration of a person with this diagnosis. They both started digging into how to solve this problem.

This is the creation story of iFocus Health.

Lex Fridman Podcast - #389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

Benjamin Netanyahu is the Prime Minister of Israel. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/benjamin-netanyahu-transcript

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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(08:22) – Hate
(14:02) – Judicial reform and protests
(22:38) – AI
(32:40) – Competition
(39:21) – Power and corruption
(46:32) – Peace
(1:01:05) – War in Ukraine
(1:05:01) – Abraham Accords
(1:09:02) – History
(1:13:48) – Survival

July 12, 2023

Big Technology Podcast - Is Threads The Next Twitter Or Clubhouse 2.0? — With Zach Coelius

Zach Coelius is the managing partner at Coelius Capital. He joins Big Technology Podcast for a conversation about Threads' real potential, asking whether it's a redux of Clubhouse — destined to fizzle — or a real threat to replace Twitter. In this conversation, we cover Threads' potential, Elon's effort at Twitter, and whether we can really make assessments from the outside. Stay tuned for the second half where we discuss the venture capital environment and how Coelius' investments are performing. We also look at the demise of MediaMath, a once-leading ad-tech company that just went bankrupt.

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July 12, 2023

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S8 Bonus: Sharekh Shaikh, CleverX

Sharekh Shaikh has an interesting background, having grown up (almost) on a farm in India, within a small town. He spent most of his time with animals and pets, more than people, and followed his father around as he travelled for work. He is big into motorbikes and reading philosophy, specifically stoics, and tends to read the older books over newer podcast or material. He's also trying to learn piano, but admits he's struggling in that arena.

When Sharekh was working for Gartner, he faced a problem around fraud, using online services for research. When he thought more about this, he decided he wanted to build a platform fueling market research... built on transparency and trust.

This is the creation story of CleverX.