Podcast appearances and mentions of john durbin

In this Sports Geek Throwback episode, Sean Callanan interviews John Durbin who was at Pegula Sports.  They discussed how sports loyalty game is changing. Show notes - https://sportsgeekhq.com/how-sports-loyalty-game-is-changing-john-durbin/

Happy leap year day everyone, very excited to bring you a special once-in-a-4 year edition of ThursdAI

Hey, this is Alex,Ok let's start with the big news, holy crap this week was a breakthrough week for speed! We had both Groq explode in popularity, and ByteDance release an updated SDXL model called Lightning, able to generate full blown SDXL 1024 images in 300ms. I've been excited about seeing what real time LLM/Diffusion can bring, and with both of these news release the same week, I just had to go and test them out together: Additionally, we had Google step into a big open weights role, and give us Gemma, 2 open weights models 2B and 7B (which is closer to 9B per Junyang) and it was great to see google committing to releasing at least some models in the open. We also had breaking news, Emad from Stability announced SD3, which looks really great, Google to pay Reddit 200M for AI training on their data & a few more things. TL;DR of all topics covered: * Big CO LLMs + APIs* Groq custom LPU inference does 400T/s Llama/Mistral generation (X, Demo)* Google image generation is in Hot Waters and was reportedly paused (refuses to generate white people)* Gemini 1.5 long context is very impressive to folks (Matt Shumer, Ethan Mollick)* Open Weights LLMs * Google releases GEMMA, open weights 2B and 7B models (Announcement, Models)* Teknium releases Nous Hermes DPO (Announcement, HF)* Vision & Video* YoLo V9 - SOTA real time object detector is out (Announcement, Code)* This weeks Buzz (What I learned in WandB this week)* Went to SF to cohost an event with A16Z, Nous, Mistral (Thread, My Report)* AI Art & Diffusion & 3D* ByteDance presents SDXL-Lightning (Try here, Model)* Stability announces Stable Diffusion 3 (Announcement)* Tools* Replit releases a new experimental Figma plugin for UI → Code (Announcement)* Arc browser adds "AI pinch to understand" summarization (Announcement)Big CO LLMs + APIsGroq's new LPU show extreme performance for LLMs - up to 400T/s (example)* Groq created a novel processing unit known as the Tensor Streaming Processor (TSP) which they categorize as a Linear Processor Unit (LPU). Unlike traditional GPUs that are parallel processors with hundreds of cores designed for graphics rendering, LPUs are architected to deliver deterministic performance for AI computations.* Analogy: They know where all the cars are going when everyone wakes up for work (when they compile) and how fast they all drive (compute latency) so they can get rid of traffic lights (routers) and turn lanes (backpressure) by telling everyone when to leave the house.* Why would we need something like this? Some folks are saying that average human reading is only 30T/s, I created an example that uses near instant Groq Mixtral + Lightning SDXL to just create images with Mixtral as my prompt managerOpen Source Weights LLMs Google Gemma - 2B and 7B open weights models (demo)* 4 hours after release, Llama.cpp added support, Ollama and LM Studio added support, Tri dao added Flash attention support* Vocab size is 256K* 8K context window* Tokenizer similar to LLama* Folks are... not that impressed as far as I've seen* Trained on 6 trillion tokens* Google also released Gemma.cpp (local CPU inference) - AnnouncementNous/Teknium re-release Nous Hermes with DPO finetune (Announcement)* DPO RLHF is performing better than previous models* Models are GGUF and can be found here* DPO enables Improvements across the boardThis weeks Buzz (What I learned with WandB this week)* Alex was in SF last week* A16Z + 20 something cohosts including Weights & Biases talked about importance of open source* Huge Shoutout Rajko and Marco from A16Z, and tons of open source folks who joined* Nous, Ollama, LLamaIndex, LMSys folks, Replicate, Perplexity, Mistral, Github, as well as Eric Hartford, Jon Durbin, Haotian Liu, HuggingFace, tons of other great folks from Mozilla, linux foundation and Percy from Together/StanfordAlso had a chance to checkout one of the smol dinners in SF, they go really hard, had a great time showing folks the Vision Pro, chatting about AI, seeing incredible demos and chat about meditation and spirituality all at the same time! AI Art & DiffusionByteDance presents SDXL-Lightning (Try here)* Lightning fast SDXL with 2, 4 or 8 steps* Results much closer to original SDXL than turbo version from a few months agoStability announces Stable Diffusion 3 (waitlist)Uses a Diffusion Transformer architecture (like SORA)Impressive multi subject prompt following: "Prompt: a painting of an astronaut riding a pig wearing a tutu holding a pink umbrella, on the ground next to the pig is a robin bird wearing a top hat, in the corner are the words "stable diffusion"Tools* Replit announces a new Figma design→ code plugin That's it for today, definitely check out the full conversation with Mark Heaps from Groq on the pod, and see you next week!

What A SHOW folks, I almost don't want to write anything in the newsletter to MAKE you listen haha but I will I know many of you don't like listening to be babble. But if you chose one episode to listen to instead of just skimming the show-notes, make it this one. We've had 2 deep dives, one into the exciting world of multi-modalilty, we chatted with the creator of Moondream1, Vik and the co-founders of Prophetic, Wes and Eric about their EEG/fMRI multimodal transformer (that's right!) and then we had a DEEP dive into the new Hourglass Diffusion Transformers with Tanishq from MedArc/Stability. More than 1300 tuned in to the live show

ThursdAI - Sunday special deep dive, interviews with Joao, and Jon, AI agent Crews and Bagel Merges. Happy Sunday dear reader, As you know by now, ThursdAI pod is not a standard interview based podcast, we don't focus on a 1:1 guest/host conversation, but from time to time we do! And this week I was very lucky to have one invited guest and one surprise guest, and I'm very happy to bring you both these conversations today. Get your Crew together - interview with João Moura, creator of CrewAIWe'll first hear from João Moura, the creator of Crew AI, the latest agent framework. João is a director of AI eng. at Clearbit (acquired by Hubspot recently) and created Crew AI for himself, to automate many of the things he didn't want to keep doing, for example, post more on Linkedin. Crew has been getting a lot of engagement lately, and we go into the conversation about it with João, it's been trending #1 on Github, and received #2 product of the day when Chris Messina hunted this (to João's complete surprise) on Product Hunt. CrewAI is built on top of Langchain, and is an agent framework, focusing on Orchestration or role-playing, autonomous agents. In our chat with João we go into the inspiration, the technical challenges and the success of CrewAI so far, how maintenance for crew is now partly a family effort and what's next for crewMerges and Bagels - chat with Jon Durbin about Bagel, DPO and mergingThe second part of today's pod was a conversation with Jon Durbin, a self described AI tinkerer and software engineer. Jon is a Sr. applied AI researcher at Convai, and is well known in our AI circles as a master finetuner and dataset curator. This interview was not scheduled, but I'm very happy it happened! If you've been following along with the AI / Finetuning space, Jon's Airoboros dataset and set of models have been often mentioned, and cited, and Jon's latest work on the Bagel models took the lead on HuggingFace open LLM leaderboardSo when I mentioned on X (as I often do) that I'm going to mention this on ThursdAI, Jon came up to the space and we had a great conversation, in which he shared a LOT of deep insights into finetuning, DPO (Direct Preference Optimizations) and merging. The series of Bagel dataset and models, was inspired by the Everything Everywhere All at Once movie (which is a great movie, watch it if you haven't!) and is alluding to, Jon trying to throw as many datasets together as he could, but not only datasets! There has been a lot of interest in merging models recently, specifically many folks are using MergeKit to merge models with other models (and often a model with itself) to create larger/better models, without additional training or GPU requirements. This is solely an engineering thing, some call it frankensteining, some frankenmerging.If you want to learn about Merging, Maxime Labonne (the author of Phixtral) has co-authored a great deep-dive on Huggingface blog, it's a great resource to quickly get up to speedSo given the merging excitement, Jon has set out to create a model that can be an incredible merge base, many models are using different prompt techniques, and Jon has tried to cover as many as possible. Jon also released a few versions of Bagel models, DPO and non DPO, that and we had a brief conversation about why the DPO versions are more factual and better at math, but not great for Role Playing (which is unsurprisingly what many agents are using these models for) or creative writing. The answer is, as always, dataset mix! I learned a TON from this brief conversation with Jon, and if you're interested in the incredible range of techniques in the Open Source LLM world, DPO and Merging are definitely at the forefront of this space right now, and Jon is just at the cross-roads of them, so definitely worth a listen and I hope to get Jon to say more and learn more in future episodes so stay tuned! So I'm in San Francisco, again... As I've mentioned on the previous newsletter, I was invited to step in for a colleauge and fly to SF to help co-host a hack-a-thon with friends from TogetherCompute, Langchain, in AGI house in Hillsborough CA. The Hackathon was under the Finetune VS RAG theme, because, well, we don't know what works better, and for what purpose.The keynote speaker was Tri Dao, Chief Scientist @ Together and the creator of Flash Attention, who talked about SSM, State space models and Mamba. Harrison from Langchain gave a talk with a deepdive into 5 techniques for knowledge assistants, starting with basic RAG and going all the way to agents

ThursdAI October 26thTimestamps and full transcript for your convinience## [00:00:00] Intro and brief updates## [00:02:00] Interview with Bo Weng, author of Jina Embeddings V2## [00:33:40] Hugging Face open sourcing a fast Text Embeddings## [00:36:52] Data Provenance Initiative at dataprovenance.org## [00:39:27] LocalLLama effort to compare 39 open source LLMs +## [00:53:13] Gradio Interview with Abubakar, Xenova, Yuichiro## [00:56:13] Gradio effects on the open source LLM ecosystem## [01:02:23] Gradio local URL via Gradio Proxy## [01:07:10] Local inference on device with Gradio - Lite## [01:14:02] Transformers.js integration with Gradio-lite## [01:28:00] Recap and bye byeHey everyone, welcome to ThursdAI, this is Alex Volkov, I'm very happy to bring you another weekly installment of

On this weeks Podcast we hear from Shepton Mallet joint-manager, John Durbin, reflecting on his sides good run in the FA Cup and what they hope to achieve in the Premier Division this season and Oldland Abbotonians boss, Darren Sealey, talks about how his ambitious Club is going forward on and off the pitch.

​THE WONDER OF LIFE by John Durbin HusherDiscusses life on Earth from it's beginning with the objective of finding out how life is started. It discuses wars and the many changes on earth and how man takes a foothold on Earth's history; continuously searching for how life is initiated. This is the story of medical learning of man bringing the reader right up to the present, past DNA to the discovery of how life begins. The crude beginning of DNA and the present work on Stem Cells and learning that leads us to present day knowledge of the human genome. Author Bio: Received BSEE as an Electrical Engineer from the University of Pittsburgh, Pa in 1958. Invented and processed the first Silicon single chip Integrated Circuit in the world in 1959 and provided Wright Patterson with the 30 Megacycle single Silicon Chip device for its Satellites and in 1961 provided MIT Massachusetts with the first Single Chip Silicon Digital Circuits. Retired in 2002 at the age of 70. Begin to write books in 2005 and wrote eleven by 2016 - none about his experiences in technologyhttps://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-wonder-of-life-john-husher/1014654826www.LitPrime.comhttp://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/12722abt.mp3

In this special Badgerclaw Season 1 Bonus Episode, the new Badgerclaw Boarding House is buzzing with the sounds of the Christmas season. Badgerclaw is a Moon Lasso Media original Production. This episode was written and directed by Adam Vermillion and was produced by John Durbin. Starring: Adam Vermillion John Durbin Kate Isabella Featuring William Brooks, Dylon Brooks, Micah Brooks and Isaac Colgrove as the Hole in the Boot Quartet. For more information visit www.moonlassomedia.com. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moonlassomedia/support

Join siblings Annie and Wyatt as they help their neighbor Mr. Mulvaney search for his lost cat, and make a deeper discovery along the way.  The Finding Company is a Moon Lasso Media Original Production in association with Sycamore Sky Studios. Written and directed by Andrea Durbin. Music and Narration by John Durbin. Starring: Jane Sophia as Annie Levi Joseph as Wyatt John Durbin as Mr. Mulvaney For more information visit www.moonlassomedia.com.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moonlassomedia/support

On this weeks Podcast Shepton Mallet joint manager John Durbin reflects on his sides excellent start to the season and their impressive win away at Melksham in the FA Cup, whilst Warminster Town's Andy Crabtree explains what it means to be a community club.

The exciting Season 1 Finale! Lionel and Jesse put a plan into motion to save Sally from Rabid Joe and Loathsome Harry. Written and Directed by Adam Vermillion Produced by John Durbin Starring: Adam Vermillion, John Durbin, and Kate Isabella A Moon Lasso Media original production, in association with AVoice Productions and Sycamore-Sky Studios. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moonlassomedia/support

Lionel and Jesse arrive back in town to deliver Rabid Joe's letter to Old Man Wilson. Sally is held under lock and key at the Hole in the Boot Gang's hideout. Tensions rise between Rabid Joe and Loathsome Harry concerning their prisoner. Written and Directed by Adam Vermillion Produced by John Durbin Starring: Adam Vermillion, John Durbin, and Kate Isabella. Special thanks to The Hole in the Boot Quartet, featuring Willam Brooks, Dylon Brooks, Micah Brooks, and Isaac Colgrove. A Moon Lasso Media original production, in association with AVoice Productions and Sycamore-Sky Studios. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moonlassomedia/support

Sally is confronted by someone from her past. Rabid Joe and Loathsome Harry carry out a diabolical scheme. Lionel and Jesse are given a job to do for the Hole in the Boot Gang. Written and Directed by Adam Vermillion Produced by John Durbin Starring: Adam Vermillion, John Durbin, and Kate Isabella A Moon Lasso Media original production, in association with AVoice Productions and Sycamore-Sky Studios. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moonlassomedia/support

Lionel and Jesse carry out a sneaky plan they hope will help secure their acceptance in the Hole in the Boot Gang. Sally comes face to face with someone from her past. Written and Directed by Adam Vermillion Produced by John Durbin Starring: Adam Vermillion, John Durbin, and Kate Isabella A Moon Lasso Media original production, in association with AVoice Productions and Sycamore-Sky Studios. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moonlassomedia/support

Lionel and Jesse begin teaching Sally all about frontier-life. Sally inquires about the new Cavalry Fort she's heard rumors about. Rabid Joe gives the boys news about their "job interview". A mysterious stranger arrives in town looking for someone. Written and Directed by Adam Vermillion Produced by John Durbin Starring: Adam Vermillion, John Durbin, and Kate Isabella A Moon Lasso Media original production, in association with AVoice Productions and Sycamore-Sky Studios. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moonlassomedia/support

Lionel and Jesse commit a robbery in hopes of being accepted into the notorious Hole in the Boot Gang, and then meet Sally Jones, a newcomer to the town of Badgerclaw. Written and Directed by Adam Vermillion Produced by John Durbin Starring: Adam Vermillion, John Durbin, Kate Isabella, and Andrea Durbin A Moon Lasso Media original production, in association with AVoice Productions and Sycamore-Sky Studios. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moonlassomedia/support

Welcome to Badgerclaw Season 1! An original western audio drama/comedy from Moon Lasso Media. Join Lionel and Jesse in the Old West town of Badgerclaw for adventure, drama, and loads of laughs. This is a story your entire family will enjoy listening to together. Binge all of season 1 now, wherever you listen to podcasts! Badgerclaw Season 1 features the voice talents of Adam Vermillion, John Durbin and Kate Isabella. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moonlassomedia/support

Todays Morning Bull was, yet again, largely dominated by ours and YOUR excitement for the division round matchup for the Bills on Saturday versus the Baltimore Ravens in Orchard Park! We were joined by a former Bills lineman who is still very active in the media; John Durbin joined us from PSE to talk about the Sabres using cardboard cutouts for fans this season and we played a fun game or two to acclimate you to this Saturdays 'enemy'! Cole Beasleys rap career is quite notable to fans of his, and we previewed his new track 'Sometimes' for you! Robs Did You Know took place, as did the TrendZone featuring some great sound from around the world! Former Bills center, charitable conquistador, current football analyst and now podcaster Eric Wood joined us on the show this morning to talk about none other than his Buffalo Bills and the success they've had this year—and what he hopes to see on Saturday. He told us some cool stories about his playing career and even gave us some insight on the guys and matchups for the Bills and Ravens for this weekends matchup! From Pegula Sports and Entertainment, John Durbin joined us to discuss the latest news about the Sabres making available the chance to purchase a cardboard cutout to sit in the stands all season long! The purchase cost would go to the Sabres Foundation and it would help to make the stands feel less vacant while still making it customized for Sabres fans! We played a game called 'Bird or Bird Watcher' in which Bull had a list comprised of 3 Baltimore Ravens players and 3 National Audobon Society members and asked Rob and Chris questions competing to see who could nail more correct ones! We encouraged you to play along because it was pretty tough to tell which was which; but it helped us prepare for this weekends playoff matchup! There are some really strange laws nearly everywhere in this country. However a certain hotspot for crazy laws happens to be where the Bills opponent is from this weekend: Baltimore. Rob went thru a list of stupid laws he from from Maryland and tried to quiz and stump us on which laws were real and which ones werent. Not only did we learn a lot about law in Maryland but we had some good laughs too, as usual.  ONLY AVAILABLE on the Morning Bull Podcast! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this weeks podcast Shepton Mallet joint Manager, John Durbin, talks about the strength in depth across the Premier Division this season and Ashton & Backwell manager, Stuart Jones, describes the challenges of holding a half time team talk on the pitch.

Sean Callanan chats with John Durbin from Pegula Sports about planning the unpredictable NFL Draft and how to get fans to use apps and why loyalty has evolved. Full show notes - https://sportsgeekhq.com/podcast/john-durbin-pegula-sports/

On this weeks podcast we hear from the Western League’s own Steve McQueen, John Durbin, plotting Hengrove’s Great Escape and Wells manager, Nathan Truckle, talks about two big scalps taken in less than a week by his in form side.

This weeks podcast features Hengrove Athletic manager John Durbin and Roman Glass St George manger, Andy Gurney.

John Durbin's story, “From the Ground Up,” involves the highest of stakes. His story was recorded at our September 2014 live storytelling event, “All Y'all: Under the Influence.” It's a tale of overcoming not only drug addiction but also the cumulative weight of one's mistake-ridden past.

When foreman Frank (James Karen) shows new employee Freddy (Thom Mathews) a secret military experiment in a supply warehouse, the two klutzes accidentally release a gas that reanimates corpses into flesh-eating zombies. As the epidemic spreads throughout Louisville, Ky., and the creatures satisfy their hunger in gory and outlandish ways, Frank and Freddy fight to survive with the help of their boss (Clu Gulager) and a mysterious mortician (Don Calfa). Stream online: https://amzn.to/2Vhq0e3 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/mfrbooksandfilm?fan_landing=true

This week, the TVZ team looks at the zombie-filled return of Supernatural, Richard Alpert's origin on Lost, and the midseason finale of Caprica. All this plus the news of the week and a commentary from John Durbin of the Never Seen Lost blog.