Podcasts about Gopher

Sports experts Wally Langfellow and Eric Nelson joined guest host Tim Nelson to talk about the chances of Gopher Hockey winning the Big 10 Tournament Championship, the Twins gearing up for their baseball season, Gopher basketball, and NFC North quarterback drama. Wally is the founder of Minnesota Score magazine and the cohost of "ten-thousand Takes" sports talk show. Eric is the other host of "ten-thousand takes" and is also the Minnesota Vikings reporter for CBS Sports Radio "Eye on Football.” Use the audio player above to listen to the full conversation.  Subscribe to the Minnesota Now podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.    We attempt to make transcripts for Minnesota Now available the next business day after a broadcast. When ready they will appear here.

Gopher women's hockey coach Brad Frost joins during the first hour before his team begins Frozen Four play tomorrow, then extended chats on the Vikings and the RB situation for the Purple!

Episode #62 features a great conversation with Golden Gopher star women's hockey goaltender Skylar Vetter, who has helped the team to the 2023 Frozen Four this weekend.Thanks to Sunbelt Business Advisors and True North Mergers and Acquisitions (https://www.sunbeltminnesota.com/ & https://www.tnma.com), Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union (https://www.affinityplus.org/gogophers), & State Farm Agent Tony Hoaglund (https://www.champlininsurance.com/).

It's another hour full of great information and interviews with guest host Susie Jones. Former U of M athletic director Joel Maturi shares his memories of the late Gopher athlete and Vikings coach Bud Grant. Musician and composer Chan Poling gives us a rundown of the projects he's working on right now (including the return of "Glensheen: The Musical" to the stage). Tammy Stauffer from the Community Action Partnerships of Hennepin County explains how the organization is help people meet their energy needs.

Many continue to remember former Vikings coach Bud Grant a day after his passing.  He is also being remembered for his time as a Gopher athlete.  Former U of M athletic director Joel Maturi offers his memories of the Minnesota icon.

Touching on Gopher basketball (both men's and women's teams), Aaron's experience seeing Bruce Springsteen, and Chandler's trip to Allen Fieldhouse.Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes here.Read more »

This week in sports news, Minnesota Now's sports guys talk about why the Minnesota boy's hockey tournament is a huge deal, why Twins fans are so polite, and what's new with Gopher hockey. Wally Langfellow and Eric Nelson join MPR News host Cathy Wurzer on Minnesota Now weekly. Wally is creator of Minnesota Score Magazine and the co-host of Ten Thousand Takes Sports Show. Eric Nelson is the other co-host of that show and the Vikings reporter for CBS Sports' Eye on Football show. Use the audio player above to listen to the full conversation.  Subscribe to the Minnesota Now podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.    We attempt to make transcripts for Minnesota Now available the next business day after a broadcast. When ready they will appear here. 

Episode #61 features an NCAA Tourney preview with Gopher women's hockey star Taylor Heise and a visit with Affinity Plus CEO Dave Larson, who took the Polar Plunge last week!Thanks to Sunbelt Business Advisors and True North Mergers and Acquisitions (https://www.sunbeltminnesota.com/ & https://www.tnma.com), Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union (https://www.affinityplus.org/gogophers), & State Farm Agent Tony Hoaglund (https://www.champlininsurance.com/).

Episode #61 features an NCAA Tourney preview with Gopher women's hockey star Taylor Heise and a visit with Affinity Plus CEO Dave Larson, who took the Polar Plunge last week!Thanks to Sunbelt Business Advisors and True North Mergers and Acquisitions (https://www.sunbeltminnesota.com/ & https://www.tnma.com), Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union (https://www.affinityplus.org/gogophers), & State Farm Agent Tony Hoaglund (https://www.champlininsurance.com/).

Dan and Gaardsy review the Vikings news and Gopher game in the Top 5 before Kevin Seifert joins with his reaction to the Eric Kendricks news and discusses other NFL matters.

The Minnesota Vikings have reportedly met with a couple first-round QB prospects. Ron Johnson weighs in on whether they should go after one of them in the NFL Draft. He also discusses Derek Carr's move to New Orleans and then welcomes in former Gopher and NFL LB Karon Riley to the show for the Hangin' With Ron Johnson segment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chip Scoggins speaks about Lindsay Whalen losing her job as Gopher women's basketball coach, the state of the men's program under Ben Johnson, and Eric Kendricks being released by the Vikings after a lackluster year for the linebacker.

Chip Scoggins of the Star Tribune joins the show at the top of the hour to talk about the latest with Gopher men's and women's basketball and the Vikings saying goodbye to Eric Kendricks. Plus, Chad argues later that President Biden has made a huge error by not showing up to East Palenstine, Ohio more than a month after the train derailment.

Dan and Gaardsy continue reacting to the news that Lindsay Whalen is out as Gopher basketball coach.

Gopher football coach PJ Fleck in studio for the entire hour as we celebrate an extention of KFAN's relationship with Gopher Sports!

Brady Skjei, the Carolina Hurricanes veteran defenseman, former Gopher and pride of Lakeville, MN, joins SFTS to talk trade deadline, a terrific Canes' team, Chance the Rapper trying to pronounce SKJEI, playing with Brent Burns, what makes Mats Zuccarello so good and his love of lawn games and friendship with the lead singer of Train. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brian Murphy from Purple Insider and Bring me the News talks about. 

After five seasons, Lindsay Whalen has stepped down as coach of the Gopher women's basketball team. Whalen's resignation comes a day after her team lost to Penn State in the first round of the Big 10 tournament. The Gophers were 11 and 19 overall this year, and were 4 and 14 in regular season conference play. University of Minnesota Athletic Director Mark Coyle said it was a mutually-agreed-upon decision. This is an MPR News evening update for March 2, 2023. Hosted by Matt Sepic. Our theme music is by Gary Meister.

This has been a historically bad year for the Gopher men. Tonight Rutgers plays Minnesota at the Barn — our sports guys, Wally Langfellow and Eric Nelson give us a preview of that and more sports news.

Gopher women’s coach Lindsay Whalen resigns; Minnesota House proposes ethnic studies and personal finance requirements; St. Thomas Academy high school sued by former students; Matt’s Thursday grocery trip; Orono mayor was sending videos to local leaders comparing COVID measures to the Holocaust; DFL introduces legislation to improve safety on public transit.

Gopher women's basketball is in the gutter despite being led by Minnesota legend Lindsey Whalen; PGA Tour changing its rules and cut line and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gopher women's basketball is in the gutter despite being led by Minnesota legend Lindsey Whalen; PGA Tour changing its rules and cut line and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode #60 features a great conversation with Golden Gopher hockey star Brock Faber, who has helped the team to the top ranking in the country.  This is a must-listen for Gold Country!Thanks to Sunbelt Business Advisors and True North Mergers and Acquisitions (https://www.sunbeltminnesota.com/ & https://www.tnma.com), Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union (https://www.affinityplus.org/gogophers), & State Farm Agent Tony Hoaglund (https://www.champlininsurance.com/).

Reusse congrats Lou Nanne on his induction but the Gopher basketball program is at a low point with Dennis Evans de-committing from the program; Plus Pat's thoughts on the Twins down at spring training and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Reusse congrats Lou Nanne on his induction but the Gopher basketball program is at a low point with Dennis Evans de-committing from the program; Plus Pat's thoughts on the Twins down at spring training and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode #59 takes a deep dive into the Gopher football off-season with the Gopher Guru Daniel House. Too much info to preview here, have a listen!Thanks to Sunbelt Business Advisors and True North Mergers and Acquisitions (https://www.sunbeltminnesota.com/ & https://www.tnma.com), Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union (https://www.affinityplus.org/gogophers), & State Farm Agent Tony Hoaglund (https://www.champlininsurance.com/).

Episode #59 takes a deep dive into the Gopher football off-season with the Gopher Guru Daniel House. Too much info to preview here, have a listen!Thanks to Sunbelt Business Advisors and True North Mergers and Acquisitions (https://www.sunbeltminnesota.com/ & https://www.tnma.com), Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union (https://www.affinityplus.org/gogophers), & State Farm Agent Tony Hoaglund (https://www.champlininsurance.com/).

Dan and Gaardsy review the Top 5 including Wolves, Wild and Gopher basketball before Lavelle Neal joins for his weekly appearance to wrap up the show.

A quick Gopher football check-in and Chandler's trip to see Big Thief twice in four days.Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes here.Read more »

Today we talk about the latest Gopher to enter the transfer portal, cornerback Beanie Bishop. How does this loss impact the Minnesota Gophers and what are their next steps as they plan for the 2023-24 season? On today's Locked On Golden Gophers podcast, host Kane Rob, former collegiate football video coordinator and recruiting assistant, discusses the latest transfer portal departure of Beanie Bishop for the Minnesota Gophers. Follow Us on Twitter: Kane Rob - @GophersKaneRob Locked On Golden Gophers - @LOGoldenGophers Email: LockedonGoldenGophers@gmail.com Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! LinkedIn LinkedIn jobs helps you find the candidates you want to talk to, faster. Post your job for free at Linkedin.com/lockedoncollege Terms and conditions apply. Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKEDON15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. FanDuel Make Every Moment More. Place your first FIVE DOLLAR bet to get ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS in Free Bets – win or lose! Visit Fanduel.com/LockedOn today to get started FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Russo is joined by Jonny Athletic to complete the Athletic trifecta for a full hour of Athletic talk, and Dylan Loucks finishes up the show with some Gopher talk.

Ryan and Luke are joined by Gopher linebacker Cody Lindenberg. 

The guys celebrate their one-year anniversary of producing the Provisional by discussing Tiger's impressive return to the PGA Tour and Jon Rahm's continued incredible play, winning his fifth event in his last nine starts. They talk about Max Homa's continued great play and Keith Mitchell's resiliency as one of few players still wearing a visor. They discuss the latest LIV defections and the PGA Tour's magical run over the last couple of weeks. The guys also catch up on the Gopher Women's Golf team's continued rise highlighted by a seventh-place finish at the the nation's strongest fielded event in the Bahamas and their upcoming schedule.

Panelists: Paul Hagstrom (hosting), Quinn Dunki, Earl Evans, Michael Mulhern, and Carrington Vanston Topic: The year of the gopher We begin 2023 with a shift to new hosting providers, that require encrypted communication. How/should we access the modern web from old computers? Topic/Feedback links: Building a new C64 (Retro Recipes) LinuxJedi's GoFloppy Gameboy Tetris ported … Continue reading RCR Episode 263: The year of the gopher →

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: GPT-4 Predictions, published by Stephen McAleese on February 17, 2023 on LessWrong. Introduction GPT-4 is OpenAI's next major language model which is expected to be released at some point in 2023. My goal here is to get some idea of when it will be released and what it will be capable of. I also think it will be interesting in retrospect to see how accurate my predictions were. This post is partially inspired by Mathew Barnett's GPT-4 Twitter thread which I recommend reading. Background of GPT models GPT-1, GPT-2, GPT-3 GPT stands for generative pre-trained transformer and is a family of language models that were created by OpenAI. GPT was released in 2018, GPT-2 in 2019, and GPT-3 in 2020. All three models have used a similar architecture with some relatively minor variations: a dense, text-only, decoder transformer language model that's trained using unsupervised learning to predict missing words in its text training set . InstructGPT, GPT-3.5, ChatGPT Arguably one of the biggest changes in the series in terms of architecture and behavior was the release of InstructGPT in January 2022 which used supervised fine-tuning using model answers and reinforcement learning with human feedback where model responses are ranked in addition to the standard unsupervised pre-training. The GPT-3.5 models finished training and were released in 2022, and demonstrated better quality answers than GPT-3. In late 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT which is based on GPT-3.5 and fine-tuned for conversation. When will GPT-4 be released? Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, was interviewed by StrictlyVC in January 2023. When asked when GPT-4 would come out, he replied, “It will come out at some point when we are confident that we can do it safely and responsibly.” Metaculus predicts a 50% chance that GPT-4 will be released by May 2023 and a ~93% chance that it will be released by the end of 2023. It seems like there's still quite a lot of uncertainty here but I think we can be quite confident that GPT-4 will be released at some point in 2023. What will GPT-4 be like? Altman revealed some more details about GPT-4 at an AC10 meetup Q&A. He said: GPT-4 will be a text-only model like GPT-3. GPT-4 won't be much bigger than GPT-3 but will use much more compute and have much better performance. GPT-4 will have a longer context window. How capable will GPT-4 be? Scaling laws According to the paper Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models (2020), model performance as measured by cross-entropy loss can be calculated from three factors: the number of parameters in the model, the amount of compute used during training, and the amount of training data. There is a power-law relationship between these three factors and the loss. Basically, this means you have to increase the amount of compute, data, and parameters by a factor of 10 to decrease the loss by one unit, by 100 to decrease the loss by two units, and so on. The authors of the paper recommended training very large models on relatively small amounts of data and recommended investing compute into more parameters over more training steps or data to minimize loss as shown in this diagram: For every 10x increase in compute, the paper approximately recommends increasing the number of parameters by 5x, the number of training tokens by 2x, and the number of serial training steps by 1.2x. This explains why the original GPT-3 model and other models such as Megatron and PaLM were so large. However, the new scaling laws from DeepMind's 2022 paper Training Compute Optimal Language Models instead emphasize the importance of training data for minimizing loss. Instead of prioritizing more parameters, the paper recommends scaling the number of parameters and training tokens equally. DeepMind originally trained a large 280B parameter model named Gopher but then found a 70B mo...

Episode #58 features former Gopher hockey star Pat Micheletti, who offers insight into this year's Gopher hockey team, as well as sharing stories about his hockey-loving family.Thanks to Sunbelt Business Advisors and True North Mergers and Acquisitions (https://www.sunbeltminnesota.com/ & https://www.tnma.com), Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union (https://www.affinityplus.org/gogophers), & State Farm Agent Tony Hoaglund (https://www.champlininsurance.com/).

Episode #58 features former Gopher hockey star Pat Micheletti, who offers insight into this year's Gopher hockey team, as well as sharing stories about his hockey-loving family.Thanks to Sunbelt Business Advisors and True North Mergers and Acquisitions (https://www.sunbeltminnesota.com/ & https://www.tnma.com), Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union (https://www.affinityplus.org/gogophers), & State Farm Agent Tony Hoaglund (https://www.champlininsurance.com/).

A quick one this week, because the team refuses to fight for Preseason matches to be played, plus if we spend to much time talking MNUFC your eyes would probably glaze over. We do chat a little about MPLS City and the hiring of Carl Craig and some Gopher soccer transfer news as well!

Chip Scoggins of the Star Tribune joins to talk about the Super Bowl, how the Vikings stack up right now against the Eagles and Chiefs, and the woeful state of Gopher hoops.

Equal Time Soccer's Matt Privratsky sits down with incoming Gopher Soccer transfers Cam Xu, Jelena Zbiljic, Megan Nemec, and Jordy Rothwell to talk about how they chose Minnesota as their new soccer home, what they were looking for when they entered the transfer portal, how they might fit in Erin Chastain's system, and more!--You can watch the show on YouTube or you can listen to it as a podcast on Soundcloud, iTunes, Google Play, or Stitcher. Show presented by Pentz Homes (pentzhomes.com)Support the great work Equal Time does on Patreon!

Former Greyhound, Gopher, and NBA draftee Rick Rickert breaks down the NBA trade deadline, and the struggles for University of Minnesota basketball. Brian & Dave select "under the radar" Minnesota sports topics that would make for a good "30 for 30." Drawing Lines features Vencie Glenn emphasizing the impact Brian Flores may have on the Vikings next season.

One of the greatest comedies of all time starring Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, Michael O'Keefe and Mr. Gopher.  Directed by Harold Ramis.

Episode #57 takes a look at the approaching softball season with all-time Gopher home run leader Natalie DenHartog, who brings the heat in the podcast.Thanks to Sunbelt Business Advisors and True North Mergers and Acquisitions (https://www.sunbeltminnesota.com/ & https://www.tnma.com), Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union (https://www.affinityplus.org/gogophers), & State Farm Agent Tony Hoaglund (https://www.champlininsurance.com/).

Episode #57 takes a look at the approaching softball season with all-time Gopher home run leader Natalie DenHartog, who brings the heat in the podcast.Thanks to Sunbelt Business Advisors and True North Mergers and Acquisitions (https://www.sunbeltminnesota.com/ & https://www.tnma.com), Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union (https://www.affinityplus.org/gogophers), & State Farm Agent Tony Hoaglund (https://www.champlininsurance.com/).

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: GPT-175bee, published by Adam Scherlis on February 8, 2023 on LessWrong. Epistemic status: whimsical Bees: a new unit of measurement for ML model size Talking about modern ML models inevitably leads to a bunch of hard-to-intuit large numbers, especially when it comes to parameter count. To address this, we propose that we adopt a new, human-friendly unit to measure the number of learnable parameters in an architecture: 1 beepower = 1 BP = 1 billion parameters Bees have about one billion synapses in their forebrain, so this gives a nice basis for comparisons between animal brains and artificial neural nets. Like horsepower and candlepower, the unit of beepower expresses the scale of a new and unfamiliar technology in terms that we are already familiar with. And it makes discussion of model specs flow better. "This model has twenty bees", you might say. Or "wow, look at all that beepower; did you train long enough to make good use of it?" Here's a helpful infographic to calibrate you on this new unit of measurement: Other animals We can even benchmark against more or less brainy animals. The smallest OpenAI API model, Ada, is probably 350 million parameters, or about a third of a bee, which is comparable to a cricket: The next size up, Babbage, is around 1.3 BP, or cockroach-sized. Curie has almost seven bees, which is... sort of in an awkward gap between insects and mammals. Davinci is a 175-bee model, which gets us up to hedgehog (or quail) scale: Gopher (280 BP) is partridge (or ferret) sized. More research into actual gophers is needed to know how many gophers worth of parameters Gopher has. Amusingly, PaLM, at 540 bees, has about as many parameters as a chinchilla has synapses: Tragically, we could not figure out how many palms worth of parameters Chinchilla (70 bees) has. We leave this as an exercise for the reader. There are about 170,000 neurons in the corpora pendiculata of a honeybee, or roughly 140,000 after adjusting for the tendency of optical fractionators to overcount, and some sources give about 7,000 synapses per neuron for the human brain, and it turns out humans and mice have comparable synapse-per-neuron counts so it doesn't scale that badly with brain size; skeptical readers are encouraged to shut up and multiply. Is one synapse equivalent to one parameter? Well, there are about five bits of recoverable information encoded in the strength of a synaptic connection, and neural-net parameters can be compressed to eight bits (or even 4 bits!) without too much loss of performance, so kinda-ish yeah. Wikipedia claims the corpora pendiculata ("mushroom bodies") of insects, which "are known to play a role in olfactory learning and memory", are analogous to the mammalian cerebral cortex or the avian hypopallium. Sure, why not. The thing about apples and oranges is that nobody can actually stop you from comparing them. A hundred-watt incandescent gets about a thousand candlepower per horsepower; LEDs can get 6,000 candles per horse or even more. Based on "forebrain" neuron numbers from this Wikipedia article, assuming 7,000 synapses per neuron, with optical fractionator counts discounted by a factor of about .8 based on the pairwise comparisons available there. Due to a lack of interest in studying chinchillas, there doesn't seem to have been a direct measurement of the synapse or neuron count for chinchillas. That being said, rabbits have around 500 billion synapses, and (domesticated) Chinchillas are around the same size and body weight as (smaller) rabbits and have the same cerebellum weight, so we feel justified in making this claim anyways. :) Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.

Gopher women's golf senior Grace Curran joined the guys this week. The Illinois native discusses her recruitment to the U of M, her experience playing at the U.S. Amateur last summer and success winning several big tournaments including the Illinois State Am. Grace also chats with the guys about her pre-and-post round meals including coach Rhyll Brinsmead's famous peanut butter banana sandwiches at the turn, her relationship with her past coach Michele Redman and her current coaches and her career as a point guard and love for the Chicago Bulls and much more.

Patrick Reusse subs for Chip Scoggins today by joining Chad to talk about what he's watching on TV and the awful state of Gopher basketball right now.

Micheletti and Falness joined by Halvey, SCSU's Brett Larson, Gopher goalie Justen Close, UMD pbp VX Bruce Ciskie and Michael Russo from FLA to talk Wild and ASG as heard Saturday morning @KFAN1003

Episode #56 features a visit with new Golden Gopher defensive line coach Winston DeLattiboudere III, a former Minnesota player, who is now back coaching at his alma mater.Thanks to Sunbelt Business Advisors and True North Mergers and Acquisitions (https://www.sunbeltminnesota.com/ & https://www.tnma.com), Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union (https://www.affinityplus.org/gogophers), & State Farm Agent Tony Hoaglund (https://www.champlininsurance.com/).

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