Category: 3-SometimeTechTalk

Elkhan Shabanov was born in the Soviet Union, and started out in the tech world. He eventually left tech to try some other types of businesses, but eventually returned. He has done a few early stage startups in the past, in particular in the 3d printing space before it was cool. Six years ago, he joined his current venture. Outside of tech, he enjoys traveling, and is in a competition with his daughter to see how many countries he can visit. When he reads, he prefers to go back to the books he has read and enjoyed before, and being in Texas, he is a big fan of grilling out on his big green egg.

As I mentioned, six years ago Elkhan joined a company that wanted to be more than a software development shop. He and the founder of the company wanted to build a company that did more than throw bodies at a problem - but actually because a long term partner to their clients.

This is the creation story of Digicode.

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• https://www.linkedin.com/in/elkhanshabanov/

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Josh Brown is the CEO of Ritholtz Wealth Management, a CNBC contributor, and author of "You Weren't Supposed to See That." Brown joins Big Technology to discuss the intersection of AI, big tech, and the current state of the economy. Tune in to hear how automation fears are driving a potentially fear-based investment bubble in tech giants and the concept of a "relentless bid" shaping today's stock market. We also cover the unexpected consequences of COVID-era stimulus, insights on major tech companies like Amazon, Apple, and NVIDIA, and how the financial industry is adapting to technological shifts. Hit play for a compelling blend of financial expertise and cultural commentary that illuminates the complex relationships between technology, economics, and society in our rapidly evolving world.

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James Lee, Chief Operating Officer for the Identity Theft Resource Center & George Freeman, a Senior Technical Leader for LexisNexis Risk Solutions join the show to uncover emerging threats in the digital identity space that are impacting government agencies and constituents. They also shed light on ways agencies can protect the digital equity of constituents and support their own organizational operations.

Ryan is a VP of Product focused on the Unity Engine and AI services. You can find him on LinkedIn and X.

Martin Best is a Principal Product Architect working on the Unity Engine. You can find him on LinkedIn.

To learn more about Unity 6, please visit their website. 

Show some love to this question and Stack Overflow user NPatch, who provided an accepted answer to the question: Why is my character floating in the air when death animation is played in Unity?

Vishal Agarwal was born in India, and did his schooling in Darjeeling. He noted that this city exports some of the best tea in the world! Prior to his current venture, he was the chief marketing officer for Choxi. Outside of tech, he is an avid tennis lover and follows cricket and basketball closely. Though, he admits, now that he has a 2.5 year old child, his time is mostly dedicated to him.

In attempting to solve the problem of "splitting the check", Vishal discovered that restaurants had a real problem with having multiple tablets for the many order and delivery services - like GrubHub, DoorDash, etc. When he saw this problem proliferate, he validated that people were willing to pay for a solution.

This is the creation story of Checkmate.

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• https://www.itsacheckmate.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishalagarwal82/

 

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Sift is an end-to-end observability stack for safety-critical hardware development. See what they’re up to on their blog.

We talked to SpaceX about their testing processes way back in 2021. 

Connect with Austin on LinkedIn. 

Stack Overflow user TheScholar earned a Great Question badge by wondering How to create a new deep copy (clone) of a List?, a question that’s helped more than 200,000 people.

Topics covered in this episode:

• Briefer: Dashboards and notebooks in a single place
• Introduction to programming with Python
• setup-uv
• HTML for people
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/405

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. Cory Weinberg from The Information joins us for the first half! We cover 1) OpenAI's financials leak 2) OpenAI plans to make most of its revenue via ChatGPT 3) OpenAI's staggering losses 4) Can OpenAI be a sustainable business? 5) Training costs vs. inference costs 6) You don't exclude training costs from profitability statements! 7) Tesla's Robotaxi event 8) Self-driving's importance 8) Ranjan gets the Snap spectacles 9) Shein's CEO oddities 10) Is Shein state run? 11) TikTok's impact on kids.

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