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In this episode, we once again return to the Christ myth, in our search for the devil in Science Fiction with The Matrix. The Christ Myth is usually the story of a chosen one, a demi god, not exactly god but more than human with supernatural powers coming to rescue us all from evil. I would argue, Matrix is the most blatant and obvious of our Christ myth stories.  Special guest stars include Keanu Reeves, Thomas Anderson, Neo, Kung Fu, Trinity, John the Baptist, Morpheus, Jesus, River Jordan, red pill, Roman, Ovid, Metamorphoses, Cypher, Rolling Stones, Beatles, Oasis, Blur, Niki Minaj, Lil' Kim, Agent Smith, Wachowskis, Geocites, Sydney, 2000 Olympics, Australia, Melbourne, Athens, Greeks, Olympic Games, Sydney Opera House, Sydney Harbour Bridge, George Lucas, Star Wars, The Phantom Menace, September 11, 2001,   #666 #SketchComedy #Sketch #Comedy #Sketch Comedy #Atheist #Science #History #Atheism #Antitheist #ConspiracyTheory #Conspiracy #Conspiracies #Sceptical #Scepticism #Mythology #Religion #Devil #Satan #Satanism #Satanist #Skeptic #Debunk #Illuminati #Podcast #funny #sketch #skit #comedy #comedyshow #comedyskits #HeavyMetal #weird #leftist #SatanIsMySuperhero #ScienceFiction #SciFiSend us a text

Ep 105This week on The Stem Society, Cole Jackson delves into the most talked-about stories in hip-hop:

We welcome Millbrook (NC) 4 Star 2027 linebacker , and UGA Target, Quinton cypher to the show for our next installment of Friday Night Futures! Topics discussed on this episode include: - Sit down with UGA Target Quinton Cypher - Looking ahead to junior season - Latest in the recruiting process - Live Q&A from the comments - Much More! Follow Quinton: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quintoncypher2 X: https://x.com/CypherQuinton Hudl: https://www.hudl.com/profile/19697405/Quinton-Cypher We are proudly sponsored by Alumni Hall! Shop Alumni Hall today and 8% of your total order will go towards the Classic City Collective: https://dgdpod.com/alumnihall More from The DGD Podcast: https://www.dgdpodcast.com Find us on Audio Podcast Platforms (Rate & Review) Apple Podcasts: https://dgdpod.com/applepodcast Spotify: https://dgdpod.com/spotify rumble: https://dgdpod.com/rumble The DGD Podcast Socials: Facebook: https://dgdpod.com/facebook X/Twitter : https://dgdpod.com/x Instagram: https://dgdpod.com/IG TikTok: https://dgdpod.com/tiktok Shop DGD Podcast Merch: https://dgdpod.com/shop Join Our Patreon: https://dgdpod.com/patreon Join our Discord: https://dgdpod.com/discord The DGD Podcast is powered by Fans First Sports Network. The Fans First Sports Network has you covered with all of your team news and podcasts! Head over to www.dgdpod.com/ffsn today! The latest news about UGA Sports is brought to you by The DGD Podcast. #georgiafootball #GoDawgs #dgdpidcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Toni Blackman is a groundbreaking artist and educator who has captivated audiences worldwide - 50 countries to date! As the first official U.S. Hip Hop Ambassador, she has performed at prestigious venues like the UN, Carnegie Hall, and the Apollo Theater. A pioneer in Hip Hop theater and education, Toni was both an Echoing Green and a Soros Fellow for programs she created like Rhyme Like a Girl and The Freestyle Union. She has also worked as a Spoken Word/Rap Coach for Disney's Emmy Award-winning series, The Crossover. With a passion for social justice and cultural exchange, Toni continues to inspire and empower through her music, writing, and community work. Fresh off dates in Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Accra and Joburg, Toni's celebrating the upcoming release of her audiobook for Wisdom of the Cypher, as well as the release of her documentary, A Woman's Place is in the Cypher, supported by the Big We Foundation's SheStories grant. Toni lives between Brooklyn, NY and Dakar, Senegal.https://www.toniblackman.com---Support this quality, independent Hip Hop cultural journalism: https://www.patreon.com/mannyfaces or https://mannyfaces.substack.com---Hip-Hop Can Save America! with Manny Faces is a Manny Faces Media production, in association with The Center for Hip-Hop Advocacy.LINKS AND RESOURCES:SHOW WEBSITE: https://www.hiphopcansaveamerica.comON YOUTUBE: https://www.hiphopcansaveamerica.com/watchMANNY FACES: https://www.mannyfaces.comNEWSLETTER (free!): https://mannyfaces.substack.comSUPPORT QUALITY INDIE HIP HOP JOURNALISM: https://www.patreon.com/mannyfacesManny Faces Media (podcast production company): https://www.mannyfacesmedia.comThe Center for Hip-Hop Advocacy: https://www.hiphopadvocacy.orgSPONSORS / FRIENDS:The Mixtape Museum: https://www.mixtapemuseum.orgHip-Hop Hacks: https://www.hiphophacks.comHip-Hop Can Save America! is produced, written, edited, smacked, flipped, rubbed down, and distributed by Manny Faces. Eternal thanks to Consulting Producer, Sommer McCoy.

Big Truss Tuesday! We have got SPECIAL guests in the building today to take part in the 2025 Shift Nation Cypher!... Brook found a book in his house and in it has some intriguing explanations based of the day you were born... Shifters, at times you know us better than we do... So it is your job to let us know if you agree or disagree with what has been put from pen to paper in this book... Anddd the good old game of Kiss, Marry, Kill... Also, Usher out here still out here breaking hearts and marriages!? Hit that link below to stay caught up with anything and everything TMS. ⁠⁠www.facebook.com/groups/3394787437503676/⁠⁠ Shop our TMS Merch here fam! ⁠⁠https://youknowclothing.com/search?q=tms⁠⁠ Thank you to the team at Chemist Warehouse for helping us keep the lights on, here at The Morning Shift... ⁠⁠www.chemistwarehouse.co.nz/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is not a drill! PAN HISTORIA IS BACK!!! After an extended hiatus, Lyndsay and Jonah are ready to re-embark on their journey through history. But first, a quick series of updates, some talk on violence in video games, and other nonsense. AND a new exit theme written by Jonah. Thank you all for sticking around! We shall see you all again real soon. Special thanks to SilentCypher and the Xbox International Podcast for their support. If you love hearing the latest on gaming news, check out Xbox International today! Link below! Also, check out Cypher's other podcast, Fright Night with Ferocious Fi for all your news on Horror movies and horror games. Thanks for your support and being our number 1 fan, Cypher! https://www.youtube.com/@Xbipodcast https://www.youtube.com/@Ferocious_Fi 

*potential spoilers for all things discussed*hey everyone,join me on this weeks short episode reviewing The Accountant 2, Cypher, Jackie Brown and morethanks !

This week's Dark Nation Radio is ready for streaming and features new tracks from bands including VNV Nation, Bella Eterna, Denuit, Dawn of Ashes, KY, Cyborg Amok, Cylix, Vampyros Lesbos, Mercury's Antennae, Jesika von Rabbit, Kim Lunner, Matthew Nowhere, and The Birthday Massacre. I hope you enjoy it! As always, if you like what you hear, I hope you will support the bands and consider following me on your preferred platform. Reposts of the show so that others can find out about it are particularly appreciated. Questions and promo materials may be directed to darknationradio@gmail.com. Thanks for your support! DJ cypher's Dark Nation Radio Playlist 27 April 2025 Bella Eterna, “Mysterious Beauty” The Paper Road, “So Tired” She Past Away, “Insanlar” Siouxsie & the Banshees, “The Killing Jar” Les Lésions Divisées, “The Tree of Life” Drøme, “Depression Dance” Silver Tears, “Waste of Time” VNV Nation, “Station 21” Dawn of Ashes, “Hypertensive Crisis” Kim Lunner, “With You” KY, “Dance to a Sacred Bass” Huir, “Arch (Fragrance mix)” Mercury's Antennae, “The Reflecting Skin (William Faith mix)” Encephalon, “Illusions” Mortes, “Bite Me” Cyborg Amok, “Cellophane Grind” Vioflesh, “Midnight” Balduvian Bears, “Winter's End” Denuit, “Nocturnal Vision” Jesika von Rabbit, “Wacko” Aesthetic Perfection, “Master” The Birthday Massacre, “All of You” Matthew Nowhere, “Love is Only What We Are” Cylix, “As If I Had Your Wings” Vampyros Lesbos, “Angemessen” Sjöblom, “Weirdo (Universe mix)” Plague Garden, “Blood Debt” Autumn – U.S., “Catacombs” DJ CYPHER'S DARK NATION RADIO—24 years strong! **Live Sundays @ 9 PM Eastern US on Spirit of Resistance Radio sorradio.org **Recorded @ http://www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive **Downloadable @ http://www.hearthis.at/cypheractive **Questions and material for airplay consideration to darknationradio[at] gmail[dot]com **Facebook @ http://www.facebook.com/groups/darknationradio

This week's Dark Nation Radio features some devotional music for Easter from Depeche Mode, Wumpscut, Laibach, Ministry, Clan of Xymox, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, Christian Death, Psycho Mutants, and MC 900 Ft. Jesus, as well as new tracks from bands including Black Angel, SYZYGYX, The Saint Paul, White Ritual, Centhron, Autodafeh, Hasswut, Fractal Age, and Vampyros Lesbos. I hope you'll come spend some time in my church! As always, if you like what you hear, I hope you will support the bands and consider following me on your preferred platform. Reposts of the show so that others can find out about it are particularly appreciated. Questions and promo materials may be directed to darknationradio@gmail.com. Thanks for your support! DJ cypher's Dark Nation Radio Playlist 20 April 2025 Laibach, “Jesus Christ Superstar” Alabama 3, “Woke Up This Morning” My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, “Days of Swine and Roses” Legend, “Scars” Christian Death, “Jesus, Where's the Sugar” Depeche Mode, “Personal Jesus” DSTRTD SGNL, “Not Part of DSTRTD SGNL” Treasvre, “Runaway (Stabbing Westward remix)” Autodafeh, “Fastline” Clan of Xymox, “Blood of Christ (DSTR mix)” Ministry, “Jesus Built My Hotrod” Black Angel, “Queen of the Night (Striplight remix)” SYZYGYX, “Climax” The Saint Paul, “Infinite” White Ritual, “Head on Fire (White Ritual remix)” Fractal Age, “Final” Centhron, “Liebe ist Krieg” Hasswut, “Les Morts” Vampyros Lesbos, “Sinnlichkeit” Christ vs. Warhol, “Welcome Home” Wumpscut, “Wreath of Barbs” Lovelorn Dolls, “Dancing at Your Funeral” 40 Octaves Below, “Serketre (DJ underminer remix)” The Cure, “A Fragile Thing” Skinny Puppy, “Worlock” MC 900 Ft. Jesus, “Falling Elevators” Psycho Mutants, “Jesus on the Moon” DJ CYPHER'S DARK NATION RADIO—24 years strong! **Live Sundays @ 9 PM Eastern US on Spirit of Resistance Radio sorradio.org **Recorded @ http://www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive **Downloadable @ http://www.hearthis.at/cypheractive **Questions and material for airplay consideration to darknationradio[at] gmail[dot]com **Facebook @ http://www.facebook.com/groups/darknationradio

Thank you to Turtle Beach & ExpressVPN for sponsoring this episode! #ad - Level up your game and get 10% off @TurtleBeach with code POGCAST at https://www.turtlebeach.com/POGCAST #turtlebeachpod - Secure your online data TODAY by visiting https://www.ExpressVPN.com/pogcast and find out how you can get up to four extra months FREE! CHECK OUT THE PATREON! - https://www.patreon.com/ThePogcastPod On this episode of the Pogcast we dive into Marathon now that the NDA has lifted. Jesse talks about his experiences playtesting the game and gives a rundown of what we know about the game so far. We also discuss Tarkov, the Tarkov Arena Twitch Rivals and other games like blue Prince and Cypher. Check it out! Timestamps 00:00:00 - Intro Banter 00:03:01 - Tarkov & Twitch Rivals 00:15:28 - MARATHON 00:38:45 - Turtle Beach! 00:42:52 - What is the Purpose in Marathon? 01:13:20 - ExpressVPN! 01:14:50 - Is Marathon Hardcore? 01:47:16 - Blue Prince & Cypher Check out JesseKazam Twitch: http://Twitch.tv/jessekazam YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/jessekazam Twitter: http://Twitter.com/jessekazam Discord: https://discord.gg/jessekazam Check out Veritas Twitch: http://Twitch.tv/Veritas YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@VeritasGames Twitter: http://twitter.com/veriitasgames Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2S6iwClVoSNnpOcCzyMeUj Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mateo erzählt von schlechter Planung, fast-Ausrastern und gibt verspätet seinen Senf zum Cypher ab.Voting für Jule X: https://swissmusicawards.ch/voting/confirmMehr Podcast hier: https://www.patreon.com/mateogudenrathshow

Dishsoap is already breaking records! In this episode, Frodan catches up with the first player to hit Challenger and 1000 LP on the Set 14 ladder. They break down how the meta has shifted since launch, dive deep into the Cypher cashout mechanic and why it's dominating lobbies, and share thoughts on the comps that are rising (and falling) fast.Find all the comps talked about in this episode and more meta topics on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tftacademy.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow the daily updated comps tier list here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tftacademy.com/tierlist/comps

New tracks from The Birthday Massacre, Bill Leeb, Ships in the Night, Denuit, and Agnis are among those in the mix on this week's Dark Nation Radio. I hope you enjoy it! Thanks as well to those who have streamed last Tuesday's Psychobilly Family Power Hour show, pushing it to #1 on both Mixcloud and HearThis—I appreciate your support! As always, if you like what you hear, I hope you will support the bands and consider following me on your preferred platform. Reposts of the show so that others can find out about it are particularly appreciated. Questions and promo materials may be directed to darknationradio@gmail.com. DJ cypher's Dark Nation Radio Playlist 13 April 2025 The Birthday Massacre, “Pathways” Fractal Age, “Tremors” Kiss is Kill, “100%” Yama Uba, “Angel” Mortes, “Too Late” System Syn, “Blood” [x]-Rx, “Voices” Zombie Girl, “Bleeder” Alphaville, “To Germany (Sebastian Komor remix)” Bill Leeb, “Neuromotive (Stacks remix)” ESA, “Come and Find Me” Denuit, “Wounded Heart” Palindrones, “Resonance Fact” Agnis, “Dark Dancer” Noisuf-x, “Monster” Solar Fake, “This Generation Ends” Crush of Souls, “The Pure Weapon” E-craft, “Electrocution” Rammstein, “Weisses Fleisch” Ships in the Night, “Blood Harmony” The Yets, “Define the Man” Marsheaux, “Self Control” Selfishadows, “Calling Around Here” Ashes'n'Androids, “Color Red” Zanias, “Metrics” The Shadow Majlis, “Love in Flames” Chris Harms ft. Ronan Harris, “The Gray Machine” Aursjoen, “Strand” DJ CYPHER'S DARK NATION RADIO—24 years strong! **Live Sundays @ 9 PM Eastern US on Spirit of Resistance Radio sorradio.org **Recorded @ http://www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive **Downloadable @ http://www.hearthis.at/cypheractive **Questions and material for airplay consideration to darknationradio[at] gmail[dot]com **Facebook @ http://www.facebook.com/groups/darknationradio

Von Kanten und Knoten: Ein Einstieg in Graph-DatenbankenWelche Relationen die einzelnen Datensätze in deiner Datenbank haben, kann eine Rolle bei der Entscheidung spielen, welche Art von Datenbank du am besten einsetzen solltest. Wenn du unabhängige Datensätze hast, die keine Relation zueinander haben oder häufige One to Many-Relationen, sind relationale Datenbanken gut geeignet. Wenn du jedoch sehr viele Many to Many Relationen hast, spielt eine Datenbank-Art ihre Vorteile aus: Graph Datenbanken.Ein gutes Beispiel sind wohl soziale Netzwerke wie LinkedIn oder Facebook, wo Events, Personen, Firmen und Posts mit Kommentaren eine durchgehende Beziehung zueinander haben. Auch bekannt als Social Graph. Natürlich kann dies auch alles in einer relationalen Datenbank gespeichert werden, aber Fragen wie “Gib mir bitte alle Personen, über die ich im 3. Grad verbunden bin, die aus Deutschland kommen und bei Aldi gearbeitet haben” sind schwer zu beantworten. Für Graph-Datenbanken jedoch ein Klacks. Grund genug, diesem Thema eine Bühne zu geben. Darum geht es in dieser Episode.In dem Interview mit dem Experten Michael Hunger klären wir, was eine Graph-Datenbank ist, welche Anwendungsfälle sich dadurch besser abbilden lassen, als z. B. in relationalen Datenbanken, was der Ursprung von Graph Datenbanken ist, was der Unterschied eines Property-Graph-Model und dem Triple-Store-Model ist, wie man mithilfe von Sprachen wie Cypher, SPARQL und Datalog, Daten aus einem Graph extrahiert, für welche Use Cases dies ggf. nicht die richtige Datenstruktur ist und geben einen Einblick in die Themen Knowledge Graphen, LLMs und GraphRAG.Bonus: Was der Film Matrix mit Graph-Datenbanken zu tun hat.Unsere aktuellen Werbepartner findest du auf https://engineeringkiosk.dev/partnersDas schnelle Feedback zur Episode:

A friend and Cypher restaurant proprietor, Ernesto, presents Lamplight Investigative Services with a new case, one of a missing family friend that ends up connecting them all in a way they could never have imagined.The content warning for this episode includes complicated family dynamics, complicated relationship dynamics, grief, and kidnappingYou can find us ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠.Lamplight Investigations is a Thirsty Sword Lesbians steampunk noir that stars ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Kenzie Tartaglione⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ as the GM, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Atlas Mathews⁠⁠⁠⁠ as JJ August, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Danielle Halen⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ as Mama Amoretta, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠April Consalo⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ as Joanna Gilmore.Episode recap performed by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Michelle Kelly⁠⁠⁠⁠.This podcast episode as produced by Kenzie Tartaglione and edited by Kenzie Tartaglione, with theme music by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Lisette Amago⁠⁠⁠⁠ and character art by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Elsa Velasco⁠⁠⁠⁠.

The latest edition of DJ cypher's PSYCHOBILLY FAMILY POWER HOUR is here to raise (your) spirits with psychobilly, rockabilly, gothabilly and horror punk! In the mix for show #54 are new tracks from The Barnyard Ballers and Screamin' Sins, as well as The Koffin Kats, Phantom Rockers, Bloodsucking Zombies From Outer Space, Epileptic Hillbillys, The Cain Pit, Sin Kings, Klingonz, The Deep Eynde, Cult of the Psychic Fetus, Dickie Devil & the Deviants, The Rosedales, The Independents, Mister Monster, Queens of Everything, The Creepshow, and the Reverend Horton Heat. Turn it up and let loose! https://www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive/dj-cyphers-psychobilly-family-power-hour-no-54/ If you like what you hear, I invite you to join the PFPH family at http://www.facebook.com/groups/psychobillyfamilypowerhour and to follow me on your preferred streaming platform. Reposts are particularly appreciated! Promo materials may be directed to darknationradio@gmail.com. DJ CYPHER'S PSYCHOBILLY FAMILY POWER HOUR Broadcast #54 (8 March 2025) Barnyard Ballers, “Bullies” Screamin' Sins, “Love You to Death” Dickie Devil and the Deviants, “Do Ya Wanna Dance” Epileptic Hillbillys, “Insanity” Bloodsucking Zombies from Outer Space, “Moonlight Sonata” Koffin Kats, “Koffin Kat Rock” Phantom Rockers, “Devil's Daughter” The Creepshow, “The Devil's Son” Sin Kings, “The Devil Makes Three” The Deep Eynde, “Suicide Drive” Cult of the Psychic Fetus, “Cannibal Girls” Mister Monster, “Torn Prince” The Rosedales, “Teenage Vixen” Queens of Everything, “Game For Life” Klingonz Klownz, “Rockabilly Rebel” The Independents, “The Next Kiss is the Last Goodbye” The Cain Pit, “Roses” Reverend Horton Heat, “School of Rock'n'Roll” Playbacks http://www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive Downloadable http://www.hearthis.at/cypheractive Social Media: http://www.facebook.com/groups/psychobillyfamilypowerhour

Cypher and Daniel Crimmins return to predict this Sunday's #AEWDynasty and ask what the hell CM Punk's favour is! PLUS with #PromoMania X closing in, we hear from the #BrothersOfMaxDestruction, The Kingpin and Beer, and The Captain meets up with The Phoenix in an epic cinematic confrontation ahead of their climatic battle! Theme song: "Every Single Scar" by our house band Captain's Revenge https://open.spotify.com/artist/6bmxa3E97iSuJ1qqoHdFMz?si=lpr8t6HmQru7nUQWF4BidQ #wwe #aew #wrestling #podcast #wwepredictions #wrestlingpodcast #wrestlinghighlights #wrestlingnews #allelitewrestling #nxt #njpwworld #newjapanprowrestling #ddtpro #ddtprowrestling #tnawrestling #tnaimpact #thisistna #aewvsnxt #aewpodcast #aewdynamite #aewrampage #wweraw #wwesmackdown #romanreigns #codyrhodes #rhea ripley #mjf #cmpunk #aewdynasty #dynasty2025 #swervestrickland Visit us as www.maxwrestlingnet.weebly.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/maxwrestling Twitter: www.twitter.com/maxwrestlinguk Soundcloud: www.soundcloud.com/maxwrestling Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6Q8pmjfAmbmpXlyvZnlg7T

New VNV Nation, The Birthday Massacre, and Psyclon Nine are featured this week on Dark Nation Radio, as well new tracks from bands including Golden Apes, Edna Frau, Vioflesh, Magic Wands, Silver Tears, Oliver Decrow, 30 Denari, Tally Koren, and Je T'aime. I'm happy with how this one came out—I hope you enjoy it! As always, if you like what you hear, I hope you will support the bands and consider following me on your preferred platform. Reposts of the show so that others can find out about it are particularly appreciated. Questions and promo materials may be directed to darknationradio@gmail.com. DJ cypher's Dark Nation Radio Playlist 30 March 2025 VNV Nation, “Silence Speaks” Dead Lights, “The Host” Suicide Commando, “Hellraiser (Post-Mortem mix)” Lost Signal, “Clover” Oliver Decrow, “I'm Too Young to Die (Nightcrawler remix)” Je T'aime, “Dead Leaves” Sequential Zero, “One Day at a Time” Tally Koren, “Free Will” Muricidae, “Euphoria” Audra, “Tired Friends” Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, “Living With Spiders” Bootblacks, “Thin Skies (remix)” Psyclon Nine, “CRWLNG FROM CNT TO CSKT” The Birthday Massacre, “All of You” Ritualz, “Destroy Everything” Proyecto Escapulario, “De Amor” 30 Denari, “Distante” Vioflesh, “Midnight” Edna Frau, “See Me” pMad, “Fire (BomBard remix)” Demonwarp, “Graveland” Huir, “Vital (KVB remix)” Femion, “Unity With Chaos” Glass Apple Bonzai, “Stepping Outside” Golden Apes, “The Highest Point” Reconcile, “Numb” Magic Wands, “Moonshadow” Silver Tears, “Again” Vision Video, “Stay” DJ CYPHER'S DARK NATION RADIO—24 years strong! **Live Sundays @ 9 PM Eastern US on Spirit of Resistance Radio sorradio.org **Recorded @ http://www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive **Downloadable @ http://www.hearthis.at/cypheractive **Questions and material for airplay consideration to darknationradio[at] gmail[dot]com **Facebook @ http://www.facebook.com/groups/darknationradio

Join the brothers as they discuss some of the more important men from the Dark Angels chapter, such as Luther, Cypher, and… Ugh! Asmodai!

To celebrate the release of Wolverine Records' new compilation, HORROR PUNK CHARTBUSTERS: RESURRECTION, I put together a show around cover versions on the PSYCHOBILLY FAMILY POWER HOUR. This one is a ton of fun and features The Reverend Horton Heat, The Quakes, Frantic Flintstones, The Cramps, The Brains, Rezurex, Ghoultown, Social Distortion, The Top Cats, The Milwaukee Wildmen, Nim Vind, The 69 Cats, Vince Ray, Raucous Red Roosters, The Spook, Bloodsucking Zombies, and the Hillbilly Moon Explosion. I hope you'll give it a spin! If you like what you hear, I invite you to join the PFPH family at http://www.facebook.com/groups/psychobillyfamilypowerhour and to follow me on your preferred streaming platform. Reposts are particularly appreciated! Promo materials may be directed to darknationradio@gmail.com. DJ CYPHER'S PSYCHOBILLY FAMILY POWER HOUR Broadcast #53 (26 March 2025) Nim Vind, “Folsom Prison Blues” The 69 Cats / Them Guns / The Brains, “Don't Take Your Guns to Town” Ghoultown, “Ghost Riders in the Sky” Social Distortion, “Ring of Fire” The Cramps, “Fever” The Brains & Rezurex, “Goo Goo Muck” Raucous Red Roosters, “I Was A Teenage Werewolf” Vince Ray, “All Women are Bad” Bloodsucking Zombies, “Science Fiction Double Feature” Rock'n'Roll Cannibals, “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” The Reverend Horton Heat, “Ace of Spades” The Hillbilly Moon Explosion, “Enola Gay” The Quakes, “Killing Moon” The Top Cats, “Shakin' All Over” Milwaukee Wildmen, “You Spin Me” The Spook, “Hey, Little Girl” Frantic Flintstones, “My Way” Playbacks http://www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive Downloadable http://www.hearthis.at/cypheractive Social Media: http://www.facebook.com/groups/psychobillyfamilypowerhour

Tigran Gambaryan⁠ spent 8 months in grueling conditions in a Nigerian prison. But that's not what made him famous.Episode 52 of Beyond the Code dives into Tigran's incredible journey. For those of you who don't know, Tigran started off as an IRS special agent, where he used a simple Excel spreadsheet to reverse engineer the Bitcoin blockchain and track major crypto criminals such as those responsible for the Mt. Gox hack, Welcome to Video, Alpha Bay and Silk Road —earning him the nickname, “the man who broke Bitcoin”. After a decade in Government law enforcement, Tigran took up a pivotal role at Binance leading their financial crimes unit and fostering global regulatory ties. Tigran's story is one of innovation and grit, as chronicled in Andy Greenberg's Tracers in the Dark. But things took a turn for the worse for Tigran when he made a trip to Nigeria last February and what was supposed to be a simple training session spiraled into detention, interrogation, and bribes and imprisonment, exposing systemic corruption. After 8 grueling months in Nigeria's Kuje prison, through media pressure and U.S. diplomatic efforts, Tigran's release was finally secured and thankfully he is now home with his family. Links to videos and articles:https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Caa4X7GqTkQ https://www.wired.com/story/tigran-gambaryan-us-congress-resolution-hostage-nigeria/https://fmino.gov.ng/disregard-falsehoods-being-peddled-by-tigran-gambaryan-against-nigerian-government-officials-fg/https://www.wired.com/story/tigran-gambaryan-us-congress-resolution-hostage-nigeria/https://www.cryptotimes.io/2025/02/14/nigeria-used-binance-as-scapegoat-wanted-150-million-bribe-tigran-gambaryan/ https://x.com/DC_Draino/status/1832182160918503643 For those interested, you can buy Andy Greenberg's book, Tracers in the Dark, on Amazon: https://a.co/d/3umNV17If you want to do it right (chronologically), start with Nick Bilton's book, American Kingpin (https://a.co/d/hTRVY2C), which tells the story of Ross Ulbricht and the Silk Road. These books are imperative to understanding how the space migrated from basically a hub for libertarians, Cypher punks and criminals, into what it is today.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tigran-gambaryan-0852679a/ X: https://x.com/TigranGambaryan

This week's Dark Nation Radio channels the dark with new tracks from bands including Peter Murphy, Mortes, Black Angel, Silver Tears, Pink Turns Blue, Mercury's Antennae, Dead Lights, Rohn-Lederman, and the Funeral March, plus throwbacks from Siouxsie, The Cure, The Chameleons, The Bolshoi, New Model Army, Depeche Mode, and the Sisters of Mercy. Come on over to the dark side! As always, if you like what you hear, I hope you will support the bands and consider following me on your preferred platform. Reposts of the show so that others can find out about it are particularly appreciated. Questions and promo materials may be directed to darknationradio@gmail.com. DJ cypher's Dark Nation Radio Playlist 23 March 2025 Siouxsie & the Banshees, “Arabian Knights” Ché Aimee Dorval, “Joyride” Peter Murphy, “The Artroom Wonder” Seeming, “The Burial” DEAD LIGHTS, “Take (Extended)” Caressing Misery, “Veins Run Dry” Mortes, “Blood” The Sisters of Mercy, “Black Planet” Depeche Mode, “Some Great Reward” Proyecto Escapulario, “Lo Eterno” Theodoros Dimitriou, “Sometimes We Dream” The Bolshoi, “Happy Boy” Black Angel, “Kiss of Death (Bloo-d and Ran remix)” Then Comes Silence, “Tickets to Funerals” The Chameleons, “In Shreds” Fernando's Eyes, “A Million Times (Magic Wands remix)” Rosegarden Funeral Party, “In the Wake of Fire” Larsovitch, “Bonne Nui” Silver Tears, “Again” The Funeral March, “Stars at Night” The Cure, “From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea” New Model Army, “Inheritance” Ductape, “Fade Away” Sapphira Vee, “Stand Together” Pink Turns Blue, “Friday Night Out” Mercury's Antennae, “The Veil Opaque” Rohn-Lederman, “Drop Drip Down” DJ CYPHER'S DARK NATION RADIO—24 years strong! **Live Sundays @ 9 PM Eastern US on Spirit of Resistance Radio sorradio.org **Recorded @ http://www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive **Downloadable @ http://www.hearthis.at/cypheractive **Questions and material for airplay consideration to darknationradio[at] gmail[dot]com **Facebook @ http://www.facebook.com/groups/darknationradio

This is a continuation of the last episode with Kenny, #147. Please listen to that episode first for context!Kenny and Josh hop back on to explore even more drama and links between Mad Rock and 5.10, Evolv, Butora, Red Chili, Black Diamond, So iLL, La Sportiva, Scarpa, Mammut, Edelrid, Yosemite Bum, Cypher... did we forget anyone? Oh ya, Unparrallel! You can't miss that one...Enjoy this deep dive on the usually opaque world of climbing gear manufacturing!SHOW NOTES:Kenny's Previous Episode On Testpiece, #147Kenny Suh InstagramArticle About Young Chu (Mad Rock's Founder)Mad Rock InstagramMad Rock WebsiteSupport the showSupport us on Patreon: HEREVisit our podcast page: HERESign-up with one of our coaches: HEREFollow us on Instagram: HERE

Guests: Bonita "Bgirl Bonita" Saldana and London "Bboy London" ReyesHosted by Courtney Ortiz & Lesley MealorOur Genre Spotlight series continues with a conversation about the history, culture, and importance of breaking. Our guests are two giants in the field - Bgirl Bonita, studio owner and Team USA Breaking Olympic coach, and Bboy London, member of the NYC Breakers and breaking expert.Follow Bgirl Bonita @bgirlbonita and Bboy London @bboylondon on social media and be sure to check out their upcoming projects.Check out Bgirl Bonita's Levels Breaking Curriculum, an on-demand platform for studio owners and individuals to advance their craftWho would you like to see featured on our upcoming Spotlight Interviews? Share your recommendations by shooting us an email at podcast@impactdanceadjudicators.com.Help support our podcast. Join Making The Impact's Platinum Premium Subscription today! Your membership includes:Monthly Q&A episodes released to members-onlyPriority to have your questions answered each month on the live Q&A.Ad-free listening for all of Season 4, 5 & 6. No sponsored ads!20% off all IDA MerchandiseExclusive bonus content released throughout the yearDiscounted IDA Online CritiqueGroup Zoom check-ins 3x per season with Courtney Ortiz!Your support helps us produce future episodes of Making The Impact for years to come!Making The Impact's Platinum Premium - Sign up now for only $5/month!This episode is sponsored by:Dance Teacher Web Conference and ExpoThis summer July 22nd-25th in Las Vegas, NV! 140+ master classes, seminars, events, & more for continuing education and networking in the dance community! Use code: IMPACT50 for $50 off! Follow your Hosts & Guests!Courtney Ortiz - @courtney.ortizLesley Mealor  - @miss.lesley.danceBgirl Bonita - @bgirlbonitaBboy London - @bboylondon Join our NEW Facebook Group and connect with us! Making The Impact - A Dance Competition Podcast Community Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! We would love to hear from you! Join our Newsletter for weekly episode releases straight to your inbox! Follow us on social media at @impactdanceadjudicators and for a list of IDA Affiliated dance competitions, visit our website at www.impactdanceadjudicators.comSupport the show

This week's Dark Nation Radio leads off with a very aggressive set—Faderhead, Fear Factory, Pitchshifter, White Zombie, Chemlab, Hasswut, and KMFDM in the mix—so turn it up if you need to scream. From there, it mellows out a bit and includes new tracks from Slighter, Valhall, Palindrones, Twice Dark, Hallows, Rina Pavar, Silver Tears, White Ritual, and others. Thanks for your support during these challenging times. As always, if you like what you hear, I hope you will support the bands and consider following me on your preferred platform. Reposts of the show so that others can find out about it are particularly appreciated. Questions and promo materials may be directed to darknationradio@gmail.com. DJ cypher's Dark Nation Radio Playlist 16 March 2025 Faderhead, “Angry Enough” Hasswut, “Sauerstoff” Pitchshifter, “Genius” Aesthetic Perfection, “Into the Void” Fear Factory, “Genetic Blueprint” White Zombie, “I'm Your Boogie Man” KMFDM, “Anarchy” Chemlab, “Chemical Halo” SAM, “Mad as Hell” VNV Nation, “Solitary (Signals version)” Slighter x Fatigue, “Edgeboi (Sawtooth remix)” Hallows, “Find a Way” Rina Pavar, “In Dreams” Dance My Darling, “Imitation” Poison Point, “Echoes of Dreams” Male Tears, “Never Again” Buzz Kull, “Fascination” Nine Seconds, “Victim” Palindrones, “Animus” Valhall, “Calling for Storms” Twice Dark, “Phoenix” Stabbing Westward, “Wasteland” PIG, “The Book of Tequila” Empereur, “Electric” Silver Tears, “Ernst” White Ritual, “White Ritual” The Funeral March of the Marionettes, “Shadow Games” DJ CYPHER'S DARK NATION RADIO—24 years strong! **Live Sundays @ 9 PM Eastern US on Spirit of Resistance Radio sorradio.org **Recorded @ http://www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive **Downloadable @ http://www.hearthis.at/cypheractive **Questions and material for airplay consideration to darknationradio[at] gmail[dot]com **Facebook @ http://www.facebook.com/groups/darknationradio

"Get the main menu music worked out!" In this captivating episode of Recording Studio Rockstars, host Lij Shaw sits down with the talented music director and game audio specialist, Steve Pardo. They dive into Steve's journey from jazz musician to game composer, sharing his insights on the creative process and collaboration in the industry. Steve passionately discusses how to get the main menu music just right, the magic of mixing in Dolby Atmos for gaming, and why the saxophone shines with guitar pedals. From Unreal Engine to Apple Logic Pro X, he offers tips on creating huge sounds in a small studio, all while highlighting the significance of live instruments in modern production. Don't miss this lively conversation that blends nostalgia with cutting-edge techniques, and get inspired to embrace the future of music and gaming! Get access to FREE mixing mini-course: https://MixMasterBundle.com My guest today is Steve Pardo, a music director, and game audio specialist with over 15 years of experience crafting immersive music and sound for award-winning games and globally recognized franchises. Steve is the co-founder of SkewSound, Composer and Music Manager at ProbablyMonsters, and an active performing artist based in Nashville, TN. Steve's career began at the legendary Harmonix Music Systems, where he worked on iconic titles like Rock Band VR, Dance Central, and Fantasia: Music Evolved. He has since contributed to games such as Fortnite Festival, Cypher 007, Moonbreaker, and Signs of the Sojourner. His music also appears on platforms like Netflix, Adult Swim, and IFC, and he's collaborated on cutting-edge projects involving generative and AI-driven music for companies like Mastercard, Warner Music, and Tribeca Film Festival. A graduate of the University of Miami, Steve earned both a bachelor's degree in Studio Music and Jazz and a master's degree in Studio Jazz Writing, grounding his creative work in a rich foundation of jazz and orchestration. Steve's Nashville studio is equipped with a 7.1.4 Atmos system, boutique microphones, synthesizers, and more, allowing him to create very cool music in a cozy setting. THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS! http://UltimateMixingMasterclass.com https://www.adam-audio.com https://www.native-instruments.com Use code ROCK10 to get 10% off! https://www.izotope.com Use code ROCK10 to get 10% off! https://roswellproaudio.com/ https://www.makebelievestudio.com/mbsi Get your MBSI plugin here! https://RecordingStudioRockstars.com/Academy  https://www.thetoyboxstudio.com/ Listen to this guest's discography on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/704gPYZbCHODON8f0udxJj?si=b90f7dad69164227 If you love the podcast, then please leave a review: https://RSRockstars.com/Review CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE SHOW NOTES AT: https://RSRockstars.com/497

I'm pleased to present the International Women's Day edition of DJ cypher's PSYCHOBILLY FAMILY POWER HOUR! Lots of my favorites in the mix this time, including The Creepshow, HorrorPops, The Young Werewolves, Imelda Mae, Rocket to Memphis, The Cramps, The Hillbilly Moon Explosion, Wanda Jackson, Kitty in a Casket, The Wolfgangs, and Janis Martin. I hope you'll give it a spin! If you like what you hear, I invite you to join the PFPH family at http://www.facebook.com/groups/psychobillyfamilypowerhour and to follow me on your preferred streaming platform. Reposts are particularly appreciated! Promo materials may be directed to darknationradio@gmail.com. DJ CYPHER'S PSYCHOBILLY FAMILY POWER HOUR Broadcast #52 (11 March 2025) The Creepshow, “The Devil's Son” The Hillbilly Moon Explosion, “Beg, Borrow or Steal” Carolina & Her Rhythm Rockets, “Back Home” The Hellflowers, “I Cried” Wanda Jackson, “Shakin' All Over” The Cramps, “Bikini Girls With Machine Guns” HorrorPops, “Dotted With Hearts” Rocket to Memphis, “Zombie Rumble” The Rhythm Shakers, “Voodoo” The Young Werewolves, “Twelve Steps to Rock and Roll” Back Alley Barbers, “Among the Crowd” Kitty in a Casket, “Kreepsville 666” Vatti & the Hellcats, “Banging on the Foor” Ninja Dolls, “Who Am I Fooling?” The Wolfgangs, “Funnel of Love” Imelda Mae, “Sixth Sense” Janis Martin, “Wild One” Playbacks http://www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive Downloadable http://www.hearthis.at/cypheractive Social Media: http://www.facebook.com/groups/psychobillyfamilypowerhour

Today Arizona Duff joins the show.  She discusses her first experience on trek, navigating the fundamental challenges and shifts that occur while on the trail.  Namely - several moments at Cypher's Mine where she began to feel the love of the Philmont staff family, as they invited her onto the stomp stage to play a tune.  Fast forward to 2018 - Arizona examines her journey in Timber Stand Improvement and becoming a certified Sawyer.  The experience grew her appreciation for the work it takes to be good stewards of this land we all love and share.Today, Arizona is working towards a PhD studying the history of work and labor music. She praises the Philmont music culture as a tool to share - not only history, but also encourage staff and participants to process feelings.  Philmont Experience:2014 - Regular Trek (South Country) 2015 - Rayado (1st session) 2016 - Hired TBA, Assigned PC Abreu 2017 - Ranger 1 2018 - Cypher's Mine / TSI Sawyer 2019 - CD French Henry 2020 - Hired as CD Pueblano (COVID)2021 - Hired as CD Pueblano (Had to decline due to family medical needs) Notable Mentions:Claire FickeBernard / AlexKatie GarrettMaggie McCullochJenna TrioneMarie MontegeauLauren Wendell ThomasMichael BrownPaul FrenchTucker BakerTrevor Lombardi Anna WashburneSara KopsaEmily BergmanAmber HollumBailey ColsonElizabeth DoyleAnna KruneKevin BeckerSpencer HarshRachel HennegBrian StokesJake TrioneAnne MaryDrew ChapmanRegina WalkerAdam GravesJessie NelsonKeagan FingerColleen McCullochEllyn Washburne RagerWill GarrisonEvan Stark DykemaSupport the show

The International Women's Day edition of DJ cypher's Dark Nation Radio can now be streamed. I expanded the program to three hours for this one—among those in the mix are Chelsea Wolfe, Lunar Paths, VV & the Void, Youth Code, Ships in the Night, Amulet, Violent Vickie, I Ya Toyah, Aursjøen, L7, Autumn-U.S., Unwoman, The Creatures, Izzy Reign, Die Sexual, Sapphira Vee, Concrete Blonde, Victor Sierra, grabyourface, and Emilie Autumn. Thanks to those who tuned in for the live show. As always, if you like what you hear, I hope you will support the bands and consider following me on your preferred platform. Reposts of the show so that others can find out about it are particularly appreciated. Questions and promo materials may be directed to darknationradio@gmail.com. DJ cypher's Dark Nation Radio Playlist 9 March 2025 International Women's Day Edition Taxi Girls, “Lion's Share” grabyourface, “You Will Never Be Happy” Ships in the Night, “Some of These Dreams” SU, “The Web 2.0” Plastic Rhino, “I Rise” Izzy Reign, “Broken By Design” Pigface ft. Meg Lee Chin, “Hips Lips Tits Power!” Kat Robichaud, “Psycho Hysterical” Featured ft. I Ya Toyah, “Higher Than the Sun” Curve, “Hell Above Water” Chelsea Wolfe, “Tunnel Lights (††† Crosses remix)” Lunar Paths, “Zero Trust Mentality” The Creatures, “Second Floor” Autumn-U.S., “Still Breathing” Electric Children, “Reptilian Royalty” TeZatalks, “Silymi” Death By Love, “Strong Inside (Acoustique mix)” Die Sexual, “Darkest Hour (The Light Asylum remix)” SIIE, “Cité Lunaire” I Am a Rocketship, “A Little Bit of Heaven” Emilie Autumn, “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” Bad Bloom, “Onion” Mercury's Antennae, “The Reflecting Skin (William Faith remix)” Unwoman, “Atypical Girl” [melter], “Metal” Beasto Blanco, “Solitary Rave” L7, “Fast and Frightening” Bangzz, “Hell is Other People” Rohn-Lederman, “We Need a Plan (Mark Hockings remix)” Victor Sierra, “The Scorpions' Sea” Magic Wands, “Whisperers (Stargods remix)” Pythies, “Ouroboros” Necrø, “Cold Cut” Violent Vickie and Echoberyl, “Gaslight (Echoberyl remix)” Misscore, “Away” Sapphira Vee, “Lost Your Found” Youth Code, “Lost at Sea” VV & the Void, “Nostalgia” Amulet, “Vampire (11 Grams vs. This Droid remix)” Bone Haus, “To the Knife” Concrete Blonde, “The Beast” Aursjøen, “Strand” DJ CYPHER'S DARK NATION RADIO—24 years strong! **Live Sundays @ 9 PM Eastern US on Spirit of Resistance Radio sorradio.org **Recorded @ http://www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive **Downloadable @ http://www.hearthis.at/cypheractive **Questions and material for airplay consideration to darknationradio[at] gmail[dot]com **Facebook @ http://www.facebook.com/groups/darknationradio

WTD S2E31 Rusty Pickle hand off Voltage and Cypher get some solid leads seeing there are more players in this game than they first thought ********************* Content Warning: Profanity, sexual references, descriptions of violence, Drug/Alcohol use, and homebrewed rules. ********************** Music from Epidemic Sound Hosting by Podbean Shadowrun is owned by The Topps Company, Inc. and Catalyst Games ********************* Promo: Berlin - it's a Bug, not a feature Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/bugmasterigni **********************

At our first ever #RevolutionRoad event, The Cap and Mo react to the moment that shook the wrestling world to its core as John Cena finally turned heel at #WWEChamber. We also predict this Sunday's #AEWRevolution. PLUS 3 title matches as The Madness defend the Max Tag Team Titles against Chris Reid and Travis Anderson, Cypher challenges Moses Marquez for the unsanctioned Promo Title, and it's Beer vs. The Phoenix for the Max World Title on the road to PromoMania X! Theme song: "Shut Up And Fight" by Captain's Revenge https://open.spotify.com/artist/6bmxa3E97iSuJ1qqoHdFMz?si=lpr8t6HmQru7nUQWF4BidQ #johncena #johncenaheel #heelturn #aewrevolution #jonmoxley #cope #eliminationchamber2025 #eliminationchamber #wwe #aew #wrestling #podcast #wwepredictions #wrestlingpodcast #wrestlinghighlights #wrestlingnews #allelitewrestling #nxt #njpwworld #newjapanprowrestling #ddtpro #ddtprowrestling #tnawrestling #tnaimpact #thisistna #aewvsnxt #aewpodcast #aewdynamite #aewrampage #wweraw #wwesmackdown #romanreigns #codyrhodes #rhea ripley #mjf #cmpunk Visit us as www.maxwrestlingnet.weebly.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/maxwrestling Twitter: www.twitter.com/maxwrestlinguk Soundcloud: www.soundcloud.com/maxwrestling Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6Q8pmjfAmbmpXlyvZnlg7T

This week's Dark Nation Radio starts off with a bang with new Eisbrecher and The Birthday Massacre and never looks back. Among the other new tracks included are ones from Chris Harms (Lord of the Lost), Principe Valiente, Pink Turns Blue, Empereur, Soft Vein, Kat Robichaud, Extize, Raskolnikov, Necrø, Femion, Normoria, Navigator Project, The Fair Attempts, and The Chameleons. I'm pleased with how this one turned out and hope you'll give it a listen. As always, if you like what you hear, I hope you will support the bands and considering following me on your preferred platform. Reposts of the show so that others can find out about it are particularly appreciated. Questions and promo materials may be directed to darknationradio@gmail.com. DJ cypher's Dark Nation Radio Playlist 2 March 2025 Eisbrecher, “Auf die Zunge” The Birthday Massacre, “Sleep Tonight” Ministry, “N.W.O.” Malign, “Skin & Lye” Necrø, “Desolate” Extize, “Classic Love” Kat Robichaud, “Psycho Hysterical” The Fair Attempts, “Apart” Normoria, “Divided Colors” Black Asteroid, “Polyfusion” iVardensphere, “People of the Sun (Distorted Memory remix)” The Retrosic, “Total War” Pink Turns Blue, “Fighting for the Right Side” Principe Valiente, “I Am You (Bootblacks Remix)” Raskolnikov, “Masterfreak” Nox Novacula, “Disappear” Christ vs. Warhol, “Welcome Home” Navigator Project, “Dystopia” Raven Said, “Fragile Hope” Fermion, “Unity With Chaos” Czarina, “Exoskeleton” Her Own World, “The Queen” Frenchy and the Punk, “Skip Boom” Chris Harms, “Lunamor (Club mix)” Chameleons, “Things I Wish I'd Said” Soft Vein, “Oblivion” Stiiill, “Empty Room” Empereur, “Amor Fati” Rosegarden Funeral Party, “From the Ashes” DJ CYPHER'S DARK NATION RADIO—24 years strong! **Live Sundays @ 9 PM Eastern US on Spirit of Resistance Radio sorradio.org **Recorded @ http://www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive **Downloadable @ http://www.hearthis.at/cypheractive **Questions and material for airplay consideration to darknationradio[at] gmail[dot]com **Facebook @ http://www.facebook.com/groups/darknationradio

WTD S2E30 Rusty Pickle Tip: The team sends Voltage and Cypher to see if they have any better luck on the scouting ********************* Content Warning: Profanity, sexual references, descriptions of violence, Drug/Alcohol use, and homebrewed rules. ********************** Music from Epidemic Sound Hosting by Podbean Shadowrun is owned by The Topps Company, Inc. and Catalyst Games ********************* Promo: Tales from the Stuffer Shack Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/redfathom.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/redfathom/ Website: https://redfathom.com/stuffer-shack **********************

If you need a little something to lift your spirits and take your mind off things, the latest edition of DJ cypher's PSYCHOBILLY FAMILY POWER HOUR is here to help! Neo-rockabilly and psychobilly are on the menu this time, with bands including Long Tall Texans, The Raters, Evil Daltons, Frantic Flintstones, Griswalds, Milwaukee Wildmen, Gorilla, Johnny & the Jailbirds, Eightbomb, Ro and the Skullboys, Teencats, and the Rusty Robots. Tune in, turn up, & rock out! If you like what you hear, I invite you to join the PFPH family at http://www.facebook.com/groups/psychobillyfamilypowerhour and to follow me on your preferred streaming platform. Reposts are particularly appreciated! Promo materials may be directed to darknationradio@gmail.com. DJ CYPHER'S PSYCHOBILLY FAMILY POWER HOUR Broadcast #51 (25 February 2025) Lota Red, “Good Day to Die” Griswalds, “Fright Night” Frantic Flintstones, “Your Time Is Up” Gorilla, “Psychotic Paradise” Eightbomb, “Empty Heart” The Top Cats, “Please Mama Please” Johnny & the Jailbirds, “Roll On (Clickety Clack)” Hank Sundown and the Cascades, “56 Chevy” TT Grace, “I'm a Fool” Teencats, “Blue Over You” The Raters, “Phantom Hot Rod” Go Getters, “Welcome to My Hell” Rusty Robots, “Paranoia” Straight 8s, “I Wanna Know” Ro and the Skullboys, “Psychobilly in Love” Long Tall Texans, “Say When” Evil Daltons, “Train is Arriving” Milwaukee Wildmen, “25 to Life” Playbacks http://www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive Downloadable http://www.hearthis.at/cypheractive Social Media: http://www.facebook.com/groups/psychobillyfamilypowerhour

The guys review Season 2 Reloaded. 00:00:00 - Teaser, intro, & announcements 00:04:33 - The review: multiplayer stuff 00:17:42 - Mountaineer details 00:23:25 - Audio in Warzone 00:31:35 - Warzone gun meta 00:49:00 - Gas grenade "nerf" 00:51:42 - Warzone review Note: timestamps may be slightly misaligned on podcast apps (but not on YouTube) due to dynamic ads. The podcast is available wherever you listen to podcasts, and ad-free & early access versions - as well as bonus episodes - are available to all of our Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thedropshot) supporters. We stream the podcast live on our website (https://www.thedropshot.com/live), on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/c/thedropshotpodcast), and on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/thedropshotpodcast) simultaneously every Thursday and Saturday afternoon at ~12 o'clock Pacific Time. We typically start the stream 30 minutes early to answer viewer questions, banter, and chat. Links for everything are below. Thanks for checking us out!

The world is in a state of chaos, but one thing you can rely on each week is new music on DJ cypher's Dark Nation Radio. This week's show can now be streamed and features new tracks from bands including The Black Veils, DEAD LIGHTS, Psyclon Nine, The Awakening, Crush of Souls, Ghosting, Raskolnikov, MATT HART, Freaky Mind, and Je T'aime. Also in the mix are Youth Code, Eisbrecher, Clan of Xymox, Black Rose Burning, Panic Priest, Amulet, and much more! As always, if you like what you hear, I hope you will support the bands and considering following me on your preferred platform. Reposts of the show so that others can find out about it are particularly appreciated. Questions and promo materials may be directed to darknationradio@gmail.com. DJ cypher's Dark Nation Radio Playlist 23 February 2025 dstrtd sgnl + mnglxplr, “Mängelexemplar” MATT HART, “Rotations” Freaky Mind, “On the Hook” Crush of Souls, “No Soul” Stahlschlag, “Govina Paramananda” 40 Octaves Below, “Korr” Youth Code, “Carried Mask” Eisbrecher, “Kaltfront” April Art, “Rodeo” The Awakening, “Haunting” Psyclon Nine, “Devil's Work” Dear Suicide, “Once Broken Never Broken (Static Logic remix)” Aesthetische, “Ain't Gonna Fuck With My Brain” Panic Priest, “Untamed (Drumless)” Black Rose Burning, “Whisper (acoustic)” Clan of Xymox, “Suffer (Sine remix)” Dead Lights, “Take” Blackbook, “Normal” C-LEKKTOR, “Are You Ready for the Bass” The Black Veils, “Gas Light!” Caressing Misery, “A Thousand Seasons” Twice Dark, “Telekinetic” Heimberg, “Glass Prison” Amulet, “Erase Me” Ghosting, “Amphetamine Logic (Live)” VOITH, “Sister of the Dark” Esoterik, “Trickster” Je T'aime, “When Dreams Cease” Raskolnikov, “Gorgon'Zola” Empereur, “Still Life” DJ CYPHER'S DARK NATION RADIO—24 years strong! **Live Sundays @ 9 PM Eastern US on Spirit of Resistance Radio sorradio.org **Recorded @ http://www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive **Downloadable @ http://www.hearthis.at/cypheractive **Questions and material for airplay consideration to darknationradio[at] gmail[dot]com **Facebook @ http://www.facebook.com/groups/darknationradio

 Prepare to be spooked with these 10 creepy coincidences that will leave you in disbelief. From eerie connections in history to bizarre occurrences, this countdown will have you questioning the universe.

Avery Sunshine, winner of this year’s Grammy for “Best Progressive R&B Album,” discusses her upcoming performances at City Winery. Plus, Soul Food Cypher founder Alex “Cost One” Acosta and Cypher member Rio Nkosi discuss the intersection of art and community outreach.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the mix this week on DJ cypher's Dark Nation Radio are new tracks from bands and artists including Peter Murphy, Lunar Paths, Matt Hart, Kali Dreamer, The Awakening, Torul, Extize, Encephalon, Mercury's Antenna, Balduvian Bears, Noemi Aurora, Aiming, Lézire, Pneumagnosis, Ghosting, Pink Turns Blue, and The Mystic Underground. I hope you will give it a spin and thank you for supporting underground music! As always, if you like what you hear, I hope you will support the bands and considering following me on your preferred platform. Reposts of the show so that others can find out about it are particularly appreciated. Questions and promo materials may be directed to darknationradio@gmail.com. DJ cypher's Dark Nation Radio Playlist 16 February 2025 Peter Murphy ft. Trent Reznor, “Swoon” Balduvian Bears, “Underworld” Aiming, “At Sea” Kali Dreamer, “In Loving Misery” Bam Margera & Amore ad Luna, “Love in Chains” Mekong, “Black Swan” Undertheskin, “Done” Plague Garden, “Shadows” Bloody, Dead & Sexy, “Frequency” Ghosting, “All Your Dreams” Giirls, “Illness” En Esch ft. Raymond Watts, “Push” Flesh Field, “Afraid of Tomorrow” Lézire, “Souls Apart” Lunar Paths, “Zero Trust Mentality” Matt Hart, “The Last Rave” The Awakening, “Fallout” Dance My Darling, “Smells Like Fabulous (Descaped version)” Pneumagnosis, “Let the Flowers Fall” Mercury's Antenna, “The Reflecting Skin (William Faith remix)” Encephalon, “Illusions” Attribution, “The Alibi (Solemn Shapes mix)” Torul, “Conversations” Extize, “Renaissance Rave” Soft Vein, “Black Bag” The Ultimate Dreamers, “Traum” Pink Turns Blue, “Stay for the Night” Noemi Aurora, “Too Late to Die” The Mystic Underground, “Remember Me” DJ CYPHER'S DARK NATION RADIO—24 years strong! **Live Sundays @ 9 PM Eastern US on Spirit of Resistance Radio sorradio.org **Recorded @ http://www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive **Downloadable @ http://www.hearthis.at/cypheractive **Questions and material for airplay consideration to darknationradio[at] gmail[dot]com **Facebook @ http://www.facebook.com/groups/darknationradio

This week's Dark Nation Radio features new tracks from bands including Beauty in Chaos, Je T'aime, Implant, Without Warning, Night Ritualz, Unit 187, Vioflesh, deZeption, Noemi Aurora, 30 Denari, STAHLSCHLAG, and e:lect, as well as tracks from Urban Heat, The Birthday Massacre, Seraphim Shock, God Module, Second Still, Black Angel, Secret Shame, I Ya Toyah, and a bunch of others. I hope you'll give it a spin! As always, if you like what you hear, I hope you will support the bands and considering following me on your preferred platform. Reposts of the show so that others can find out about it are particularly appreciated. Questions and promo materials may be directed to darknationradio@gmail.com. DJ cypher's Dark Nation Radio Playlist 9 February 2025 Vioflesh, “Your Absence” Unit 187, “Dick” Je T'aime, “Dead Leaves” DeZeption, “And You Never Hear What I Say” 30 Denari, “Mycelium” Sun Atoms, “Take This Love” (((s))), “Hole in My Heart (Holesome mix)” Stahlschlag, “Gayatri Mantra” Beauty in Chaos ft. William Faith and Scary Lady Sarah, “Present Tense (Current Stress mix)” Noemi Aurora, “The Alchemist (Llumen remix)” Without Warning, “Time is Running Out” e:lect, “Secrets” Seraphim Shock, “After Dark (Devil's Trip mix)” The Birthday Massacre, “Dead” SAM, “Corporate Violate” God Module, “Interference (Stromkern remix)” Implant, “Vampire Space” Night Ritualz, “Sharing Skin” Mestre, “In My Darkness” VV & the Void, “Grinder” Darkness on Demand, “White Clouds” Urban Heat, “Blissful Neighbor” Talk to Her, “Ibisco” I Ya Toyah, “Code Blue (Arcontas Blank mix)” Second Still, “Double Negative” Black Angel, “Turn Me On” Secret Shame, “Gift” Depeche Mode, “Don't Say You Love Me” DJ CYPHER'S DARK NATION RADIO—24 years strong! **Live Sundays @ 9 PM Eastern US on Spirit of Resistance Radio sorradio.org **Recorded @ http://www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive **Downloadable @ http://www.hearthis.at/cypheractive **Questions and material for airplay consideration to darknationradio[at] gmail[dot]com **Facebook @ http://www.facebook.com/groups/darknationradio

This week's Dark Nation Radio is ready for streaming and includes a new remix of Suzi Sabotage's “Nazi Goths Fuck Off” and Uncle Al cursing at white trash, plus new tracks from grabyourface, Derision Cult, Die Sexual, Je T'aime, 30 Denari, Encephalon, Soft Vein, Vague Lanes, Stahlschlag, Agnis, VOITH, dstrtd sgnl, Death by Love, and remastered PIG, and Autumn-US, among others. I proudly broadcast on Spirit of Resistance Radio and stand firm against bigotry and fascism. As always, if you like what you hear, I hope you will support the bands and considering following me on your preferred platform. Reposts of the show so that others can find out about it are particularly appreciated. Questions and promo materials may be directed to darknationradio@gmail.com. DJ cypher's Dark Nation Radio Playlist 2 January 2025 Suzi Sabotage, “Nazi Goths Fuck Off (Cassandra Complex remix)” Je T'aime, “Unbroken Sleep” 30 Denari, “Vuoti Involveri” Encephalon, “Illusions” Soft Vein, “Black Bag” Stahlschlag, “Vishadavant” New Haunts, “Something Falls Away” Tokee + Fractal, “Scanner” LoveGhost x SKOLD, “The Star of the Show” Ministry, “Goddamn White Trash” PIG, “Everything ‘24” Psyclon Nine, “I Choose Violence” Derision Cult, “Abdication Day” Primitive Race, “Bed Six” Euringer, “If It Ain't You Today, It Will Be You Tomorrow (KMFDM remix)” 40 Octaves Below, “Knuckledragger (Moris Blak remix)” Death By Love, “Strong Inside (Acoustique Remix)” grabyourface, “Tear Myself Away” Vague Lanes, “Heptahedron (Darkswoon remix)” Die Sexual, “Darkest Hour (Light Asylum remix)” SIIE, “Cité Lunaire” Echoberyl, “She Blames Herself” Autumn-US, “Venice” iamnoone, “In Fear” Me and My Nightmare ft. Sebastian Komor, “Devil Inside” Dstrtd sgnl pres. Bigod 20, “Body to Body” Agnis, “Monsters” VOITH, “My Shadowblade” DJ CYPHER'S DARK NATION RADIO—24 years strong! **Live Sundays @ 9 PM Eastern US on Spirit of Resistance Radio sorradio.org **Recorded @ http://www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive **Downloadable @ http://www.hearthis.at/cypheractive **Questions and material for airplay consideration to darknationradio[at] gmail[dot]com **Facebook @ http://www.facebook.com/groups/darknationradio

We discuss the rapid acceleration of AI technology with Bootoshi, founder of Cypher Genesis and the Bitcoin Boo's. With Bootoshi's expert understanding of the AI sector, we explore the depths of use cases for AI integration not only in the crypto sector, but for real world use as well. Bootoshi is leading a movement of AI enthusiasts who are dedicated to improving their personal abilities with AI in order to compete with the impending agentic economy. We discuss how best to leverage AI and assess the role of humanity in context of Agents displacing a lot of human need for economic contribution. 2025 being touted as the year for AI dominance it is important to find an optimal positioning and understanding of how the market will evolve in order to capitalize effectively. Topics: First up, discuss the rapid acceleration of AI technology with Bootoshi, founder of Cypher Genesis and the Bitcoin Boo's Next, discuss how best to leverage AI and assess the role of humanity in context of Agents displacing a lot of human need for economic contribution and Finally, 2025 being touted as the year for AI dominance it is important to find an optimal positioning and understanding of how the market will evolve in order to capitalize effectively Please like and subscribe on your favorite podcasting app! Sign up for a free newsletter: www.theblockrunner.com Follow us on: Youtube: https://bit.ly/TBlkRnnrYouTube Twitter: bit.ly/TBR-Twitter Telegram: bit.ly/TBR-Telegram Discord: bit.ly/TBR-Discord

For the 50th broadcast of DJ cypher's PSYCHOBILLY FAMILY POWER HOUR, I expanded the show to two hours to share with you many of my favorites, old and new! Among those in the mix are The Cramps, The Reverend Horton Heat, The Creepshow, Nekromantix, The Misfits, The Brains, Blitzkid, Tiger Army, Mad Sin, The Quakes, The Hillbilly Moon Explosion, Raygun Cowboys, Hola Ghost, Rezurex, Rocket to Memphsis, The Young Werewolves, Carolina & Her Rhythm Rockets, Gamblers Mark, Bathearse, and The Koffin Kats. I hope you'll give it a spin! Promo materials may be directed to darknationradio@gmail.com. If you like what you hear, I invite you to join the PFPH family at http://www.facebook.com/groups/psychobillyfamilypowerhour and to follow me on your preferred streaming platform. Reposts are particularly appreciated! DJ CYPHER'S PSYCHOBILLY FAMILY POWER HOUR Broadcast #50 (28 January 2025) The Cramps, “God Damn Rock n' Roll” The 69 Eyes, “Aloha From Hell” The Reverend Horton Heat, “The Devil's Chasing Me” The Creepshow, “Rock ‘n' Roll Sweetheart” Mad Sin, “9 Lives” The Rosedales, “Stars are Falling” Blitzkid, “Lady in the Lake” Tiger Army, “Last Ride” Rocket to Memphis, “Voodoo Twist” Lost Pistoleros, “Reaper” Raygun Cowboys, “Break These Chains” Hola Ghost, “Spanish Moon” The Hillbilly Moon Explosion, “Queen of Hearts” The Brains, “Satana Tarantula” Nekromantix, “Haunted Cathouse” The Ruiners, “Elvis Got a Brand New Gun” Bathearse, “Slide Into My Web” The Misfits, “Saturday Night” Rezurex, “Ghost Town” The Quakes, “What Will They Say About Me?” The Cain Pit, “Platform” Reno Divorce, “How Long's It Been?” Back Alley Barbers, “Gravedigger's Love Song” Gamblers Mark, “The Cho Incident” Carolina & Her Rhythm Rockets, “Back Home” The Koffin Kats, “The Bottle Called” 38 Coffin, “Road Queen” Black Hearse Getaway, “Creatures of the Night” The Young Werewolves, “Mischief Night” Serpenteens, “(Please Be My) Zombie Bride” The Broadway Twisters, “Cheers for the Tears” DJ cypher's PSYCHOBILLY FAMILY POWER HOUR: 2nd and 4th Tuesday at 9 PM Eastern US on sorradio.org. Contact: darknationradio [at] gmail [dot] com Playbacks http://www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive Downloadable http://www.hearthis.at/cypheractive Social Media: http://www.facebook.com/groups/psychobillyfamilypowerhour

This week's Dark Nation Radio is ready for streaming and features new material from bands including Tears for the Dying, Eisbrecher, Chris Harms (of Lord of the Lost) with Ronan Harris (VNV Nation), Prager Handgriff, Electric Children, SU, Robots in Love, Propter Hoc, Twice Dark, ee:man, Cold Connection, Circuit Preacher, Crying Vessel, Extize, Balduvian Bears, and Black Angel. I hope you'll give it a spin! As always, if you like what you hear, I hope you will support the bands and considering following me on your preferred platform. Reposts of the show so that others can find out about it are particularly appreciated. DJ cypher's Dark Nation Radio Playlist 26 January 2025 Eisbrecher, “Kaltfront” Electric Children, “Reptilian Royalty” Black Angel, “Luxx” The Damned, “You're Gonna Realise” Robots in Love, “Crush” Crying Vessel, “The Fifth Circle (If Eyes Could Talk)” SU, “Arachnid” Esoterik, “Salt” Dead Astronauts, “Erase Me” Die Robo Sapiens, “Robo Sapien” Stereoskop, “I Am the One” Tears for the Dying, “Jolene” Cold Connection, “Save Me Now (P.O. remix)” Circuit Preacher, “Killed Something” Extize, “Cyberghost” Prager Handgriff, “Klaustrophobie” Interface, “Tomorrow is Now” Destroy Me Again, “Dopamine (Funker Vogt remix)” Funker Vogt, “Pommerland” Ee:man, “Dark Mind” Twice Dark, “Necromantik (Horrorhaus remix)” Chris Harms ft. Ronan Harris, “The Grey Machines” Propter Hoc, “The Basement” Balduvian Bears, “Eazy” Larsovitch, “Bonne Nuit” The Russian White, “Above Human” Depeche Mode, “The Sun and the Rainfall” Aux Animaux, “Violence in the Silence” The Noise Who Runs, “Beautiful Perhaps” pMad, “Who Am I” DJ CYPHER'S DARK NATION RADIO—24 years strong! **Live Sundays @ 9 PM Eastern US on Spirit of Resistance Radio sorradio.org **Recorded @ http://www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive **Downloadable @ http://www.hearthis.at/cypheractive **Questions and material for airplay consideration to darknationradio[at] gmail[dot]com **Facebook @ http://www.facebook.com/groups/darknationradio

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Applications for the 2025 AI Engineer Summit are up, and you can save the date for AIE Singapore in April and AIE World's Fair 2025 in June.Happy new year, and thanks for 100 great episodes! Please let us know what you want to see/hear for the next 100!Full YouTube Episode with Slides/ChartsLike and subscribe and hit that bell to get notifs!Timestamps* 00:00 Welcome to the 100th Episode!* 00:19 Reflecting on the Journey* 00:47 AI Engineering: The Rise and Impact* 03:15 Latent Space Live and AI Conferences* 09:44 The Competitive AI Landscape* 21:45 Synthetic Data and Future Trends* 35:53 Creative Writing with AI* 36:12 Legal and Ethical Issues in AI* 38:18 The Data War: GPU Poor vs. GPU Rich* 39:12 The Rise of GPU Ultra Rich* 40:47 Emerging Trends in AI Models* 45:31 The Multi-Modality War* 01:05:31 The Future of AI Benchmarks* 01:13:17 Pionote and Frontier Models* 01:13:47 Niche Models and Base Models* 01:14:30 State Space Models and RWKB* 01:15:48 Inference Race and Price Wars* 01:22:16 Major AI Themes of the Year* 01:22:48 AI Rewind: January to March* 01:26:42 AI Rewind: April to June* 01:33:12 AI Rewind: July to September* 01:34:59 AI Rewind: October to December* 01:39:53 Year-End Reflections and PredictionsTranscript[00:00:00] Welcome to the 100th Episode![00:00:00] Alessio: Hey everyone, welcome to the Latent Space Podcast. This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co host Swyx for the 100th time today.[00:00:12] swyx: Yay, um, and we're so glad that, yeah, you know, everyone has, uh, followed us in this journey. How do you feel about it? 100 episodes.[00:00:19] Alessio: Yeah, I know.[00:00:19] Reflecting on the Journey[00:00:19] Alessio: Almost two years that we've been doing this. We've had four different studios. Uh, we've had a lot of changes. You know, we used to do this lightning round. When we first started that we didn't like, and we tried to change the question. The answer[00:00:32] swyx: was cursor and perplexity.[00:00:34] Alessio: Yeah, I love mid journey. It's like, do you really not like anything else?[00:00:38] Alessio: Like what's, what's the unique thing? And I think, yeah, we, we've also had a lot more research driven content. You know, we had like 3DAO, we had, you know. Jeremy Howard, we had more folks like that.[00:00:47] AI Engineering: The Rise and Impact[00:00:47] Alessio: I think we want to do more of that too in the new year, like having, uh, some of the Gemini folks, both on the research and the applied side.[00:00:54] Alessio: Yeah, but it's been a ton of fun. I think we both started, I wouldn't say as a joke, we were kind of like, Oh, we [00:01:00] should do a podcast. And I think we kind of caught the right wave, obviously. And I think your rise of the AI engineer posts just kind of get people. Sombra to congregate, and then the AI engineer summit.[00:01:11] Alessio: And that's why when I look at our growth chart, it's kind of like a proxy for like the AI engineering industry as a whole, which is almost like, like, even if we don't do that much, we keep growing just because there's so many more AI engineers. So did you expect that growth or did you expect that would take longer for like the AI engineer thing to kind of like become, you know, everybody talks about it today.[00:01:32] swyx: So, the sign of that, that we have won is that Gartner puts it at the top of the hype curve right now. So Gartner has called the peak in AI engineering. I did not expect, um, to what level. I knew that I was correct when I called it because I did like two months of work going into that. But I didn't know, You know, how quickly it could happen, and obviously there's a chance that I could be wrong.[00:01:52] swyx: But I think, like, most people have come around to that concept. Hacker News hates it, which is a good sign. But there's enough people that have defined it, you know, GitHub, when [00:02:00] they launched GitHub Models, which is the Hugging Face clone, they put AI engineers in the banner, like, above the fold, like, in big So I think it's like kind of arrived as a meaningful and useful definition.[00:02:12] swyx: I think people are trying to figure out where the boundaries are. I think that was a lot of the quote unquote drama that happens behind the scenes at the World's Fair in June. Because I think there's a lot of doubt or questions about where ML engineering stops and AI engineering starts. That's a useful debate to be had.[00:02:29] swyx: In some sense, I actually anticipated that as well. So I intentionally did not. Put a firm definition there because most of the successful definitions are necessarily underspecified and it's actually useful to have different perspectives and you don't have to specify everything from the outset.[00:02:45] Alessio: Yeah, I was at um, AWS reInvent and the line to get into like the AI engineering talk, so to speak, which is, you know, applied AI and whatnot was like, there are like hundreds of people just in line to go in.[00:02:56] Alessio: I think that's kind of what enabled me. People, right? Which is what [00:03:00] you kind of talked about. It's like, Hey, look, you don't actually need a PhD, just, yeah, just use the model. And then maybe we'll talk about some of the blind spots that you get as an engineer with the earlier posts that we also had on on the sub stack.[00:03:11] Alessio: But yeah, it's been a heck of a heck of a two years.[00:03:14] swyx: Yeah.[00:03:15] Latent Space Live and AI Conferences[00:03:15] swyx: You know, I was, I was trying to view the conference as like, so NeurIPS is I think like 16, 17, 000 people. And the Latent Space Live event that we held there was 950 signups. I think. The AI world, the ML world is still very much research heavy. And that's as it should be because ML is very much in a research phase.[00:03:34] swyx: But as we move this entire field into production, I think that ratio inverts into becoming more engineering heavy. So at least I think engineering should be on the same level, even if it's never as prestigious, like it'll always be low status because at the end of the day, you're manipulating APIs or whatever.[00:03:51] swyx: But Yeah, wrapping GPTs, but there's going to be an increasing stack and an art to doing these, these things well. And I, you know, I [00:04:00] think that's what we're focusing on for the podcast, the conference and basically everything I do seems to make sense. And I think we'll, we'll talk about the trends here that apply.[00:04:09] swyx: It's, it's just very strange. So, like, there's a mix of, like, keeping on top of research while not being a researcher and then putting that research into production. So, like, people always ask me, like, why are you covering Neuralibs? Like, this is a ML research conference and I'm like, well, yeah, I mean, we're not going to, to like, understand everything Or reproduce every single paper, but the stuff that is being found here is going to make it through into production at some point, you hope.[00:04:32] swyx: And then actually like when I talk to the researchers, they actually get very excited because they're like, oh, you guys are actually caring about how this goes into production and that's what they really really want. The measure of success is previously just peer review, right? Getting 7s and 8s on their um, Academic review conferences and stuff like citations is one metric, but money is a better metric.[00:04:51] Alessio: Money is a better metric. Yeah, and there were about 2200 people on the live stream or something like that. Yeah, yeah. Hundred on the live stream. So [00:05:00] I try my best to moderate, but it was a lot spicier in person with Jonathan and, and Dylan. Yeah, that it was in the chat on YouTube.[00:05:06] swyx: I would say that I actually also created.[00:05:09] swyx: Layen Space Live in order to address flaws that are perceived in academic conferences. This is not NeurIPS specific, it's ICML, NeurIPS. Basically, it's very sort of oriented towards the PhD student, uh, market, job market, right? Like literally all, basically everyone's there to advertise their research and skills and get jobs.[00:05:28] swyx: And then obviously all the, the companies go there to hire them. And I think that's great for the individual researchers, but for people going there to get info is not great because you have to read between the lines, bring a ton of context in order to understand every single paper. So what is missing is effectively what I ended up doing, which is domain by domain, go through and recap the best of the year.[00:05:48] swyx: Survey the field. And there are, like NeurIPS had a, uh, I think ICML had a like a position paper track, NeurIPS added a benchmarks, uh, datasets track. These are ways in which to address that [00:06:00] issue. Uh, there's always workshops as well. Every, every conference has, you know, a last day of workshops and stuff that provide more of an overview.[00:06:06] swyx: But they're not specifically prompted to do so. And I think really, uh, Organizing a conference is just about getting good speakers and giving them the correct prompts. And then they will just go and do that thing and they do a very good job of it. So I think Sarah did a fantastic job with the startups prompt.[00:06:21] swyx: I can't list everybody, but we did best of 2024 in startups, vision, open models. Post transformers, synthetic data, small models, and agents. And then the last one was the, uh, and then we also did a quick one on reasoning with Nathan Lambert. And then the last one, obviously, was the debate that people were very hyped about.[00:06:39] swyx: It was very awkward. And I'm really, really thankful for John Franco, basically, who stepped up to challenge Dylan. Because Dylan was like, yeah, I'll do it. But He was pro scaling. And I think everyone who is like in AI is pro scaling, right? So you need somebody who's ready to publicly say, no, we've hit a wall.[00:06:57] swyx: So that means you're saying Sam Altman's wrong. [00:07:00] You're saying, um, you know, everyone else is wrong. It helps that this was the day before Ilya went on, went up on stage and then said pre training has hit a wall. And data has hit a wall. So actually Jonathan ended up winning, and then Ilya supported that statement, and then Noam Brown on the last day further supported that statement as well.[00:07:17] swyx: So it's kind of interesting that I think the consensus kind of going in was that we're not done scaling, like you should believe in a better lesson. And then, four straight days in a row, you had Sepp Hochreiter, who is the creator of the LSTM, along with everyone's favorite OG in AI, which is Juergen Schmidhuber.[00:07:34] swyx: He said that, um, we're pre trading inside a wall, or like, we've run into a different kind of wall. And then we have, you know John Frankel, Ilya, and then Noam Brown are all saying variations of the same thing, that we have hit some kind of wall in the status quo of what pre trained, scaling large pre trained models has looked like, and we need a new thing.[00:07:54] swyx: And obviously the new thing for people is some make, either people are calling it inference time compute or test time [00:08:00] compute. I think the collective terminology has been inference time, and I think that makes sense because test time, calling it test, meaning, has a very pre trained bias, meaning that the only reason for running inference at all is to test your model.[00:08:11] swyx: That is not true. Right. Yeah. So, so, I quite agree that. OpenAI seems to have adopted, or the community seems to have adopted this terminology of ITC instead of TTC. And that, that makes a lot of sense because like now we care about inference, even right down to compute optimality. Like I actually interviewed this author who recovered or reviewed the Chinchilla paper.[00:08:31] swyx: Chinchilla paper is compute optimal training, but what is not stated in there is it's pre trained compute optimal training. And once you start caring about inference, compute optimal training, you have a different scaling law. And in a way that we did not know last year.[00:08:45] Alessio: I wonder, because John is, he's also on the side of attention is all you need.[00:08:49] Alessio: Like he had the bet with Sasha. So I'm curious, like he doesn't believe in scaling, but he thinks the transformer, I wonder if he's still. So, so,[00:08:56] swyx: so he, obviously everything is nuanced and you know, I told him to play a character [00:09:00] for this debate, right? So he actually does. Yeah. He still, he still believes that we can scale more.[00:09:04] swyx: Uh, he just assumed the character to be very game for, for playing this debate. So even more kudos to him that he assumed a position that he didn't believe in and still won the debate.[00:09:16] Alessio: Get rekt, Dylan. Um, do you just want to quickly run through some of these things? Like, uh, Sarah's presentation, just the highlights.[00:09:24] swyx: Yeah, we can't go through everyone's slides, but I pulled out some things as a factor of, like, stuff that we were going to talk about. And we'll[00:09:30] Alessio: publish[00:09:31] swyx: the rest. Yeah, we'll publish on this feed the best of 2024 in those domains. And hopefully people can benefit from the work that our speakers have done.[00:09:39] swyx: But I think it's, uh, these are just good slides. And I've been, I've been looking for a sort of end of year recaps from, from people.[00:09:44] The Competitive AI Landscape[00:09:44] swyx: The field has progressed a lot. You know, I think the max ELO in 2023 on LMSys used to be 1200 for LMSys ELOs. And now everyone is at least at, uh, 1275 in their ELOs, and this is across Gemini, Chadjibuti, [00:10:00] Grok, O1.[00:10:01] swyx: ai, which with their E Large model, and Enthopic, of course. It's a very, very competitive race. There are multiple Frontier labs all racing, but there is a clear tier zero Frontier. And then there's like a tier one. It's like, I wish I had everything else. Tier zero is extremely competitive. It's effectively now three horse race between Gemini, uh, Anthropic and OpenAI.[00:10:21] swyx: I would say that people are still holding out a candle for XAI. XAI, I think, for some reason, because their API was very slow to roll out, is not included in these metrics. So it's actually quite hard to put on there. As someone who also does charts, XAI is continually snubbed because they don't work well with the benchmarking people.[00:10:42] swyx: Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a little trivia for why XAI always gets ignored. The other thing is market share. So these are slides from Sarah. We have it up on the screen. It has gone from very heavily open AI. So we have some numbers and estimates. These are from RAMP. Estimates of open AI market share in [00:11:00] December 2023.[00:11:01] swyx: And this is basically, what is it, GPT being 95 percent of production traffic. And I think if you correlate that with stuff that we asked. Harrison Chase on the LangChain episode, it was true. And then CLAUD 3 launched mid middle of this year. I think CLAUD 3 launched in March, CLAUD 3. 5 Sonnet was in June ish.[00:11:23] swyx: And you can start seeing the market share shift towards opening, uh, towards that topic, uh, very, very aggressively. The more recent one is Gemini. So if I scroll down a little bit, this is an even more recent dataset. So RAM's dataset ends in September 2 2. 2024. Gemini has basically launched a price war at the low end, uh, with Gemini Flash, uh, being basically free for personal use.[00:11:44] swyx: Like, I think people don't understand the free tier. It's something like a billion tokens per day. Unless you're trying to abuse it, you cannot really exhaust your free tier on Gemini. They're really trying to get you to use it. They know they're in like third place, um, fourth place, depending how you, how you count.[00:11:58] swyx: And so they're going after [00:12:00] the Lower tier first, and then, you know, maybe the upper tier later, but yeah, Gemini Flash, according to OpenRouter, is now 50 percent of their OpenRouter requests. Obviously, these are the small requests. These are small, cheap requests that are mathematically going to be more.[00:12:15] swyx: The smart ones obviously are still going to OpenAI. But, you know, it's a very, very big shift in the market. Like basically 2023, 2022, To going into 2024 opening has gone from nine five market share to Yeah. Reasonably somewhere between 50 to 75 market share.[00:12:29] Alessio: Yeah. I'm really curious how ramped does the attribution to the model?[00:12:32] Alessio: If it's API, because I think it's all credit card spin. . Well, but it's all, the credit card doesn't say maybe. Maybe the, maybe when they do expenses, they upload the PDF, but yeah, the, the German I think makes sense. I think that was one of my main 2024 takeaways that like. The best small model companies are the large labs, which is not something I would have thought that the open source kind of like long tail would be like the small model.[00:12:53] swyx: Yeah, different sizes of small models we're talking about here, right? Like so small model here for Gemini is AB, [00:13:00] right? Uh, mini. We don't know what the small model size is, but yeah, it's probably in the double digits or maybe single digits, but probably double digits. The open source community has kind of focused on the one to three B size.[00:13:11] swyx: Mm-hmm . Yeah. Maybe[00:13:12] swyx: zero, maybe 0.5 B uh, that's moon dream and that is small for you then, then that's great. It makes sense that we, we have a range for small now, which is like, may, maybe one to five B. Yeah. I'll even put that at, at, at the high end. And so this includes Gemma from Gemini as well. But also includes the Apple Foundation models, which I think Apple Foundation is 3B.[00:13:32] Alessio: Yeah. No, that's great. I mean, I think in the start small just meant cheap. I think today small is actually a more nuanced discussion, you know, that people weren't really having before.[00:13:43] swyx: Yeah, we can keep going. This is a slide that I smiley disagree with Sarah. She's pointing to the scale SEAL leaderboard. I think the Researchers that I talked with at NeurIPS were kind of positive on this because basically you need private test [00:14:00] sets to prevent contamination.[00:14:02] swyx: And Scale is one of maybe three or four people this year that has really made an effort in doing a credible private test set leaderboard. Llama405B does well compared to Gemini and GPT 40. And I think that's good. I would say that. You know, it's good to have an open model that is that big, that does well on those metrics.[00:14:23] swyx: But anyone putting 405B in production will tell you, if you scroll down a little bit to the artificial analysis numbers, that it is very slow and very expensive to infer. Um, it doesn't even fit on like one node. of, uh, of H100s. Cerebras will be happy to tell you they can serve 4 or 5B on their super large chips.[00:14:42] swyx: But, um, you know, if you need to do anything custom to it, you're still kind of constrained. So, is 4 or 5B really that relevant? Like, I think most people are basically saying that they only use 4 or 5B as a teacher model to distill down to something. Even Meta is doing it. So with Lama 3. [00:15:00] 3 launched, they only launched the 70B because they use 4 or 5B to distill the 70B.[00:15:03] swyx: So I don't know if like open source is keeping up. I think they're the, the open source industrial complex is very invested in telling you that the, if the gap is narrowing, I kind of disagree. I think that the gap is widening with O1. I think there are very, very smart people trying to narrow that gap and they should.[00:15:22] swyx: I really wish them success, but you cannot use a chart that is nearing 100 in your saturation chart. And look, the distance between open source and closed source is narrowing. Of course it's going to narrow because you're near 100. This is stupid. But in metrics that matter, is open source narrowing?[00:15:38] swyx: Probably not for O1 for a while. And it's really up to the open source guys to figure out if they can match O1 or not.[00:15:46] Alessio: I think inference time compute is bad for open source just because, you know, Doc can donate the flops at training time, but he cannot donate the flops at inference time. So it's really hard to like actually keep up on that axis.[00:15:59] Alessio: Big, big business [00:16:00] model shift. So I don't know what that means for the GPU clouds. I don't know what that means for the hyperscalers, but obviously the big labs have a lot of advantage. Because, like, it's not a static artifact that you're putting the compute in. You're kind of doing that still, but then you're putting a lot of computed inference too.[00:16:17] swyx: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, I mean, Llama4 will be reasoning oriented. We talked with Thomas Shalom. Um, kudos for getting that episode together. That was really nice. Good, well timed. Actually, I connected with the AI meta guy, uh, at NeurIPS, and, um, yeah, we're going to coordinate something for Llama4. Yeah, yeah,[00:16:32] Alessio: and our friend, yeah.[00:16:33] Alessio: Clara Shi just joined to lead the business agent side. So I'm sure we'll have her on in the new year.[00:16:39] swyx: Yeah. So, um, my comment on, on the business model shift, this is super interesting. Apparently it is wide knowledge that OpenAI wanted more than 6. 6 billion dollars for their fundraise. They wanted to raise, you know, higher, and they did not.[00:16:51] swyx: And what that means is basically like, it's very convenient that we're not getting GPT 5, which would have been a larger pre train. We should have a lot of upfront money. And [00:17:00] instead we're, we're converting fixed costs into variable costs, right. And passing it on effectively to the customer. And it's so much easier to take margin there because you can directly attribute it to like, Oh, you're using this more.[00:17:12] swyx: Therefore you, you pay more of the cost and I'll just slap a margin in there. So like that lets you control your growth margin and like tie your. Your spend, or your sort of inference spend, accordingly. And it's just really interesting to, that this change in the sort of inference paradigm has arrived exactly at the same time that the funding environment for pre training is effectively drying up, kind of.[00:17:36] swyx: I feel like maybe the VCs are very in tune with research anyway, so like, they would have noticed this, but, um, it's just interesting.[00:17:43] Alessio: Yeah, and I was looking back at our yearly recap of last year. Yeah. And the big thing was like the mixed trial price fights, you know, and I think now it's almost like there's nowhere to go, like, you know, Gemini Flash is like basically giving it away for free.[00:17:55] Alessio: So I think this is a good way for the labs to generate more revenue and pass down [00:18:00] some of the compute to the customer. I think they're going to[00:18:02] swyx: keep going. I think that 2, will come.[00:18:05] Alessio: Yeah, I know. Totally. I mean, next year, the first thing I'm doing is signing up for Devin. Signing up for the pro chat GBT.[00:18:12] Alessio: Just to try. I just want to see what does it look like to spend a thousand dollars a month on AI?[00:18:17] swyx: Yes. Yes. I think if your, if your, your job is a, at least AI content creator or VC or, you know, someone who, whose job it is to stay on, stay on top of things, you should already be spending like a thousand dollars a month on, on stuff.[00:18:28] swyx: And then obviously easy to spend, hard to use. You have to actually use. The good thing is that actually Google lets you do a lot of stuff for free now. So like deep research. That they just launched. Uses a ton of inference and it's, it's free while it's in preview.[00:18:45] Alessio: Yeah. They need to put that in Lindy.[00:18:47] Alessio: I've been using Lindy lately. I've been a built a bunch of things once we had flow because I liked the new thing. It's pretty good. I even did a phone call assistant. Um, yeah, they just launched Lindy voice. Yeah, I think once [00:19:00] they get advanced voice mode like capability today, still like speech to text, you can kind of tell.[00:19:06] Alessio: Um, but it's good for like reservations and things like that. So I have a meeting prepper thing. And so[00:19:13] swyx: it's good. Okay. I feel like we've, we've covered a lot of stuff. Uh, I, yeah, I, you know, I think We will go over the individual, uh, talks in a separate episode. Uh, I don't want to take too much time with, uh, this stuff, but that suffice to say that there is a lot of progress in each field.[00:19:28] swyx: Uh, we covered vision. Basically this is all like the audience voting for what they wanted. And then I just invited the best people I could find in each audience, especially agents. Um, Graham, who I talked to at ICML in Vienna, he is currently still number one. It's very hard to stay on top of SweetBench.[00:19:45] swyx: OpenHand is currently still number one. switchbench full, which is the hardest one. He had very good thoughts on agents, which I, which I'll highlight for people. Everyone is saying 2025 is the year of agents, just like they said last year. And, uh, but he had [00:20:00] thoughts on like eight parts of what are the frontier problems to solve in agents.[00:20:03] swyx: And so I'll highlight that talk as well.[00:20:05] Alessio: Yeah. The number six, which is the Hacken agents learn more about the environment, has been a Super interesting to us as well, just to think through, because, yeah, how do you put an agent in an enterprise where most things in an enterprise have never been public, you know, a lot of the tooling, like the code bases and things like that.[00:20:23] Alessio: So, yeah, there's not indexing and reg. Well, yeah, but it's more like. You can't really rag things that are not documented. But people know them based on how they've been doing it. You know, so I think there's almost this like, you know, Oh, institutional knowledge. Yeah, the boring word is kind of like a business process extraction.[00:20:38] Alessio: Yeah yeah, I see. It's like, how do you actually understand how these things are done? I see. Um, and I think today the, the problem is that, Yeah, the agents are, that most people are building are good at following instruction, but are not as good as like extracting them from you. Um, so I think that will be a big unlock just to touch quickly on the Jeff Dean thing.[00:20:55] Alessio: I thought it was pretty, I mean, we'll link it in the, in the things, but. I think the main [00:21:00] focus was like, how do you use ML to optimize the systems instead of just focusing on ML to do something else? Yeah, I think speculative decoding, we had, you know, Eugene from RWKB on the podcast before, like he's doing a lot of that with Fetterless AI.[00:21:12] swyx: Everyone is. I would say it's the norm. I'm a little bit uncomfortable with how much it costs, because it does use more of the GPU per call. But because everyone is so keen on fast inference, then yeah, makes sense.[00:21:24] Alessio: Exactly. Um, yeah, but we'll link that. Obviously Jeff is great.[00:21:30] swyx: Jeff is, Jeff's talk was more, it wasn't focused on Gemini.[00:21:33] swyx: I think people got the wrong impression from my tweet. It's more about how Google approaches ML and uses ML to design systems and then systems feedback into ML. And I think this ties in with Lubna's talk.[00:21:45] Synthetic Data and Future Trends[00:21:45] swyx: on synthetic data where it's basically the story of bootstrapping of humans and AI in AI research or AI in production.[00:21:53] swyx: So her talk was on synthetic data, where like how much synthetic data has grown in 2024 in the pre training side, the post training side, [00:22:00] and the eval side. And I think Jeff then also extended it basically to chips, uh, to chip design. So he'd spend a lot of time talking about alpha chip. And most of us in the audience are like, we're not working on hardware, man.[00:22:11] swyx: Like you guys are great. TPU is great. Okay. We'll buy TPUs.[00:22:14] Alessio: And then there was the earlier talk. Yeah. But, and then we have, uh, I don't know if we're calling them essays. What are we calling these? But[00:22:23] swyx: for me, it's just like bonus for late in space supporters, because I feel like they haven't been getting anything.[00:22:29] swyx: And then I wanted a more high frequency way to write stuff. Like that one I wrote in an afternoon. I think basically we now have an answer to what Ilya saw. It's one year since. The blip. And we know what he saw in 2014. We know what he saw in 2024. We think we know what he sees in 2024. He gave some hints and then we have vague indications of what he saw in 2023.[00:22:54] swyx: So that was the Oh, and then 2016 as well, because of this lawsuit with Elon, OpenAI [00:23:00] is publishing emails from Sam's, like, his personal text messages to Siobhan, Zelis, or whatever. So, like, we have emails from Ilya saying, this is what we're seeing in OpenAI, and this is why we need to scale up GPUs. And I think it's very prescient in 2016 to write that.[00:23:16] swyx: And so, like, it is exactly, like, basically his insights. It's him and Greg, basically just kind of driving the scaling up of OpenAI, while they're still playing Dota. They're like, no, like, we see the path here.[00:23:30] Alessio: Yeah, and it's funny, yeah, they even mention, you know, we can only train on 1v1 Dota. We need to train on 5v5, and that takes too many GPUs.[00:23:37] Alessio: Yeah,[00:23:37] swyx: and at least for me, I can speak for myself, like, I didn't see the path from Dota to where we are today. I think even, maybe if you ask them, like, they wouldn't necessarily draw a straight line. Yeah,[00:23:47] Alessio: no, definitely. But I think like that was like the whole idea of almost like the RL and we talked about this with Nathan on his podcast.[00:23:55] Alessio: It's like with RL, you can get very good at specific things, but then you can't really like generalize as much. And I [00:24:00] think the language models are like the opposite, which is like, you're going to throw all this data at them and scale them up, but then you really need to drive them home on a specific task later on.[00:24:08] Alessio: And we'll talk about the open AI reinforcement, fine tuning, um, announcement too, and all of that. But yeah, I think like scale is all you need. That's kind of what Elia will be remembered for. And I think just maybe to clarify on like the pre training is over thing that people love to tweet. I think the point of the talk was like everybody, we're scaling these chips, we're scaling the compute, but like the second ingredient which is data is not scaling at the same rate.[00:24:35] Alessio: So it's not necessarily pre training is over. It's kind of like What got us here won't get us there. In his email, he predicted like 10x growth every two years or something like that. And I think maybe now it's like, you know, you can 10x the chips again, but[00:24:49] swyx: I think it's 10x per year. Was it? I don't know.[00:24:52] Alessio: Exactly. And Moore's law is like 2x. So it's like, you know, much faster than that. And yeah, I like the fossil fuel of AI [00:25:00] analogy. It's kind of like, you know, the little background tokens thing. So the OpenAI reinforcement fine tuning is basically like, instead of fine tuning on data, you fine tune on a reward model.[00:25:09] Alessio: So it's basically like, instead of being data driven, it's like task driven. And I think people have tasks to do, they don't really have a lot of data. So I'm curious to see how that changes, how many people fine tune, because I think this is what people run into. It's like, Oh, you can fine tune llama. And it's like, okay, where do I get the data?[00:25:27] Alessio: To fine tune it on, you know, so it's great that we're moving the thing. And then I really like he had this chart where like, you know, the brain mass and the body mass thing is basically like mammals that scaled linearly by brain and body size, and then humans kind of like broke off the slope. So it's almost like maybe the mammal slope is like the pre training slope.[00:25:46] Alessio: And then the post training slope is like the, the human one.[00:25:49] swyx: Yeah. I wonder what the. I mean, we'll know in 10 years, but I wonder what the y axis is for, for Ilya's SSI. We'll try to get them on.[00:25:57] Alessio: Ilya, if you're listening, you're [00:26:00] welcome here. Yeah, and then he had, you know, what comes next, like agent, synthetic data, inference, compute, I thought all of that was like that.[00:26:05] Alessio: I don't[00:26:05] swyx: think he was dropping any alpha there. Yeah, yeah, yeah.[00:26:07] Alessio: Yeah. Any other new reps? Highlights?[00:26:10] swyx: I think that there was comparatively a lot more work. Oh, by the way, I need to plug that, uh, my friend Yi made this, like, little nice paper. Yeah, that was really[00:26:20] swyx: nice.[00:26:20] swyx: Uh, of, uh, of, like, all the, he's, she called it must read papers of 2024.[00:26:26] swyx: So I laid out some of these at NeurIPS, and it was just gone. Like, everyone just picked it up. Because people are dying for, like, little guidance and visualizations And so, uh, I thought it was really super nice that we got there.[00:26:38] Alessio: Should we do a late in space book for each year? Uh, I thought about it. For each year we should.[00:26:42] Alessio: Coffee table book. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Put it in the will. Hi, Will. By the way, we haven't introduced you. He's our new, you know, general organist, Jamie. You need to[00:26:52] swyx: pull up more things. One thing I saw that, uh, Okay, one fun one, and then one [00:27:00] more general one. So the fun one is this paper on agent collusion. This is a paper on steganography.[00:27:06] swyx: This is secret collusion among AI agents, multi agent deception via steganography. I tried to go to NeurIPS in order to find these kinds of papers because the real reason Like NeurIPS this year has a lottery system. A lot of people actually even go and don't buy tickets because they just go and attend the side events.[00:27:22] swyx: And then also the people who go and end up crowding around the most popular papers, which you already know and already read them before you showed up to NeurIPS. So the only reason you go there is to talk to the paper authors, but there's like something like 10, 000 other. All these papers out there that, you know, are just people's work that they, that they did on the air and they failed to get attention for one reason or another.[00:27:42] swyx: And this was one of them. Uh, it was like all the way at the back. And this is a deep mind paper that actually focuses on collusion between AI agents, uh, by hiding messages in the text that they generate. Uh, so that's what steganography is. So a very simple example would be the first letter of every word.[00:27:57] swyx: If you Pick that out, you know, and the code sends a [00:28:00] different message than that. But something I've always emphasized is to LLMs, we read left to right. LLMs can read up, down, sideways, you know, in random character order. And it's the same to them as it is to us. So if we were ever to get You know, self motivated, underlined LLMs that we're trying to collaborate to take over the planet.[00:28:19] swyx: This would be how they do it. They spread messages among us in the messages that we generate. And he developed a scaling law for that. So he marked, I'm showing it on screen right now, the emergence of this phenomenon. Basically, for example, for Cypher encoding, GPT 2, Lama 2, mixed trial, GPT 3. 5, zero capabilities, and sudden 4.[00:28:40] swyx: And this is the kind of Jason Wei type emergence properties that people kind of look for. I think what made this paper stand out as well, so he developed the benchmark for steganography collusion, and he also focused on shelling point collusion, which is very low coordination. For agreeing on a decoding encoding format, you kind of need to have some [00:29:00] agreement on that.[00:29:00] swyx: But, but shelling point means like very, very low or almost no coordination. So for example, if I, if I ask someone, if the only message I give you is meet me in New York and you're not aware. Or when you would probably meet me at Grand Central Station. That is the Grand Central Station is a shelling point.[00:29:16] swyx: And it's probably somewhere, somewhere during the day. That is the shelling point of New York is Grand Central. To that extent, shelling points for steganography are things like the, the, the common decoding methods that we talked about. It will be interesting at some point in the future when we are worried about alignment.[00:29:30] swyx: It is not interesting today, but it's interesting that DeepMind is already thinking about this.[00:29:36] Alessio: I think that's like one of the hardest things about NeurIPS. It's like the long tail. I[00:29:41] swyx: found a pricing guy. I'm going to feature him on the podcast. Basically, this guy from NVIDIA worked out the optimal pricing for language models.[00:29:51] swyx: It's basically an econometrics paper at NeurIPS, where everyone else is talking about GPUs. And the guy with the GPUs is[00:29:57] Alessio: talking[00:29:57] swyx: about economics instead. [00:30:00] That was the sort of fun one. So the focus I saw is that model papers at NeurIPS are kind of dead. No one really presents models anymore. It's just data sets.[00:30:12] swyx: This is all the grad students are working on. So like there was a data sets track and then I was looking around like, I was like, you don't need a data sets track because every paper is a data sets paper. And so data sets and benchmarks, they're kind of flip sides of the same thing. So Yeah. Cool. Yeah, if you're a grad student, you're a GPU boy, you kind of work on that.[00:30:30] swyx: And then the, the sort of big model that people walk around and pick the ones that they like, and then they use it in their models. And that's, that's kind of how it develops. I, I feel like, um, like, like you didn't last year, you had people like Hao Tian who worked on Lava, which is take Lama and add Vision.[00:30:47] swyx: And then obviously actually I hired him and he added Vision to Grok. Now he's the Vision Grok guy. This year, I don't think there was any of those.[00:30:55] Alessio: What were the most popular, like, orals? Last year it was like the [00:31:00] Mixed Monarch, I think, was like the most attended. Yeah, uh, I need to look it up. Yeah, I mean, if nothing comes to mind, that's also kind of like an answer in a way.[00:31:10] Alessio: But I think last year there was a lot of interest in, like, furthering models and, like, different architectures and all of that.[00:31:16] swyx: I will say that I felt the orals, oral picks this year were not very good. Either that or maybe it's just a So that's the highlight of how I have changed in terms of how I view papers.[00:31:29] swyx: So like, in my estimation, two of the best papers in this year for datasets or data comp and refined web or fine web. These are two actually industrially used papers, not highlighted for a while. I think DCLM got the spotlight, FineWeb didn't even get the spotlight. So like, it's just that the picks were different.[00:31:48] swyx: But one thing that does get a lot of play that a lot of people are debating is the role that's scheduled. This is the schedule free optimizer paper from Meta from Aaron DeFazio. And this [00:32:00] year in the ML community, there's been a lot of chat about shampoo, soap, all the bathroom amenities for optimizing your learning rates.[00:32:08] swyx: And, uh, most people at the big labs are. Who I asked about this, um, say that it's cute, but it's not something that matters. I don't know, but it's something that was discussed and very, very popular. 4Wars[00:32:19] Alessio: of AI recap maybe, just quickly. Um, where do you want to start? Data?[00:32:26] swyx: So to remind people, this is the 4Wars piece that we did as one of our earlier recaps of this year.[00:32:31] swyx: And the belligerents are on the left, journalists, writers, artists, anyone who owns IP basically, New York Times, Stack Overflow, Reddit, Getty, Sarah Silverman, George RR Martin. Yeah, and I think this year we can add Scarlett Johansson to that side of the fence. So anyone suing, open the eye, basically. I actually wanted to get a snapshot of all the lawsuits.[00:32:52] swyx: I'm sure some lawyer can do it. That's the data quality war. On the right hand side, we have the synthetic data people, and I think we talked about Lumna's talk, you know, [00:33:00] really showing how much synthetic data has come along this year. I think there was a bit of a fight between scale. ai and the synthetic data community, because scale.[00:33:09] swyx: ai published a paper saying that synthetic data doesn't work. Surprise, surprise, scale. ai is the leading vendor of non synthetic data. Only[00:33:17] Alessio: cage free annotated data is useful.[00:33:21] swyx: So I think there's some debate going on there, but I don't think it's much debate anymore that at least synthetic data, for the reasons that are blessed in Luna's talk, Makes sense.[00:33:32] swyx: I don't know if you have any perspectives there.[00:33:34] Alessio: I think, again, going back to the reinforcement fine tuning, I think that will change a little bit how people think about it. I think today people mostly use synthetic data, yeah, for distillation and kind of like fine tuning a smaller model from like a larger model.[00:33:46] Alessio: I'm not super aware of how the frontier labs use it outside of like the rephrase, the web thing that Apple also did. But yeah, I think it'll be. Useful. I think like whether or not that gets us the big [00:34:00] next step, I think that's maybe like TBD, you know, I think people love talking about data because it's like a GPU poor, you know, I think, uh, synthetic data is like something that people can do, you know, so they feel more opinionated about it compared to, yeah, the optimizers stuff, which is like,[00:34:17] swyx: they don't[00:34:17] Alessio: really work[00:34:18] swyx: on.[00:34:18] swyx: I think that there is an angle to the reasoning synthetic data. So this year, we covered in the paper club, the star series of papers. So that's star, Q star, V star. It basically helps you to synthesize reasoning steps, or at least distill reasoning steps from a verifier. And if you look at the OpenAI RFT, API that they released, or that they announced, basically they're asking you to submit graders, or they choose from a preset list of graders.[00:34:49] swyx: Basically It feels like a way to create valid synthetic data for them to fine tune their reasoning paths on. Um, so I think that is another angle where it starts to make sense. And [00:35:00] so like, it's very funny that basically all the data quality wars between Let's say the music industry or like the newspaper publishing industry or the textbooks industry on the big labs.[00:35:11] swyx: It's all of the pre training era. And then like the new era, like the reasoning era, like nobody has any problem with all the reasoning, especially because it's all like sort of math and science oriented with, with very reasonable graders. I think the more interesting next step is how does it generalize beyond STEM?[00:35:27] swyx: We've been using O1 for And I would say like for summarization and creative writing and instruction following, I think it's underrated. I started using O1 in our intro songs before we killed the intro songs, but it's very good at writing lyrics. You know, I can actually say like, I think one of the O1 pro demos.[00:35:46] swyx: All of these things that Noam was showing was that, you know, you can write an entire paragraph or three paragraphs without using the letter A, right?[00:35:53] Creative Writing with AI[00:35:53] swyx: So like, like literally just anything instead of token, like not even token level, character level manipulation and [00:36:00] counting and instruction following. It's, uh, it's very, very strong.[00:36:02] swyx: And so no surprises when I ask it to rhyme, uh, and to, to create song lyrics, it's going to do that very much better than in previous models. So I think it's underrated for creative writing.[00:36:11] Alessio: Yeah.[00:36:12] Legal and Ethical Issues in AI[00:36:12] Alessio: What do you think is the rationale that they're going to have in court when they don't show you the thinking traces of O1, but then they want us to, like, they're getting sued for using other publishers data, you know, but then on their end, they're like, well, you shouldn't be using my data to then train your model.[00:36:29] Alessio: So I'm curious to see how that kind of comes. Yeah, I mean, OPA has[00:36:32] swyx: many ways to publish, to punish people without bringing, taking them to court. Already banned ByteDance for distilling their, their info. And so anyone caught distilling the chain of thought will be just disallowed to continue on, on, on the API.[00:36:44] swyx: And it's fine. It's no big deal. Like, I don't even think that's an issue at all, just because the chain of thoughts are pretty well hidden. Like you have to work very, very hard to, to get it to leak. And then even when it leaks the chain of thought, you don't know if it's, if it's [00:37:00] The bigger concern is actually that there's not that much IP hiding behind it, that Cosign, which we talked about, we talked to him on Dev Day, can just fine tune 4.[00:37:13] swyx: 0 to beat 0. 1 Cloud SONET so far is beating O1 on coding tasks without, at least O1 preview, without being a reasoning model, same for Gemini Pro or Gemini 2. 0. So like, how much is reasoning important? How much of a moat is there in this, like, All of these are proprietary sort of training data that they've presumably accomplished.[00:37:34] swyx: Because even DeepSeek was able to do it. And they had, you know, two months notice to do this, to do R1. So, it's actually unclear how much moat there is. Obviously, you know, if you talk to the Strawberry team, they'll be like, yeah, I mean, we spent the last two years doing this. So, we don't know. And it's going to be Interesting because there'll be a lot of noise from people who say they have inference time compute and actually don't because they just have fancy chain of thought.[00:38:00][00:38:00] swyx: And then there's other people who actually do have very good chain of thought. And you will not see them on the same level as OpenAI because OpenAI has invested a lot in building up the mythology of their team. Um, which makes sense. Like the real answer is somewhere in between.[00:38:13] Alessio: Yeah, I think that's kind of like the main data war story developing.[00:38:18] The Data War: GPU Poor vs. GPU Rich[00:38:18] Alessio: GPU poor versus GPU rich. Yeah. Where do you think we are? I think there was, again, going back to like the small model thing, there was like a time in which the GPU poor were kind of like the rebel faction working on like these models that were like open and small and cheap. And I think today people don't really care as much about GPUs anymore.[00:38:37] Alessio: You also see it in the price of the GPUs. Like, you know, that market is kind of like plummeted because there's people don't want to be, they want to be GPU free. They don't even want to be poor. They just want to be, you know, completely without them. Yeah. How do you think about this war? You[00:38:52] swyx: can tell me about this, but like, I feel like the, the appetite for GPU rich startups, like the, you know, the, the funding plan is we will raise 60 million and [00:39:00] we'll give 50 of that to NVIDIA.[00:39:01] swyx: That is gone, right? Like, no one's, no one's pitching that. This was literally the plan, the exact plan of like, I can name like four or five startups, you know, this time last year. So yeah, GPU rich startups gone.[00:39:12] The Rise of GPU Ultra Rich[00:39:12] swyx: But I think like, The GPU ultra rich, the GPU ultra high net worth is still going. So, um, now we're, you know, we had Leopold's essay on the trillion dollar cluster.[00:39:23] swyx: We're not quite there yet. We have multiple labs, um, you know, XAI very famously, you know, Jensen Huang praising them for being. Best boy number one in spinning up 100, 000 GPU cluster in like 12 days or something. So likewise at Meta, likewise at OpenAI, likewise at the other labs as well. So like the GPU ultra rich are going to keep doing that because I think partially it's an article of faith now that you just need it.[00:39:46] swyx: Like you don't even know what it's going to, what you're going to use it for. You just, you just need it. And it makes sense that if, especially if we're going into. More researchy territory than we are. So let's say 2020 to 2023 was [00:40:00] let's scale big models territory because we had GPT 3 in 2020 and we were like, okay, we'll go from 1.[00:40:05] swyx: 75b to 1. 8b, 1. 8t. And that was GPT 3 to GPT 4. Okay, that's done. As far as everyone is concerned, Opus 3. 5 is not coming out, GPT 4. 5 is not coming out, and Gemini 2, we don't have Pro, whatever. We've hit that wall. Maybe I'll call it the 2 trillion perimeter wall. We're not going to 10 trillion. No one thinks it's a good idea, at least from training costs, from the amount of data, or at least the inference.[00:40:36] swyx: Would you pay 10x the price of GPT Probably not. Like, like you want something else that, that is at least more useful. So it makes sense that people are pivoting in terms of their inference paradigm.[00:40:47] Emerging Trends in AI Models[00:40:47] swyx: And so when it's more researchy, then you actually need more just general purpose compute to mess around with, uh, at the exact same time that production deployments of the old, the previous paradigm is still ramping up,[00:40:58] swyx: um,[00:40:58] swyx: uh, pretty aggressively.[00:40:59] swyx: So [00:41:00] it makes sense that the GPU rich are growing. We have now interviewed both together and fireworks and replicates. Uh, we haven't done any scale yet. But I think Amazon, maybe kind of a sleeper one, Amazon, in a sense of like they, at reInvent, I wasn't expecting them to do so well, but they are now a foundation model lab.[00:41:18] swyx: It's kind of interesting. Um, I think, uh, you know, David went over there and started just creating models.[00:41:25] Alessio: Yeah, I mean, that's the power of prepaid contracts. I think like a lot of AWS customers, you know, they do this big reserve instance contracts and now they got to use their money. That's why so many startups.[00:41:37] Alessio: Get bought through the AWS marketplace so they can kind of bundle them together and prefer pricing.[00:41:42] swyx: Okay, so maybe GPU super rich doing very well, GPU middle class dead, and then GPU[00:41:48] Alessio: poor. I mean, my thing is like, everybody should just be GPU rich. There shouldn't really be, even the GPU poorest, it's like, does it really make sense to be GPU poor?[00:41:57] Alessio: Like, if you're GPU poor, you should just use the [00:42:00] cloud. Yes, you know, and I think there might be a future once we kind of like figure out what the size and shape of these models is where like the tiny box and these things come to fruition where like you can be GPU poor at home. But I think today is like, why are you working so hard to like get these models to run on like very small clusters where it's like, It's so cheap to run them.[00:42:21] Alessio: Yeah, yeah,[00:42:22] swyx: yeah. I think mostly people think it's cool. People think it's a stepping stone to scaling up. So they aspire to be GPU rich one day and they're working on new methods. Like news research, like probably the most deep tech thing they've done this year is Distro or whatever the new name is.[00:42:38] swyx: There's a lot of interest in heterogeneous computing, distributed computing. I tend generally to de emphasize that historically, but it may be coming to a time where it is starting to be relevant. I don't know. You know, SF compute launched their compute marketplace this year, and like, who's really using that?[00:42:53] swyx: Like, it's a bunch of small clusters, disparate types of compute, and if you can make that [00:43:00] useful, then that will be very beneficial to the broader community, but maybe still not the source of frontier models. It's just going to be a second tier of compute that is unlocked for people, and that's fine. But yeah, I mean, I think this year, I would say a lot more on device, We are, I now have Apple intelligence on my phone.[00:43:19] swyx: Doesn't do anything apart from summarize my notifications. But still, not bad. Like, it's multi modal.[00:43:25] Alessio: Yeah, the notification summaries are so and so in my experience.[00:43:29] swyx: Yeah, but they add, they add juice to life. And then, um, Chrome Nano, uh, Gemini Nano is coming out in Chrome. Uh, they're still feature flagged, but you can, you can try it now if you, if you use the, uh, the alpha.[00:43:40] swyx: And so, like, I, I think, like, you know, We're getting the sort of GPU poor version of a lot of these things coming out, and I think it's like quite useful. Like Windows as well, rolling out RWKB in sort of every Windows department is super cool. And I think the last thing that I never put in this GPU poor war, that I think I should now, [00:44:00] is the number of startups that are GPU poor but still scaling very well, as sort of wrappers on top of either a foundation model lab, or GPU Cloud.[00:44:10] swyx: GPU Cloud, it would be Suno. Suno, Ramp has rated as one of the top ranked, fastest growing startups of the year. Um, I think the last public number is like zero to 20 million this year in ARR and Suno runs on Moto. So Suno itself is not GPU rich, but they're just doing the training on, on Moto, uh, who we've also talked to on, on the podcast.[00:44:31] swyx: The other one would be Bolt, straight cloud wrapper. And, and, um, Again, another, now they've announced 20 million ARR, which is another step up from our 8 million that we put on the title. So yeah, I mean, it's crazy that all these GPU pores are finding a way while the GPU riches are also finding a way. And then the only failures, I kind of call this the GPU smiling curve, where the edges do well, because you're either close to the machines, and you're like [00:45:00] number one on the machines, or you're like close to the customers, and you're number one on the customer side.[00:45:03] swyx: And the people who are in the middle. Inflection, um, character, didn't do that great. I think character did the best of all of them. Like, you have a note in here that we apparently said that character's price tag was[00:45:15] Alessio: 1B.[00:45:15] swyx: Did I say that?[00:45:16] Alessio: Yeah. You said Google should just buy them for 1B. I thought it was a crazy number.[00:45:20] Alessio: Then they paid 2. 7 billion. I mean, for like,[00:45:22] swyx: yeah.[00:45:22] Alessio: What do you pay for node? Like, I don't know what the game world was like. Maybe the starting price was 1B. I mean, whatever it was, it worked out for everybody involved.[00:45:31] The Multi-Modality War[00:45:31] Alessio: Multimodality war. And this one, we never had text to video in the first version, which now is the hottest.[00:45:37] swyx: Yeah, I would say it's a subset of image, but yes.[00:45:40] Alessio: Yeah, well, but I think at the time it wasn't really something people were doing, and now we had VO2 just came out yesterday. Uh, Sora was released last month, last week. I've not tried Sora, because the day that I tried, it wasn't, yeah. I[00:45:54] swyx: think it's generally available now, you can go to Sora.[00:45:56] swyx: com and try it. Yeah, they had[00:45:58] Alessio: the outage. Which I [00:46:00] think also played a part into it. Small things. Yeah. What's the other model that you posted today that was on Replicate? Video or OneLive?[00:46:08] swyx: Yeah. Very, very nondescript name, but it is from Minimax, which I think is a Chinese lab. The Chinese labs do surprisingly well at the video models.[00:46:20] swyx: I'm not sure it's actually Chinese. I don't know. Hold me up to that. Yep. China. It's good. Yeah, the Chinese love video. What can I say? They have a lot of training data for video. Or a more relaxed regulatory environment.[00:46:37] Alessio: Uh, well, sure, in some way. Yeah, I don't think there's much else there. I think like, you know, on the image side, I think it's still open.[00:46:45] Alessio: Yeah, I mean,[00:46:46] swyx: 11labs is now a unicorn. So basically, what is multi modality war? Multi modality war is, do you specialize in a single modality, right? Or do you have GodModel that does all the modalities? So this is [00:47:00] definitely still going, in a sense of 11 labs, you know, now Unicorn, PicoLabs doing well, they launched Pico 2.[00:47:06] swyx: 0 recently, HeyGen, I think has reached 100 million ARR, Assembly, I don't know, but they have billboards all over the place, so I assume they're doing very, very well. So these are all specialist models, specialist models and specialist startups. And then there's the big labs who are doing the sort of all in one play.[00:47:24] swyx: And then here I would highlight Gemini 2 for having native image output. Have you seen the demos? Um, yeah, it's, it's hard to keep up. Literally they launched this last week and a shout out to Paige Bailey, who came to the Latent Space event to demo on the day of launch. And she wasn't prepared. She was just like, I'm just going to show you.[00:47:43] swyx: So they have voice. They have, you know, obviously image input, and then they obviously can code gen and all that. But the new one that OpenAI and Meta both have but they haven't launched yet is image output. So you can literally, um, I think their demo video was that you put in an image of a [00:48:00] car, and you ask for minor modifications to that car.[00:48:02] swyx: They can generate you that modification exactly as you asked. So there's no need for the stable diffusion or comfy UI workflow of like mask here and then like infill there in paint there and all that, all that stuff. This is small model nonsense. Big model people are like, huh, we got you in as everything in the transformer.[00:48:21] swyx: This is the multimodality war, which is, do you, do you bet on the God model or do you string together a whole bunch of, uh, Small models like a, like a chump. Yeah,[00:48:29] Alessio: I don't know, man. Yeah, that would be interesting. I mean, obviously I use Midjourney for all of our thumbnails. Um, they've been doing a ton on the product, I would say.[00:48:38] Alessio: They launched a new Midjourney editor thing. They've been doing a ton. Because I think, yeah, the motto is kind of like, Maybe, you know, people say black forest, the black forest models are better than mid journey on a pixel by pixel basis. But I think when you put it, put it together, have you tried[00:48:53] swyx: the same problems on black forest?[00:48:55] Alessio: Yes. But the problem is just like, you know, on black forest, it generates one image. And then it's like, you got to [00:49:00] regenerate. You don't have all these like UI things. Like what I do, no, but it's like time issue, you know, it's like a mid[00:49:06] swyx: journey. Call the API four times.[00:49:08] Alessio: No, but then there's no like variate.[00:49:10] Alessio: Like the good thing about mid journey is like, you just go in there and you're cooking. There's a lot of stuff that just makes it really easy. And I think people underestimate that. Like, it's not really a skill issue, because I'm paying mid journey, so it's a Black Forest skill issue, because I'm not paying them, you know?[00:49:24] Alessio: Yeah,[00:49:25] swyx: so, okay, so, uh, this is a UX thing, right? Like, you, you, you understand that, at least, we think that Black Forest should be able to do all that stuff. I will also shout out, ReCraft has come out, uh, on top of the image arena that, uh, artificial analysis has done, has apparently, uh, Flux's place. Is this still true?[00:49:41] swyx: So, Artificial Analysis is now a company. I highlighted them I think in one of the early AI Newses of the year. And they have launched a whole bunch of arenas. So, they're trying to take on LM Arena, Anastasios and crew. And they have an image arena. Oh yeah, Recraft v3 is now beating Flux 1. 1. Which is very surprising [00:50:00] because Flux And Black Forest Labs are the old stable diffusion crew who left stability after, um, the management issues.[00:50:06] swyx: So Recurve has come from nowhere to be the top image model. Uh, very, very strange. I would also highlight that Grok has now launched Aurora, which is, it's very interesting dynamics between Grok and Black Forest Labs because Grok's images were originally launched, uh, in partnership with Black Forest Labs as a, as a thin wrapper.[00:50:24] swyx: And then Grok was like, no, we'll make our own. And so they've made their own. I don't know, there are no APIs or benchmarks about it. They just announced it. So yeah, that's the multi modality war. I would say that so far, the small model, the dedicated model people are winning, because they are just focused on their tasks.[00:50:42] swyx: But the big model, People are always catching up. And the moment I saw the Gemini 2 demo of image editing, where I can put in an image and just request it and it does, that's how AI should work. Not like a whole bunch of complicated steps. So it really is something. And I think one frontier that we haven't [00:51:00] seen this year, like obviously video has done very well, and it will continue to grow.[00:51:03] swyx: You know, we only have Sora Turbo today, but at some point we'll get full Sora. Oh, at least the Hollywood Labs will get Fulsora. We haven't seen video to audio, or video synced to audio. And so the researchers that I talked to are already starting to talk about that as the next frontier. But there's still maybe like five more years of video left to actually be Soda.[00:51:23] swyx: I would say that Gemini's approach Compared to OpenAI, Gemini seems, or DeepMind's approach to video seems a lot more fully fledged than OpenAI. Because if you look at the ICML recap that I published that so far nobody has listened to, um, that people have listened to it. It's just a different, definitely different audience.[00:51:43] swyx: It's only seven hours long. Why are people not listening? It's like everything in Uh, so, so DeepMind has, is working on Genie. They also launched Genie 2 and VideoPoet. So, like, they have maybe four years advantage on world modeling that OpenAI does not have. Because OpenAI basically only started [00:52:00] Diffusion Transformers last year, you know, when they hired, uh, Bill Peebles.[00:52:03] swyx: So, DeepMind has, has a bit of advantage here, I would say, in, in, in showing, like, the reason that VO2, while one, They cherry pick their videos. So obviously it looks better than Sora, but the reason I would believe that VO2, uh, when it's fully launched will do very well is because they have all this background work in video that they've done for years.[00:52:22] swyx: Like, like last year's NeurIPS, I already was interviewing some of their video people. I forget their model name, but for, for people who are dedicated fans, they can go to NeurIPS 2023 and see, see that paper.[00:52:32] Alessio: And then last but not least, the LLMOS. We renamed it to Ragops, formerly known as[00:52:39] swyx: Ragops War. I put the latest chart on the Braintrust episode.[00:52:43] swyx: I think I'm going to separate these essays from the episode notes. So the reason I used to do that, by the way, is because I wanted to show up on Hacker News. I wanted the podcast to show up on Hacker News. So I always put an essay inside of there because Hacker News people like to read and not listen.[00:52:58] Alessio: So episode essays,[00:52:59] swyx: I remember [00:53:00] purchasing them separately. You say Lanchain Llama Index is still growing.[00:53:03] Alessio: Yeah, so I looked at the PyPy stats, you know. I don't care about stars. On PyPy you see Do you want to share your screen? Yes. I prefer to look at actual downloads, not at stars on GitHub. So if you look at, you know, Lanchain still growing.[00:53:20] Alessio: These are the last six months. Llama Index still growing. What I've basically seen is like things that, One, obviously these things have A commercial product. So there's like people buying this and sticking with it versus kind of hopping in between things versus, you know, for example, crew AI, not really growing as much.[00:53:38] Alessio: The stars are growing. If you look on GitHub, like the stars are growing, but kind of like the usage is kind of like flat. In the last six months, have they done some[00:53:4

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