Podcasts about Betteridge

In this episode of BendBeat, Brian Ladd sits down with Stephanie Betteridge, Bend's Chief Innovation Officer and Assistant City Manager, to explore how innovation, data, and a people-first mindset are shaping the future of Bend. From AI and public dashboards to snowplow tech and roundabout art, Stephanie reveals the behind-the-scenes work that makes Bend not just function—but thrive. If you've ever wondered how local government can be both high-tech and human-centered, this is a must-listen.

Here at Autocrat, we quite often cover a lot of mythical beasts. Examples would include the Lernaean Hydra which Heracles and Iolaus dealt with, the sphinx tormenting Thebes, and the sea monster Cetus which Perseus rescued Andromeda from.However, how possible would some of these creatures really be? Take, for example, the griffin and the hippogriff. We know what species create these two, so could we see whether the number of chromosomes they have make them feasible?Well, on today's episode, we re-release episode 67 of Biopedia to answer this very question!Sources for this episode:Ewart, J. C. (1910), Are Mules Fertile? Nature 2143(85): 106.Geldenhuys, M. E. (1989), Die kariotipering van di lieu (Panthera leo). Journal of the South African Veterinary Association 60(1): 41-49.Johnson, F. (1976), Mythical Beasts Coloring Book. New York: Dover Publications, Inc.Mead, D., Ogden, R., Meredith, A., Peniche, G., Smith, M., Corton, C., Oliver, K., Skelton, J., Betteridge, E., Doulcan; J., Holmes, N., Wright, V., Loose, M., Quail, M. A., McCarthy, S. A., Howe, K.,Chow, W., Torrance, J., Collins, J., Challis, R., Durbin, R. and Blatter, M. (2021), The genome sequence of the European golden eagle, Aquila chrysaetos chrysaetos Linnaeus 1758 (version 1; peer review: 3 approved). Wellcome Open Research 6: 112.Rodriguez, M., Understanding Genetics, The Tech Interactive (2007), Chimeras, Mosaics, and Other Fun Stuff: Why can't mules breed? I understand that a horse and a donkey make a mule but why can't 2 mules have a baby mule? (online) (Accessed 29/07/2023).Rosen, B. (2009), Mythical Creatures Bible: The Definitive Guide to Legendary Beings. New York: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.Ryder, O. A. (1993), Przewalski`s Horse: Prospects for Reintroduction into the Wild. Conservation Biology 7(1): 13-15.Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Golden eagle (online) (Accessed 20/07/2023).

Writer and critic Spencer Kornhaber just published a similarly-titled piece in The Atlantic: “Is This the Worst-Ever Era of American Pop Culture?” According to Betteridge’s law of headlines, the answer to both versions of that question is just, plain, “No.” And maybe it is. Maybe even probably it is. But maybe it’s more complicated than that, too. This hour, we wonder just how bad things actually have gotten with our popular culture. GUESTS: Taneisha Duggan: Director of arts, culture, and entertainment for the city of Hartford Xandra Ellin: A producer at Pineapple Street Studios Spencer Kornhaber: A staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of On Divas: Persona, Pleasure, Power Bill Yousman: Professor of media studies at Sacred Heart University The Colin McEnroe Show is available as a podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, TuneIn, Listen Notes, or wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe and never miss an episode! Subscribe to The Noseletter, an email compendium of merriment, secrets, and ancient wisdom brought to you by The Colin McEnroe Show. Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Colin McEnroe and Dylan Reyes contributed to this show.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our next guest on this season of Proverbs with Daisy Maskell is a leading aesthetics doctor who has grown a loyal audience of over 100K followers on social media. Dr Johnny Betteridge started his career as an NHS doctor, with a background in emergency medicine, intensive care and anaesthetics. In 2022, he decided to shift his focus and opened JB Aesthetics, which has become a leading London clinic. On this weeks episode, Daisy and Dr Johnny talk about how the industry has changed ageing, the latest trends in aesthetics and the nightmare stories we should be aware of... Follow Daisy Maskell - ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/daisylmaskell/⁠⁠ Submit your existential questions - ⁠⁠proverbs@wizardtalent.co.uk⁠⁠ Thank you to our sponsors... Proverbs is brought to you by BetterHelp. Your well-being is worth it. Visit ⁠⁠⁠BetterHelp.com/PDM today⁠⁠⁠ to get 10% off your first month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Betteridge fell in love with radio as a kid listening to late night AM radio (hidden under the covers).  Music and guitars quickly joined his love of radio.  Join me as he brings us on his journey from under the covers to his current position as general manager of WTHU AM-1450 in Thurmont MD.

There was a mixup at the Troy factory! Now there's Ty in every box!CREDITS:Taylor Michaels as ChanceLyssa Jay as CharlieAthan as TroyNathan Lunsford as CANNONBALLDavid Ault as TyLINKS:STICKERS/MAGNETS: https://ko-fi.com/woebegonepod/shopTWITCH: http://twitch.tv/woebegonepodPATREON: http://patreon.com/woe_begoneALIZA SCHULTZ: https://shows.acast.com/the-diary-of-aliza-schultzTRANSCRIPTS: http://WOEBEGONEPOD.comTWITTER: @WOEBEGONEPODMUSIC: http://woebegonepod.bandcamp.comDISCORD: https://discord.gg/pn9kjTBYPD Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"The Log Driver's Waltz isn't a race; it's an invitation. An opportunity for anyone curious about bikepacking to show up, ride at their own pace, and share the experience. It brings people together—whether you're pushing yourself against the clock or taking time to enjoy the landscape and small communities along the way.”That's how Jen Adams and Eric Betteridge describe the Log Driver's Waltz—a stunning 800-kilometer bikepacking loop weaving through Ontario's Ottawa Valley and into Quebec. For them, it's all about community, shared experience, and adventure at your own pace.In this episode, Jen and Eric share how decades of adventure together—17-day canoe trips, countless rides through their home region, and racing the Tour Divide—led them to create this unique route. The Log Driver's Waltz isn't just about the terrain (though with 75% unpaved roads, forested trails, and rugged paths, it's no joke). It's about inviting riders to show up, ride how they want, and share the experience.We also dive into what it's like to ride as a couple, how they balance different rhythms on and off the bike, and why building an inclusive bikepacking community matters. Plus, Jen and Eric explain how the Log Driver's Waltz became part of the St. Lawrence Bikepacking Triple Crown and how they've intentionally created stepping stones—from accessible rallies to the full 800k loop—to help more people get into bikepacking.If you've ever been curious about lining up for a Grand Depart, wondered how to build confidence for your first bikepacking trip, or thought about what it takes to ride (and create) a route like this, this conversation is for you. In this episode, we talk about:The story behind the Log Driver's Waltz and its ties to Canadian cultureHow decades of adventure—from canoe trips to the Tour Divide—shaped Jen and Eric's approach to route buildingRiding as a couple: balancing different strengths, rhythms, and goals on the bikeThe creation of the St. Lawrence Bikepacking Triple Crown and fostering connections across the regionWhy community-building, safety, and accessibility are at the heart of the Log Driver's WaltzHow the route offers something for everyone—from those chasing FKTs to riders seeking a leisurely multi-day adventureTips for tackling the route, including bike setups, resupply points, and managing its surprisingly punchy climbsDetails & Links for the Log Driver's Waltz2025 Grand Depart: August 23rd,8 AM, Almonte Hills, Ontario, CanadaSpring Rally: For those who want to experience the route in more digestible chunksLog Driver's Waltz Official WebsiteLog Driver's Waltz Tips & Planning Facebook GroupFollow Jen & Eric's updates and rally details on social media @thelogdriverswaltzAs always, a huge thank you to Albion for supporting Detours this year. Follow along:Follow Detours on Instagram: @detourscyclingFollow Mel on Instagram: @melwwebbFollow Albion on Instagram: @albion.cycling Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Can we address the decarbonisation of homes by focusing on health? That's the mission that Jenny Danson has set for herself in establishing Healthy Homes Hub, and it's a question that manages to subvert Betteridge's Law of headlines, too.  Healthy Homes Hub is a network, built around an online platform, that's dedicated to transforming the way people experience social housing, and its environmental impact, by creating healthier housing environments. Comprising a series of eight dedicated hubs that cover everything from policy and finance, to retrofit and air quality, the platform enable easy access to important information, insights, and thought leadership.Jenny has over 25 years of experience in social housing, as a supplier and client-side, driving innovation, delivery and improving lives so she knows what she's talking about.The project was borne of a frustration with seeing time and effort wasted as people across the sector carry out the same kinds of work, repeatedly, starting from scratch when they could share resources and pool experience. In a sector where capacity is in short supply this time could be easily put to better use.We talk through the challenges faced by the sector and how a focus on people and health can be used to drive us towards delivering on decarbonisation targets, but train our attention on outcomes for the people living in the 'building assets' not just the performance of the fabric and technology that comprises their home.While it's explicitly aimed at the social housing sector, the platform offers a wealth of information resources and sharing of experience that could be useful far beyond the provision of social housing.Notes from the showThe Healthy Homes Hub websiteJenny on LinkedIn Healthy Homes Hub on LinkedInOperational excellence in social housing - a roundtable readout Those ventilation papers that Jeff mentionedVentilation and Indoor Air Quality in Part F 2006 Homes (BD 2702) by S. McKay, D. Ross, I. Mawditt, and S. Kirk (2010)Occupant Interactions and Effectiveness of Natural Ventilation Strategies in Contemporary New Housing in Scotland, UK by Tim Sharpe, Paul Farren, Stirling Howieson, Paul Tuohy, Jonathan McQuillan**SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**We don't actually earn anything from this, and it's quite a lot of work, so we have to promote the day jobs.Follow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page (we still don't have a proper website)Jeff, Alex, and Dan about websites, branding, and communications - zap@eiux.agency; Everything is User ExperienceSubscribe and advertise with Passive House Plus (UK edition here too)Check Lloyd's Substack: Carbon UpfrontJoin ACANJoin the AECB Join the IGBCCheck out Her Own Space, the renovation and retrofit platform for women**END OF SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**

Listen now on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube.—Kate stepped into a design strategist role at Constant Contact earlier this year, where she is focused on integrating GenAI capabilities into their email and digital marketing software to address long-standing user needs of small business owners. Previously, she spent five years honing her skills in mixed-methods research at Constant Contact as well as the Bentley University user experience center where she helped clients in different industries make their technology easier to use. Kate holds a Master's in Human Factors in Information Design from Bentley University and a Bachelor's from Colgate University. A self-described digital renaissance woman, she has worn many hats across her career, giving her a unique perspective on product development. She's passionate about reimagining the future of technology through a thoughtful blend of user insights and emerging innovations.In our conversation, we discuss:* The evolution from user research to strategy roles and how this transition enhances decision-making and business alignment.* Balancing user needs with business goals, emphasizing that they are not mutually exclusive but rather complementary.* Practical steps to integrate strategic thinking into research tasks and presentations, such as adding broader implications to findings.* Building relationships and co-creating roles to ensure alignment and foster collaboration across departments.* The role of intention setting in career transitions and how vision exercises can help clarify personal and professional goals.Check out the goal statement exercise here:Some takeaways:* Research findings need to connect to actionable opportunities. To make research impactful, include a “broader implications” slide in your presentations. This slide should tie research insights to organizational objectives and explore strategic opportunities. For instance, findings from usability tests can highlight broader trends or gaps in user behavior, fostering discussions on larger business implications.* Strategic roles require co-creation and proactive definition. Rather than relying solely on job descriptions, take an active role in shaping your position. Write down what you want to do, combining personal strengths with business needs. Discuss this vision with stakeholders to align expectations and gain buy-in for new responsibilities.* Building cross-departmental relationships is essential. Collaboration thrives on strong interpersonal connections. Initiate coffee chats or casual discussions with stakeholders from other teams. Leverage mutual connections to expand your network and gain insights into how different departments operate, facilitating smoother collaboration on strategic projects.* Career transitions benefit from goal-setting exercises. Set intentions by envisioning your future role in detail. Write a goal statement describing your ideal position, the work you'd like to do, and how you'll feel upon achieving it. Review this regularly to keep your actions aligned with your long-term aspirations.* Strategic thinking marries user and business needs. Adopt a holistic approach where user insights are not seen in isolation but as a means to drive business success. For example, service blueprints and customer journey maps should not only outline user pain points but also identify opportunities for growth, innovation, and profitability.Where to find Kate:* Website* LinkedIn* SubstackInterested in sponsoring the podcast?Interested in sponsoring or advertising on this podcast? I'm always looking to partner with brands and businesses that align with my audience. Reach out to me at nikki@userresearchacademy.com to learn more about sponsorship opportunities!The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views, positions, or policies of the host, the podcast, or any affiliated organizations or sponsors. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit userresearchacademy.substack.com/subscribe

Tony chats with Will Betteridge, CEO at Fair, a new auto warranty insurtech created to be fully modern. They're 100% API-based and they do everything from end-to-end to deliver a better customer experience and a better product. This is a fascinating look at an obscure side of our industry.Will Betteridge: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wbbetteridge/Video Version: https://youtu.be/Jv-fzuc7V4Y

In this inspiring episode of Unstress with Dr. Ron Ehrlich, I speak with Sam Betteridge, an educator and urban agriculture advocate, to celebrate Urban Agriculture Month. Together, we explore the transformative power of growing food in our cities and reconnecting with nature. Sam shares his journey from teaching in schools to managing education at Pocket City Farms, one of Sydney's leading urban farms. He discusses the challenges and rewards of turning underutilized urban spaces into thriving hubs of regenerative agriculture, community connection, and sustainability. We delve into the innovative practices of permaculture, the importance of diversity in gardens and ecosystems, and the role of wicking systems in conserving water while growing nutritious food. Whether you have a small backyard, a balcony, or just a windowsill, this episode is packed with actionable tips for bringing urban agriculture into your life. Tune in to learn how growing food can regenerate land, build community, and improve the health of both people and the planet. Visit sustain.org.au to learn more about Urban Agriculture Month, and explore the innovative solutions Sam mentions at WaterUps.com.au.   ----  Shownotes are available at Sam Betteridge: Urban Agriculture Month ----    Join the Unstress Health Community & Transform Your Life! https://bit.ly/3SRq0gg    Connect with Dr Ron at Unstress Health  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unstresshealth/  Facebook: https://fb.me/unstresshealth  Email: admin@unstresshealth.com     DISCLAIMER: This podcast provides general information and discussion about medicine, health and related subjects. This content is not intended and should not be construed as medical advice or as a substitute for care by a qualified medical practitioner. If you or any other person has a medical concern, he or she should consult with an appropriately qualified medical practitioner. Guests who speak in this podcast express their own opinions, experiences and conclusions  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The season's started, the transfer window's closed, and your favorite Fiorentina podcast idiots have a lot to say. McMike and Producer Mike try to figure out if Fiorentina is lost in the woods. Are they actually lost? Are they even in the woods? Is Tito out wandering through the forest trying to find them? Are we getting into Betteridge's Law territory? The Mikes start the conversation with a dive into the flurry of activity that closed out the mercato. It's way too early to judge these moves and you'd better believe that won't stop us from running through all of Daniele Pradè's last minute machinations and handing out some grades. Then it's a look at Fiorentina's Conference League draw and the rocky road to get there, Along the way, you get a glimpse of one of McMike's oldest friends, Producer Mike learning live on air just how many central defenders are suspended for the first Conference League game, and just how dead inside your podcasters here are feeling. Thanks to the Sport Social Network for hosting us and to Windchime Weather for the music. Feel free to reach out to us on the website or on Twitter. We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed making it. Forza Viola! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Betteridge's law says no: with seemingly infinite flavors of RAG, and >2million token context + prompt caching from Anthropic/Deepmind/Deepseek, it's reasonable to believe that "in context learning is all you need".But then there's Cosine Genie, the first to make a huge bet using OpenAI's new GPT4o fine-tuning for code at the largest scale it has ever been used externally; resulting in what is now the #1 coding agent in the world according to SWE-Bench Full, Lite, and Verified:SWE-Bench has been the most successful agent benchmark of the year, receiving honors at ICLR (our interview here) and recently being verified by OpenAI. Cognition (Devin) was valued at $2b after reaching 14% on it. So it is very, very big news when a new agent appears to beat all other solutions, by a lot:While this number is self reported, it seems to be corroborated by OpenAI, who also award it clear highest marks on SWE-Bench verified:The secret is GPT-4o finetuning on billions of tokens of synthetic data. * Finetuning: As OpenAI says:Genie is powered by a fine-tuned GPT-4o model trained on examples of real software engineers at work, enabling the model to learn to respond in a specific way. The model was also trained to be able to output in specific formats, such as patches that could be committed easily to codebases. Due to the scale of Cosine's finetuning, OpenAI worked closely with them to figure out the size of the LoRA:“They have to decide how big your LoRA adapter is going to be… because if you had a really sparse, large adapter, you're not going to get any signal in that at all. So they have to dynamically size these things.”* Synthetic data: we need to finetune on the process of making code work instead of only training on working code.“…we synthetically generated runtime errors. Where we would intentionally mess with the AST to make stuff not work, or index out of bounds, or refer to a variable that doesn't exist, or errors that the foundational models just make sometimes that you can't really avoid, you can't expect it to be perfect.”Genie also has a 4 stage workflow with the standard LLM OS tooling stack that lets it solve problems iteratively:Full Video Podlike and subscribe etc!Show Notes* Alistair Pullen - Twitter, Linkedin* Cosine Genie launch, technical report* OpenAI GPT-4o finetuning GA* Llama 3 backtranslation* Cursor episode and Aman + SWEBench at ICLR episodeTimestamps* [00:00:00] Suno Intro* [00:05:01] Alistair and Cosine intro* [00:16:34] GPT4o finetuning* [00:20:18] Genie Data Mix* [00:23:09] Customizing for Customers* [00:25:37] Genie Workflow* [00:27:41] Code Retrieval* [00:35:20] Planning* [00:42:29] Language Mix* [00:43:46] Running Code* [00:46:19] Finetuning with OpenAI* [00:49:32] Synthetic Code Data* [00:51:54] SynData in Llama 3* [00:52:33] SWE-Bench Submission Process* [00:58:20] Future Plans* [00:59:36] Ecosystem Trends* [01:00:55] Founder Lessons* [01:01:58] CTA: Hiring & CustomersDescript Transcript[00:01:52] AI Charlie: Welcome back. This is Charlie, your AI cohost. As AI engineers, we have a special focus on coding agents, fine tuning, and synthetic data. And this week, it all comes together with the launch of Cosign's Genie, which reached 50 percent on SWE Bench Lite, 30 percent on the full SWE Bench, and 44 percent on OpenAI's new SWE Bench Verified.[00:02:17] All state of the art results by the widest ever margin recorded compared to former leaders Amazon Q and US Autocode Rover. And Factory Code Droid. As a reminder, Cognition Devon went viral with a 14 percent score just five months ago. Cosign did this by working closely with OpenAI to fine tune GPT 4. 0, now generally available to you and me, on billions of tokens of code, much of which was synthetically generated.[00:02:47] Alistair Pullen: Hi, I'm Ali. Co founder and CEO of Cosign, a human reasoning lab. And I'd like to show you Genie, our state of the art, fully autonomous software engineering colleague. Genie has the highest score on SWBench in the world. And the way we achieved this was by taking a completely different approach. We believe that if you want a model to behave like a software engineer, it has to be shown how a human software engineer works.[00:03:15] We've designed new techniques to derive human reasoning from real examples of software engineers doing their jobs. Our data represents perfect information lineage, incremental knowledge discovery, and step by step decision making. Representing everything a human engineer does logically. By actually training Genie on this unique dataset, rather than simply prompting base models, which is what everyone else is doing, we've seen that we're no longer simply generating random code until some works.[00:03:46] It's tackling problems like[00:03:48] AI Charlie: a human. Alistair Pullen is CEO and co founder of Kozen, and we managed to snag him on a brief trip stateside for a special conversation on building the world's current number one coding agent. Watch out and take care.[00:04:07] Alessio: Hey everyone, welcome to the Latent Space Podcast. This is Alessio, partner and CTO of Resonance at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co host Swyx, founder of Small. ai.[00:04:16] swyx: Hey, and today we're back in the studio. In person, after about three to four months in visa jail and travels and all other fun stuff that we talked about in the previous episode.[00:04:27] But today we have a special guest, Ali Pullen from Cosign. Welcome. Hi, thanks for having me. We're very lucky to have you because you're on a two day trip to San Francisco. Yeah, I wouldn't recommend it. I would not[00:04:38] Alistair Pullen: recommend it. Don't fly from London to San Francisco for two days.[00:04:40] swyx: And you launched Genie on a plane.[00:04:42] On plain Wi Fi, um, claiming state of the art in SuiteBench, which we're all going to talk about. I'm excited to dive into your whole journey, because it has been a journey. I've been lucky to be a small angel in part of that journey. And it's exciting to see that you're launching to such acclaim and, you know, such results.[00:05:01] Alistair and Cosine intro[00:05:01] swyx: Um, so I'll go over your brief background, and then you can sort of fill in the blanks on what else people should know about you. You did your bachelor's in computer science at Exeter.[00:05:10] Speaker 6: Yep.[00:05:10] swyx: And then you worked at a startup that got acquired into GoPuff and round about 2022, you started working on a stealth startup that became a YC startup.[00:05:19] What's that? Yeah. So[00:05:21] Alistair Pullen: basically when I left university, I, I met my now co founder, Sam. At the time we were both mobile devs. He was an Android developer. iOS developer. And whilst at university, we built this sort of small consultancy, sort of, we'd um, be approached to build projects for people and we would just take them up and start with, they were student projects.[00:05:41] They weren't, they weren't anything crazy or anything big. We started with those and over time we started doing larger and larger projects, more interesting things. And then actually, when we left university, we just kept doing that. We didn't really get jobs, traditional jobs. It was also like in the middle of COVID, middle of lockdown.[00:05:57] So we were like, this is a pretty good gig. We'll just keep like writing code in our bedrooms. And yeah, that's it. We did that for a while. And then a friend of ours that we went to Exeter with started a YC startup during COVID. And it was one of these fast grocery delivery companies. At the time I was living in the deepest, darkest countryside in England, where fast grocery companies are still not a thing.[00:06:20] So he, he sort of pitched me this idea and was like, listen, like I need an iOS dev, do you fancy coming along? And I thought, absolutely. It was a chance to get out of my parents house, chance to move to London, you know, do interesting things. And at the time, truthfully, I had no idea what YC was. I had no idea.[00:06:34] I wasn't in the startup space. I knew I liked coding and building apps and stuff, but I'd never, never really done anything in that area. So I said, yes, absolutely. I moved to London just sort of as COVID was ending and yeah, worked at what was fancy for about a year and a half. Then we brought Sam along as well.[00:06:52] So we, Sam and I, were the two engineers at Fancy for basically its entire life, and we built literally everything. So like the, the front, the client mobile apps, the, the backends, the internal like stock management system, the driver routing, algorithms, all those things. Literally like everything. It was my first.[00:07:12] You know, both of us were super inexperienced. We didn't have, like, proper engineering experience. There were definitely decisions we'd do differently now. We'd definitely buy a lot of stuff off the shelf, stuff like that. But it was the initial dip of the toe into, like, the world of startups, and we were both, like, hooked immediately.[00:07:26] We were like, this is so cool. This sounds so much better than all our friends who were, like, consultants and doing, like, normal jobs, right? We did that, and it ran its course, and after, I want to say, 18 months or so, GoPuff came and acquired us. And there was obviously a transitionary period, an integration period, like with all acquisitions, and we did that, and as soon as we'd vested what we wanted to vest, and as soon as we thought, okay, this chapter is sort of done, uh, in about 2022, We left and we knew that we wanted to go alone and try something like we'd had this taste.[00:07:54] Now we knew we'd seen how a like a YC startup was managed like up close and we knew that we wanted to do something similar ourselves. We had no idea what it was at the time. We just knew we wanted to do something. So we, we tried a small, um, some small projects in various different areas, but then GPT 3.[00:08:12] He'd seen it on Reddit and I'm his source of all knowledge. Yeah, Sam loves Reddit. I'd actually heard of GPT 2. And obviously had like loosely followed what OpenAI had done with, what was the game they trained a model to play? Dota. Was it Dota? Yeah. So I'd followed that and, I knew loosely what GPT 2 was, I knew what BERT was, so I was like, Okay, this GPT 3 thing sounds interesting.[00:08:35] And he just mentioned it to me on a walk. And I then went home and, like, googled GPT was the playground. And the model was DaVinci 2 at the time. And it was just the old school playground, completions, nothing crazy, no chat, no nothing. I miss completions though. Yeah. Oh, completion. Honestly, I had this conversation in open hours office yesterday.[00:08:54] I was like, I just went. I know. But yeah, so we, we, um, I started playing around with the, the playground and the first thing I ever wrote into it was like, hello world, and it gave me some sort of like, fairly generic response back. I was like, okay, that looks pretty cool. The next thing was. I looked through the docs, um, also they had a lot of example prompts because I had no idea.[00:09:14] I didn't know if the, if you could put anything in, I didn't know if you had to structure in a certain way or whatever, and I, and I saw that it could start writing like tables and JSON and stuff like that. So I was like, okay, can you write me something in JSON? And it did. And I was like, Oh, wow, this is, this is pretty cool.[00:09:28] Um, can it, can it just write arbitrary JSON for me? And, um, immediately as soon as I realized that my mind was racing and I like got Sam in and we just started messing around in the playground, like fairly innocently to start with. And then, of course, both being mobile devs and also seeing, at that point, we learned about what the Codex model was.[00:09:48] It was like, this thing's trained to write code, sounds awesome. And Copilot was start, I think, I can't actually remember if Copilot had come out yet, it might have done. It's round about the same time as Codex. Round about the same time, yeah. And we were like, okay, as mobile devs, let's see what we can do.[00:10:02] So the initial thing was like, okay, let's see if we can get this AI to build us a mobile app from scratch. We eventually built the world's most flimsy system, which was back in the day with like 4, 000 token context windows, like chaining prompts, trying to keep as much context from one to the other, all these different things, where basically, Essentially, you'd put an app idea in a box, and then we'd do, like, very high level stuff, figuring out what the stack should be, figuring out what the frontend should be written in, backend should be written in, all these different things, and then we'd go through, like, for each thing, more and more levels of detail, until the point that you're You actually got Codex to write the code for each thing.[00:10:41] And we didn't do any templating or anything. We were like, no, we're going to write all the code from scratch every time, which is basically why it barely worked. But there were like occasions where you could put in something and it would build something that did actually run. The backend would run, the database would work.[00:10:54] And we were like, Oh my God, this is insane. This is so cool. And that's what we showed to our co founder Yang. I met my co founder Yang through, through fancy because his wife was their first employee. And, um, we showed him and he was like, You've discovered fire. What is this? This is insane. He has a lot more startup experience.[00:11:12] Historically, he's had a few exits in the past and has been through all different industries. He's like our dad. He's a bit older. He hates me saying that. He's your COO now? He's our COO. Yeah. And, uh, we showed him and he was like, this is absolutely amazing. Let's just do something. Cause he, he, at the time, um, was just about to have a child, so he didn't have anything going on either.[00:11:29] So we, we applied to YC, got an interview. The interview was. As most YC interviews are short, curt, and pretty brutal. They told us they hated the idea. They didn't think it would work. And that's when we started brainstorming. It was almost like the interview was like an office hours kind of thing. And we were like, okay, given what you know about the space now and how to build things with these LLMs, like what can you bring out of what you've learned in building that thing into Something that might be a bit more useful to people on the daily, and also YC obviously likes B2B startups a little bit more, at least at the time they did, back then.[00:12:01] So we were like, okay, maybe we could build something that helps you with existing codebases, like can sort of automate development stuff with existing codebases, not knowing at all what that would look like, or how you would build it, or any of these things. And They were like, yeah, that sounds interesting.[00:12:15] You should probably go ahead and do that. You're in, you've got two weeks to build us an MVP. And we were like, okay, okay. We did our best. The MVP was absolutely horrendous. It was a CLI tool. It sucked. And, um, at the time we were like, we, we don't even know. How to build what we want to build. And we didn't really know what we wanted to build, to be honest.[00:12:33] Like, we knew we wanted to try to help automate dev work, but back then we just didn't know enough about how LLM apps were built, the intricacies and all those things. And also, like, the LLMs themselves, like 4, 000 tokens, you're not going very far, they're extremely expensive. So we ended up building a, uh, a code based retrieval tool, originally.[00:12:51] Our thought process originally was, we want to build something that can do our jobs for us. That is like the gold star, we know that. We've seen like there are glimpses of it happening with our initial demo that we did. But we don't see the path of how to do that at the moment. Like the tech just wasn't there.[00:13:05] So we were like, well, there are going to be some things that you need to build this when the tech does catch up. So retrieval being one of the most important things, like the model is going to have to build like pull code out of a code base somehow. So we were like, well, let's just build the tooling around it.[00:13:17] And eventually when the tech comes, then we'll be able to just like plug it into our, our tooling and then it should work basically. And to be fair, that's basically what we've done. And that's basically what's happened, which is very fortunate. But in the meantime, whilst we were waiting for everything to sort of become available, we built this code base retrieval tool.[00:13:34] That was the first thing we ever launched when we were in YC like that, and it didn't work. It was really frustrating for us because it was just me and Sam like working like all hours trying to get this thing to work. It was quite a big task in of itself, trying to get like a good semantic search engine working that could run locally on your machine.[00:13:51] We were trying to avoid sending code to the cloud as much as possible. And then for very large codebases, you're like, you know, millions of lines of code. You're trying to do some sort of like local HNSW thing that runs inside your VS Code instance that like eats all your RAM as you've seen in the past.[00:14:05] All those different things. Yep. Yeah.[00:14:07] swyx: My first call with[00:14:07] Alistair Pullen: you, I had trouble. You were like, yeah, it sucks, man. I know, I know. I know it sucks. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. But building all that stuff was essentially the first six to eight months of what at the time was built. Which, by the way, build it. Build it. Yeah, it was a terrible, terrible name.[00:14:25] It was the worst,[00:14:27] swyx: like, part of trying to think about whether I would invest is whether or not people could pronounce it.[00:14:32] Alistair Pullen: No, when we, so when we went on our first ever YC, like, retreat, No one got the name right. They were like, build, build, well, um, and then we actually changed the names, cosign, like, although some people would spell it as in like, as if you're cosigning for an apartment or something like that's like, can't win.[00:14:49] Yeah. That was what built was back then. But the ambition, and I did a talk on this back in the end of 2022, the ambition to like build something that essentially automated our jobs was still very much like core to what we were doing. But for a very long time, it was just never apparent to us. Like. How would you go about doing these things?[00:15:06] Even when, like, you had 3. suddenly felt huge, because you've gone from 4 to 16, but even then 16k is like, a lot of Python files are longer than 16k. So you can't, you know, before you even start doing a completion, even then we were like, eh, Yeah, it looks like we're still waiting. And then, like, towards the end of last year, you then start, you see 32k.[00:15:28] 32k was really smart. It was really expensive, but also, like, you could fit a decent amount of stuff in it. 32k felt enormous. And then, finally, 128k came along, and we were like, right, this is, like, this is what we can actually deal with. Because, fundamentally, to build a product like this, you need to get as much information in front of the model as possible, and make sure that everything it ever writes in output can be read.[00:15:49] traced back to something in the context window, so it's not hallucinating it. As soon as that model existed, I was like, okay, I know that this is now going to be feasible in some way. We'd done early sort of dev work on Genie using 3. 5 16k. And that was a very, very like crude way of proving that this loop that we were after and the way we were generating the data actually had signal and worked and could do something.[00:16:16] But the model itself was not useful because you couldn't ever fit enough information into it for it to be able to do the task competently and also the base intelligence of the model. I mean, 3. 5, anyone who's used 3. 5 knows the base intelligence of the model is. is lacking, especially when you're asking it to like do software engineering, this is quite quite involved.[00:16:34] GPT4o finetuning[00:16:34] Alistair Pullen: So, we saw the 128k context model and um, at that point we'd been in touch with OpenAI about our ambitions and like how we wanted to build it. We essentially are, I just took a punt, I was like, I'm just going to ask to see, can we like train this thing? Because at the time Fortobo had just come out and back then there was still a decent amount of lag time between like OpenAI releasing a model and then allowing you to fine tune it in some way.[00:16:59] They've gotten much better about that recently, like 4. 0 fine tuning came out either, I think, a day, 4. 0 mini fine tuning came out like a day after the model did. And I know that's something they're definitely like, optimising for super heavily inside, which is great to see.[00:17:11] swyx: Which is a little bit, you know, for a year or so, YC companies had like a direct Slack channel to open AI.[00:17:17] We still do. Yeah. Yeah. So, it's a little bit of a diminishing of the YC advantage there. Yeah. If they're releasing this fine tuning[00:17:23] Alistair Pullen: ability like a day after. Yeah, no, no, absolutely. But like. You can't build a startup otherwise. The advantage is obviously nice and it makes you feel fuzzy inside. But like, at the end of the day, it's not that that's going to make you win.[00:17:34] But yeah, no, so like we'd spoken to Shamul there, Devrel guy, I'm sure you know him. I think he's head of solutions or something. In their applied team, yeah, we'd been talking to him from the very beginning when we got into YC, and he's been absolutely fantastic throughout. I basically had pitched him this idea back when we were doing it on 3.[00:17:53] 5, 16k, and I was like, this is my, this is my crazy thesis. I want to see if this can work. And as soon as like that 128k model came out, I started like laying the groundwork. I was like, I know this definitely isn't possible because he released it like yesterday, but know that I want it. And in the interim, like, GPT 4, like, 8K fine tuning came out.[00:18:11] We tried that, it's obviously even fewer tokens, but the intelligence helped. And I was like, if we can marry the intelligence and the context window length, then we're going to have something special. And eventually, we were able to get on the Experimental Access Program, and we got access to 4Turbo fine tuning.[00:18:25] As soon as we did that, because in the entire run up to that we built the data pipeline, we already had all that set up, so we were like, right, we have the data, now we have the model, let's put it through and iterate, essentially, and that's, that's where, like, Genie as we know it today, really was born. I won't pretend like the first version of Gene that we trained was good.[00:18:45] It was a disaster. That's where you realize all the implicit biases in your data set. And you realize that, oh, actually this decision you made that was fairly arbitrary was the wrong one. You have to do it a different way. Other subtle things like, you know, how you write Git diffs in using LLMs and how you can best optimize that to make sure they actually apply and work and loads of different little edge cases.[00:19:03] But as soon as we had access to the underlying tool, we were like, we can actually do this. And I was I breathed a sigh of relief because I didn't know it was like, it wasn't a done deal, but I knew that we could build something useful. I mean, I knew that we could build something that would be measurably good on whatever eval at the time that you wanted to use.[00:19:23] Like at the time, back then, we weren't actually that familiar with Swift. But once Devin came out and they announced the SBBench core, I like, that's when my life took a turn. Challenge accepted. Yeah, challenge accepted. And that's where like, yes, that's where my friendships have gone. My sleep has gone. My weight.[00:19:40] Everything got into SweeBench and yeah, we, we, it was actually a very useful tool in building GeniX beforehand. It was like, yes, vibe check this thing and see if it's useful. And then all of a sudden you have a, an actual measure to, to see like, couldn't it do software engineering? Not, not the best measure, obviously, but like it's a, it's the best that we've got now.[00:19:57] We, we just iterated and built and eventually we got it to the point where it is now. And a little bit beyond since we actually Like, we actually got that score a couple of weeks ago, and yeah, it's been a hell of a journey from the beginning all the way now. That was a very rambling answer to your question about how we got here, but that's essentially the potted answer of how we got here.[00:20:16] Got the full[00:20:16] swyx: origin story[00:20:17] Alessio: out. Yeah, no, totally.[00:20:18] Genie Data Mix[00:20:18] Alessio: You mentioned bias in the data and some of these things. In your announcement video, you called Genie the worst verse AI software engineering colleague. And you kind of highlighted how the data needed to train it needs to show how a human engineer works. I think maybe you're contrasting that to just putting code in it.[00:20:37] There's kind of like a lot more than code that goes into software engineering. How do you think about the data mixture, you know, and like, uh, there's this kind of known truth that code makes models better when you put in the pre training data, but since we put so much in the pre training data, what else do you add when you turn to Genium?[00:20:54] Alistair Pullen: Yeah, I think, well, I think that sort of boils down fundamentally to the difference between a model writing code and a model doing software engineering, because the software engineering sort of discipline goes wider, because if you look at something like a PR, that is obviously a Artifact of some thought and some work that has happened and has eventually been squashed into, you know, some diffs, right?[00:21:17] What the, very crudely, what the pre trained models are reading is they're reading those final diffs and they're emulating that and they're being able to output it, right? But of course, it's a super lossy thing, a PR. You have no idea why or how, for the most part, unless there are some comments, which, you know, anyone who's worked in a company realizes PR reviews can be a bit dodgy at times, but you see that you lose so much information at the end, and that's perfectly fine, because PRs aren't designed to be something that perfectly preserves everything that happened, but What we realized was if you want something that's a software engineer, and very crudely, we started with like something that can do PRs for you, essentially, you need to be able to figure out why those things happened.[00:21:58] Otherwise, you're just going to rely, you essentially just have a code writing model, you have something that's good at human eval, but But, but not very good at Sweet Eng. Essentially that realization was, was part of the, the kernel of the idea of of, of the approach that we took to design the agent. That, that is genie the way that we decided we want to try to extract what happened in the past, like as forensically as possible, has been and is currently like one of the, the main things that we focus all our time on, because doing that as getting as much signal out as possible, doing that as well as possible is the biggest.[00:22:31] thing that we've seen that determines how well we do on that benchmark at the end of the day. Once you've sorted things out, like output structure, how to get it consistently writing diffs and all the stuff that is sort of ancillary to the model actually figuring out how to solve a problem, the core bit of solving the problem is how did the human solve this problem and how can we best come up with how the human solved these problems.[00:22:54] So all the effort went in on that. And the mix that we ended up with was, as you've probably seen in the technical report and so on, all of those different languages and different combinations of different task types, all of that has run through that pipeline, and we've extracted all that information out.[00:23:09] Customizing for Customers[00:23:09] Alessio: How does that differ when you work with customers that have private workflows? Like, do you think, is there usually a big delta between what you get in open source and maybe public data versus like Yeah,[00:23:19] Alistair Pullen: yeah, yeah. When you scrape enough of it, most of open source is updating readmes and docs. It's hilarious, like we had to filter out so much of that stuff because when we first did the 16k model, like the amount of readme updating that went in, we did like no data cleaning, no real, like, we just sort of threw it in and saw what happened.[00:23:38] And it was just like, It was really good at updating readme, it was really good at writing some comments, really good at, um, complaining in Git reviews, in PR reviews, rather, and it would, again, like, we didn't clean the data, so you'd, like, give it some feedback, and it would just, like, reply, and, like, it would just be quite insubordinate when it was getting back to you, like, no, I don't think you're right, and it would just sort of argue with you, so The process of doing all that was super interesting because we realized from the beginning, okay, there's a huge amount of work that needs to go into like cleaning this, getting it aligned with what we want the model to do to be able to get the model to be useful in some way.[00:24:12] Alessio: I'm curious, like, how do you think about the customer willingness? To share all of this historical data, I've done a lot of developer tools investing in my career and getting access to the code base is always one of the hard things. Are people getting more cautious about sharing this information? In the past, it was maybe like, you know, you're using static analysis tool, like whatever else you need to plug into the code base, fine.[00:24:35] Now you're building. A model based on it, like, uh, what's the discussion going into these companies? Are most people comfortable with, like, letting you see how to work and sharing everything?[00:24:44] Alistair Pullen: It depends on the sector, mostly. We've actually seen, I'd say, people becoming more amenable to the idea over time, actually, rather than more skeptical, because I think they can see the, the upside.[00:24:55] If this thing could be, Does what they say it does, it's going to be more help to us than it is a risk to our infosec. Um, and of course, like, companies building in this space, we're all going to end up, you know, complying with the same rules, and there are going to be new rules that come out to make sure that we're looking at your code, that everything is safe, and so on.[00:25:12] So from what we've seen so far, we've spoken to some very large companies that you've definitely heard of and all of them obviously have stipulations and many of them want it to be sandbox to start with and all the like very obvious things that I, you know, I would say as well, but they're all super keen to have a go and see because like, despite all those things, if we can genuinely Make them go faster, allow them to build more in a given time period and stuff.[00:25:35] It's super worth it to them.[00:25:37] Genie Workflow[00:25:37] swyx: Okay, I'm going to dive in a little bit on the process that you have created. You showed the demo on your video, and by the time that we release this, you should be taking people off the waitlist and launching people so people can see this themselves. There's four main Parts of the workflow, which is finding files, planning action, writing code and running tests.[00:25:58] And controversially, you have set yourself apart from the Devins of the world by saying that things like having access to a browser is not that important for you. Is that an accurate reading of[00:26:09] Alistair Pullen: what you wrote? I don't remember saying that, but At least with what we've seen, the browser is helpful, but it's not as helpful as, like, ragging the correct files, if that makes sense.[00:26:20] Like, it is still helpful, but obviously there are more fundamental things you have to get right before you get to, like, Oh yeah, you can read some docs, or you can read a stack overflow article, and stuff like that.[00:26:30] swyx: Yeah, the phrase I was indexing on was, The other software tools are wrappers around foundational models with a few additional tools, such as a web browser or code interpreter.[00:26:38] Alistair Pullen: Oh, I see. No, I mean, no, I'm, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not deri, I'm deriding the, the, the approach that, not the, not the tools. Yeah, exactly. So like, I would[00:26:44] swyx: say in my standard model of what a code agent should look like, uh, Devon has been very influential, obviously. Yeah. Yeah. Because you could just add the docs of something.[00:26:54] Mm-Hmm. . And like, you know, now I have, now when I'm installing a new library, I can just add docs. Yeah, yeah. Cursor also does this. Right. And then obviously having a code interpreter does help. I guess you have that in the form[00:27:03] Alistair Pullen: of running tests. I mean, uh, the Genie has both of those tools available to it as well.[00:27:08] So, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, we have a tool where you can, like, put in URLs and it will just read the URLs. And you can also use this Perplexities API under the hood as well to be able to actually ask questions if it wants to. Okay. So, no, we use both of those tools as well. Like, those tools are Super important and super key.[00:27:24] I think obviously the most important tools to these agents are like being able to retrieve code from a code base, being able to read Stack Overflow articles and what have you and just be able to essentially be able to Google like we do is definitely super useful.[00:27:38] swyx: Yeah, I thought maybe we could just kind of dive into each of those actions.[00:27:41] Code Retrieval[00:27:41] swyx: Code retrieval, one of the core indexer that Yes. You've worked on, uh, even as, as built, what makes it hard, what approach you thought would work, didn't work,[00:27:52] Alistair Pullen: anything like that. It's funny, I had a similar conversation to this when I was chatting to the guys from OpenAI yesterday. The thing is that searching for code, specifically semantically, at least to start with, I mean like keyword search and stuff like that is a, is a solved problem.[00:28:06] It's been around for ages, but at least being able to, the phrase we always used back in the day was searching for what code does rather than what code is. Like searching for functionality is really hard. Really hard. The way that we approached that problem was that obviously like a very basic and easy approach is right.[00:28:26] Let's just embed the code base. We'll chunk it up in some arbitrary way, maybe using an AST, maybe using number of lines, maybe using whatever, like some overlapping, just chunk it up and embed it. And once you've done that, I will write a query saying, like, find me some authentication code or something, embed it, and then do the cosine similarity and get the top of K, right?[00:28:43] That doesn't work. And I wish it did work, don't get me wrong. It doesn't work well at all, because fundamentally, if you think about, like, semantically, how code looks is very different to how English looks, and there's, like, not a huge amount of signal that's carried between the two. So what we ended up, the first approach we took, and that kind of did well enough for a long time, was Okay, let's train a model to be able to take in English code queries and then produce a hypothetical code snippet that might look like the answer, embed that, and then do the code similarity.[00:29:18] And that process, although very simple, gets you so much more performance out of the retrieval accuracy. And that was kind of like the start of our of our engine, as we called it, which is essentially like the aggregation of all these different heuristics, like semantic, keyword, LSP, and so on. And then we essentially had like a model that would, given an input, choose which ones it thought were most appropriate, given the type of requests you had.[00:29:45] So the whole code search thing was a really hard problem. And actually what we ended up doing with Genie is we, um, let The model through self play figure out how to retrieve code. So actually we don't use our engine for Genie. So instead of like a request coming in and then like say GPT 4 with some JSON output being like, Well, I think here we should use a keyword with these inputs and then we should use semantic.[00:30:09] And then we should like pick these results. It's actually like, A question comes in and Genie has self played in its training data to be able to be like, okay, this is how I'm going to approach finding this information. Much more akin to how a developer would do it. Because if I was like, Shawn, go into this new code base you've never seen before.[00:30:26] And find me the code that does this. You're gonna probably, you might do some keywords, you're gonna look over the file system, you're gonna try to figure out from the directories and the file names where it might be, you're gonna like jump in one, and then once you're in there, you're probably gonna be doing the, you know, go to definition stuff to like jump from file to file and try to use the graph to like get closer and closer.[00:30:46] And that is exactly what Genie does. Starts on the file system, looks at the file system, picks some candidate files, is this what I'm looking for, yes or no, and If there's something that's interesting, like an import or something, it can, it can command click on that thing, go to definition, go to references, and so on.[00:31:00] And it can traverse the codebase that way.[00:31:02] swyx: Are you using the VS Code, uh, LSP, or? No,[00:31:05] Alistair Pullen: that's not, we're not like, we're not doing this in VS Code, we're just using the language servers running. But, we really wanted to try to mimic the way we do it as best as possible. And we did that during the self play process when we were generating the dataset, so.[00:31:18] Although we did all that work originally, and although, like, Genie still has access to these tools, so it can do keyword searches, and it can do, you know, basic semantic searches, and it can use the graph, it uses them through this process and figures out, okay, I've learned from data how to find stuff in codebases, and I think in our technical report, I can't remember the exact number, but I think it was around 65 or 66 percent retrieval accuracy overall, Measured on, we know what lines we need for these tasks to find, for the task to actually be able to be completed, And we found about 66 percent of all those lines, which is one of the biggest areas of free performance that we can get a hold of, because When we were building Genie, truthfully, like, a lot more focus went on assuming you found the right information, you've been able to reproduce the issue, assuming that's true, how do you then go about solving it?[00:32:08] And the bulk of the work we did was on the solving. But when you go higher up the funnel, obviously, like, the funnel looks like, have you found everything you need for the task? Are you able to reproduce the problem that's seen in the issue? Are you then able to solve it? And the funnel gets narrower as you go down.[00:32:22] And at the top of the funnel, of course, is rank. So I'm actually quite happy with that score. I think it's still pretty impressive considering the size of some of the codebases we're doing, we're using for this. But as soon as that, if that number becomes 80, think how many more tasks we get right. That's one of the key areas we're going to focus on when we continue working on Genie.[00:32:37] It'd be interesting to break out a benchmark just for that.[00:32:41] swyx: Yeah, I mean, it's super easy. Because I don't know what state of the art is.[00:32:43] Alistair Pullen: Yeah, I mean, like, for a, um, it's super easy because, like, for a given PR, you know what lines were edited. Oh, okay. Yeah, you know what lines were[00:32:50] swyx: you can[00:32:51] Alistair Pullen: source it from Cbench, actually.[00:32:52] Yeah, you can do it, you can do it super easily. And that's how we got that figure out at the other end. Um, for us being able to see it against, um, our historic models were super useful. So we could see if we were, you know, actually helping ourselves or not. And initially, one of the biggest performance gains that we saw when we were work, when we did work on the RAG a bit was giving it the ability to use the LSP to like go to definition and really try to get it to emulate how we do that, because I'm sure when you go into an editor with that, where like the LSP is not working or whatever, you suddenly feel really like disarmed and naked.[00:33:20] You're like, Oh my god, I didn't realize how much I actually used this to get about rather than just find stuff. So we really tried to get it to do that and that gave us a big jump in performance. So we went from like 54 percent up to like the 60s, but just by adding, focusing on that.[00:33:34] swyx: One weird trick. Yes.[00:33:37] I'll briefly comment here. So this is the standard approach I would say most, uh, code tooling startups are pursuing. The one company that's not doing this is magic. dev. So would you do things differently if you have a 10 million[00:33:51] Alistair Pullen: token context window? If I had a 10 million context window and hundreds of millions of dollars, I wouldn't have gone and built, uh, it's an LTM, it's not a transformer, right, that they're using, right?[00:34:03] If I'm not mistaken, I believe it's not a transformer. Yeah, Eric's going to come on at some point. Listen, they obviously know a lot more about their product than I do. I don't know a great deal about how magic works. I don't think he knows anything yet. I'm not going to speculate. Would I do it the same way as them?[00:34:17] I like the way we've done it because fundamentally like we focus on the Active software engineering and what that looks like and showing models how to do that. Fundamentally, the underlying model that we use is kind of null to us, like, so long as it's the best one, I don't mind. And the context windows, we've already seen, like, you can get transformers to have, like, million, one and a half million token context windows.[00:34:43] And that works perfectly well, so like, as soon as you can fine tune Gemini 1. 5, then you best be sure that Genie will run on Gemini 1. 5, and like, we'll probably get very good performance out of that. I like our approach because we can be super agile and be like, Oh, well, Anthropic have just released whatever, uh, you know, and it might have half a million tokens and it might be really smart.[00:35:01] And I can just immediately take my JSONL file and just dump it in there and suddenly Genie works on there and it can do all the new things. Does[00:35:07] swyx: Anthropic have the same fine tuning support as OpenAI? I[00:35:11] Alistair Pullen: actually haven't heard any, anyone do it because they're working on it. They are partner, they're partnered with AWS and it's gonna be in Bedrock.[00:35:16] Okay. As far as, as far as I know, I think I'm, I think, I think that's true. Um, cool. Yeah.[00:35:20] Planning[00:35:20] swyx: We have to keep moving on to, uh, the other segments. Sure. Uh, planning the second piece of your four step grand master plan, that is the frontier right now. You know, a lot of people are talking about strawberry Q Star, whatever that is.[00:35:32] Monte Carlo Tree Search. Is current state of the art planning good enough? What prompts have worked? I don't even know what questions to ask. Like, what is the state of planning?[00:35:41] Alistair Pullen: I think it's fairly obvious that with the foundational models, like, you can ask them to think by step by step and ask them to plan and stuff, but that isn't enough, because if you look at how those models score on these benchmarks, then they're not even close to state of the art.[00:35:52] Which ones are[00:35:52] swyx: you referencing? Benchmarks? So, like,[00:35:53] Alistair Pullen: just, uh, like, SweetBench and so on, right? And, like, even the things that get really good scores on human evalor agents as well, because they have these loops, right? Yeah. Obviously these things can reason, quote unquote, but the reasoning is the model, like, it's constrained by the model as intelligence, I'd say, very crudely.[00:36:10] And what we essentially wanted to do was we still thought that, obviously, reasoning is super important, we need it to get the performance we have. But we wanted the reasoning to emulate how we think about problems when we're solving them as opposed to how a model thinks about a problem when we're solving it.[00:36:23] And that was, that's obviously part of, like, the derivation pipeline that we have when we, when we, when we Design our data, but the reasoning that the models do right now, and who knows what Q star, whatever ends up being called looks like, but certainly what I'm excited on a small tangent to that, like, what I'm really excited about is when models like that come out, obviously, the signal in my data, when I regenerate, it goes up.[00:36:44] And then I can then train that model. It's already better at reasoning with it. improved reasoning data and just like I can keep bootstrapping and keep leapfrogging every single time. And that is like super exciting to me because I don't, I welcome like new models so much because immediately it just floats me up without having to do much work, which is always nice.[00:37:02] But at the state of reasoning generally, I don't see it going away anytime soon. I mean, that's like an autoregressive model doesn't think per se. And in the absence of having any thought Maybe, uh, an energy based model or something like that. Maybe that's what QSTAR is. Who knows? Some sort of, like, high level, abstract space where thought happens before tokens get produced.[00:37:22] In the absence of that for the moment, I think it's all we have and it's going to have to be the way it works. For what happens in the future, we'll have to see, but I think certainly it's never going to hinder performance to do it. And certainly, the reasoning that we see Genie do, when you compare it to like, if you ask GPT 4 to break down step by step and approach for the same problem, at least just on a vibe check alone, looks far better.[00:37:46] swyx: Two elements that I like, that I didn't see in your initial video, we'll see when, you know, this, um, Genie launches, is a planner chat, which is, I can modify the plan while it's executing, and then the other thing is playbooks, which is also from Devin, where, here's how I like to do a thing, and I'll use Markdown to, Specify how I do it.[00:38:06] I'm just curious if, if like, you know,[00:38:07] Alistair Pullen: those things help. Yeah, no, absolutely. We're a hundred percent. We want everything to be editable. Not least because it's really frustrating when it's not. Like if you're ever, if you're ever in a situation where like this is the one thing I just wish I could, and you'd be right if that one thing was right and you can't change it.[00:38:21] So we're going to make everything as well, including the code it writes. Like you can, if it makes a small error in a patch, you can just change it yourself and let it continue and it will be fine. Yeah. So yeah, like those things are super important. We'll be doing those two.[00:38:31] Alessio: I'm curious, once you get to writing code, is most of the job done?[00:38:35] I feel like the models are so good at writing code when they're like, And small chunks that are like very well instructed. What's kind of the drop off in the funnel? Like once you get to like, you got the right files and you got the right plan. That's a great question[00:38:47] Alistair Pullen: because by the time this is out, there'll be another blog, there'll be another blog post, which contains all the information, all the learnings that I delivered to OpenAI's fine tuning team when we finally got the score.[00:38:59] Oh, that's good. Um, go for it. It's already up. And, um, yeah, yeah. I don't have it on my phone, but basically I, um, broke down the log probs. I basically got the average log prob for a token at every token position in the context window. So imagine an x axis from 0 to 128k and then the average log prob for each index in there.[00:39:19] As we discussed, like, The way genie works normally is, you know, at the beginning you do your RAG, and then you do your planning, and then you do your coding, and that sort of cycle continues. The certainty of code writing is so much more certain than every other aspect of genie's loop. So whatever's going on under the hood, the model is really comfortable with writing code.[00:39:35] There is no doubt, and it's like in the token probabilities. One slightly different thing, I think, to how most of these models work is, At least for the most part, if you ask GPT4 in ChatGPT to edit some code for you, it's going to rewrite the entire snippet for you with the changes in place. We train Genie to write diffs and, you know, essentially patches, right?[00:39:55] Because it's more token efficient and that is also fundamentally We don't write patches as humans, but it's like, the result of what we do is a patch, right? When Genie writes code, I don't know how much it's leaning on the pre training, like, code writing corpus, because obviously it's just read code files there.[00:40:14] It's obviously probably read a lot of patches, but I would wager it's probably read more code files than it has patches. So it's probably leaning on a different part of its brain, is my speculation. I have no proof for this. So I think the discipline of writing code is slightly different, but certainly is its most comfortable state when it's writing code.[00:40:29] So once you get to that point, so long as you're not too deep into the context window, another thing that I'll bring up in that blog post is, um, Performance of Genie over the length of the context window degrades fairly linearly. So actually, I actually broke it down by probability of solving a SWE bench issue, given the number of tokens of the context window.[00:40:49] It's 60k, it's basically 0. 5. So if you go over 60k in context length, you are more likely to fail than you are to succeed just based on the amount of tokens you have on the context window. And when I presented that to the fine tuning team at OpenAI, that was super interesting to them as well. And that is more of a foundational model attribute than it is an us attribute.[00:41:10] However, the attention mechanism works in, in GPT 4, however, you know, they deal with the context window at that point is, you know, influencing how Genie is able to form, even though obviously all our, all our training data is perfect, right? So even if like stuff is being solved in 110, 000 tokens, sort of that area.[00:41:28] The training data still shows it being solved there, but it's just in practice, the model is finding it much harder to solve stuff down that end of the context window.[00:41:35] Alessio: That's the scale with the context, so for a 200k context size, is 100k tokens like the 0. 5? I don't know. Yeah, but I,[00:41:43] Alistair Pullen: I, um, hope not. I hope you don't just take the context length and halve it and then say, oh, this is the usable context length.[00:41:50] But what's been interesting is knowing that Actually really digging into the data, looking at the log probs, looking at how it performs over the entire window. It's influenced the short term improvements we've made to Genie since we did the, got that score. So we actually made some small optimizations to try to make sure As best we can without, like, overdoing it, trying to make sure that we can artificially make sure stuff sits within that sort of range, because we know that's our sort of battle zone.[00:42:17] And if we go outside of that, we're starting to push the limits, we're more likely to fail. So just doing that sort of analysis has been super useful without actually messing with anything, um, like, more structural in getting more performance out of it.[00:42:29] Language Mix[00:42:29] Alessio: What about, um, different languages? So, in your technical report, the data makes sense.[00:42:34] 21 percent JavaScript, 21 percent Python, 14 percent TypeScript, 14 percent TSX, um, Which is JavaScript, JavaScript.[00:42:42] Alistair Pullen: Yeah,[00:42:42] swyx: yeah, yeah. Yes,[00:42:43] Alistair Pullen: yeah, yeah. It's like 49 percent JavaScript. That's true, although TypeScript is so much superior, but anyway.[00:42:46] Alessio: Do you see, how good is it at just like generalizing? You know, if you're writing Rust or C or whatever else, it's quite different.[00:42:55] Alistair Pullen: It's pretty good at generalizing. Um, obviously, though, I think there's 15 languages in that technical report, I think, that we've, that we've covered. The ones that we picked in the highest mix were, uh, the ones that, selfishly, we internally use the most, and also that are, I'd argue, some of the most popular ones.[00:43:11] When we have more resource as a company, and, More time and, you know, once all the craziness that has just happened sort of dies down a bit, we are going to, you know, work on that mix. I'd love to see everything ideally be represented in a similar level as it is. If you, if you took GitHub as a data set, if you took like how are the languages broken down in terms of popularity, that would be my ideal data mix to start.[00:43:34] It's just that it's not cheap. So, um, yeah, trying to have an equal amount of Ruby and Rust and all these different things is just, at our current state, is not really what we're looking for.[00:43:46] Running Code[00:43:46] Alessio: There's a lot of good Ruby in my GitHub profile. You can have it all. Well, okay, we'll just train on that. For running tests It sounds easy, but it isn't, especially when you're working in enterprise codebases that are kind of like very hard to spin up.[00:43:58] Yes. How do you set that up? It's like, how do you make a model actually understand how to run a codebase, which is different than writing code for a codebase?[00:44:07] Alistair Pullen: The model itself is not in charge of like setting up the codebase and running it. So Genie sits on top of GitHub, and if you have CI running GitHub, you have GitHub Actions and stuff like that, then Genie essentially makes a call out to that, runs your CI, sees the outputs and then like moves on.[00:44:23] Making a model itself, set up a repo, wasn't scoped in what we wanted Genie to be able to do because for the most part, like, at least most enterprises have some sort of CI pipeline running and like a lot of, if you're doing some, even like, A lot of hobbyist software development has some sort of like basic CI running as well.[00:44:40] And that was like the lowest hanging fruit approach that we took. So when, when Genie ships, like the way it will run its own code is it will basically run your CI and it will like take the, um, I'm not in charge of writing this. The rest of the team is, but I think it's the checks API on GitHub allows you to like grab that information and throw it in the context window.[00:44:56] Alessio: What's the handoff like with the person? So, Jeannie, you give it a task, and then how long are you supposed to supervise it for? Or are you just waiting for, like, the checks to eventually run, and then you see how it goes? Like, uh, what does it feel like?[00:45:11] Alistair Pullen: There are a couple of modes that it can run in, essentially.[00:45:14] It can run in, like, fully headless autonomous modes, so say you assign it a ticket in linear or something. Then it won't ask you for anything. It will just go ahead and try. Or if you're in like the GUI on the website and you're using it, then you can give it a task and it, it might choose to ask you a clarifying question.[00:45:30] So like if you ask it something super broad, it might just come back to you and say, what does that actually mean? Or can you point me in the right direction for this? Because like our decision internally was, it's going to piss people off way more if it just goes off and has, and makes a completely like.[00:45:45] ruined attempt at it because it just like from day one got the wrong idea. So it can ask you for a lot of questions. And once it's going much like a regular PR, you can leave review comments, issue comments, all these different things. And it, because you know, he's been trained to be a software engineering colleague, responds in actually a better way than a real colleague, because it's less snarky and less high and mighty.[00:46:08] And also the amount of filtering has to do for When you train a model to like be a software engineer, essentially, it's like you can just do anything. It's like, yeah, it looks good to me, bro.[00:46:17] swyx: Let's[00:46:17] Alistair Pullen: ship it.[00:46:19] Finetuning with OpenAI[00:46:19] swyx: I just wanted to dive in a little bit more on your experience with the fine tuning team. John Allard was publicly sort of very commentary supportive and, you know, was, was part of it.[00:46:27] Like, what's it like working with them? I also picked up that you initially started to fine tune what was publicly available, the 16 to 32 K range. You got access to do more than that. Yeah. You've also trained on billions of tokens instead of the usual millions range. Just, like, take us through that fine tuning journey and any advice that you might have.[00:46:47] Alistair Pullen: It's been so cool, and this will be public by the time this goes out, like, OpenAI themselves have said we are pushing the boundaries of what is possible with fine tuning. Like, we are right on the edge, and like, we are working, genuinely working with them in figuring out how stuff works, what works, what doesn't work, because no one's doing No one else is doing what we're doing.[00:47:06] They have found what we've been working on super interesting, which is why they've allowed us to do so much, like, interesting stuff. Working with John, I mean, I had a really good conversation with John yesterday. We had a little brainstorm after the video we shot. And one of the things you mentioned, the billions of tokens, one of the things we've noticed, and it's actually a very interesting problem for them as well, when you're[00:47:28] How big your peft adapter, your lore adapter is going to be in some way and like figuring that out is actually a really interesting problem because if you make it too big and because they support data sets that are so small, you can put like 20 examples through it or something like that, like if you had a really sparse, large adapter, you're not going to get any signal in that at all.[00:47:44] So they have to dynamically size these things and there is an upper bound and actually we use. Models that are larger than what's publicly available. It's not publicly available yet, but when this goes out, it will be. But we have larger law adapters available to us, just because the amount of data that we're pumping through it.[00:48:01] And at that point, you start seeing really Interesting other things like you have to change your learning rate schedule and do all these different things that you don't have to do when you're on the smaller end of things. So working with that team is such a privilege because obviously they're like at the top of their field in, you know, in the fine tuning space.[00:48:18] So we're, as we learn stuff, they're learning stuff. And one of the things that I think really catalyzed this relationship is when we first started working on Genie, like I delivered them a presentation, which will eventually become the blog post that you'll love to read soon. The information I gave them there I think is what showed them like, oh wow, okay, these guys are really like pushing the boundaries of what we can do here.[00:48:38] And truthfully, our data set, we view our data set right now as very small. It's like the minimum that we're able to afford, literally afford right now to be able to produce a product like this. And it's only going to get bigger. So yesterday while I was in their offices, I was basically, so we were planning, we were like, okay, how, this is where we're going in the next six to 12 months.[00:48:57] Like we're, Putting our foot on the gas here, because this clearly works. Like I've demonstrated this is a good, you know, the best approach so far. And I want to see where it can go. I want to see what the scaling laws like for the data. And at the moment, like, it's hard to figure that out because you don't know when you're running into like saturating a PEFT adapter, as opposed to actually like, is this the model's limit?[00:49:15] Like, where is that? So finding all that stuff out is the work we're actively doing with them. And yeah, it's, it's going to get more and more collaborative over the next few weeks as we, as we explore like larger adapters, pre training extension, different things like that.[00:49:27] swyx: Awesome. I also wanted to talk briefly about the synthetic data process.[00:49:32] Synthetic Code Data[00:49:32] swyx: One of your core insights was that the vast majority of the time, the code that is published by a human is encrypted. In a working state. And actually you need to fine tune on non working code. So just, yeah, take us through that inspiration. How many rounds, uh, did you, did you do? Yeah, I mean, uh,[00:49:47] Alistair Pullen: it might, it might be generous to say that the vast majority of code is in a working state.[00:49:51] I don't know if I don't know if I believe that. I was like, that's very nice of you to say that my code works. Certainly, it's not true for me. No, I think that so yeah, no, but it was you're right. It's an interesting problem. And what we saw was when we didn't do that, obviously, we'll just hope you have to basically like one shot the answer.[00:50:07] Because after that, it's like, well, I've never seen iteration before. How am I supposed to figure out how this works? So what the what you're alluding to there is like the self improvement loop that we started working on. And that was in sort of two parts, we synthetically generated runtime errors. Where we would intentionally mess with the AST to make stuff not work, or index out of bounds, or refer to a variable that doesn't exist, or errors that the foundational models just make sometimes that you can't really avoid, you can't expect it to be perfect.[00:50:39] So we threw some of those in with a, with a, with a probability of happening and on the self improvement side, I spoke about this in the, in the blog post, essentially the idea is that you generate your data in sort of batches. First batch is like perfect, like one example, like here's the problem, here's the answer, go, train the model on it.[00:50:57] And then for the second batch, you then take the model that you trained before that can look like one commit into the future, and then you let it have the first attempt at solving the problem. And hopefully it gets it wrong, and if it gets it wrong, then you have, like, okay, now the codebase is in this incorrect state, but I know what the correct state is, so I can do some diffing, essentially, to figure out how do I get the state that it's in now to the state that I want it in, and then you can train the model to then produce that diff next, and so on, and so on, and so on, so the model can then learn, and also reason as to why it needs to make these changes, to be able to learn how to, like, learn, like, solve problems iteratively and learn from its mistakes and stuff like that.[00:51:35] Alessio: And you picked the size of the data set just based on how much money you could spend generating it. Maybe you think you could just make more and get better results. How, what[00:51:42] Alistair Pullen: multiple of my monthly burn do I spend doing this? Yeah. Basically it was, it was very much related to Yeah. Just like capital and um, yes, with any luck that that will be alleviated to[00:51:53] swyx: very soon.[00:51:54] Alistair Pullen: Yeah.[00:51:54] SynData in Llama 3[00:51:54] swyx: Yeah. I like drawing references to other things that are happening in, in the, in the wild. So, 'cause we only get to release this podcast once a week. Mm-Hmm. , the LAMA three paper also had some really interesting. Thoughts on synthetic data for code? I don't know if you have reviewed that. I'll highlight the back translation section.[00:52:11] Because one of your dataset focuses is updating documentation. I think that translation between natural language, English versus code, and

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Exploding business myths is all part of the service here at LDTRT, and one of the fallacies we often find ourself returning to, is the notion that you have to be nasty to get on...Au contraire mon petit ami des années 80! The secret to success in this day and age is being someone so nice, people will always feel like they HAVE to work with you. Step forward Saint Betteridge. Alongside his management skills, Saint's genial air has been at the forefront of the digital transformation of the industry, and roles at Time Out, Picnic, and now Scoota, have produced a strategic leader who can inspire results and relationships in equal measure. Presented by the affable, Adam Hopkinson. https://www.maplestreetcreative.co.uk/https://www.pashn.media/https://radioworks.co.uk/https://www.pursuitcollection.com/stories/%C3%BEetta-reddast-wisdom-for-turbulent-times/#:~:text=But%20there%20is%20an%20Icelandic,it's%20going%20to%20be%20okay!https://quotefancy.com/quote/2484953/Ichak-Kalderon-Adizes-Some-people-have-something-to-say-Some-people-have-to-say-something#:~:text=Top%20100-,%E2%80%9CSome%20people%20have%20something%20to%20say.,something%20Avoid%20the%20second%20group.%E2%80%9D Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you are interested in the longevity scene, like I am, you probably have seen press releases about the dog longevity company, Loyal for Dogs, getting a nod for efficacy from the FDA. These have come in the form of the New York Post calling the drug "groundbreaking", Science Alert calling the drug "radical", and the more sedate New York Times just asking, "Could Longevity Drugs for Dogs Extend Your Pet's Life?", presumably unaware of Betteridge's Law of Headlines. You may have also seen the coordinated Twitter offensive of people losing their shit about this, including their lead investor, Laura Deming, saying that she "broke down crying when she got the call".And if you have been following Loyal for Dogs for a while, like I have, you are probably puzzled by this news. Loyal for Dogs has been around since 2021. Unlike any other drug company or longevity [...]--- First published: December 12th, 2023 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vHSkxmYYqW59sySqA/the-likely-first-longevity-drug-is-based-on-sketchy-science --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: The likely first longevity drug is based on sketchy science. This is bad for science and bad for longevity., published by BobBurgers on December 12, 2023 on LessWrong. If you are interested in the longevity scene, like I am, you probably have seen press releases about the dog longevity company, Loyal for Dogs, getting a nod for efficacy from the FDA. These have come in the form of the New York Post calling the drug " groundbreaking", Science Alert calling the drug " radical", and the more sedate New York Times just asking, "Could Longevity Drugs for Dogs Extend Your Pet's Life?", presumably unaware of Betteridge's Law of Headlines. You may have also seen the coordinated Twitter offensive of people losing their shit about this, including their lead investor, Laura Deming, saying that she " broke down crying when she got the call". And if you have been following Loyal for Dogs for a while, like I have, you are probably puzzled by this news. Loyal for Dogs has been around since 2021. Unlike any other drug company or longevity company, they have released almost zero information (including zero publications) about their strategy for longevity. These thoughts swirling around my head, I waded through the press releases trumpeting the end of dog death as we know it in order to figure out what exactly Loyal is doing for dog longevity. And, what I found first surprised me, then saddened me. Loyal did not prove efficacy in dog longevity. They found a path around the FDA instead. That's the surprising part. The sad part is that, in doing so, they relied on some really sketchy science. And I think that, based on their trajectory, they won't just be the first company to get a drug approved for longevity. They will be the first one to get a longevity drug pulled for non-efficacy as well, and put the field back years. So let's start with how they got their drug approved in the first place. Well, they didn't. To get drugs approved in animals, you need to prove three things: efficacy, safety, and manufacturing consistency. Normally, efficacy is the hardest part of this, because you have to prove to the FDA that your drug cures the disease that it's supposed to. This is especially hard in aging, because any aging trial would take a long time. Loyal found a way around that. If you can instead prove to the FDA that it would be too difficult to test your animal drug for efficacy before releasing it, they allow you to sell the drug first, and prove the efficacy later. This is a standard called "reasonable expectation of effectiveness". So, what exactly did Loyal show to the FDA to prove that there was a reasonable expectation their drug would be effective in aging? Well, it's hard to tell, because, again, Loyal has released very little data. But, based on the NYT article and their blog post, I can sketch out a basic idea of what they did. Loyal's longevity drug is an injectable insulin-like growth factor 1, or IGF-1, inhibitor. As the name suggests, IGF-1 is closely related to insulin and is regulated by insulin. Also as the name suggests, IGF-1 causes things to grow. High IGF-1 causes acromegaly, the condition that makes people look like storybook giants. Loyal gave their IGF-1 inhibitor to healthy laboratory dogs (and possibly diabetic dogs, although it's hard to tell). Lo and behold, it lowered IGF-1. It probably also reduced insulin. They then looked at healthy pet dogs, and found that big dogs had higher levels of IGF-1, which is one of the reasons they're big. Small dogs had lower levels of IGF-1. Small dogs, as we all know, live longer than big dogs. Therefore, Loyal said, our IGF-1 inhibitor will extend the life of dogs. Needless to say, this is bad science. Really bad science. There are holes big enough in this to walk a Great Dane through, which I'll talk about in a sec. Apparent...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: The likely first longevity drug is based on sketchy science. This is bad for science and bad for longevity., published by BobBurgers on December 12, 2023 on LessWrong. If you are interested in the longevity scene, like I am, you probably have seen press releases about the dog longevity company, Loyal for Dogs, getting a nod for efficacy from the FDA. These have come in the form of the New York Post calling the drug " groundbreaking", Science Alert calling the drug " radical", and the more sedate New York Times just asking, "Could Longevity Drugs for Dogs Extend Your Pet's Life?", presumably unaware of Betteridge's Law of Headlines. You may have also seen the coordinated Twitter offensive of people losing their shit about this, including their lead investor, Laura Deming, saying that she " broke down crying when she got the call". And if you have been following Loyal for Dogs for a while, like I have, you are probably puzzled by this news. Loyal for Dogs has been around since 2021. Unlike any other drug company or longevity company, they have released almost zero information (including zero publications) about their strategy for longevity. These thoughts swirling around my head, I waded through the press releases trumpeting the end of dog death as we know it in order to figure out what exactly Loyal is doing for dog longevity. And, what I found first surprised me, then saddened me. Loyal did not prove efficacy in dog longevity. They found a path around the FDA instead. That's the surprising part. The sad part is that, in doing so, they relied on some really sketchy science. And I think that, based on their trajectory, they won't just be the first company to get a drug approved for longevity. They will be the first one to get a longevity drug pulled for non-efficacy as well, and put the field back years. So let's start with how they got their drug approved in the first place. Well, they didn't. To get drugs approved in animals, you need to prove three things: efficacy, safety, and manufacturing consistency. Normally, efficacy is the hardest part of this, because you have to prove to the FDA that your drug cures the disease that it's supposed to. This is especially hard in aging, because any aging trial would take a long time. Loyal found a way around that. If you can instead prove to the FDA that it would be too difficult to test your animal drug for efficacy before releasing it, they allow you to sell the drug first, and prove the efficacy later. This is a standard called "reasonable expectation of effectiveness". So, what exactly did Loyal show to the FDA to prove that there was a reasonable expectation their drug would be effective in aging? Well, it's hard to tell, because, again, Loyal has released very little data. But, based on the NYT article and their blog post, I can sketch out a basic idea of what they did. Loyal's longevity drug is an injectable insulin-like growth factor 1, or IGF-1, inhibitor. As the name suggests, IGF-1 is closely related to insulin and is regulated by insulin. Also as the name suggests, IGF-1 causes things to grow. High IGF-1 causes acromegaly, the condition that makes people look like storybook giants. Loyal gave their IGF-1 inhibitor to healthy laboratory dogs (and possibly diabetic dogs, although it's hard to tell). Lo and behold, it lowered IGF-1. It probably also reduced insulin. They then looked at healthy pet dogs, and found that big dogs had higher levels of IGF-1, which is one of the reasons they're big. Small dogs had lower levels of IGF-1. Small dogs, as we all know, live longer than big dogs. Therefore, Loyal said, our IGF-1 inhibitor will extend the life of dogs. Needless to say, this is bad science. Really bad science. There are holes big enough in this to walk a Great Dane through, which I'll talk about in a sec. Apparent...

it was Ignition Sunday this week at G2. This is where we hear from different members of our church community who have never spoken at G2 before. Hannah spoke to us about youth work and the role we can play.

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Let Crystal Ty melt all of your cares away, whether you are in the compound or somewhere else.Season 12 begins next week. Thanks for playing.CREDITS:Written and Starring David Ault as Ty Betteridge Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A throwaway comment on Big Bang Theory got me thinking- could hybrid animals such as the griffin and the hippogriff be possible from a biological viewpoint? Using these two examples, we will explore the chromosome number of hybrid animals and see what it means for our mythical friends... Sources for this episode: Ewart, J. C. (1910), Are Mules Fertile? Nature 2143(85): 106. Geldenhuys, M. E. (1989), Die kariotipering van di lieu (Panthera leo). Journal of the South African Veterinary Association 60(1): 41-49. Johnson, F. (1976), Mythical Beasts Coloring Book. New York: Dover Publications, Inc. Mead, D., Ogden, R., Meredith, A., Peniche, G., Smith, M., Corton, C., Oliver, K., Skelton, J., Betteridge, E., Doulcan; J., Holmes, N., Wright, V., Loose, M., Quail, M. A., McCarthy, S. A., Howe, K.,Chow, W., Torrance, J., Collins, J., Challis, R., Durbin, R. and Blatter, M. (2021), The genome sequence of the European golden eagle, Aquila chrysaetos chrysaetos Linnaeus 1758 (version 1; peer review: 3 approved). Wellcome Open Research 6: 112. Rodriguez, M., Understanding Genetics, The Tech Interactive (2007), Chimeras, Mosaics, and Other Fun Stuff: Why can't mules breed? I understand that a horse and a donkey make a mule but why can't 2 mules have a baby mule? (online) (Accessed 29/07/2023). Rosen, B. (2009), Mythical Creatures Bible: The Definitive Guide to Legendary Beings. New York: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. Ryder, O. A. (1993), Przewalski`s Horse: Prospects for Reintroduction into the Wild. Conservation Biology 7(1): 13-15. Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Golden eagle (online) (Accessed 20/07/2023).

So as not to be mistaken for a trap, Betteridge's Law applies here. There's a difference between materialism and accusing someone or some culture of being too materialistic. What we understand as Materialism is more akin to Naturalism, where as being Materialistic, is the placing of too much emphasis of objects as one's identity. A serious look at what it is typically portrayed as an unserious matter. And if so, then what? What drives Gun Culture? Is it the acquisition of possessions? The development of skill? Being prepared for some potential future? Is it the pursuit of virtue?Support the REDACTED Culture Cast at redactedculture.locals.comSSP and boutique products at redactedllc.comFollow us on Instagram at @redactedllc

What's the point of keeping a gun on you if you aren't going to protect us?[Warning: This episode contains a depiction of medical distress. Listener discretion is advised.]CREDITS:David Ault as Ty BetteridgeTWITCH: http://twitch.tv/woebegonepodPATREON: http://patreon.com/woe_begoneALIZA SCHULTZ: https://shows.acast.com/the-diary-of-aliza-schultzTRANSCRIPTS: http://WOEBEGONEPOD.comTWITTER: @WOEBEGONEPODMUSIC: http://woebegonepod.bandcamp.comDISCORD: https://discord.gg/pn9kjTBYPD Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Welcome to another episode of Island Influencers! This week, I have the privilege of featuring Jackie Betteridge, the remarkable CEO of Crossroads, the largest Third Sector organisation on the Isle of Man. When Jackie took the helm at Crossroads, it was a small organisation, but under her leadership, the workforce has grown by an astounding 500%, and the number of volunteers has increased by 100%. Crossroads is an organisation dedicated to caring for carers, working with families and individuals of all ages. They deliver an impressive 160,000 care hours per year, a testament to their commitment to supporting the community. The work undertaken by Crossroads is both complex and rewarding, addressing the diverse needs of those they serve. Jackie's passions extend beyond her professional role; her tight-knit family holds a special place in her heart. Jackie Betteridge and I delve into the services provided by Crossroads in episode 91, sharing insights into their operations and future plans. From what she reveals, it's evident that her dedication to helping the Isle of Man community is unwavering, and her purpose shines through in everything she does. Join us as we learn from Jackie Betteridge's incredible journey and gain a deeper understanding of Crossroads' invaluable contributions to the Isle of Man community.

Betteridge's law of headlines – Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines O totalitarismo escópico https://www.estadao.com.br/opiniao/eugenio-bucci/o-totalitarismo-escopico/ My Amazon family's gut microbes may help us fight inflammatory disease https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25734331-400-my-amazon-familys-gut-microbes-may-help-us-fight-inflammatory-disease/ Andrea Wulf on Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and The Invention of The Self https://pca.st/fpnduu6g Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self https://a.co/d/aRcY0eK Will we ever have a ... Read more

Hi and welcome to the OWN IT podcast, where we celebrate the growing number of (women and non-binary) ad agency owners and talk about buying out of the boys' club of advertising, one agency at a time.  In this episode, we talk to Kate Black and Susan Betteridge from Pahnke.  I so enjoy hearing the stories of partnership and co-ownership, so having Kate and Susan on the podcast was exciting. And their story of coming together to form Pahnke is not your typical shared ownership story. In fact, Kate even said she didn't want to return to agency life after seeing the industry from the publishing side of the aisle working at The Onion of all places. Creativity brought her around and Susan asked her not to work at an agency, but help lead one.  And, of course, we talk about their ideas on closing the gender gap in agency ownership. You're really going to enjoy this conversation. Thanks for listening to this episode of OWN IT with  Kate Black and Susan Betteridge from Pahnke. You can find links to their LinkedIn profiles and the agency's website in our show notes at untilyouownit.com. If you're enjoying Own It, please find it on your favorite podcast app and drop us a rating and review. Those help more people discover the show and join our community.  Also, if you're a female or non-binary agency owner, or you want to own an agency someday, join our growing community at that same address … untilyouownit.com.

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Adam Mastroianni is a postdoctoral research scholar at Columbia Business School. In this conversation, we talk about his work on conversations, his Substack/blog, his article Things Could Be Better and why he chose to publish it this way, improv comedy, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. In 2022, episodes will appear irregularly, roughly twice per month. You can find the podcast on all podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple/Google Podcasts, etc.). Timestamps0:01:20: Did Adam fake having a girlfriend when he appeared on Come Dine With Me?0:08:51: Adam's Substack called 'Experimental History'0:10:51: Good conversations have lots of doorknobs0:15:33: What can people learn from improv comedy?0:23:10: Why did Adam start his Substack? / A discussion of academia, alternative ways of doing science, and the problems with academic publishing1:12:26: Start discussing Adam's paper 'Do conversations end when people want them to?'1:27:28: What makes for a good conversation?1:29:59: Some words of advice from AdamPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtAdam's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/mastroianni-webSubstack: https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/Google Scholar: https://geni.us/mastroianni-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/mastroianni-twtBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtLinksRowan Atkinson saying words in a funny way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UhHrtKx8-sSubstack article on conversational doorknobs: https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/good-conversations-have-lots-of-doorknobshttps://slimemoldtimemold.com/2022/02/10/the-scientific-virtues/Episode with Joe Hilgard about scientific fraud: https://geni.us/bjks-hilgardGet me off your mailing list: https://www.vox.com/2014/11/21/7259207/scientific-paper-scamDan Quintana's YouTube with Tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/@dsquintanaAdam's Rhodes speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H68w3543lkhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlineshttps://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/09/style/no-37-big-wedding-or-small.htmlReferencesGilbert (2009). Stumbling on happiness.Mastroianni, Gilbert, Cooney, & Wilson (2021). Do conversations end when people want them to? PNAS.Mastroianni, AM & Ludwin-Peery, EJ. (2022). Things could be better. https://psyarxiv.com/2uxwkSchwartz (2008). The importance of stupidity in scientific research. Journal of Cell Science.

Sam is an Urban Agro-ecologist and Regenerative Educator. His role as Education & Community Manager at Pocket City Farms, in the densely populated City of Sydney, is to teach people the importance and achievability of Urban Agricultural practices.   ----  You can view the episode here at our website: Sam Betteridge: The Importance of Urban Agriculture for Human Health and Why We Need to Integrate rather than Segregate  ----    Join the Unstress Health Community & Transform Your Life! https://bit.ly/3SRq0gg    Connect with Dr Ron at Unstress Health  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unstresshealth/  Facebook: https://fb.me/unstresshealth  Email: admin@unstresshealth.com   DISCLAIMER: This podcast provides general information and discussion about medicine, health and related subjects. This content is not intended and should not be construed as medical advice or as a substitute for care by a qualified medical practitioner. If you or any other person has a medical concern, he or she should consult with an appropriately qualified medical practitioner. Guests who speak in this podcast express their own opinions, experiences and conclusions. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Luke calls up Ben n Marli to check in on their Irish boog crusade, how the passing of the late Queen Elizabeth was received in Ireland and to put the feelers out in regards to their next move travelling around Europe. Throw their big blue van in the mix, plus a few wild nights on the Guinness and we have ourselves a conversation ladies and gentlemen.

Katie has learned through years of putting herself in her own way, that THIS chapter of her life is all about FUN and PLAYING - and it is TIME TO PLAY! Her business has survived the toughest of times with COVID and has built an amazing reputation so that it can now GROW. Katie Betteridge - www.iwannabe.co.uk MEMBERSHIP To join the Shine On You Crazy Daisy Membership and invest in the growth of your business, please click here to find out more. You will receive knowledge to grow your business and support to implement what you learn, putting time aside to work ON your business - and have FOCUSED-FUN whilst doing it! BOOKS To buy Shine On You Crazy Daisy – Volume 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6: Visit Amazon, iBooks or any good book retailer. YOUTUBE PODCAST EPISODES To watch our podcast episodes on Youtube - CLICK HERE.

GHZer Jesse Betteridge (Zannen, Canada podcast) joins in for some thoughts about the new Sonic Frontiers leaks, and talks about how the forgotten 32X classic, Knuckles' Chaotix, changed his life forever. As always, thanks to Bo for the edit! Follow us on Twitter: @ghzpodcast! We're also on YouTube! Email us: ghzpodcast@gmail.com

This week we welcome historian and broadcaster Lucy Betteridge-Dyson who wants to take apart the war horse, the cavalry and their role and reputation in the First World War. She talks to us about how the cavalry are far from an outdated institution, that they are vital, and that animal sacrifice was never forgotten.You can follow Lucy on Twitter @LMBD1418 and read her many blogs and articles at www.lucybetteridgedyson.com.You can follow History Rage on Twitter @HistoryRage and let us know what you wish people would just stop believing using the Hashtag #HistoryRage.Support the show

Joining Hassan this week for the podcast is current Prologic Marketing Manager and serious big carp target hunter Ed Betteridge.Ed shares how he came to adopt the big fish target carping approach and what that means to him. His cv is littered with some of the best big carp that have swam in our waters and he shares some incredible stories about how he was successful on a number of notable campaigns /captures such as “The Mother” from Elstow 2, “Roids” from RK Leisure's The Island Lake and “Choco” from Stoneacres.Ed talks about his approach towards rigs, bait and long periods of inactivity when fishing on low stock waters as well and how he goes about putting himself in the best position possible to catch those big special carp. Working in the trade for a long time Ed talks about how things have changed for him and how he has now had to adapt his angling to fit his lifestyle and expanding work commitments. There's one thing for sure Ed is an incredibly driven man who has a passion for the toughest of angling tests which to this very day despite all his captures still burns as bright as ever.

2022-05-31 Weekly News - Episode 150Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/7LhEqGkkwrU Hosts: Gavin Pickin - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions Eric Peterson - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus SolutionsThe makers of ColdBox, CommandBox, ForgeBox, TestBox and all your favorite box-en out there. A few ways  to say thanks back to Ortus Solutions: BUY SOME ITB TICKETS - COME TO THE CONFERENCE Like and subscribe to our videos on YouTube.  Help ORTUS reach for the Stars - Star and Fork our Repos Star all of your Github Box Dependencies from CommandBox with https://www.forgebox.io/view/commandbox-github  Subscribe to our Podcast on your Podcast Apps and leave us a review Sign up for a free or paid account on CFCasts, which is releasing new content every week BOXLife store: https://www.ortussolutions.com/about-us/shop Buy Ortus's Book - 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips)  Patreon SupportGoal 1 - We have 38 patreons providing 100% of the funding for our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions. 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Last week was full of announcements, and special code and the last workshop selected.Into the Box 2022 - Venue and Hotel Information with Discount CodeWe are excited to be hosting Into the Box 2022 back in Houston Texas, but this time, at a new venue, and new hotel, Houston CityPlace Marriott at Springwoods Village. The venue is top of the line, and the conference and workshop areas are professional and functional making them perfect for our Conference. We have secured you a group discount code, for Into the Box 2022 Attendeeshttp://www.intothebox.org/blog/into-the-box-2022-venue-and-hotel-information-with-discount-code Into the Box 2022 - Flight Discounts with United AirlinesWe are pleased to partner with United Airlines for air travel to our upcoming event. To make flight reservations online please click on the discount code...http://www.intothebox.org/blog/into-the-box-2022-flight-discounts-with-united-airlines Into the Box 2022 - 5th and Final Workshop SelectedWe previously announced the first four workshops, but our fifth and final workshop was down to a tough decision between 3 great workshop options. We put the poll out on twitter, and we selected the final workshop.http://www.intothebox.org/blog/into-the-box-2022-5th-and-final-workshop-selected Adobe - Platinum Sponsor for Into the Box 2022This year, we are fortunate enough to have Adobe by our side again as our partner at Into the Box 2022. With the support of Adobe, we have been able to work and expand within the ColdFusion community, not only in the United States, but also with our initiatives in Latin America. Their help has been invaluable in ensuring that our conferences are a huge successhttp://www.intothebox.org/blog/adobe-platinum-sponsor-for-into-the-box-2022 Free Month of CFCasts for all ITB Attendees in Addition to ITB 2022 VideosEvery year, when you are an attendee of Into the Box, you get all of the recordings from the Into the Box Conference you attended made available for future viewing, or reviewing. We have always done this so you don't miss out on all of the amazing content in both tracks at the conference. In addition to that, this year, after Into the Box, we'll also be sending all of the attendees a coupon for 1 month free access to all of the content on CFCasts.https://www.intothebox.org/blog/free-month-of-cfcasts-for-all-itb-attendees-in-addition-to-itb-2022-videos/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=podcast New Releases and UpdatesHyper v3.5.0 is out with:- New `getStatusText()` and `getStatus()` methods- `getMemento()` methods for both `HyperRequest` and `HyperResponse`- And a better `throwOnError` experience showing much more information than `cfhttp` gives you out of the box.Minor Update to the Lucee Mongo DB Extensionfixes an issue where cache entries with a “last access” timeout would not properly be removed from the cache in a timely manner.fixes an issue where the hit count in the table was incremented twice on each “hit”minor code cleanup (typos in function names)https://dev.lucee.org/t/mongodb-extension-minor-update-3-12-8-132/10254 ICYMI - CommandBox v5.5.2 Released!We are pleased to release CommandBox 5.5.2.  This is patch release following our recent 5.5.1 release.  It contains mostly fixes for regressions in the 5.5. release.  If you're upgrading from CommandBox 5.4, please refer to the 5.5.1 release notes first.Good number of bug fixes, improvements and tasks.https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/commandbox-552-released/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=podcast ICYMI - Lucee 5.3.9.141 ReleasedFollowing up on our 5.3.9.133 stable release, the Lucee team is proud to announce our 5.3.9.141 stable releasehttps://dev.lucee.org/t/lucee-stable-release-5-3-9-141/10219/2 Adobe CF Builder release - updateFrom Mark on Slack I know I sound like a broken record, but it is really close. I've had 2 long demos of it this week, with one more left. It looks really, really good. I'm using the latest build for all my demos, and its like... right there. There's like, one dumb bug that's probably already been fixed. Look for at least one deep dive engineering talk about VS Code during Developer Week (and I'm pushing for 2 talks because, frankly, an hour isn't enough time to cover everything this tool does). I'm trying so hard not to oversell it here, but I honestly think this is going to become the number 1 CFML IDE tool everyone uses.https://app.slack.com/client/T06T9JEE9/C06TABBT8/thread/C06TABBT8-1653026069.319079 WEBINARS / MEETUPS AND WORKSHOPSOnline CF Meetup - "When Should I Use 3rd Party Libraries vs Roll My Own?", with Gavin PickinThere is always a trade-off between using a 3rd party library and rolling your version in software development. I often hear many of these points in discussions, but I wonder how many people know and consider them, so I wanted to share my pros and cons.This presentation will help convince you that libraries are not EVIL like so many haters believe. Choosing the right libraries will make you more productive and efficient, not lazy. We'll look at how to identify solid use-cases for using a 3rd party library in your application. It gives you a checklist of questions to help you identify the red flags of unsafe, unreliable, poorly supported, or ill-suited libraries.We'll even look at some examples in the CFML Landscape.https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/286262739/ ICYMI - Ortus Webinar - May - Clearing the Fuzzies on Fuzzy Search with Michael BornMay 27th 2022: Time 11:00 AM Central Time ( US and Canada )Take a walk through the world of search in this webinar which will show why your database search is not smart enough, explain the basics of how fuzzy search works, and show how to use CBElasticsearch to bring the power of fuzzy searching to your CF application.https://cfcasts.com/series/ortus-webinars-2022/videos/michael-born-clearing-the-fuzzies-on-fuzzy-search View all Webinars: https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars Ortus Webinar - June - Getting started with the Legacy Migration with Dan CardJune 24th 2022: Time 11:00 AM Central Time ( US and Canada )We will look at the process of converting legacy .cfm based sites into a more modern coding design which has less overall code, is easier to maintain and manage, mistakes and errors can more readily and speedily identified and fixed, and is easier to read.Registration Link: Coming SoonView all Webinars: https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars June 2022 Seattle ColdFusion User Group MeetingWe are restarting our Seattle ColdFusion User Group meetings and are looking forward to meeting online with all of you.This month's meeting includes a presentation by Leon O'Daniel on sending SMS messages using ColdFusion and the Twilio API.https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-ColdFusion-User-Group/events/285974950/ Adobe WorkshopsJoin the Adobe ColdFusion Workshop to learn how you and your agency can leverage ColdFusion to create amazing web content. This one-day training will cover all facets of Adobe ColdFusion that developers need to build applications that can run across multiple cloud providers or on-premiseICYMI - WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 202210AM PTWebinar - Exploring the CF Administrator: pt1Mark TakataIn part one of exploring the capabilities of the ColdFusion Administrator, Mark will explore the GUI of this powerful, unique ColdFusion tool, explaining how to use many of the capabilities exposed and available for tuning.https://exploring-coldfusion-administrator-1.meetus.adobeevents.com/ WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 20229:00 AM EDTAdobe ColdFusion WorkshopBrian Sappeyhttps://1-day-coldfusion-workshop.meetus.adobeevents.com/ WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 20229:00 AM CETAdobe ColdFusion WorkshopDamien Bruyndonckx (Brew-en-dohnx) https://adobe-cf-workshop.meetus.adobeevents.com/ FREE :)Full list - https://meetus.adobeevents.com/coldfusion/ Adobe and Carahsoft workshopsWednesday June 01, 2022Adobe ColdFusion Advanced Workshop CPE credit availableHosted By: Adobe & Carahsofthttps://www.carahsoft.com/learn/event/37899-Adobe-ColdFusion-Advanced-Workshop Tuesday, June 7, 2022Adobe ColdFusion WorkshopCPE credit availableHosted By: Adobe & Carahsofthttps://www.carahsoft.com/learn/event/37401-adobe-coldfusion-workshopCFCasts Content Updateshttps://www.cfcasts.comJust Released Webinar - Michael Born - Clearing the Fuzzies on Fuzzy Searchhttps://cfcasts.com/series/ortus-webinars-2022/videos/michael-born-clearing-the-fuzzies-on-fuzzy-search  2022 ForgeBox Module of the Week Series - 2 new Videoshttps://cfcasts.com/series/2022-forgebox-modules-of-the-week 2022 VS Code Hint tip and Trick of the Week Series - 2 new Videoshttps://cfcasts.com/series/2022-vs-code-hint-tip-and-trick-of-the-week  Coming Soon Last couple of videos for Gavin Pickin - Publish Your First ForgeBox Package LogBox 101 from Eric Peterson Box-ifying a 3rd Party Library from Gavin More ForgeBox and VS Code Podcast snippet videos Conferences and TrainingICYMI - MS BuildMay 24-26, 2022Come together at Microsoft Build May 24–26 2022, to explore the latest innovations in code and application development—and to gain insights from peers and experts from around the world.Regional Spotlights, One on One bookings available and more.https://mybuild.microsoft.com/en-US/home ICYMI - Ioniconf  (Free Online Ionic conference)May 25, 2022Join us for a full day of talks from experts and leaders in the web community, showing how the web is pushing the boundaries of mobile app development. Get insights on the latest web libraries, frameworks, and tools that are empowering web developers to build stunning mobile and cross-platform apps using the power of the web.https://ionic.io/ioniconfUS VueJS ConfFORT LAUDERDALE, FL • JUNE 8-10, 2022Beach. Code. Vue.Workshop day: June 8Main Conference: June 9-10https://us.vuejs.org/Speakers and Schedule Announced https://us.vuejs.org/schedule/ Apple WWDCJune 6 to 10https://developer.apple.com/wwdc22/Quasar ConfPlease let us know about you and what you'd like to speak about in all things Quasar or Vue!!!Conference Date: Saturday, July 9th, 2022 - 3 p.m. GMTDeadline for Proposals: June 9th, 2022Call for Proposals - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSecQfTFUM1BINAvpPl-Khbk7UYpLk2srIR0pLgMcVjpJwWMCA/viewform THAT ConferenceHowdy. We're a full-stack, tech-obsessed community of fun, code-loving humans who share and learn together.We geek-out in Texas and Wisconsin once a year but we host digital events all the time.WISCONSIN DELLS, WI / JULY 25TH - 28TH, 2022A four-day summer camp for developers passionate about learning all things mobile, web, cloud, and technology.https://that.us/events/wi/2022/ Our very own Daniel Garcia is speaking there https://that.us/activities/sb6dRP8ZNIBIKngxswIt Adobe Developer Week 2022July 18-22, 2022Online - Virtual - FreeThe Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week is back - bigger and better than ever! This year, our experts are gearing up to host a series of webinars on all things ColdFusion. This is your chance to learn with them, get your questions answered, and build cloud-native applications with ease.Note: Speakers listed are 2021 speakers currently - check back for updates - I heard speakers were being contacted, and info coming very soon!!! Wink wink nudge nudgehttps://adobe-coldfusion-devweek-2022.attendease.com/registration/form VueJS Forge After many requests - New Dates - July 13th-14thDue to many of you taking advantage of early summer vacations, we have decided to postpone the event to a date that will make sure as many of you as possible won't miss out on the opportunity to attend Vue.js Forge!Organized by Vue School_The largest hands-on Vue.js EventTeam up with 1000s of fellow Vue.js devs from around the globe to build a real-world application in just 2 days in this FREE hackathon-style event.Make connections. Build together. Learn together.Sign up as an Individual or signup as a companyCompany Deal - $2000 for a team of 5, includes VueSchool annual membership and guaranteed seat at the workshops at VueJS Forge as well… and you can pick your teamSneak Peek into the Project: If you've ever wanted to build your own SaaS app, then “the project” is definitely right up your alley! Work with Vue.js, VueUse, Vue Router, and Pinia on the front-end along with a dynamic back-end to create the main application. Also create a marketing site that's easily maintained by a non-technical marketing team, then deploy everything live to the world.https://vuejsforge.com/Into The Box 2022September 6, 7 and 8, 2022One day workshops before the two day conference!Super Early bird pricing available until May 31st, 2022Conference Website:https://intothebox.orgITB Blog has new updates almost every day!CF Summit - OfficialMirageOct 3rd & 4th - CFSummit ConferenceOct 5th - Adobe Certified Professional: Adobe ColdFusion Certification Classes & Testshttps://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/ Registrations are now open.For just $99!Grab your early-bird tickets before June 30.Call for Speakers is now OpenFrom Slack re Adobe Certified ProfessionalThe Adobe Certified Professional: Adobe ColdFusion cert is a totally different, MUCH more difficult and comprehensive certification than the CF Specialist previously offered. Mark Takata, Nolan and Dave F + the CF engineering team, Elishia and Kishore all spent a week together building the new one and it is HARD. I highly recommend it as a test of your skills, I guarantee everyone will learn something new.Yes, but there's also over 100 hours of video to go over before the 1 day lecture + cert. So you watch videos, sit in class, then take the exam there. It is no joke, definitely challenging, but super satisfying to pass.Plus you get access to those videos for a year, which is nice for going back and reviewing things down the line.Into the Box Latam 2022Dec 7thMore information is coming very soon.CFCampNo CFCAMP 2022, we're trying again for summer 2023TLDR is that it's just too hard and there's too much uncertainty right now.More conferencesNeed more conferences, this site has a huge list of conferences for almost any language/community.https://confs.tech/Blogs, Tweets, and Videos of the Week 5/31/22 Tweet - James Moberg asking Eric about QB outside of ColdBoxI'm a non-Lucee, non-ColdBox #CFML developer. Can I use current version QB in a #ColdFusion 2016 project? I'm inquiring because there aren't any disclaimers or examples.  Thanks.https://twitter.com/gamesover/status/1531634319017398278https://twitter.com/gamesover/status/1531656865641222145 Sam Knowlton goes over how to set it up outside of ColdBox in this CFCasts video:https://cfcasts.com/series/itb-2020/videos/d1s4-ortus-qb-for-the-rest-of-us-gigawatts-of-fluent-and-functional-samuel-knowlton 5/31/22 Blog - Parsing Liquid Tag Embeds With jSoup And Lucee CFML 5.3.8.201On a recent episode of Dev Discuss, Arit Amana talked about refactoring the way Liquid Tags are processed in the Forem platform. I had never heard of Liquid Tags before. Apparently, it's a syntax that some platforms use to enable dynamic content. One subset of this syntax allows users to embed external content within their own content. This piqued my curiosity since something like this might give me a way to allow readers of this blog to embed fun things within the comments. As such, I wanted to experiment with parsing and processing Liquid Tags in Lucee CFML 5.3.8.201.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4272-parsing-liquid-tag-embeds-with-jsoup-and-lucee-cfml-5-3-8-201.htm 5/25/22 Blog - Adam Cameron - A super-quick Observer Pattern implementation in CFML, and I skip TDD. Or do I?There's a possible "Betteridge's law of headlines" situation there. I'm not actually sure yet.A few days back I was chatting to someone about application-scope-usage, and how to trigger an event when any changes to the application scope took place. I mentioned that the application scope should never be accessed directly in one's application code, and it should be wrapped up in an adapter. And it's easy for one's adapter to trigger events if needs must. An implementation of the Observer Pattern would do the trick here.Then it occurred to me that I have never actually implemented the Observer Pattern, and I thought I might give it a go.https://blog.adamcameron.me/2022/05/a-super-quick-observer-pattern.html 5/30/22 Blog - Adam Cameron - CFML: Implementing an ObservableScopeAdapter using the Adapter Pattern, Decorator Pattern and Observer PatternIn my last article (A super-quick Observer Pattern implementation in CFML, and I skip TDD. Or do I?), I did what it suggests: I created a very simple observer pattern implementation in CFML.https://blog.adamcameron.me/2022/05/cfml--implementing-an-observablescopeadapter-using-the-decorator-pattern-and-observer-pattern.html 5/30/22 - Blog - Ortus Solutions - Into the Box - Updates as of May 30th, 2022Into the Box is sneaking up closer and closer. With so many announcements, we can't post them all to the Ortus Solutions blog, so we're going to just give you updates when we can. To read all of our blog posts from ITB, visit the site or subscribe to RSS https://intothebox.org/blog https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/into-the-box-updates-as-of-may-30th-2022/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=podcast 5/28/22 - Blog - Ben Nadel - Code Kata: Array Intersection, Union, And Difference In Lucee CFML 5.3.8.201For the last week or so, I've had some extreme tunnel vision at work as I was barrelling towards a deadline to finish building a Mail Blasts feature for InVision. And, now that I'm done (crushing it), I need a little breather. As a fun code kata, I thought I might play around with calculating array interactions, unions, and differences in Lucee CFML 5.3.8.201. This isn't something that comes up often in my day-to-day work. But, it's yet another opportunity to showcase the unyielding power of the Struct as Index pattern in ColdFusion.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4271-code-kata-array-intersection-union-and-difference-in-lucee-cfml-5-3-8-201.htm 5/28/22 Blog - Tony Junkes - PDF to Images With PDFBox and CFMLRecently, I worked on part of a feature for viewing a PDF, page by page, in the browser. To accomplish this, the PDF is converted into JPG images and displayed in a carousel. In this article, I want to touch on the image conversion and how it can be done using Apache PDFBox.https://tonyjunkes.com/blog/pdf-to-images-with-pdfbox-and-cfml/ 5/27/22 Blog - Peter Amiri - CFWheels - CFWheels has moved to GitHub DiscussionsAlthough Google Groups has served us well over the years, it's started to lose some essential abilities and it's looking a little long in the tooth.We have decided that it would be a benefit to the community to migrate to GitHub Discussions. GitHub Discussions allows us to bring our community closer to where the code lives.https://cfwheels.org/blog/cfwheels-has-moved-to-github-discussions/ 5/27/22 Tweet - James Moberg - when the 3rd arg for ReplaceNoCase() changed to "callback"?Do any #ColdFusion developers know when the 3rd arg for ReplaceNoCase() changed to "callback"?CF3 (1997): substring2Current Lucee: replacementI'm not sure when it was changed to "callback", but docs should be updated to indicate that "string" can be used too. #cfmlhttps://twitter.com/gamesover/status/1530208970714927104 5/26/22 Blog - Gavin Pickin - Ortus Solutions - Case Insensitivity Issues on WindowsIf you are using Windows these days, Windows 10 and 11 give you many of the tools you want and need in the Web Developer Toolbox. After working on Macs and deploying to Linux for a long time, I made the switch back to Windows a while ago, and the list of things that I genuinely miss on Windows is pretty slim, with one major issue, Case Sensitivity or lack of, on Windows.https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/case-insensitivity-issues-on-windows/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=podcast 5/26/22 - Blog - Into the Box - Into the Box 2022 - 5th and Final Workshop SelectedWe previously announced the first four workshops, but our fifth and final workshop was down to a tough decision between 3 great workshop options. We put the poll out on twitter, and we selected the final workshop,https://www.intothebox.org/blog/into-the-box-2022-5th-and-final-workshop-selected/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=podcast 5/26/22 - Blog - Mark Takata - Twitch StreamingDid you know I #stream #coding stuff on Twitch? Every Tuesday & Thursday at 1pm PST, I play around with Adobe #ColdFusion, code in #CFML, and generally try to learn something new each stream. Today I went over how to leverage the native JSON output of CFQuery to generate tabular data using #DataTables.https://www.linkedin.com/posts/marktakata_marktakata-twitch-activity-6932560214617452544-d8hd/   CFML JobsSeveral positions available on https://www.getcfmljobs.com/Listing over 91 ColdFusion positions from 50 companies across 45 locations in 5 Countries.3 new jobs listedFull-Time - Senior Coldfusion Developer at Windsor Mill, MD - United States May 25https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-states/Senior-Coldfusion-Developer-at-Windsor-Mill-MD/11478Full-Time - Senior Coldfusion Developer at United States - United States May 24https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-states/Senior-Coldfusion-Developer-at-United-States/11477Full-Time - Senior Software Engineer - Coldfusion/C# at Plano, TX - United States May 24https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-states/Senior-Software-engineer-coldfusion/11475PATREON SPONSORED JOB POSTING!Hagerty - MotorSportRegSenior Software Engineer, MotorsportWe are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to work primarily with Node/Vue.js, ColdFusion, and AWS to improve our platform and build greenfield experiences.We are a 25-person team supporting 1,600 organizations with our SaaS CRM, commerce and event management platform. 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This weeks guests are Jen Adams and Eric BetteridgeJen and Eric tell us all about their Cross Country Ski Adventures and oh my,  are they ever accomplished in this sport!We talk about some of their bike packing trips, and then dive into their very own bike packing route, The Log Drivers WaltzAnd to top it all off,  Jen and Eric will be tackling The Tour Divide starting in Banff, Alberta Canada this June and they tell us what their plan of action is for this Epic race!!I really enjoy my chat with this power couple, and I know you will too!https://www.logdriverswaltz.ca/Instagram: @thelogdriverswaltz*Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/mojo/rebelLicense code: HNJQZQMQRQX5GTHX

This week we have not one but two fabulous guests - join us as we speak to Rob Lyman about his new book ‘War of Empires' and hear from Lucy Betteridge-Dyson about her Grandad's experience in the Arakan. If you'd like to get in touch, you can find us on Twitter @KhakiMalarkey. Edited by Zack O'Leary (@zickzack142). Hosted by Phoebe Style (@ph0ebestyle) and Olivia Smith (@__OliviaSmith12).

There are a million mysteries inside of Oldbrush Valley. Marissa and Ravi are going to get to the bottom of at least one of them. PATREON: http://patreon.com/woe_begone ALIZA SCHULTZ: http://anchor.fm/alizaschultz TRANSCRIPTS: http://WOEBEGONEPOD.com TWITTER: @WOEBEGONEPOD REDDIT: /r/DOGCATCHER and /r/WOEBEGONE MUSIC: http://woebegonepod.bandcamp.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/pn9kjTBYPD

About Liz George: Nurse Liz George believes storytelling is integral to health and well-being because it is how we shape and make sense of our world. Liz's goal is always to present scientific information in a way that is factual, accessible, and engaging. Liz has a Bachelor of Science degree in holistic nursing and is a certified public health nurse and lactation consultant. She uses this background and experience to provide family health and wellness information because families have the potential to change the world to create a better future for everyone. You can see Liz's work at https://nurselizgeorge.com/work-samples. Host Elizabeth Hanes BSN RN built a six-figure writing business in her spare time. Today, she coaches other nurses how to become freelance writers through the RN2writer project. Topics discussed in this episode: 3:55 Branding for your target audience 12:00 Think in terms of nursing goals 16:40 Your role as a content writer 21:24 Betteridge's Law of Headlines 28:40 Don't miss an opportunity to sell on your About Page! Resources mentioned in this episode: RN2writer Daily: http://rn2writerdaily.com/ RN2writer: https://www.rn2writer.com/ Next steps Download and listen to the podcast of this episode at RN2writer Start your journey from nursing to writing with the ebook Design Your Dream Career as a Nurse Writer Follow RN2writer on social media: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn Special thanks to: Custom RN2writer theme music by https://www.podcastthemes.com/

New renders of the 27-inch iMac Pro, what to do if you see AirTag 'Item Detected Near You' notifications, and we go in-depth on the iMessage lock-in debacle. Contact our hosts Submit anonymous tips on Signal: +1 863-703-0668 @stephenrobles on Twitter @WGallagher on Twitter Sponsored by: Headspace: Get a FREE one-month trial with access to the entire Headspace library! Visit headspace.com/appleinsider to learn more. Zocdoc: Go to zocdoc.com/appleinsider and download the app to sign-up for FREE. Find doctors and specialists that take your insurance and even book appointments online! Support the show Support the show on Patreon or Apple Podcasts to get ad-free episodes every week, access to our private Discord channel, and early release of the show! We would also appreciate a 5-star rating and review in Apple Podcasts Links from the show Apple VR, iPhone 14, and iMessage controversy - An exclusive interview with Rene Ritchie Apple's new 27-inch iMac with Apple Silicon - what to expect, and when it might be announced Apple AR headset will need same 96W charger as MacBook Pro Apple releases iOS 15.2.1 and iPadOS 15.2.1 with HomeKit & CarPlay fixes Wordle - A daily word game Amidst backlash, Apple has purged most of the Wordle clones from the App Store What to do if you see on your iPhone Betteridge's law of headlines - Wikipedia ‎Locket Widget on the App Store Automatic Wallpaper Shortcut for iPhone and iPad - YouTube Apple will allow alternative payment systems in South Korea App Store Google Graveyard - Killed by Google Apple uses Messages colors to bully Android users, says Google Green texts in iMessages nudge teens to use iPhones Apple pitched a standardized version of iMessage to wireless carriers, but they didn't bite Google SVP Tweet on iMessage T-Mobile blocking Apple's iCloud Private Relay for some - but it's complicated T-Mobile backs down on claim that iOS 15.2 changed iCloud Private Relay settings Steve Jobs introduced the first MacBook Pro 16 years ago More AppleInsider podcasts Tune in to our HomeKit Insider podcast covering the latest news, products, apps and everything HomeKit related. Subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Overcast, or just search for HomeKit Insider wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe and listen to our AppleInsider Daily podcast for the latest Apple news Monday through Friday. You can find it on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, or anywhere you listen to podcasts. Podcast artwork from Basic Apple Guy. Download the free wallpaper pack here. Those interested in sponsoring the show can reach out to us at: steve@appleinsider.com

Sketch, CJ and Kuro discuss the vast array of other anime and action animation blocks that aired on television from 1995 until around 2015. In order to cover as many of the North American anime blocks as we could, we enlisted the help of our newest social media guy Steven Oz and our returning guest Jesse Betteridge. Be sure to check out Jesse's Canadian-centered anime podcast: Zannen, Canada. Music Credits: "Reason" as performed by Nami Tamaki

Jen and Eric Betteridge both grew up in active families and have always carried on leading an active lifestyle. They have both continued to enjoy adventuring by bike and like to see people getting out there on whatever bike they have.Ontario has so much to offer in terms of outdoor recreation and that motivated this adventurous couple to develop a route that showcases some of the fantastic bikepacking in the province. They spent time out on the bike developing different sections and then eventually joined all the routes together creating the Log Driver's Waltz, “an 800 kilometre, multi-day cycling route that traverses a vast variety of terrain in the Ottawa Valley and Outaouais regions of Ontario and Quebec.”It was a pleasure to finally connect with Jen and Eric. They have a ton of experience and they shared a lot of their methods during the conversation. Save 25% off a consultation at Cycling 101 when you use the code VIP50 at checkout.Save 25% at Dynamic Cyclist when you use the promo code MB40 at checkout.Save 10% at Ancestral Supplements when you use the code MB40 at checkout. Save 10% at Ranch BoxThanks to Lakeside Bikes in Invermere for supporting me!Visit Rollingdale Cycle!

Prolific Big Fish Carp Hunter, Ed Betteridge joins Mark & Jamie for a chat his life in Carp Fishing and his work within the industry. News, Views & Gossip from Thom Airs, Mark & Jamie completes this 3 hour journey.

Jack Betteridge - V.U.C.A TRANSFORMED by Acadia Divinity College

If a newspaper headline ends in a question mark, is the answer always no? And if so, are journalists who use them being lazy and cynical? Ian Betteridge described what is now known as Betteridge's Law of Headlines in a small blog post in 2009. Is it still relevant in our current age of clickbait and media bubbles? Robin Ince puts these questions to Caroline Frost, an ethicist, entertainment journalist and broadcaster, often seen reviewing the papers on a Sunday night on the BBC News Channel, and to Gemma Milne, a tech journalist and author of a book about the dangers of hype in science journalism called "Smoke and Mirrors". Produced by Alex Mansfield. First broadcast on Monday 24 August 2020.

The Mindful Muslim is an Inspirited Minds podcast that hosts raw, open, and honest conversations on various topics within the sphere of mental health, psychology, Islam and spirituality. In this episode, we meet Dr. Sara Betteridge who is a psychologist and family therapist in Adult Mental Health. Our host, Meanha Begum, has an open discussion with Dr. Sara about her family culture of working in mental health, her experience of incorporating Islam into psychological therapy and her journey to becoming a senior chartered counselling psychologist. Her work ranges from being a Family Therapist for an adult eating disorder unit, a Community Psychologist for the Black, Minority and Ethnic (BME) Community Psychology Access team in Tower Hamlets, delivering staff-training on the needs of the local communities, and working in her independent practise offering her expertise. She shares her knowledge and experiences over the course of her practice in terms of the current mental health landscape in the UK; its strengths, weaknesses and points to improve on. Some of the topics she talks about include: The gap between secular psycho-therapy and religious therapy, and how they can be integrated together in the field of mental healthHow to balance our spiritual side and our faith with secular approaches to mental health and wellbeingThe importance of tying your camel first and then putting your trust in Allah (SWT) because acting to help yourself is the first stepThe downside of certain cultural practices when it comes to having difficult and emotionally nurturing conversations with children and youthThe balance between Jinn/evil eye and mental health illnessHow the NHS model can have limitations when it comes to religious content within a therapeutic settingInstitutionalised racism within major healthcare providers, especially towards BAME patients and clientsThe pros and cons of having a mental health therapist who is of the same faith This episode is dedicated to Dr. Sara's father - Assam Korim - who died after the filming of this podcast episode from Covid-19. May Allah (SWT) have mercy on him, Ameen. You can contact Dr. Sara emailing imaancounselling@googlemail.com.  If you would like to ask us a question, suggest a topic you would like us to discuss on the podcast or if you would like to feature on the podcast as a guest, then please get in touch with the Mindful Muslim Podcast Team at podcast@inspiritedminds.org.uk. Support our podcast by becoming a Torchbearer for Inspirited Minds.

For our latest episode, Debbie gets into conversation with our systemic eating disorder family therapist, Dr Sara Betteridge. Sara's experience is in the ‘open dialogue' approach to therapy, and she's had huge success working with families affected by an eating disorder. She discusses why the approach is so effective, and who it benefits. After you've listened, if you're interested in an appointment with her, do get in touch via our website at https://wednesdayschild.co.uk/

Problem solvers! They’re great. Everyone wants to be one and hire more of them. But are the problem solvers good at identifying problems? You know how this works - google "Betteridge's law of headlines” if you don't.

Attracting aspiring local government leaders. Eric King, City Manager, and Stephanie Betteridge, Chief Innovation Officer, joined the podcast to talk about a new recruitment in the City of Bend, Oregon. The City is hiring for a Strategic Initiatives Manager (and other roles) and they shared what led to creating this position, what skills they are looking for, and what the first few months on the job will be like. Eric and Stephanie also shared their own career paths in local government and what makes Bend unique. Host: Kirsten Wyatt

"Hi Deb, I am interested in the subjects you raise and in 2019 I had an experience at Cannock chase that has puzzled me for the last year or so. So I went back this weekend and again we had some very strange things happen whilst we were camping there""We have been to Cannock Chase a couple of times on research investigations and camp overs. The second time we went we were near the Brocton area of Cannock. Because I have the sightings map I got off your channel on youtube I knew this would be a good area to concentrate on, due to the number of reports that have happened to the general public when they have visited the area.We got in and set up, then we walked for a few miles around in the woods to get a feel for the place and we came across a really densely packed wooded area which we just had to have a look at, so we went in. About 20, 30 feet inside the wood we found an abandoned campsite, where the tent was torn and there was rubbish in bags all around on the ground, it looked like someone had left in a hurry, we were not too sure what to make of it so we left that wood and had a few mile walk around checking out other areas for any signs of activity.On our way back to camp my friend stopped and he was looking off into this woodline and said "What the f**k was that". I turned to him and saw his face, then I quickly turned to where he was looking but I couldn't see anything, so I asked him "what did you see?" He said "I don't know but it was big and moving down on all fours". So me being me I went straight into the wood to try and see what my friend was seeing. I couldn't see anything moving, but I did find bones on the floor where my friend said he saw this thing, the bones looked like a young Deers bones due to the size of its skull and a there was also a couple of leg bones but they looked very fresh.Ever since that day me and my friend have been talking about what happened and what he could have seen, so we have come up with a plan to just keep going back in the hopes of finding some Answers. Thanks Alan"Alan has been able to visit the Chase and keep his investigations going. Here is a recent update from Alan after a visit in late October 2020.

My quest to save Whitewater Kayaking meanders into the world of Slalom Kayaking this week and I chat with Canadian Olympic hopeful Lois Betteridge about what we can do for slalom and what it can do for us. And also how the current pandemic situation has affected pre-Olympic training plan, the opportunity that has created for more training and more.

Mathieu Tousignant joins host Dan Kerry on the latest episode of The Nottingham Panthers' Audio Experience.

We talk all about our postpartum experiences during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Featured Tunes: End of the World by Great Big Sea Across the Night by Silverchair (Rockabye Baby version)

Mindset Explosion Season 3, Episode 16 Today I speak to Jo Betteridge about her new venture Jo Betteridge Writes, her book and Jo's inspiring journey to help others through with her Mindset coaching. Turn a negative in to a positive and make the best of the time you have. Jo decided to take action and signed up with business coach Jo Bendle https://jobendle.com/ , Through coaching Jo launched forward full throttle to not only write her book, but use her own experiences to help other over come self doubt and build their confidence to be inspired to move forward in their own lives. If you would like to find out more about Jo's coaching then drop an email to: jobetteridge@gmail.com For more inspiring content from Jo, head on over to her Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/jobetteridgewrites

I’m joined today by John Betteridge. John is the founder of JVB Solutions, a team of expert electricians, plumbers, gas & heating engineers and builders that specialise in helping you to improve your property.  What’s unique about John is how he’s built his company’s culture to deliver a trusted service to his customers, leveraging the management skills he learnt during his time at a multinational construction company. And be sure to listen to the end, where John shares with us some tips for you to get the most out of your home improvement budget. So whether you’re interested in knowing more about the home improvement sector or would like to know more about what it takes to run a successful independent business, then I hope you enjoy this episode of the Inside Kingston™ Podcast.   ~ LINKS & RESOURCES ~ John Betteridge - LinkedIn JVB Solutions - Website   ~ YOUR HOST ~  Hi, I'm Amyr Rocha-Lima. I’m a partner at Holland Hahn & Wills, a financial planning and wealth management firm based here in Kingston. As an active member of our business community, I want to help other businesses get their story out there and see them succeed and flourish.   ~ HELP US SPREAD THE WORD ~ If you know someone who should be a guest on our show, and has a great story worth sharing, please feel free to get in touch. I would also love it if you would give us a review and a 5-star rating. We work hard to bring on some great guests, and getting a review from you is one way to help the podcast rate well, so others can find and enjoy the show.

Help us make Syzygy even better! Tell your friends and give us a review, or show your support on Patreon: patreon.com/syzygypodSyzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.On the web: syzygy.fm | Twitter: @syzygypodThings we talked about in this episode:Betteridge’s Law of HeadlinesBetelgeuse is acting weirdThe recent observationsThe constellation of OrionZoom into Orion NebulaBarnard’s LoopSupergiant starsStellar evolutionStar Size Comparison videoSupernova 1987aSupernova candidates

Betteridge’s Law, Motorcycle Grandma, Welcome to the Show, Breaking Animal News, Brant’s 3 Things, Rubik’s Cube, Prize Wheel, God is Good; Quotes: “You don’t have to become your parents.” “There is always healing that can happen.” “Do you feel the fanfare was slightly excessive?” “Sometimes God uses the unlikely stuff.”

We look at Martin Fowler’s article titled “Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost?” We discuss the gives and takes of writing good software and managing technical debt. We look at misconceptions around software quality and cost, and how planning and blueprinting (architecting) up front can save teams money in the future. Moreover, we look at how good software offers teams a competitive advantage over others due to the ability to ship new features quickly and confidently. Topics: Who Martin Fowler is On Martin Fowler's article titled, "Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost?" - Are we used to a trade-off between quality and cost - Software quality means many things - Internal quality does not matter to customers - Internal quality makes it easier to enhance software - Customers do care that new features come quickly - Visualizing the impact of internal quality - Even the best teams create cruft - High quality software is cheaper to produce Links: Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost? - Martin Fowler - https://martinfowler.com/articles/is-quality-worth-cost.html Martin Fowler - https://martinfowler.com/ Betteridge's law of headlines - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines

On this episode of Glam City, Anna and Chelsea speak with City of Sydney Councillor Jess Scully and Curator Margaret Betteridge about public art, Sydney Town Hall and the city’s civic collection.More info:You can find more information on Jess Scully’s work with City of Sydney on her website or via City of SydneyThe Eora Journey is a visionary project that celebrates the living culture of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Sydney.Interested in more information the City of Sydney’s Cultural Policy and Action Plan?Peak into the City of Sydney Civic Collection that Margaret manages.Margaret’s book, Our City: 175 Years in 175 Objects is available through Trove.Are you an artist interested in Sydney? Check out the City of Sydney Public Art Strategy.If you have a GLAM idea for something that should be on the show- get in touch-GLAMcity@2ser.com.Music: Joan Sutherland- Coloratura Gallore, Teddy Bergström, Jack Elphick and Epidemic Sound

The 2018 Football Collective (www.footballcollective.org.uk) conference, a gathering of researchers working on football-related projects, met at Hampden Park last month. We were there to connect with the collective, and Andrew gave a presentation on "Fan Ownership in Scotland" which can be found at www.slideshare.net/andrewjenkin1/fan-ownership-in-scotland-the-football-collective-conference. We also spoke to conference organiser Sean Huddleston (@Sean_Hudd1978), Josh McLeod (@Josh_McLeod1) who researches corporate governance and sport at UFCB, and Supporters Direct secretary Richard Irving who is currently working on a PhD at the Sport Business Centre of Birkbeck University. And for those who were intrigued by Betteridge's law of headlines, you can read more here! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines

Hop in your favorite (better make that "favourite") European rally car and "terra up de firma" in Power Drive Rally! We explore company histories and the development of the game, dig into the game modes, and marvel at the attention to detail. In the co-driver's seat we've got sound effects and music, reviews from around the world, and Betteridge's Law of Headlines. As if that weren't enough, there's also feedback from Björn, Trevor, Roberth, Keith, Randal, Derek, Lee, Gummy Bear, doctorclu, TrekMD, and Arethius! All that and more, including storytime, can be found in this long yet info-packed episode. Full show notes are available at http://atariage.com/forums/blog/615/entry-15228-25-power-drive-rally/ Next episode: I-War!

Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.Find us on Twitter: @syzygypod twitter.com/SyzygyPodOr just visit us at home: syzygy.fmEmily at the University of York: www.york.ac.uk/physics/people/brunsden/Chris online: kipstewart.comTo view the podcast chapter list and artwork in this episode, you could do worse than use the Overcast app on iOS, or Pocket Casts on Android. (Other podcast players are available, though they may not handle mp3 chapters nicely.)Some of the things we talk about in this episode:• Mars is having a bit of a dust storm at the moment: https://mars.nasa.gov/weather/storm-watch-2018/• Name the ExoMars rover! (Please, no Marsy McMarsfaces, OK?) https://events.airbus.com/exomarsnamecomp• When and where to see the Lunar Eclipse, 27 July 2018: https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2018-july-27• Solar eclipse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse• Solar corona: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona• Star Charts: https://astronomynow.com/uk-sky-chart/• Free planetarium app for your computer/phone/tablet/device: http://stellarium.org• Historical eclipses: https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEhistory/SEhistory.html• Historical comets: http://sci.esa.int/rosetta/54198-harbingers-of-doom-windy-exhalations-or-icy-wanderers/• Historical supernovae: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_supernova_observation• Betteridge’s Law of Headlines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines• Future eclipses: https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/list.html

The guys open the show by calling each other at the same exact time, and after some podcast and productivity life hack talk, the conversation turns to recycled news, Betteridge headlines, and foodborne disease trends. Don then asks Ben for advice on talking to reporters about rodents in bottles. Listener feedback and followup covers raw pet food risk, flour heating validation, leftover storage and safety, water container hygiene, rotisserie chicken handling, tong and spatula reuse redux. The show ends with a rapid fire mention of many currently ongoing recall and outbreaks in this summer of food safety.

On this week's episode, Bauer Xcel's Director of content and audience development Ian Betteridge talks about drawing together the separate roles of editorial and data-driven audience development, how commercial needs drive content strategy and how he brings together the print and digital teams to make the many brands he oversees a success. He also tells the story behind 'Betteridge's Law'. In the news round-up, Peter and Esther talk about their highlights of the Digital News Report, why Quartz is partnering with Facebook Watch and a dismal set of newspaper ABCs. Peter gets excited about independent magazine publishing. We're reading: - Despite concerns about control, news publishers are still pushing a lot of content to third-party platforms, via Nieman Lab http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/06/despite-concerns-about-control-news-publishers-are-still-pushing-a-lot-of-content-to-third-party-platforms/ - Platforms and Publishers: A Definitive Timeline, via Tow Centre http://tow.cjr.org/platform-timeline/

Host: Brian P. McDonough, MD, FAAFP Guest: John D. Betteridge, MD Guest: Philip Stein, MD Guest: Thomas Judge, M.D. From the ReachMD studios in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, host Dr. Brian McDonough moderates an expert gastroenterology panel exploring some of the top issues in IBD management: the best time for primary care clinicians to refer patients to GI, challenges to making an early diagnosis, and differences between IBD and IBS. Panel participants include: Dr. John Betteridge, Gastroenterologist at Lancaster General Hospital and Regional Gi Medical Center in Lancaster, PA Dr. Tom Judge, Gastroenterologist and Director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Cooper University Health Care, and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Dr. Philip Stein, Pediatric Gastroenterologist at St. Christopher's Hospital and faculty member in the Department of Pediatrics at Drexel University College of Medicine

Host: Brian P. McDonough, MD, FAAFP Guest: John D. Betteridge, MD Guest: Philip Stein, MD Guest: Thomas Judge, M.D. From the ReachMD studios in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, host Dr. Brian McDonough moderates an expert gastroenterology panel exploring some of the top issues in IBD management: the best time for primary care clinicians to refer patients to GI, challenges to making an early diagnosis, and differences between IBD and IBS. Panel participants include: Dr. John Betteridge, Gastroenterologist at Lancaster General Hospital and Regional Gi Medical Center in Lancaster, PA Dr. Tom Judge, Gastroenterologist and Director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Cooper University Health Care, and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Dr. Philip Stein, Pediatric Gastroenterologist at St. Christopher's Hospital and faculty member in the Department of Pediatrics at Drexel University College of Medicine

Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Judge took batting practice together for the first time as teammates, but don't forget about Gary Sanchez, who is going to be a huge star if he isn't already -- he is already.Meanwhile, Brian Cashman wants a ring. Of course he does. But if the Yankees don't get one, does it mean the season is a failure? (Betteridge's Law applies here).J.D. Martinez goes to Boston, Chris Tillman returns to Baltimore, and both of those things have impact on the Yankees.Jake Odorizzi gets traded to Minnesota, and it would seem that the Yankees had no interest in him. But how about Chris Archer? HOW ABOUT CHRIS ARCHER?There's still time to apply to join the Locked On Yankees team. Email LockedOnNYY@gmail.com to introduce yourself, and include some samples of stuff you've written. Go! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The 2nd Amendment- Its a thing. But should it be a thing? Betteridge's law of headlines. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Links, so viele Links. https://fosdem.org/2017/ http://data.deutschebahn.com https://mobilecamp.de https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines https://github.com/mozilla/moz-handler https://github.com/kbknapp/cargo-outdated https://github.com/kennethreitz/pipenv https://github.com/lise-henry/crowbook-intl https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/book/

Show Notes: Lugarugan: http://www.idigitaltimes.com/pokemon-sun-and-moon-rockruffs-evolution-version-exclusive-corocoro-leak-hints-it-555912 Pokemon Generations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMzwcIG8vgk New Ultra Beasts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z8hARTlZrE Platonic Solids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVzu1_12FUc Kubo and the Two Strings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4-6qJzeb3A Smogon: http://www.smogon.com/dex/xy/pokemon/ Birds and the Beedrills: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_ldkJQrZFI List of Yellow Pokemon: http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_Pok%C3%A9mon_by_color#Yellow List of Green Pokemon: http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_Pok%C3%A9mon_by_color#Green Thesus's Ship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVAHXiKjgRo Betteridge's Law of Headlines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines

Positive / Visible / Social (Organized): orchestras and the question of “public goods” Show NotesWe talk about orchestras, ask whether financial viability is a guide to the health or importance of particular institutions (hint: Betteridge’s Law), and look at how orchestras and other such institutions can be real markers of cultural health even for the people they don’t directly affect. Links An article in The New York Times, in 1903, referenced in The Perilous Life of Symphony Orchestras, by Robert J. Flanagan: The permanent orchestra season has, as usual, been financially a bad one all over the country. With the end of April… come the bills for those who pay the piper…. There is always a deficit, which public-spirited guarantors are called upon to pay year after year. A permanent orchestra, it seems pretty welle stablished by American experience, is not at present a paying institution, and is not likely immediately to become so…. [Neverthless,] the prevailing note of the guarantors of the America Orchestras is one of hopefulness. Things are coming on; the public is being educated; it will support the orchestras in larger and larger numbers till they are finally… self-supporting. Stephen’s top three Dutch minimalist recommendations: “Canto Ostinato” by Simeon Ten Holt Joep Franssens, whose best known work is “Music of the Spheres” Jeroen van Veen Prog rock Chris likes: Explosions in the Sky Faunts (and especially their album M4) Other music mentioned on the show: Bach’s Mass in B Minor Lecrae Industrial music Stomp dance Mahler Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection” Blue Man Group Spoken word Poetry slam A few of Chris’ composed works Music “Generation Love” by Jon Reynolds – used by permission. “Winning Slowly Theme” by Chris Krycho. Composed along with hours of other music over the course of his teenage years and adult life. Maybe he’ll make a second career out of that. Sponsors Many thanks to the people who help us make this show possible by their financial support! This month’s sponsors: Andrew Fallows Kurt Klassen Jeremy Cherfas Jeremy W. Sherman If you’d like to support the show, you can make a pledge at Patreon or give directly via Square Cash. Respond We love to hear your thoughts. Hit us up via Twitter, Facebook, or email!

We take a glimpse outside our little piece of anime heaven over here in the States to hear about the industry in Canada from the host of the Zannen Canada podcast: Jesse Betteridge. Before that, it's business as usual as we bring you the latest Toonami news and recaps for Akame ga Kill and Parasyte. Paul and Jim were both unavailable so Duelist and Caboose are along for the ride. Your hosts this week are Sketch and Darrell with our returning guests CabooseJr and DuelistG Music Credits: “Skyreach” performed by Sora Amamiya “Let Me Hear” performed by Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas “I Am” from the Parasyte Soundtrack "Oh Canada" performed by Five Iron Frenzy "Canadian Idiot" performed by Al Yankovic DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions of the participants of this podcast are not the views of ToonamiFaithful.Com or it’s affiliates, nor are they the views of Toonami, [adult swim], Williams Street, Turner or any other Time Warner property. Please rate us on iTunes and Stitcher and send us feedback through email, Twitter or Facebook. Twitter: @ToonamiPodcast Facebook.com/ToonamiFaithfulPodcast Website: ToonamiFaithful.com E-Mail: podcast@ToonamiFaithful.com You can also listen to us on: Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/toonami-faithful-podcast-2?refid=stpr iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/toonami-faithfuls-podcast/id539486048?mt=2v

  Is Star Trek's Utopia coming? Is HP irrelevant? Do e-books earn more at lower prices? Is Twitter going to lose a lawsuit over scanning DMs? Is the ad-blocking Peace app still available? Are we trapped in a closet? Do we like Betteridge's law of headlines? Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/128

This episode starts with a discussion of Ben’s taste in music, and they quickly move onto talking documentaries. Ben recently watched Jodorowsky’s Dune, on Don’s recommendation. This documentary has some ‘artful nudity’ that leads to a discussion of perverts on airplanes and the appropriateness of reading material such as Fifty Shades of Grey while crammed into an airplane seat. The conversation naturally transitioned into a discussion of microphone stands and coffee. Ben notes that owning a Nespresso machine has changed his life; he ranks it among his top 10 life changing things (including his wife and children). The guys then discuss other pop-culture topics including Deflate-Gate and TV shows The Affair, Portlandia (which had an episode satirizing raw milk), and Garfunkel and Oates. Note that Portlandia is required viewing before attending IAFP 2015 in Portland this summer Ben leads off the actual food safety talk by mentioning sprouts and the number of outbreaks associated with them. The guys then discuss experiments to validate sprout cooking processes including charred bean sprouts. Ben then brings up the idea of baking cookies in a car and a visit from Linda Harris (who now download and listens). From there the talk turns to pathogen reduction validations for baking processes spurred by Wegmans recall of baked fruit desserts last summer, presumably because they contained peaches recalled for Listeria. The FDA’s Reportable Food Registry, along with CDC whole genome sequencing of pathogens, is enabling more illnesses to be linked to products, as seen in Salmonella Braenderup linked to nut butter. Ben predicts more businesses will have to issue recalls because of validation issues, and the investigations that accompany these recalls will isolate pathogens from within facilities that can be linked to other illnesses which have occurred over months and years prior. The discussion then turns to the very bad blizzard that New Jersey never had. Don discusses the similarities between the models for weather forecasting and models in food safety. Both situations have consequences for over or under reacting; both present risk management and risk communication difficulties. A tweet from The New Yorker made Don mad: Bill Marler may be all that stands between you and Salmonella. This resulted in Don tweeting back to The New Yorker. Ben mentioned it was probably just Betteridge’s Law of Headlines. Bill Marler is probably not all that stands between you and Salmonella; as there are a few more people trying to do the right thing. The guys then go on to discuss how Marler and Caroline Smith DeWaal, a lawyer with the Center for Science in the Public Interest, have become controversial food safety personalities over the years. Don recently was quoted in an article about the safety of various cuts of meat (and Barfblogged here). Don and Ben were so happy Don was quoted correctly, they were able to ‘ding’ their podcast-bell; a virtual high-five. Pork has a reputation for being dangerous but decreases in incidences of Trichinella and Americans tendency to overcook pork have reduced the actual risk, so Ben wanted to discuss a recent MMWR Trichinellosis report. Don mentions ‘The Batz Report’ which determined the top 10 pathogen-food combinations with the greatest burden in public health. This led to a discussion of sample size, detection limits, consumption rates, and risk messaging, leading to the conclusion that cultural practices in food preparation adds complexity to the determination of risk.

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: Dave’s Russian agents, VMware’s nightmarish Docker future, everyone learns what “navigator” is in Greek. Cпасибо? Dave’s article is mentioned in Russian D&G bait: Will Docker and VMware Compete? Betteridge’s law of headlines Libswarm and Apache Mesos will help with management Red Hat and Google Collaborate on Kubernetes to Manage Docker Containers at Scale Learn more here Linux Wants Automakers to Stop Failing at Infotainment by Using Common Software Joe Brockmeier has a new podcast Silence is golden: Video Essay Beautifully Shows Martin Scorsese’s Use of Silence in Film 10 Cent Beer Night Tim Russert of NBC’s Meet the Press was a student at at the time: “I went with $2 in my pocket. You do the math.” Cutting Room Floor Today in Videoconferencing Entlistungsfreude: The satisfaction achieved by crossing things off lists GitBook: no excuses HT Erich Morisse: DOD’s industry is “Accounting”, per LinkedIn Ohio news flash: Alice Cooper inducted into the White Castle Hall of Fame Speaking of Cleveland You talkin’ to me? Next time you’re in Austin, check out Robert De Niro’s Taxi Cab License Used to Prepare for Taxi Driver Also at the Ransom Center, a chilling World War I exhibit that Gunnar really enjoyed We Give Thanks Erich Morisse for the civics lesson.

The guys started the show by sharing some family traditions including watching Jeopardy and drinking Rooibos tea. They then discussed some raw milk questions posed by raw milk producer. Don suggested that there was specific scientific evidence to answer many of them. He also wondered about the scientific basis of some of the information presented in a recent RMI webinar. Don then shared that he'll be podcast cheating again on an upcoming Raw Food Real Talk episode on cottage food. The guys then transitioned to a recent cheese related Listeriosis outbreak affecting members of the Hispanic community. While health authorities have released some information on illnesses and the product there are many questions that are still to be answered. After a false start and then covering the last part of the IAFP History, the 2000's, Ben put out a call to listeners for important outbreaks and food safety landmarks that Ben and Don could discuss in the upcoming Outbreak Flashback segment. It will be groovy. And have a disco theme. The guys then turned to pizza and Alton Brown, who Don went to see live. Alton had dropped the pizza base before cooking it and that got Don worried about what message this was sending. Ben was amused by Alton's Twitter feed and fascinated by his earlier career. While on the pizza topic, Ben found some really stretched science reporting of this research article. The press release reminded the guys of Betteridge's law of headlines. The answer is always no. The discussion of media reminded Don of this Andrew Gelman post about how to get your university press release reprinted by The Washington Post. Don concluded that the best practices for engaging people are also despicable. Ben suggested sometimes science-types need to go to where people are engaged and sort of play the same game. To quote Merlin Mann from 43 Folders: "Joining a Facebook group about creative productivity is like buying a chair about jogging." To finish off, Ben raised the issue of consumers not following label instructions, as was the case with E. coli in Nestle Toll House Cookie Dough. Ben wanted to know how consumers learn about products and how to use those products. In the after dark the guys covered Picturelife, and Siri not having what Don was looking for, which he posted on Facebook.

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: watching your email, hearing your GnuPG key, the smell of fresh-baked OpenStack, a taste of ARM on Fedora, a touch of Skynet. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes. This episode’s title is dedicated to Peter Larsen. We heard you, and welcome your feedback! Lauren wins the National Center for Women & Information Technology Aspirations in Computing 2014 Ohio Affiliate Award PaaS and Three Cruelties of Federal IT Gunnar enjoys Plague Inc when not catching up on Game of Thrones Dave says Roku 3 + Android app + {YouTube|Netflix} = Awesome Almost related: Fulfill your New Years resolution of clearing out your YouTube backlog at 2x speed Pandora for Android gets an alarm clock but it needs a cell or wifi connection Learn Over 60 Google Now Commands with This Infographic Jaguar makes fun of Mercedes-Benz cars for having the vestibular ocular reflexes of a chicken BadBIOS, part n: Acoustic cryptanalysis, and there’s a CVE for that Gmail blows up e-mail marketing by caching all images on Google servers Disable it if you want: Disable Automatic Image Loading in Gmail to Save Data and Privacy PSA: Your Phone Logs Everywhere You Go. Here’s How to Turn It Off Ebooks now read you Related: Google Play Books update allows ePub and PDF uploads right from your device Google Adds to Its Menagerie of Robots Related: U.S. military may have 10 robots per soldier by 2023 See also: Cyberdyne Systems, DARPA Tried to Build Skynet in the 1980s, A Bizarre Petting Zoo Where Robots Replace Animals D&G DIY Joke Kit of the Week: Robot anesthesiologists to put patients under before colonoscopies Turning mobile phones into 3D scanners Microsoft Security Essentials misses 39% of malware in Dennis test Open Cloud Meetup, hosted by our own Jason Callaway The Dan and Gunnar Show presents Is it PaaS or something else? via web January 14 and 15 Massachusetts launches open cloud to spur big data R&D Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 is here Fedora 20 is out: ARM is now Tier 1 and Gunnar’s FedUp Today in “OS is dead”: Want to run OpenShift on ARM? OK, why not Dan Risacher on Hellekson’s Law Betteridge’s Law: For example, Is REST losing its flair – REST API Alternatives HT Robin Price: WebRTC and Echoplex Salt vs. gravel vs. cheese vs. beet juice Cutting Room Floor HT Jim Stogdill: Fear, Uncertainty, Dopamine (or: “How to build an effective cult”) Totally unrelated: Free OpenShift stickers! Easily denounce your friends with a North Korean press release generator This week in cognitive surplus: George Takei’s and Newt Gingrich’s Amazon reviews Why are eggs egg shaped? This Crazy Pneumatic Tube System Will Deliver Burgers at 87 MPH Nokia’s Strategy For Selling The Lumia 2520 Windows 8 Tablet Is To Make You Very Uncomfortable EGTS stands for Electric Green Taxiing System and can stand for other things too How to make really long words in German Charming Parisian Subway Etiquette Guide Airport cell phone crashing We Give Thanks Peter Larsen for being a good sport about our show titles Dan Risacher for advancing the cause of Hellekson’s Law astroturfing Robin Price for the WebRTC and Echoplex pointers Jim Stogdill for mind-hacking videos

Talking to representatives from a variety of pain organisations, including the Trigeminal Neuralgia Association, about the wide-reaching impact that pain has on society. This edition has been funded by a grant from the Scottish Government. Christine Johnston heads to Brussels to investigate the impact that pain has on society as a whole at the Societal Impact of Pain lobby group’s fourth annual event. Christine talks to Neil Betteridge of Neil Betteridge Associates which promotes a holistic approach to pain management. Betteridge explains that early intervention is beneficial not only for the patient but also for employers, as it leads to faster, more effective treatment and less time spent outside of the workplace. Jamie O’Hara, who works with Adelphi Real World and the Haemophilia Society, discusses the results of a survey carried out about the effect pain has on society, which found that those living with chronic pain and their carers experience disproportionately high levels of unemployment. Christine also speaks to Jacqui Lyttle, an Independent Commissioning Consultant, who criticises the current care given to those with chronic pain conditions, citing wrong diagnoses and the subsequent delays in accessing effective treatment as the main issues. She explains that pain management costs more when it’s not managed effectively than when it is, both in terms of money and in working days lost through illness. Paul Evans meets Jillie Abbott, the Projects Officer of Trigeminal Neuralgia Association, who describes the organisation’s attempts to raise awareness of the little-understood condition within the healthcare profession, citing the high frequency of misdiagnoses and ineffective treatment as the motivation for this educational focus. She also shares some coping mechanisms that can help those living with Trigeminal Neuralgia and emphasises the need for better communication between people living with the condition and healthcare professionals. Contributors: • Christine Johnston – Pain Concern • Neil Betteridge – Owner of Neil Betteridge Associates and Vice-Chair of Chronic Pain Policy Coalition • Jamie O’Hara - Adelphi Real World and elected trustee of Haemophilia Society • Jacqui Lyttle - Independent Commissioning Consultant • Jillie Abbott – Projects Officer of Trigeminal Neuralgia Association First broadcast 13.12.13 #Orofacialpain #Trigeminalneuralgia #Carers #Educatinghealthcar professionals #Socialandeconomicimpactofpain #Talkingtoyourdoctor #Unemployment #Work

Matt and Jason talk about state of games journalism, and the challenge that those who write about videogames face when addressing a mainstream audience. Download MP3 (1 hour, 16 minutes) | Subscribe via iTunes | Subscribe via RSS Your browser does not support this audio format. Stuff mentioned in this episode: BioShock Infinite: an intelligent, violent videogame?, a critique by Daniel Golding for the Australian Broadcasting Company’s website. Betteridge’s law of headlines, according to Wikipedia. Jason’s 2010 essay The Silver Age, and Kotaku’s headline-altered reprint of it Seth Schiesel’s New York Times review of Red Dead Redemption Personal Video Games, a radio interview by On the Media’s Brooke Gladstone of Anna Anthropy, Sebastian Janisz and Michael Molinari about some of their work.

We visited Edmonton artist Blake Betteridge in his studio, where he talked to us about the work in his new ProjEx Room show, "Surrealist Gestures". See the show August 9–September 8 at Latitude 53 Contemporary Visual Culture.