Podcasts about senior staff

No episódio 105 do podcast OsProgramadores, recebemos Samuel Goto, engenheiro de software com longa experiência no Google, onde atuou em diversos projetos estratégicos relacionados à web.Samuel compartilhou sua trajetória na indústria de tecnologia, seu envolvimento com padrões web e iniciativas voltadas para melhorar a acessibilidade e usabilidade da web.

Explaining how and why our world works the way it does touches on so many fields of science: biology, chemistry, physics, and, of course, technology. However, according to researcher Blaise Agüera y Arcas, computation should also be part of the understanding of life on all levels – and going back further than one might think. In What Is Life? Evolution as Computation, Agüera y Arcas uses computation as a means of examining the complexities of our own universe. Inspired by the work of quantum mechanics pioneer Erwin Schrödinger, he revisits the question that has showcased the divide between biology and physics: what is life? How can life and all its attendant complexities come to exist in a random universe, governed by simple laws, whose disorder only increases over time? What Is Life? aims to provide surprising answers, reframing core concepts of self-reproduction, complex growth, and symbiotic relationships as inherently computational. Agüera y Arcas draws on decades of theory and existing literature from figures like Alan Turing and John von Neumann, as well as recent endeavors in the field of artificial life. From evolution and symbiogenesis to thermodynamics and climate models, What Is Life? explores computation as a tool beyond raw calculation to understand intricate phenomena. This volume serves as a first installment of an ongoing body of work, with his larger book What Is Intelligence? further developing this perspective on intelligence from simple organisms to brains and from societies to AI. What Is Life? is richly illustrated and studded with examples, recontextualizing computational concepts and applications for a general audience curious about diving deeper into the machinations of our living world. Blaise Agüera y Arcas is a researcher and author focused on artificial intelligence, sociality, evolution, and software development. He is a VP and Fellow at Google, where he is the CTO of Technology & Society and founder of Paradigms of Intelligence (Pi). He is a frequent speaker at TED and has been featured in the Economist and Noēma, and has previously published the books Who Are We Now? and Ubi Sunt. Charles Tonderai Mudede is a Zimbabwean-born cultural critic, urbanist, filmmaker, college lecturer, and writer. He is the Senior Staff writer of the Stranger, a lecturer at Cornish College of the Arts, and has collaborated with the director Robinson Devor on three films, two of which Police Beat and Zoo, premiered at Sundance, and one of which, Zoo, screened at Cannes, and the most recent of which, Suburban Fury, premiered at New York Film Festival. (Police Beat is now part of MOMA's permanent collection.) Mudede, whose essays regularly appear in e-Flux and Tank Magazine, is also the director of Thin Skin (2023).

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The Senior Staff Association of Ghana, in collaboration with the Technical University Administrators Association and the Federation of Universities Senior Staff Association, has declared an indefinite strike effective today, Wednesday, May 21.

Host Max Johnson brings on Southeastern Sports Network Executive Director Josh Coulon, HSETV Producer Sydney Pinchouk, and Orb Editor-in-Chief Hannah VanLandingham to reflect on their time in media and what the future holds for them.

Kelly is joined by Daniel McAdams co-host of the Ron Paul Liberty report podcast five days a week, former Senior Staff for Ron Paul while in US congress for 13 years, currently the executive director of the Ron Paul Institute. Episode recorded 4/25/202...

Points of Interest1:02 – 1:38 – Intro: Marcel introduces the session as a condensed version of his All-in Agency Summit talk, aimed at equipping agencies with the key levers to diagnose and improve profitability.3:05 – 3:18 – 80/20 Profitability Focus: The goal is to give agencies 20% of the knowledge that provides 80% of the insight needed to take control of profitability, regardless of market conditions.4:28 – 6:27 – The Growth Trap Cycle: Agencies often get stuck in a cycle of hiring during growth, losing profitability, scaling again, and repeatedly encountering the same financial challenges at larger scales.6:42 – 7:01 – Identifying the Real Problem: Founders are urged to identify whether their agency's issue is inefficient delivery (indigestion) or lack of revenue (starvation) to avoid insolvency.9:01 – 10:06 – Financial Metrics Foundation: Understanding core financial metrics—especially agency gross income (AGI)—is essential to making better business decisions beyond tax reporting.14:24 – 18:05 – Delivery Margin as the Core Metric: Agencies should aim for delivery costs to stay under 50% of AGI, enabling better spending on overhead and stronger profitability.21:44 – 26:44 – Lever 1: Average Cost Per Hour: Lowering the average cost of labor through delegation and improved processes helps reduce delivery costs and increase profitability.28:03 – 31:55 – Lever 2: Average Billable Rate (ABR): Maximizing revenue per hour of delivery time, regardless of billing model, improves margins—either by pricing higher or working more efficiently.34:17 – 38:24 – Lever 3: Utilization Rate: Utilization measures how much team capacity is spent on client work; improving it by selling more work or adjusting staff size directly affects profitability.42:01 – 44:45 – Utilization Benchmarks: Weekly and annual utilization targets vary by role; producers should aim for 75%+ weekly, and teams should average 50–65% annually including all roles.45:27 – 49:26 – Impact of Levers on Profit: A case study illustrates how modest gains in utilization and ABR can shift profit margins from 10% to 40%, increasing valuation by up to 500% without hiring or cutting overhead.Show NotesAll-in Agency SummitChris Dubois & Dynamic Agency OSFree Agency Profit ToolkitFree access to our Model PlatformParakeeto Foundations CourseLove the PodcastLeave us a review here.

We're offering up one of classic, easy going Pick Five episodes this week folks, as we each look back at some underrated singles. Which tunes came out too early or too late to hit the spotlight? Which hinted at roads less travelled by established bands? And which tickled the fancies of the Senior Staff just because? 

It's our sesexacentennial anniversary here at We Have A Technical, and no, that's not a mispronunciation of some oddly named aggrotech album, but cod-Latin for our 550th episode. We like to do something special every fifty episodes, and this is no different, with the Senior Staff casting their eyes and ears back to some club hits which didn't exactly curry favour with them upon release, and reappraising them. Has the music changed, or have we? We're also giving some immediate reactions to the newly rerecorded "Every Day Is Halloween" (just be thankful we're not really on Youtube with soyjak reaction faces).

Mark Gainey, co-founder of Strava, joins Fabian Tausch to share the incredible journey of building one of the world's most beloved fitness platforms. Mark reflects on the pivotal moments, challenges, and lessons learned from its early beginnings in 1995 as a "virtual locker room" concept to becoming a global community with over 100 million registered users. Strava generates more than $265M in revenue (2023 numbers) and is growing profitably.Mark dives into how Strava found its niche, scaled globally, and maintained its focus on engagement over vanity metrics. He also shares insights on building a mission-driven company, navigating investor expectations, and maintaining perspective as an entrepreneur. What you'll learn:The Origins of Strava:How Strava started as a "virtual locker room" in 1995 and why it didn't workThe role of timing, technology, and social media in Strava's eventual successBuilding a Community-Driven Platform:Why Strava focused on engagement over growth and how this approach led to organic scalingCreating joy and reducing friction for users is important to keep them active and engagedKey Lessons in Scaling:How Strava expanded from cyclists to runners and other sports while staying authentic to each audienceThe challenges of internationalization and adapting to cultural nuances in markets like Brazil and the UKNavigating Challenges with Investors:How Mark balanced user-first decisions with investor expectations for growthThe importance of patience, persistence, and perspective in building a long-term businessAdvice for Founders:Why does exponential growth start slow, and how do you stay motivated during the early stages?The value of maintaining a life outside of work is to avoid burnout and gain fresh perspectives.ALL ABOUT UNICORN BAKERY:https://zez.am/unicornbakery Where to find Mark:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-gainey-b6536/ Website: https://www.strava.com/ Join our Founder Tactics Newsletter:2x die Woche bekommst du die Taktiken der besten Gründer der Welt direkt ins Postfach:https://www.tactics.unicornbakery.de/ Chapters:(00:00:00) The 1995 Origin Story of Strava(00:09:31) Most crucial denominator for the success of Strava(00:16:09) The journey of growth & global ambitions(00:20:51) Defining the critical engagement-metrics(00:29:08) A risky dependency on Garmin(00:44:04) Internationalization: must-have or coincidence?(00:50:06) The layers of product market fit(00:53:45) How to: Build a global community app(00:57:57) Teambuilding & culture at Strava(01:05:38) How to manage growth expectations(01:13:42) Mark's opinion on what makes a great investor(01:17:00) How to: Grow junior staff into new roles and responsibilities(01:21:47) Mark's advice for struggling founders Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

w Strava started as a "virtual locker room" in 1995 and why it didn't work The role of timing, technology, and social media in Strava's eventual success Building a Community-Driven Platform: Why Strava focused on engagement over growth and how this approach led to organic scaling Creating joy and reducing friction for users is important to keep them active and engaged Key Lessons in Scaling: How Strava expanded from cyclists to runners and other sports while staying authentic to each audience The challenges of internationalization and adapting to cultural nuances in markets like Brazil and the UK Navigating Challenges with Investors: How Mark balanced user-first decisions with investor expectations for growth The importance of patience, persistence, and perspective in building a long-term business Advice for Founders: Why does exponential growth start slow, and how do you stay motivated during the early stages? The value of maintaining a life outside of work is to avoid burnout and gain fresh perspectives. ALL ABOUT UNICORN BAKERY: https://zez.am/unicornbakery  Where to find Mark: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-gainey-b6536/  Website: https://www.strava.com/  Join our Founder Tactics Newsletter: 2x die Woche bekommst du die Taktiken der besten Gründer der Welt direkt ins Postfach: https://www.tactics.unicornbakery.de/  Chapters: (00:00:00) The 1995 Origin Story of Strava (00:09:31) Most crucial denominator for the success of Strava (00:16:09) The journey of growth & global ambitions (00:20:51) Defining the critical engagement-metrics (00:29:08) A risky dependency on Garmin (00:44:04) Internationalization: must-have or coincidence? (00:50:06) The layers of product market fit (00:53:45) How to: Build a global community app (00:57:57) Teambuilding & culture at Strava (01:05:38) How to manage growth expectations (01:13:42) Mark's opinion on what makes a great investor (01:17:00) How to: Grow junior staff into new roles and responsibilities (01:21:47) Mark's advice for struggling founders

יצא לכם פעם לתהות איך חברה קובעת למי מתאים טייטל Senior או Staff? או איך זה נראה תהליך הסדרה של לבלים בפיתוח? מה ההשפעות החיוביות ומה הסיכונים של תהליך מורכב שכזה? הפעם בעושים תוכנה עמית וחן נותנים לכם הצצה אל מאחורי הקלעים של התהליך בחברות שונות - מסטארטאפים עד לגוגל, דרך העיניים שלהם ושל אורחים מהתעשייה.

Hot on the heels of a fantastic retirement concert from Front 242, the Senior Staff are discussing the ins and outs of legacy bands' retirements. When's the right time to pack it in, and who's to say? How does a band's aesthetic or style affect their longevity? We're taking up these and other questions, as well as talking about this week's Nine Inch Nails ticket sales.

Welcome 2025! It's going to be a big year for nonprofit IT and as is our tradition, our senior staff weighed in with the biggest stories of 2024, the most overlooked trends, and what they will be keeping an eye on in 2025. We hear from Senior Engineer David Dawson, Director of IT Consulting Steve Longenecker, IT Business Manager Erik Solce, IT Business Manager Team Lead Norwin Herrera, Chief Technology Officer Matthew Eshleman, Senior Consultant Nuradeen Aboki, CEO Johan Hammerstrom, and Carolyn Woodard, Marketing Director and webinar and podcast host on what we are seeing in our sector.Please join us January 22 for a Nonprofit IT Round Table webinar with Steve, Matt, and Norwin where we will discuss new trends and risks in more depth and take your questions live. https://communityit.com/webinar-2025-nonprofit-tech-round-table/Thank you for joining us in 2024 and we look forward to sharing resources and learning together in 2025! _______________________________Start a conversation :) Register to attend a webinar in real time, and find all past transcripts at https://communityit.com/webinars/ email Carolyn at cwoodard@communityit.com on LinkedIn Thanks for listening.

Wrapping up our week of Year End coverage we have an episode of the podcast discussing some common trends and notable factors in our Top 25 records of the year, some statistical number crunching looking back at previous years' lists, and each of the Senior Staff choosing five honourable mention records from the year which didn't quite make the list. Thanks so much for checking the podcast out, whether you're jumping in to get a crash course in the year's best music or you've stuck with us all year.

When everyone on the Cerritos is suffering from main-character syndrome, a day in Captain Freeman's life starts looking so much worse than just paperwork. But when Ransom tricks some ensigns into cooperating on their assignment, the senior staff have to fight off the Clickets in time for an anniversary dinner in Paris. Whose body is on the bridge between two major gastronomic events? Which ensign has fallen the farthest? Why keep an umbrella in the go-bag? It's the episode that acts as its own Freeman AND Stevens.Support the production of Greatest TrekGet a thing at podshop.biz!Sign up for our mailing list!Greatest Trek is produced by Wynde PriddySocial media is managed by Rob Adler and Bill TilleyMusic by Adam RaguseaFriends of DeSoto for: Labor | Democracy | JusticeDiscuss the show using the hashtag #GreatestTrek and find us on social media:YouTube | Facebook | X | Instagram | TikTok | Mastodon | Bluesky | ThreadsAnd check out these online communities run by FODs: Reddit | USS Hood Discord | Facebook group | Wikia | FriendsOfDeSoto.social

The September 27th Tech Connects event will feature Courtney Crooks, Principal Research Scientist and Senior Staff in SEAL's Command, Control, Communications Division (C3D). Designing Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence for Decision Advantage in C3 Operations Courtney's research expertise is in forensic cyberpsychology, behavioral analysis, and human-centered design of artificial intelligence (AI) and other technology with health and defense applications. Courtney's research applies foundational psychoanalytic theory to understand the national security, ethical, and societal implications of psychological responses to cyber-enabled information ecosystems and emerging technology such as AI. She further specializes in understanding the mechanisms of human-machine teaming, cognitive security, malign influence, and coercive control, through the application of human-centered design principles to build exploratory decision support technologies and human system analysis of the lived experience of key stakeholder populations.

Welcome to episode 49 of More Than a Refresh, where JD sits down with Cooper Quintin, Senior Staff Technologist @ The EFF. Listen in as they discuss all things ALPR, the freedom of movement, the normalization of data breaches, and the need for restorative justice. For more information on The Atlas of Surveillance, or to donate to the EFF, please visit https://www.eff.org/pages/atlas-surveillance

We're navigating some illness on the Senior Staff's part to bring you discussion of records we missed last year by Container 90 and Vacious Cuerpos. We're also talking about Ted Phelps, Substance, and forthcoming Haujobb and Encephalon records.

The Real Deal Women's History Month Series comes to a close with the last episode with a great friend of the podcast, returning guest, NY Times Best Selling Author, and Senior Staff writer for The Ringer - Mirin Fader.

Teased off and on for several years, it's our commentary podcast on a singular record in both of the Senior Staff's understandings of electronics, hip-hop, and industrial: Pop Will Eat Itself's 1989 sophomore LP, This Is the Day...This Is the Hour...This Is This!. Chock a block with samples, yobbish irreverance and pop culture bricolage, it's a riotous trip through a long-gone day-glo era of nuclear paranoia and appreciation for everyone from Public Enemy to Alan Moore.

After weeks of industrial action by the Senior Staff Association, Teachers Educational Workers Union (TEWU), and others, the education workers have received receipt of their tier two pension and have accordingly, suspended the strike pending the address of all grievances concerning their conditions of service.

Fierce competition from Australia's gaming industry has seen seen growth in the sector wane, and key talent lost.

The NZSAS are reportedly offering experienced personnel significant retention payments to prevent them from quitting. Military leaders have been told the unit is 'near collapse', with at least one third of the uniformed workforce leaving since 2021, most citing poor pay. NZ Herald investigative reporter David Fisher says NZSAS needs a significant funding boost before mid-2025. "The capabilities that it's lost, the stressors that it has are deep, and they're widespread. There's no quick fix to it, it needs the Government to lean in to boosting the military." LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mr. Ron Bennett, Senior Staff with The Navigators (c), shares insights from years of practical experience in how to invest in the spiritual growth of others. Links: "The Adventure of Discipleship" (Ron's website and blog)High Quest - information on a series of resources helping us know Christ betterRethinking Discipleship - new series by Ron BennettColossians 2:7: Three book series helping us walk with the LordThe Ways of the Alongsider by Bill Mowry (a framework for working with others)Every Man a Warrior by Lonnie Berger (Three workbook series for men.)The Training of the Twelve by A.B. BruceThe Wheel Illustration (free download)Ron's definition of discipleship: Short version: Matthew 4:19: "Follow me and I will make you fishers of men."Longer description: "Discipleship is the personal pursuit of knowing, reflecting and sharing Christ, by means of critical spiritual disciplines in the context of supportive relationships resulting in the distinctive marks of an image bearer of Christ."Kansas Navigators - Resources recommended by the Kansas Communities ministry

Mr. Ron Bennett, Senior Staff with The Navigators (c), shares insights from years of practical experience in how to invest in the spiritual growth of others. Links: "The Adventure of Discipleship" (Ron's website and blog)High Quest - information on a series of resources helping us know Christ betterRethinking Discipleship - new series by Ron BennettColossians 2:7: Three book series helping us walk with the LordThe Ways of the Alongsider by Bill Mowry (a framework for working with others)Every Man a Warrior by Lonnie Berger (Three workbook series for men.)The Training of the Twelve by A.B. BruceThe Wheel Illustration (free download)Ron's definition of discipleship: Short version: Matthew 4:19: "Follow me and I will make you fishers of men."Longer description: "Discipleship is the personal pursuit of knowing, reflecting and sharing Christ, by means of critical spiritual disciplines in the context of supportive relationships resulting in the distinctive marks of an image bearer of Christ."Kansas Navigators - Resources recommended by the Kansas Communities ministry

Happy New Year! 2024! Are you thinking about what your MPD habits should be this year? Are you wondering what kind of offerings we have for our staff in MPD? Join us as we talk a bit about some of the MPD offerings for staff they can do on their own or as a team. 

Mr. Ron Bennett, Senior Staff with The Navigators (c), shares insights from years of practical experience in how to invest in the spiritual growth of others. Links: "The Adventure of Discipleship" (Ron's website and blog)High Quest - information on a series of resources helping us know Christ betterRethinking Discipleship - new series by Ron BennettColossians 2:7: Three book series helping us walk with the LordThe Ways of the Alongsider by Bill Mowry (a framework for working with others)Every Man a Warrior by Lonnie Berger (Three workbook series for men.)The Training of the Twelve by A.B. BruceThe Wheel Illustration (free download)Ron's definition of discipleship: Short version: Matthew 4:19: "Follow me and I will make you fishers of men."Longer description: "Discipleship is the personal pursuit of knowing, reflecting and sharing Christ, by means of critical spiritual disciplines in the context of supportive relationships resulting in the distinctive marks of an image bearer of Christ."Kansas Navigators - Resources recommended by the Kansas Communities ministry

Welcome to episode 40 of More Than a Refresh, where JD sits down with Cooper Quintin, Senior Staff Technologist @ The EFF. On Thursday, December 7th, Meta announced the roll out of default end-to-end encryption on all messages on Facebook. Listen into a high-octane discussion of privacy as a human right, mining children for data, and how law enforcement leverages capitalism to circumvent your 4th Amendment rights. Click here to donate to EFF⁠, and if you're looking for other ways to get involved, the EFF has ⁠this helpful page⁠ of suggestions.

The Senior Staff are taking stock not only of the specific shows and tracks Skinny Puppy played in their final hometown performances this past weekend, but also how those moments and moods connect to their larger histories with and feelings about one of their most beloved bands. We're also talking about the work and legacy of Geordie Walker after his unfortunate passing.

After a bonanza of interviews we're back to what brought us to the dance: talking about goth and industrial records. One apiece, in fact as Suspiria's hybridizing of second wave goth rock and electro goth splits the Senior Staff, and they look back at powernoise's flirtations with other outlying electronic genres via Noisex. We're also talking about the recent discussion regarding the reissuing of a Mr.Kitty remix, plus a couple of exciting new festivals.

This month I have Stephnie White back on the show. We discuss the new firefighters coming into the service. Are they too soft or are we projecting our rookie time onto them and is that fair? We discussed station members' expectations of seinor staff and vice versa.  if station members run for cover when the chiefs come to the station, the chiefs have a huge communication issue. we discussed how to overcome that communication gap.

Welcome to episode 38 of More Than a Refresh, where JD sits down with Cooper Quintin, Senior Staff Technologist at The Electronic Frontier Foundation. Listen in as they discuss the "enshitification" of the internet, including how governments circumvent privacy laws to get to your data, rehabilitation vs. discipline in the legal system, why the Metaverse is already a dead mall, and how the stock market secretly owns everything. Click here to donate to EFF, and if you're looking for other ways to get involved, the EFF has this helpful page of suggestions.

For our 475th episode, the Senior Staff are quizzing one another as to their own history with I Die: You Die. That is to say, we've each grabbed passages from reviews the other wrote years back, and seeing if the original author can identify the records they were writing about. We're hoping it'll be a chance to think about what has and hasn't changed in terms of our understanding of specific moments and artists within Our Thing. We're also throwing some roses Debby Friday's way, and talking Cold Waves FOMO.

The aesthetics of cringe, that is to say, the reasons why people within and without darker music are likely to view certain examples of it as profoundly embarrassing or amateurish, is the subject of this week's podcast. The Senior Staff end up talking about social identity, our perceptions of quality, and how and why goth and industrial music are specifically judged, fairly or unfairly. We also have some talk about recent sets from Ms.Boan and Nuovo Testamento.

Photo: 1945 GREENWICH No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow BILLIONAIRES ON THE MOON. : #HotelMars: The Great Billionaire Moon Lander Race.  David Livingston, SpaceShow.com.   George Dvorsky @dvorsky. Senior staff science reporter. @Gizmodo and electronic musician. @falsedmitrii RV. (ORIGINALLY POSTED MARCH 30, 2022) https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2022/03/spacex-will-have-competition-on-the-moon-as-nasa-seeks-a-second-lunar-lander/

Released in 1991 to critical and commercial success, supergroup Electronic's debut LP was Bernard Sumner and Johnny Marr's opportunity to break from the respective legacies of New Order and The Smiths and run headlong into contemporary dance culture, but as the Senior Staff are arguing in this month's commentary podcast, it's always been less than the sum of its parts and incapable of measuring up to its dance music contemporaries. Bring some tequila, because this We Have A Commentary gets salty.

Bruce and Alex are home from their respective trips, and are getting back in the swing of things by releasing the interview they conducted with longtime IDUD faves Ashbury Heights at Terminus Festival. A congenial conversation that touches on the entirety of the catalogue, the current live incarnation of the band, and what the future may hold, the Senior Staff were incredibly pleased to get this opportunity to chat with them on the occasion of their first ever North American performance. All that, plus some catching up on and chatter about recent live shows to boot!

Welcome to In Conversation, a fill-in/bonus format podcast series wherein each of the Senior Staff invites a friend to sit in for some casual chat about shared interests relevant to the normal goings on at I Die: You Die. This week, Bruce is talking with author Bess Lovejoy about their shared experiences in 90s Vancouver goth clubs, Bess' work in death studies and death positivity, and the distinction between the gothic and the just plain morbid.

Welcome to In Conversation a fill-in/bonus format podcast series wherein each of the Senior Staff invites a friend to sit in for some casual chat about shared interests relevant to the normal goings on at I Die: You Die. This week, Alex has a jaw with longtime friend of the site Evilyn13 about DJing, twitch streaming, the world of cosplay, dogs eating our microphones during the recording, and so much more! Thanks for tuning in, we think this is a really fun one. 

A rather heavy and somewhat morbid Pick Five formatted episode of We Have A Technical has the Senior Staff selecting opening lines of songs which have stuck with them, and considering their power and implications. Which lyricists' renderings of themes of depression, mortality, nostalgia, and love lost have stuck with Bruce and Alex as they now hurtle through middle age? All that plus some Infest and Rammstein news bites.

In this episode of The CX Tipping Point Podcast, Martha Dorris spoke to Matthew (Matt) Cornelius, formerly the Senior Professional Staff Member to Chairman Gary C. Peters of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Matt's extensive experience and expertise in information technology (IT) modernization, cybersecurity and identity management at the General Services Administration, the Office of Management and Budget, the Alliance for Digital Innovation and the Senate gives him a unique perspective on how to enable agencies to improve the services they deliver to their customers.  He believes that CX is ripe for bi-partisan, bi-cameral action.  Both sides get it.In addition, Matt shares:Why customer experience is important to improving trust in government from varied experience and expertise.How his experience informed his decisions while serving as the Senior Staff to Chairman Gary Peters.His perspective on the importance of IT modernization and cybersecurity to improving the experience customers have when interacting with the government.The similarities between CX and cybersecurity in its maturation in government.How to leverage Congress in moving the needle in service delivery.“People should feel well served by its government,” said Matt.  I love those words.

Records by Shadow Project and A Split Second cover the extremes of the goth and EBM dimensions of ID:UD's purview on this week's episode of We Have A Technical, and as it turns out, lead to at least one rare split decision between the Senior Staff. We're also talking about a couple of passings within the industrial and goth worlds, additions to Terminus Festival, and the first issue of the new Statik zine.

There's no beating around the bush as the entirety of this episode is dedicated to recapping the three night multi-stage iteration of our local Verboden Festival which went down this past weekend (full disclosure: the Senior Staff served as emcees for the fest). We're talking about unexpected show stealers, divisive stage shows, and a whole mess of Canadian premieres.

Recorded a couple of days early so as to allow each member of the Senior Staff to fulfill our patriotic duty and go see Skinny Puppy live, this episode has us scratching our heads and offering thoughts about the ways in which Canada's identity, history, and geography has and hasn't shaped the darker music made within the true north. 

How do you personalize AI models? A popular school of thought in AI is to just dump all the data you need into pre-training or fine tuning. But that may be less efficient and less controllable than alternatives — using AI models as a reasoning engine against external data sources. Kelvin Guu, Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google, joins Sarah and Elad this week to talk about retrieval, memory, training data attribution and model orchestration. At Google, he led some of the first efforts to leverage pre-trained LMs and neural retrievers, with >30 launches across multiple products. He has done some of the earliest work on retrieval-augmented language models (REALM) and training LLMs to follow instructions (FLAN). No Priors is now on YouTube! Subscribe to the channel on YouTube and like this episode. Show Links: Kelvin Guu Website Google Scholar FLAN: Finetuned Language Models Are Zero-Shot Learners Simfluence: Modeling the Influence of Individual Training Examples by Simulating Training Runs ROME: Locating and Editing Factual Associations in GPT Branch-Train-Merge: Scaling Expert Language Models with Unsupervised Domain Discovery Large Language Models Struggle to Learn Long-Tail Knowledge  Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @Kelvin_Guu Show Notes: [1:44] - Kelvin's background in math, statistics and natural language processing at Stanford [3:24] - The questions driving the REALM Paper [7:08] - Frameworks around retrieval augmentation & expert models [10:16] - Why is modularity important [11:36] - FLAN Paper and instruction following [13:28] - Updating model weights in real time and other continuous learning methods [15:08] - Simfluence Paper & explainability with large language models [18:11] - ROME paper, “Model Surgery” exciting research areas [19:51] - Personal opinions and thoughts on AI agents & research [24:59] - How the human brain compares to AGI regarding memory and emotions [28:08] - How models become more contextually available [30:45] - Accessibility of models [33:47] - Advice to future researchers

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #Classic#HotelMars: #PRC aims for 2027:. #HotelMars: The Great Billionaire Moon Lander Race.  David Livingston, SpaceShow.com.   George Dvorsky @dvorsky. Senior staff science reporter. @Gizmodo and electronic musician. @falsedmitrii RV. (Originally posted March 30, 2022)#v https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2022/03/spacex-will-have-competition-on-the-moon-as-nasa-seeks-a-second-lunar-lander/

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #Classic#HotelMars: The Off-World Club: HotelMars: The Great Billionaire Moon Lander Race.  David Livingston, SpaceShow.com.   George Dvorsky @dvorsky. Senior staff science reporter. @Gizmodo and electronic musician. @falsedmitrii (Originally posted March 30, 2022). https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2022/03/spacex-will-have-competition-on-the-moon-as-nasa-seeks-a-second-lunar-lander/

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #ClassicHotelMars: This Magnificents in their Flying Machines: #HotelMars: The Great Billionaire Moon Lander Race.  David Livingston, SpaceShow.com. George Dvorsky @dvorsky. Senior staff science reporter. @Gizmodo and electronic musician. @falsedmitrii   (Originally posted March 30, 2022) https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2022/03/spacex-will-have-competition-on-the-moon-as-nasa-seeks-a-second-lunar-lander/

Photo:  Lunar Lander Model, NASA Glenn Research Center; 1963 modelr #HotelMars: The Great Billionaire Moon Lander Race.  David Livingston, SpaceShow.com.   George Dvorsky @dvorsky. Senior staff science reporter. @Gizmodo and electronic musician. @falsedmitrii RV. https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2022/03/spacex-will-have-competition-on-the-moon-as-nasa-seeks-a-second-lunar-lander/