Podcast appearances and mentions of tom mcgrath

On this evening's extended Extra Time we have reaction to the big stories of the weekend, Tipp hurlers win in Ennis that keeps out Championship ambitions alive, our footballers opening round Tailteann Cup defeat in Tubbercurry. along with the breaking news of Rachael Blackmore's immediate retirement. We hear from Liam Cahill, Ken Hogan, Timmy Hammersley JJ and Tom McGrath. Paul Cahill, football selector. gives his reaction along with Conor O'Dwyer and Ed Burke on Ladies football. TSDL with Barry and racing with David Byrnes rounds off a busy show that also includes updates from the Munster Minor football semi-final against Cork. We hope you like...

Tonight we analyze events in the Pairc yesterday that saw 14 man Tipperary overpowered by Cork. We get the views of Liam Cahill, Ken Hogan, JJ Kennedy and Tom McGrath. Controversy too in the Ragg as Tipp lose out on a Munster Final berth to Waterford after a goal was not given. Nenagh Ormond continue to write new glorious chapters in their history after their promotion to the AIL top tier. Barry on the TSDL rounds off another busy Extra Time; we hope you like.....

In this final episode of the (Un)Settled Podcast, host Drew Baron visits the exhibition's final stop at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut. There, he joins Krieble Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, Erin Monroe, to reflect on the impact and outcomes of this distinctive collaborative survey of American art. Later, Baron visits contemporary landscape artists Tom McGrath at his studio in Brooklyn, New York to discuss his painting Untitled (Yellow Grid), the relevance of landscape painting in contemporary American art, and the lasting impact of the highway system on the American psyche. (Un)Settled: The Landcape in American Art is on view at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art from June 12 to September 14, 2025: https://www.thewadsworth.org/explore/...The (Un)Settled Podcast is a multipart special presentation of the Binder Podcast dedicated to the traveling exhibition (Un)Settled: The Landscape in American Art. Part of a series of American art exhibitions created through a multi-year, multi-institutional exhibition partnership formed by the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art as part of the Art Bridges Cohort Program.

Extra Time on Tipp FM with Stephen Gleeson filling in for Ronan - we hear from Ken Hogan, Tom McGrath, Ed Donnelly, Geraldine Kinane and much more...

The Culture Journalist is a podcast about culture in the age of platforms. Episodes drop every other week, but if you want the full experience — including bonus episodes and our eternal parasocial friendship — we recommend signing up for a paid subscription.Paid subscribers also get access to CUJOPLEX, a private Discord server and online hangout zone where independent culture fans who like talking about things like creative economies, media theory, current events, and the future of entertainment and journalism can congregate, share links, and talk about the news of the day.Today we explore how many of the habits and customs we associate with American bourgeois life — religiously reading the Sunday Times, buying organic produce, building your entire identify around excelling at a career you love, etc. — stem from one generation in particular. Friends, we're talking about the yuppies, that notoriously status-obsessed, hyper-educated cohort of young urban professionals who came to cultural prominence in the '80s and '90s, setting off a series of transformations in our cities, media, and consumer culture that we're still witnessing to this day.It's easy to see the Boomer worldview as a reflection of the fact that they had it much easier than us Millennials, economically speaking. But a new book called Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation, by Philadelphia journalist and author Tom McGrath, subtly challenges that idea, reframing the yuppie obsession with money, achievement, and unimpeachable good taste as a response to the rough economic headwinds of the 1970s and '80s. Along the way, it explores how yuppiedom was equally a reaction to suburban post-war monoculture — and perhaps most perplexingly, a kind of impossible attempt to reconcile a newfound love of capitalism with the egalitarian values of the hippie era.Tom joins us to discuss the yuppie origin story and the historical factors that rerouted a generation from protesting the Vietnam War to working on Wall Street. We get into who — and what — the yuppies were rebelling against, and how their emphasis on not just consumption, but consuming the right things, laid the blueprint for everything from urban gentrification, to contemporary food culture, to the news and television we consume.We also talk about whether or not the yuppie still exists — perhaps in the form of Millennials? — and, of course, where Trump, then and now, fits into all of this.Purchase Triumph of the Yuppies. Follow Tom on Substack. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theculturejournalist.substack.com/subscribe

Listen back to this week's Extra-Time featuring a look back on Tipperary's win over Kilkenny in the National Hurling League with Ken Hogan, JJ Kennedy and Tom McGrath, Geraldine Kinane on camogie, David Byrnes previews Cheltenham, Tipp U20 football manager Niall Fitzgerald and Barry Ryan looks back on the weekend's soccer action.

On another busy Extra Time, we have reaction to Tipp overcoming Cork in the fourth round of the league. We hear from Liam Cahill, Ken Hogan, Shane McGrath, JJ Kennedy and Tom McGrath. Our footballers however lost their unbeaten record with a home defeat to London. We hear the reaction of manager Philly Ryan along with analyst Conor O'Dwyer. Ladies football had their first win of the league campaign over Clare, Ed Burke joins us. Michael Bourke on the fundraiser at the Greyhound Stadium this Saturday along with National Indoor Champion Sean Tobin and John Long of Nenagh Ormond RFC rounds off another busy program. We hope you like....

You've seen the billboards – dozens and dozens of billboards – for Top Dog, Pond Lehocky, Morgan & Morgan, etc. Host Trenae Nuri talks with Tom McGrath, contributing writer at Philly Mag, about why our highways (and buses) are covered in billboards for personal injury lawyers and what that says about Philly, lawyers, insurance, and society as a whole.   Read Tom's full story here: https://www.phillymag.com/news/2025/02/01/personal-injury-lawyer-billboards/  Want some more Philly news? Sign up for our daily newsletter, Hey Philly We're also on Instagram: @citycastphilly Have a question or comment? Call or text us at 215-259-8170 Learn more about the sponsors of this episode:  Babbel - Get up to 60% off at Babbel.com/CITYCAST Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How far is it to Scotland, and what do they do there? How sinister is British meat? How crunchy do you like your orange juice? What is the latest in, and opposite of, sex? Also why doesn't Super Sonic destroy Mobius? Join us for some Big Beats once again.

COOKIES ARE FOR CLOSERS!! Save & Invest In Your Future Today, visit: https://www.acorns.com/rejects Download the PrizePicks today & use code REJECTS to get $50 instantly when you play $5! The Boss Baby Full Movie Reaction Watch Along: https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects Follow Us On Socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thereelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/thereelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ It's Animation Monday once again as Aaron Alexander & John Humphrey reunite to give their FIRST TIME Reaction, Commentary, Analysis, Breakdown, & Full Movie Spoiler Review for the Madagascar & Megamind Director, Tom McGrath! The Boss Baby introduces us to a suit-wearing, briefcase-carrying baby forced to pair up with his 7-year-old brother to stop the dastardly plot concocted by the CEO of Puppy Co.!! The animated film features the voices of Alec Baldwin (Glengarry Glen Ross, Beetlejuice, The Departed), Tobey Maguire (Spider-Man, Pleasantville), Jimmy Kimmel (Garfield: The Movie, Teen Titans GO! To the Movies), Lisa Kudrow (Friends, Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion), Steve Buscemi (Monsters Inc., Transformers One, Fargo, Reservoir Dogs), & MORE! Aaron & John REACT to all the Funniest Scenes & Cutest Moments including the Where Babies Come From Scene, New Brother Scene, Tim vs. Baby Gang Scene, BabyCo Headquarters Scene, Puppy Pants Scene, Baby Vomit Fountain Scene, Catch That Baby! Scene, A Family of my Own Scene, Saving Puppies and Parents Scene, & Beyond! Follow Aaron On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therealaaronalexander/?hl=en Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we look forward to the start of the National leagues in hurling and football with Tom McGrath and Noel Dundon; Tipp hurlers face Galway on Sunday with our footballers facing Carlow on Saturday evening. We hear from Pres Thurles after their Munster A Camogie success and their Munster A soccer final this week. Aisling Moloney, home from Australia, previews the ladies football league opener against Galway this Sunday in Tipp Town. Alan Moloney on the Friends of Tipperary Football, John Long from Nenagh Ormond RFC and Barry Ryan on the TSDL rounds off another busy Extra Time. We hope you like....

Tom McGrath is a composer-lyricist from Tipperary, Ireland. His background is in classical and Irish folk music. He has a master's degree in contemporary composition from Trinity College, Dublin. His musicals have been performed in the Camden Fringe, London and Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. Tom works part-time as an NHS doctor. He is a member of the Book, Music & Lyrics workshop and Mercury Musical Developments. Amy Clair Tasker is a theatre maker and musical theatre writer. She works with her own company Pinecone Performance Lab, and with The Cockpit, where she produces the Voila! Europe Theatre Festival and the Theatre Maker artist development programme. Amy has a BA in Drama from the University of California, Irvine. She is a member of the Book, Music & Lyrics workshop, Mercury Musical Developments, and Musical Theatre Network. The Queen is Mad is a musical tragedy inspired by the true story of “Joanna la Loca.” The elder sister of Catherine of Aragon, Joanna came to inherit the throne of Castile in 1504 – but her father and husband conspired to usurp her power by claiming she was mad and locking her away. Against the brutality and fanaticism of 16th century Spain, the show charts Joanna's quest for freedom and control of her own life. With shades of Passion and Wicked, this chamber musical fuses a contemporary classical score with a tale of power, betrayal and rage.

På 1980-talet slog yuppien igenom svinrik, ung och besatt av dyra varor och vanor. Allt från kläder till köksutrustning skulle komma från rätt märke, för att markera att man hade både koll och cash. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. För fyrtio år sedan utropade tidningen Newsweek 1984 som ”The Year of the Yuppie”. Yuppies var 80-talets unga, urbana och uppåtsträvande människor vars rikliga och iögonfallande konsumtion kom att prägla tiden. Inte minst deras konsumtion av kläder – plagg som kan te sig ganska gräsliga idag. Eller i alla fall långt ifrån någon quiet luxury. Det var herrkostymer med komiska proportioner, randiga skjortor, prickiga slipsar och breda hängslen; karamellfärgade tröjor med applikationer och axelvaddar, aftonklänningar med smockade liv och stora puffärmar.Allt som konsumerades skulle vara att rätt märke. Och rätt, under den här tiden, var nästan också alltid detsamma som dyrt. Det var också ofta nytt. Det gällde att hänga med i det senaste modet, gå på den senaste restaurangen, och bli medlem på det senaste gymmet.Det dröjde inte så länge innan yuppies började betraktas som lite löjeväckande. Det som retade upp folk hade en hel del med just konsumtionen att göra. Att yuppies verkade bry sig mer om märket, än innehållet. Och att de gärna betalade extra för just märket, utan att blinka.I veckans program pratar vi med journalisten Tom McGrath, som skrivit boken Triumph of the Yuppie. Bo-Anders Adamsson berättar om när han i slutet av 1980-talet skrev in sig som yuppie i telefonkatalogen. Ted Erenius, som går på Enskilda gymnasiet, och Andreas Cervenka, ekonomijournalist, diskuterar 2020-talets rikemansstil: grisch.Veckans gäst är kulturskribenten Annina Rabe, som berättar om hur matkulturen utvecklades under yuppie-eran.

This week we have reaction to Loughmore Castleiney and Aherlow's continued progress in the Munster Football Club Championships. We hear from Shane Hennessy and Tom McGrath amd John O'Shea. Pat Murphy joins us from the South Board on the under 21 championships. We hear from David Byrnes on Graham Holland's historic Greyhound Derby win. Local Rugby with Joe Winston, TSDL with Barry Ryan and athletics with Sean Tobin are all included in another packed show. We hope you like...

On today's show Joan was in Tinley Park, Illinois, for a live broadcast with Southland Friends of Labor. Her guests were: - Tom McGrath, business manager at Insulators Local 17 - Shawn Craven, training director at Insulators Local 17 - Tom Villanova, Southland Friends of Labor board member, retired IBEW Local 134 - Kaitlynd French, Southland Friends of Labor board member, executive board member for St. Joe's Nurses Association/Illinois Nurses Association - Illinois State Representative Harry Benton, 97th District (running for re-election) - Juan Rico, IBEW Local 176, assistant business agent and organizer - Bill Hincks, Sprinkler Fitters Local 281 vice president - Mark Ferry and Al Riley, Southland Friends of Labor board members - Judge John Anderson, candidate for appellate judge - Gary Ciaccio, Southland Friends of Labor board member, Kankakee County Board candidate - Al Whitmon, Southland Friends of Labor board member, Kankakee County Board candidate - Marta Perales, Seafarers International Union, candidate for Kankakee County Board Catch "Joan Esposito: Live, Local and Progressive" weekdays from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Central on WCPT (heartlandsignal.com/programs/live-local-progressive).

Yuppies, successful and affluent young urban professionals, were a notable demographic in 1980s America. Newsweek declared 1984 the year of the yuppie, and these types of characters were immortalised in fiction through American Psycho. But, what were the real world Patrick Batemans actually like – and how did they shape the politics of the America we see today? And how do they tie in with Trump. Jacob Jarvis discussed this with Tom McGrath, author of Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the eighties, and the creation of an unequal nation.     We are sponsored by Indeed. Go to Indeed.com/bunker for £100 sponsored credit.        Support us on Patreon.    Written and presented by Jacob Jarvis. Audio production by Tom Taylor. Managing Editor Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor Andrew Harrison. Art by James Parrett. Music by Kenny Dickinson. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This evening we look back on the final round of group games in this years County Hurling Championships. We hear from Cian Treacy, Tom McGrath, JJ Kennedy and John O'Shea as we traverse the county. Barry is also with as the opening weekend of the TSDL threw up some exciting games. And finally we hear from NUIG Rowing Captain Alan Prendergast after Clonmel's Donnacha Keeley won gold at the World Under 23 Rowing Championships in Canada. We hope you like....

Tonight we hear from pro-boxer Shauna O'Keeffe ahead of her third professional fight next month in Dublin. Anthony Shelly and Tom McGrath talk senior football with us as we review the second round of matches. We hear from Tipperary Olympians Daire Lynch and Sharlene Mawdsley. Barry on the opening weekend of the TSDL and we pay tribute to recently deceased Eileen Boland of Moyle Rovers. We hope you like...

Nathan explores the cutting-edge field of mechanistic interpretability with Dan Balsam and Tom McGrath, co-founders of Goodfire. In this episode of The Cognitive Revolution, we delve into the science of understanding AI models' inner workings, recent breakthroughs, and the potential impact on AI safety and control. Join us for an insightful discussion on sparse autoencoders, polysemanticity, and the future of interpretable AI. Papers Very accessible article on types of representations: Local vs Distributed Coding Theoretical understanding of how models might pack concepts into their representations: Toy Models of Superposition How structure in the world gives rise to structure in the latent space: The Geometry of Categorical and Hierarchical Concepts in Large Language Models Using sparse autoencoders to pull apart language model representations: Sparse Autoencoders / Towards Monosemanticity / Scaling Monosemanticity Finding & teaching concepts in superhuman systems: Acquisition of Chess Knowledge in AlphaZero / Bridging the Human-AI Knowledge Gap: Concept Discovery and Transfer in AlphaZero Connecting microscopic learning to macroscopic phenomena: The Quantization Model of Neural Scaling Understanding at scale: Language models can explain neurons in language models Apply to join over 400 founders and execs in the Turpentine Network: https://hmplogxqz0y.typeform.com/to/JCkphVqj SPONSORS: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a single platform for your infrastructure, database, application development, and AI needs. OCI has four to eight times the bandwidth of other clouds; offers one consistent price, and nobody does data better than Oracle. If you want to do more and spend less, take a free test drive of OCI at https://oracle.com/cognitive The Brave search API can be used to assemble a data set to train your AI models and help with retrieval augmentation at the time of inference. All while remaining affordable with developer first pricing, integrating the Brave search API into your workflow translates to more ethical data sourcing and more human representative data sets. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://bit.ly/BraveTCR Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off https://www.omneky.com/ Head to Squad to access global engineering without the headache and at a fraction of the cost: head to https://choosesquad.com/ and mention “Turpentine” to skip the waitlist. CHAPTERS: (00:00:00) About the Show (00:00:22) About the Episode (00:03:52) Introduction and Background (00:08:43) State of Interpretability Research (00:12:06) Key Insights in Interpretability (00:16:53) Polysemanticity and Model Compression (Part 1) (00:17:00) Sponsors: Oracle | Brave (00:19:04) Polysemanticity and Model Compression (Part 2) (00:22:50) Sparse Autoencoders Explained (00:27:19) Challenges in Interpretability Research (Part 1) (00:30:54) Sponsors: Omneky | Squad (00:32:41) Challenges in Interpretability Research (Part 2) (00:33:51) Goodfire's Vision and Mission (00:37:08) Interpretability and Scientific Models (00:43:48) Architecture and Interpretability Techniques (00:50:08) Quantization and Model Representation (00:54:07) Future of Interpretability Research (01:01:38) Skepticism and Challenges in Interpretability (01:07:51) Alternative Architectures and Universality (01:13:39) Goodfire's Business Model and Funding (01:18:47) Building the Team and Future Plans (01:31:03) Hiring and Getting Involved in Interpretability (01:51:28) Closing Remarks (01:51:38) Outro

Tune in as Seth Vargas (Movie Friends) comes back around to 2 Cents Critic for a discussion on Megamind, the 2010 DreamWorks Animation movie that puts its own deconstructive spin on superheroes and supervillains. The surprisingly clever jabs that it takes at incel culture, the connections you can draw between this flick and Despicable Me, and the sequelitis that Megamind has suffered from recently all make for some of the talking points that this episode covers. Directed by Tom McGrath, Megamind stars Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill, David Cross, Brad Pitt, J.K. Simmons, Ben Stiller, and Justin Theroux. Spoilers start at 31:00 Here's how you can learn more about Palestine and Israel: http://decolonizepalestine.com Here's how you can act to help stop Israel's genocide of Palestine: http://linktr.ee/savegaza Here's how you can send eSIM cards to Palestinians in order to help them stay connected online: https://www.gazaesims.com Use my special link to save 30% off your first month of any Zencastr paid plan. Good Word: • Seth: Zelly & Me • Arthur: @GameGrumps Harvester (Full Playthrough) Reach out at email2centscritic@yahoo.com if you want to recommend things to watch and read, share anecdotes, or just say hello! Be sure to subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes or any of your preferred podcasting platforms! Follow Arthur on Twitter, Goodpods, StoryGraph, Letterboxd, and TikTok: @arthur_ant18 Follow the podcast on Twitter: @two_centscritic Follow the podcast on Instagram: @twocentscriticpod Follow Arthur on Goodreads Check out 2 Cents Critic Linktree

Tom McGrath was the editor-in-chief of Philadelphia magazine, as well as chief content officer of Metro Corp., the parent company of Philadelphia and Boston between 2010 and 2020. Under his leadership, the magazines won more than fifty awards for editorial excellence. In 2022, he was named Writer of the Year at the National City and Regional Magazine Awards. He's written two previous books: “MTV: The Making of a Revolutio,”  and, with John Basedow, “Fitness Made Simple.” He has a Substack, called Common Good. His new book is “Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation.”Greg Olear talks to Tom about his new book, the Yuppie movement and what it portended to the country, Ronald Reagan and Jack Welch, and nostalgia. In the second half, they talk about how the media is broken, how it might be fixed, and how Gen Z could be just the folks to do so. Plus: media songs!Prevail is sponsored by BetterHelp. Get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/gregFollow Tom:https://x.com/tmcgrathphillyBuy his book:https://www.amazon.com/Triumph-Yuppies-America-Eighties-Creation/dp/1538725991Check out his Substack:https://tmcgrath.substack.com/Subscribe to The Five 8:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0BRnRwe7yDZXIaF-QZfvhACheck out ROUGH BEAST, Greg's new book:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D47CMX17ROUGH BEAST is now available as an audiobook:https://www.audible.com/pd/Rough-Beast-Audiobook/B0D8K41S3T Subscribe to The Five 8:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0BRnRwe7yDZXIaF-QZfvhACheck out ROUGH BEAST, Greg's new book:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D47CMX17ROUGH BEAST is now available as an audiobook:https://www.audible.com/pd/Rough-Beast-Audiobook/B0D8K41S3T Would you like to tell us more about you? http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=BffJOlI7qQcF&ver=short

Welcome to the Bridging Generations and Science Podcast, featuring emeritus professors Fred Grosse and Tom McGrath from Susquehanna University's chemistry and physics departments. Join us as they discuss the history of their departments, share their favorite memories, and answer questions from current physics and chemistry majors.

Frank and David discuss an article by Tom McGrath based on his new book on the Yuppies. Last Drops Frank: Rob Parkinson's new book Heart of American Darkness David: Frank at Open History Society on July 4 and Playing at War

This week we look back on Paul Kelly's tenure as Tipp senior football manager after the curtain came down on our senior inter-county football season. We hear from Anthony Shelly and Tom McGrath. JJ on the Munster Hurling Final. Ger on Camogie and Martin Flynn on Irish and Tipperary success at the European Athletics Championships. We hope you like...

This week we talk hurling after the curtain came down on a disappointing Munster Championship for Tipperary. We hear from Liam Cahill, Tom McGrath, Ken Hogan and JJ Kennedy. Our u-20's upped the mood music with their amazing display in the Munster final, we hear from manager Brendan Cummins and Darragh McCarthy. Ger Kinane on camogie rounds off another busy show, we hope you like..

This week we look back on a dark weekend for Tipperary hurling and football. We hear from Liam Cahill, Ken Hogan, JJ Kennedy and Tom McGrath. Anthony Shelly on football. But on brighter note we also hear from James Woodlock after our Munster Minor success. Barry on the TSDL rounds off another busy show. We hope you like...

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Stacking SAFEs gets messy, vs. priced rounds that clean cap tables. And having more investors can benefit you because they can make introductions to other investors.iink is the best way for home restorations professionals to get paid after a property claim. They've processed over $250M in property damage insurance claims and helped thousands of property owners navigate this to get their property fixed more efficiently. Learn more at iink.comAbout AVL Growth PartnersAVL Growth Partners, founded in 2009, is the leading fractional Finance and Accounting firm supporting organizations in pivoting from growth to scale. AVL brings an experienced team of CFOs, Controllers, and Accountants to your organization, delivering transparent, strategic actions for short and long-term success. Transform your financial approach affordably with AVL, supporting companies coast to coast - get to know AVL Growth Partners at avlgrowth.com. (Sponsored)About SpringTime VenturesSpringTime Ventures seeds high-growth startups in healthcare, fintech & insurtech, and logistics & supply chain. We look for founders with domain expertise, forging a path with a truly transformative technology. We only invest in software-based businesses in the USA. We bring a people-focused approach, work quickly, and reach conviction independently. Our initial check size is $600k. You can learn more about us and our approach.     

Two common mistakes: trying to tell everything in the first meeting, and not finding your painkiller solution. iink is the best way for home restorations professionals to get paid after a property claim. They've processed over $250M in property damage insurance claims and helped thousands of property owners navigate this to get their property fixed more efficiently. Learn more at iink.comAbout AVL Growth PartnersAVL Growth Partners, founded in 2009, is the leading fractional Finance and Accounting firm supporting organizations in pivoting from growth to scale. AVL brings an experienced team of CFOs, Controllers, and Accountants to your organization, delivering transparent, strategic actions for short and long-term success. Transform your financial approach affordably with AVL, supporting companies coast to coast - get to know AVL Growth Partners at avlgrowth.com. (Sponsored)About SpringTime VenturesSpringTime Ventures seeds high-growth startups in healthcare, fintech & insurtech, and logistics & supply chain. We look for founders with domain expertise, forging a path with a truly transformative technology. We only invest in software-based businesses in the USA. We bring a people-focused approach, work quickly, and reach conviction independently. Our initial check size is $600k. You can learn more about us and our approach.     

This week we have analysis after our disappointing performance against Limerick in the opening round of the Munster Hurling Championship. We hear from Liam Cahill, JJ Kennedy, Tom McGrath, Ken Hogan and Shane McGrath. Camogie with John Ryan and Stephen Gleeson, ladies football with Tony Smith and TSDL news with Barry. We hope you like...

Patrick Willems (Night of the Coconut) returns to finish some unfinished business as he and the lads fight off the deep conservatism and unending baby ninja armies of Dreamworks' 2021 babypalooza: The Boss Baby: Family Business. Topics include the nebulous target audience, the uncanny animation, and the consequences of pivoting from the increasingly bonkers Boss Baby lore to the terrors of…school choice??? Want more TWOAPW? Get access to our full back catalogue of premium/bonus episodes and add your name to the masthead of our website by subscribing for $5/month at Patreon.com/worstofall! Patrick Willems: “Pretty much the Terrence Malick of YouTube.” Twitter // Youtube // Nebula // Instagram // Letterboxd Night of the Coconut Patrick's Episode of Something Rotten on Metal Gear Solid 2 Patrick's Episode of Eye of the Duck on Minority Report Media Referenced in this Episode: The Boss Baby: Family Business. Dir. Tom McGrath. Dreamworks Animation, 2021. “Conan O'Brien Needs a Doctor While Eating Spicy Wings” by First We Feast. TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com Commercial: “Babies Are Forever” Music by John Barry, Lyrics by Dr. Samuel Bultch, D.D.S., feat. Eleanor Philips.

Award-winning journalist and author, Tom McGrath joins us to share his recent opinion piece on how bad became the new good and discuss his new book, Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation, which will be published by Grand Central Publishing in June 2024. Tom is also the author of the newsletter Common Good, which explores issues related to politics, culture and the economy. He was previously the editor-in-chief of Philadelphia magazine, as well as chief content officer of the magazine's parent company, Metro Corp. (which also publishes Boston magazine). He continues to write for both publications, as well as several others, including Politico. In 2022 he was named Writer of the Year at the National City & Regional Magazine Awards. Read his work at tommcgrathwriter.com. Subscribe to his newsletter at tmcgrath.substack.com. He lives in suburban Philadelphia. Tune in for this broadcast on Wednesday, April 17 @ 6pm EST!

Tonight we look back on a disappointing day for Tipp football with a championship defeat to Waterford. We hear from manager Paul Kelly, analyst Anthony Shelly while John Owens and Tom McGrath off their insights. Ger Kinane joins us to discuss Camogie uniforms, Peter Silke on Cashel RFC playoff chances and Barry Ryan on the TSDL. We hope you like...

This week, we’re drafting some spies, secret agents, and con artists. Con artists? Why not? They all use similar skills—sometimes, it’s impossible to tell the difference. From fiction to spoof to inspired by real life, we’ve got it all. Also, is that Cate Blanchett or Tilda Swinton? Good luck, Jim. This episode will self destruct in five seconds. David J. Loehr with Tom McGrath, Chris Klimek and Nathan Alderman.

This week, we’re drafting some spies, secret agents, and con artists. Con artists? Why not? They all use similar skills—sometimes, it’s impossible to tell the difference. From fiction to spoof to inspired by real life, we’ve got it all. Also, is that Cate Blanchett or Tilda Swinton? Good luck, Jim. This episode will self destruct in five seconds. David J. Loehr with Tom McGrath, Chris Klimek and Nathan Alderman.

Reality Bytes is back with a special trends and predictions episode from the team – who consider the future of workplace VR, industry-specific cloud services, IT automation and more in a hilarious and lively start to the new year.Journalist Sam Holzman delivers the predictions, while technologists Oriana Ott and Dina Elshawaf, alongside hosts Tom McGrath and Tim Flower, decide what to make of them…Watch Darren Wright on IT automation at Honeywell here.For more amazing DEX content, including podcasts, articles and exclusive research, head over to the DEX Hub (dex.nexthink.com)To hear more interviews like this one, subscribe to the Digital Employee Experience Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your preferred podcast platform.Listening on a desktop & can't see the links? Just search for Digital Employee Experience in your favorite podcast player.

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: 200 COP in MI: Interpreting Reinforcement Learning, published by Neel Nanda on January 10, 2023 on The AI Alignment Forum. This is the ninth post in a sequence called 200 Concrete Open Problems in Mechanistic Interpretability. Start here, then read in any order. If you want to learn the basics before you think about open problems, check out my post on getting started. Look up jargon in my Mechanistic Interpretability Explainer I'll make another post every 1-2 days, giving a new category of open problems. If you want to read ahead, check out the draft sequence here! Motivating papers: Acquisition of Chess Knowledge in AlphaZero, Understanding RL Vision Disclaimer: My area of expertise is language model interpretability, not reinforcement learning. These are fairly uninformed takes and I'm sure I'm missing a lot of context and relevant prior work, but this is hopefully more useful than nothing! Motivation Reinforcement learning is the study of how to create agents - models that can act in an environment and form strategies to get high reward. I think there are a lot of deep confusions we have about how RL systems work and how they learn, and that trying to reverse engineer these systems could teach us a lot! Some high-level questions about RL that I'd love to get clarity on: How much do RL agents learn to actually model their environment vs just being a big bundle of learned heuristics? In particular, how strong a difference is there between model-free and model-based systems here? Do models explicitly reason about their future actions? What would a circuit for this even look like? What are the training dynamics of an RL system like? What does its path to an eventual solution look like? A core hard part about training RL systems is that the best strategies tend to require multi-step plans, but taking the first step only makes sense if you know that you'll do the next few steps correctly. What does it look like on a circuit level when a model successfully explores and finds a new and better solution? How much do the lessons from mechanistic interpretability transfer? Can we even reverse engineer RL systems at all? How well do our conceptual frameworks for thinking about networks transfer to RL? Are there any things that clearly break, or new confusions that need to be grappled with? I expect training dynamics to be a particularly thorny issue - rather than learning a fixed data distribution, whether an action is a good idea depends on which actions the model will take in future. Further, I think that it's fairly likely that, whatever AGI looks like, it involves a significant component of RL. And that training human-level and beyond systems to find creative solutions to optimise some reward is particularly likely to result in dangerous behaviour. Eg, where models learn the instrumental goals to seek power or to deceive us, or just more generally learn to represent and pursue sophisticated long term goals and to successfully plan towards these. But as is, much alignment work here is fairly speculative and high level, or focused on analysing model behaviour and forming inferences. I would love to see this grounded in a richer understanding of what is actually going on inside the system. Some more specific questions around alignment that I'm keen to get clarity on: Do models actually learn internal representations of goals? Can we identify these? I'm particularly interested in settings with robust capabilities but misgeneralised goals - what's going on here? Can we find any evidence for or against inner optimisation concerns? How much are models actually forming plans internally? Can we identify this? Do models ever simulate other agents? (Especially in a multi-agent setting) A work I find particularly inspiring here is Tom McGrath et al's work, Acquisition of Chess Knowled...

Tom McGrath describes how the neural network AlphaZero taught itself how to play chess without observing a human game.

Welcome to WQA Radio, a weekly podcast from the Water Quality Association, the leading voice of the residential, commercial and industrial water treatment industry. Learn more at https://wqa.org. In this episode, we're featuring part two of Rewind 2022. We'll take you back to shows featuring Pacific Water Quality Association President Russ Harrison, Master Water Specialist and Key Account Manager at Kinetico; Norma Leep, president of SoCal Water Solutions in Imperial, California, and finally, we'll hear an interview with Tom McGrath of Hankscraft Runxin on the floor of the WQA Convention and Exposition in Orlando. Join us at the 2023 WQA Convention & Exposition, April 18-20, 2023 in Las Vegas. Learn more at wqa.org/convention.

Mystery and mayhem are on the menu as we draft favorite TV detectives. Thomas Magnum is off the board, but everyone else is fair game. Who will our panelists choose to figure out whodunit? Will it be the usual suspects? Surely Jim Rockford will be on the list, unless he didn’t get his voicemail… David J. Loehr with Shelly Brisbin, Nathan Alderman, Tom McGrath, Katie Siegel and Chris Klimek.

Mystery and mayhem are on the menu as we draft favorite TV detectives. Thomas Magnum is off the board, but everyone else is fair game. Who will our panelists choose to figure out whodunit? Will it be the usual suspects? Surely Jim Rockford will be on the list, unless he didn’t get his voicemail… David J. Loehr with Shelly Brisbin, Nathan Alderman, Tom McGrath, Katie Siegel and Chris Klimek.

Paul meets Tom McGrath, author of Unspoken. Tom McGrath never noticed the odd gaps in the stories of his parents' lives before he was born; it was only many years after they died that he uncovered the unspoken truths, which did so much to explain the people they had been. Here he tells the incredible true story of his father's conscription into the British Army, his escape from a prisoner-of-war camp in Poland, his daring journey across Europe and subsequent recapture - and the devastating news that awaited him in England. Tom's research also led him to discover that his mother also carried a heartbreaking secret. In writing this book Tom not only recreated his father's nail-biting escape but also embarked on a journey of his own to reconnect with previously unknown family members. Unspoken pieces together an extraordinarily rare tale that encompasses memoir, family history, and two parallel stories that were almost lost for ever.

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: Interpreting Neural Networks through the Polytope Lens, published by Sid Black on September 23, 2022 on LessWrong. Sid Black, Lee Sharkey, Leo Grinsztajn, Eric Winsor, Dan Braun, Jacob Merizian, Kip Parker, Carlos Ramón Guevara, Beren Millidge, Gabriel Alfour, Connor Leahy equal contribution Research from Conjecture. This post benefited from feedback from many staff at Conjecture including Adam Shimi, Nicholas Kees Dupuis, Dan Clothiaux, Kyle McDonell. Additionally, the post also benefited from inputs from Jessica Cooper, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Neel Nanda, Andrei Alexandru, Ethan Perez, Jan Hendrik Kirchner, Chris Olah, Nelson Elhage, David Lindner, Evan R Murphy, Tom McGrath, Martin Wattenberg, Johannes Treutlein, Spencer Becker-Kahn, Leo Gao, John Wentworth, and Paul Christiano and from discussions with many other colleagues working on interpretability. Summary Mechanistic interpretability aims to explain what a neural network has learned at a nuts-and-bolts level. What are the fundamental primitives of neural network representations? What basic objects should we use to describe the operation of neural networks mechanistically? Previous mechanistic descriptions have used individual neurons or their linear combinations to understand the representations a network has learned. But there are clues that neurons and their linear combinations are not the correct fundamental units of description - directions cannot describe how neural networks use nonlinearities to structure their representations. Moreover, many instances of individual neurons and their combinations are polysemantic (i.e. they have multiple unrelated meanings). Polysemanticity makes interpreting the network in terms of neurons or directions challenging since we can no longer assign a specific feature to a neural unit. In order to find a basic unit of description that doesn't suffer from these problems, we zoom in beyond just directions to study the way that piecewise linear activation functions (such as ReLU) partition the activation space into numerous discrete polytopes. We call this perspective the ‘polytope lens'. Although this view introduces new challenges, we think they are surmountable and that more careful consideration of the impact of nonlinearities is necessary in order to build better high-level abstractions for a mechanistic understanding of neural networks. The polytope lens makes concrete predictions about the behavior of neural networks, which we evaluate through experiments on both convolutional image classifiers and language models. Specifically, we show that polytopes can be used to identify monosemantic regions of activation space (while directions are not in general monosemantic) and that the density of polytope boundaries reflect semantic boundaries. We also outline a vision for what mechanistic interpretability might look like through the polytope lens. Introduction How should we carve a neural network at the joints? Traditionally, mechanistic descriptions of neural circuits have been posed in terms of neurons, or linear combinations of neurons also known as ‘directions'. Describing networks in terms of these neurons and directions has let us understand a surprising amount about what they've learned (Cammarata et al., 2020). But these descriptions often possess undesirable properties - such as polysemanticity and inability to account for nonlinearity - which suggest to us that they don't always carve a network at its joints. If not neurons or directions, then what should be the fundamental unit of a mechanistic description of what a neural network has learned? Ideally, we would want a description in terms of some object that throws away unnecessary details about the internal structure of a neural network while simultaneously retaining what's important. In other words, we'd like a less ‘...

Welcome to WQA Radio, a weekly podcast from the Water Quality Association, the leading voice of the water treatment industry. Find us at https://wqa.org and on social media. In this week's WQA Radio podcast, we feature more of our interviews on the exposition floor at the WQA Convention & Exposition in Orlando in April. You'll hear from Tom McGrath of Hankscraft Runxin, LLC. In addition, we'll feature a conversation with Annette Bos with Aquatech Global Events.

The Cinema Chain Gang podcast keeps on Movin movin along! On the latest episode, Drew and Nick review animated sequel MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA and end chain #8. Take a listen! // THIS WEEK: Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008), dir. Tom McGrath and Eric Darnell // CHAIN #8: Teri Polo → Little Fockers → Ben Stiller → Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa → Sacha Baron Cohen // Follow Andrew: Twitter | Letterboxd | Cinema Frenzy // Follow Nick: Twitter | Instagram | Letterboxd // Email Us: CinemaChainGang@gmail.com

Cue the electric bass and the full brass section, we’re talking Bond, James Bond this week. We make time for “No Time to Die,” of course, and the rest of the Daniel Craig era. How does it hold up, where does it go from here, what would we like to see? How does the latest movie reset the table? Were we shaken, stirred, or something in between? David J. Loehr with Kelly Guimont, Nathan Alderman and Tom McGrath.

Cue the electric bass and the full brass section, we’re talking Bond, James Bond this week. We make time for “No Time to Die,” of course, and the rest of the Daniel Craig era. How does it hold up, where does it go from here, what would we like to see? How does the latest movie reset the table? Were we shaken, stirred, or something in between? Host David J. Loehr with Kelly Guimont, Nathan Alderman and Tom McGrath.

Tom McGrath is the Principal Architect for Vision33's Innovation Team. In this capacity, he oversees the strategic technical direction of the company's exclusive products, including The Saltbox Platform. Saltbox is a cloud-native integration platform as a service (iPaaS) solution that seamlessly integrates hundreds of business applications. Tom joined Vision33 in 2002 and has been focusing on Vision33's product initiatives for 13 years. He also has 15 years of experience with enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions, including comprehensive knowledge of SAP Business One. Tom holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Tom McGrath's book is entitled Unspoken. It tells the courageous story of his father as a prisoner of war which Tom discovered following his father's death.

Recent polls show a sharp shift in how voters in Pennsylvania identify when it comes to political party, with those who lean Republican now topping those who lean Democratic.In this episode, host Tom McGrath and PoliticsPA managing editor Steve Ulrich talk with Berwood Yost, director of the Center for Opinion Research and the Floyd Institute for Public Policy at Franklin & Marshall. Yost discusses those voter trends, as well as what polls say about the U.S. Senate race in Pennsylvania and the issues that are most animating voters in 2022. (Warning: This episode also contains also a brief digression on pickup basketball.)