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Tucker Carlson, Dr. Ryan Cole, Dr. Robert Malone, Julie Kelly. Turbo Cancer, Texas Secession, Equal Justice, CIA Millionaires, J6 Tapes.   Turbo Death from Turbo Cancers: “We're in Trouble,” Says Dr. Ryan Cole Robert W Malone, MD in the UK parliament 15 Ways the COVID Shots Injure and KiII: Insights from Dr. Ryan Cole Equal Justice my ass Could a Texas secession be on the 2024 ballot? Tucker reveals the real transfer of wealth.... Julie Kelly: "Where are these tapes, did they disappear? Were they intentionally destroyed?"   Turbo Death from Turbo Cancers: “We're in Trouble,” Says Dr. Ryan Cole https://rumble.com/v3p4tiq-turbo-death-from-turbo-cancers-were-in-trouble-says-dr.-ryan-cole.html?s=03   Robert W Malone, MD @RWMaloneMD The expert testimony at the invitation of MP Andrew Bridgen in the UK parliament yesterday was important. The room was overflowing with people.  Many members of Parliament and Lords showed up to listen.  The testimony given by myself as well as other scientists and physicians was science based, truthful and accurate. https://twitter.com/RWMaloneMD/status/1731935293966590436?t=paGybpA1-7U5hk5d1GpXdw&s=03   15 Ways the COVID Shots Injure and KiII: Insights from Dr. Ryan Cole   Speaking before the UK parliament, pathologist Dr. Ryan Cole outlined the various pathways of harm caused by the COVID-19 injections.   Nanoparticle Usage: Dr. Cole states that nanoparticles used in vaccines are labeled for research only, not for human or veterinary use, yet were administered globally.   Persistence of Synthetic RNA: Citing a Stanford study, Dr. Cole mentions that synthetic RNA from the vaccine persists in the body for at least two months.   Circulation of Synthetic Spike Protein: According to Dr. Brogna from Italy, the synthetic spike protein can circulate in humans for at least six months after vaccination.   The Spike Protein is a Harmful Agent: Dr. Cole describes the spike protein as a "Swiss army knife of harm," implying its multiple damaging effects.   Brain Accumulation and Impact: Findings from Germany suggest that spike proteins accumulate in the brain, potentially causing issues like brain fog.   Peripheral Nerve Damage: Cole's own lab found that the vaccine targets peripheral nerves, possibly causing burning sensations.   Organ Damage: Cole asserts that the vaccine causes damage to various organs, including the liver, and can lead to autoimmune diseases.   Myocarditis and Heart Issues: The vaccine is linked to myocarditis (inflammation of the heart) and other heart problems, as shown in Japanese studies.   Impact on Adrenal Glands and Elastic Fibers: Cole claims the vaccine affects the adrenal glands and damages the body's elastic fibers.   Reproductive Harms: Cole mentions Dr. Malone's findings on reproductive harms, including impacts on the placenta, uterine lining, and decreased sperm counts and motility.   Weakened Immune Systems: A doctor from the Netherlands found that the vaccine alters the T-cell immune response, weakening the body's defense against other pathogens.   Vascular Damage and Clotting: The vaccine causes damage to small and large blood vessels, leading to clots and potentially sudden death.   Abnormal Protein Accumulation: An abnormal type of protein, similar to amyloid, accumulates in the blood post-vaccination.   Immune Tolerance: Cole claims the vaccine impacts the immune system's ability to recognize future variants and can cause immune tolerance, reducing tumor surveillance.   Increased Cancer Risk: "The monster in the room." Lastly, Dr. Cole raises concerns about an increased risk of cancer following vaccination   Equal Justice my ass RedpillUSAPatriots 115K followers  

In this week's Windows Weekly, Paul, Leo, and Richard discuss the extension of Windows 10 support for 3 more years after 2025 for consumers and enterprises, updates on the AI features of Copilot, Google's new AI model Gemini, potential features coming in a future Windows release next year, and the cleanliness of ImageGlass 9. Windows 10 Yep! They're going to support Windows 10 for 3 more years with extended security update (ESU) program. But this time there's a twist! Consumers are going to have the chance to pay annually for the ESU as well. Let the complaints begin Copilot expands to more Windows 10 users Windows 11 Report sees a major Windows release in 2024 The November 2023 Preview Update for Windows 11 shipped on a Monday in December because Microsoft, adding new Copilot features, last preview CU for 2023 Dell earnings - revenues fall 10 percent YOY because the PC market is still horrible Richard bought a computer. Can you guess which one? AI Microsoft to get non-voting board representation at OpenAI Copilot is now GA. Unless you're using Windows 11, apparently. Everyone gets free commercial data protection Copilot gets GPT-4 Turbo, new DALLE-3 model, and more Google goes live with Gemini, including a Nano version for Pixel 8 Pro Microsoft 365/Cloud Microsoft finally releases Seeing AI on Android Evernote restricts free users to 1 notebook, 50 notes - time to switch! Antitrust Federal judge orders Google and Epic to try and settle the case before the jury renders its verdict 30 more venture capital firms tell the FTC to stop harassing Microsoft for Activision Blizzard Google and Amazon have both weighed in on Microsoft's cloud licensing with the UK CMA Xbox Microsoft is betting on the DMA, will create mobile video game store with unnamed partners The first Game Pass titles for December Microsoft explains licensing pop-ups on console Rockstar issues first GTA VI trailer PlayStation reminds the world that no one owns the digital content they purchased Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Stuck on 22H2? You can still upgrade to 23H2 App pick of the week: ImageGlass 9 (Microsoft Store) RunAs Radio this week: Modernizing using M365 with Sharon Weaver Brown liquor pick of the week: Glenfiddich 12 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: lookout.com GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT hid.link/wwdemo

Paul Wilson and Chris Ehmke are back with some educational content this week! They bring you a couple of segments on Diesel Insights where Nick Priegnitz of Calibrated Power / Duramaxtuner breaks down the differences between a 2024 L5P stock turbo and compare it to the prior years of L5P 6.6L Duramax trucks. Then they bring you another turbo analysis where Nick discusses the 2023 High Output Powerstroke stock turbo compared to the standard output model. Class is in session!

Back by popular demand is the Christmas movie series. Throughout the month of December, Rusty and Heather discuss crucial marriage lessons that they have learned from their favorite holiday movies. Unmet expectations seem to be a theme around most marriages during the holiday season, and it is certainly a theme in the classic Christmas movie "Jingle All the Way." Learn how to combat unmet expectations, and also how to have a little "adult" fun with this hilarious Christmas movie. 12 Dates of Christmas - https://www.theredeemedmarriage.com/ 

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We were going to make a serious and informative episode about what you should look for when buying a used car, but instead we goofed off and dared each other to buy shitty unreliable cars for $5,000. We did sprinkle in some practical advice here and there, or at least you might learn what not to do from our bad decisions.Alex will be back for a Part 2 soon, where we'll discuss practical, economical, and boring cars that you should buy if you're smarter than us.Main topic at 1:09:14Email us with tips, stories, and unhinged rants: carsandcomrades@gmail.com //Our social media links etc: www.linktr.ee/CarsAndComrades //Music by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard: www.kinggizzardandthelizardwizard.com/polygondwanaland //Links/Sources:Alex's pictures of puppers and Porsches: https://www.instagram.com/for_the__animals/ //Turbo a stock Honda Insight: https://youtu.be/kEV4KAnSjGg?si=mUIPjDOnugc1qfo3 //Mini Cooper with a WRX engine and drivetrain: https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/build-projects-and-project-cars/introducing-colin-a-mini-ature-wrx/191397/page1/ //Screenshots of Car Ads: https://ibb.co/album/GH67qq //Links to Car Ads:https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/709375080526846/ //https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1361196731420176/ //https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/259269456582745/ //https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/220081444409667/ //The rest of the ads have been taken down by now

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Catch us at Modular's ModCon next week with Chris Lattner, and join our community!Due to Bryan's very wide ranging experience in data science and AI across Blue Bottle (!), StitchFix, Weights & Biases, and now Hex Magic, this episode can be considered a two-parter.Notebooks = Chat++We've talked a lot about AI UX (in our meetups, writeups, and guest posts), and today we're excited to dive into a new old player in AI interfaces: notebooks! Depending on your background, you either Don't Like or you Like notebooks — they are the most popular example of Knuth's Literate Programming concept, basically a collection of cells; each cell can execute code, display it, and share its state with all the other cells in a notebook. They can also simply be Markdown cells to add commentary to the analysis. Notebooks have a long history but most recently became popular from iPython evolving into Project Jupyter, and a wave of notebook based startups from Observable to DeepNote and Databricks sprung up for the modern data stack.The first wave of AI applications has been very chat focused (ChatGPT, Character.ai, Perplexity, etc). Chat as a user interface has a few shortcomings, the major one being the inability to edit previous messages. We enjoyed Bryan's takes on why notebooks feel like “Chat++” and how they are building Hex Magic:* Atomic actions vs Stream of consciousness: in a chat interface, you make corrections by adding more messages to a conversation (i.e. “Can you try again by doing X instead?” or “I actually meant XYZ”). The context can easily get messy and confusing for models (and humans!) to follow. Notebooks' cell structure on the other hand allows users to go back to any previous cells and make edits without having to add new ones at the bottom. * “Airlocks” for repeatability: one of the ideas they came up with at Hex is “airlocks”, a collection of cells that depend on each other and keep each other in sync. If you have a task like “Create a summary of my customers' recent purchases”, there are many sub-tasks to be done (look up the data, sum the amounts, write the text, etc). Each sub-task will be in its own cell, and the airlock will keep them all in sync together.* Technical + Non-Technical users: previously you had to use Python / R / Julia to write notebooks code, but with models like GPT-4, natural language is usually enough. Hex is also working on lowering the barrier of entry for non-technical users into notebooks, similar to how Code Interpreter is doing the same in ChatGPT. Obviously notebooks aren't new for developers (OpenAI Cookbooks are a good example), but haven't had much adoption in less technical spheres. Some of the shortcomings of chat UIs + LLMs lowering the barrier of entry to creating code cells might make them a much more popular UX going forward.RAG = RecSys!We also talked about the LLMOps landscape and why it's an “iron mine” rather than a “gold rush”: I'll shamelessly steal [this] from a friend, Adam Azzam from Prefect. He says that [LLMOps] is more of like an iron mine than a gold mine in the sense of there is a lot of work to extract this precious, precious resource. Don't expect to just go down to the stream and do a little panning. There's a lot of work to be done. And frankly, the steps to go from this resource to something valuable is significant.Some of my favorite takeaways:* RAG as RecSys for LLMs: at its core, the goal of a RAG pipeline is finding the most relevant documents based on a task. This isn't very different from traditional recommendation system products that surface things for users. How can we apply old lessons to this new problem? Bryan cites fellow AIE Summit speaker and Latent Space Paper Club host Eugene Yan in decomposing the retrieval problem into retrieval, filtering, and scoring/ranking/ordering:As AI Engineers increasingly find that long context has tradeoffs, they will also have to relearn age old lessons that vector search is NOT all you need and a good systems not models approach is essential to scalable/debuggable RAG. Good thing Bryan has just written the first O'Reilly book about modern RecSys, eh?* Narrowing down evaluation: while “hallucination” is a easy term to throw around, the reality is more nuanced. A lot of times, model errors can be automatically fixed: is this JSON valid? If not, why? Is it just missing a closing brace? These smaller issues can be checked and fixed before returning the response to the user, which is easier than fixing the model.* Fine-tuning isn't all you need: when they first started building Magic, one of the discussions was around fine-tuning a model. In our episode with Jeremy Howard we talked about how fine-tuning leads to loss of capabilities as well. In notebooks, you are often dealing with domain-specific data (i.e. purchases, orders, wardrobe composition, household items, etc); the fact that the model understands that “items” are probably part of an “order” is really helpful. They have found that GPT-4 + 3.5-turbo were everything they needed to ship a great product rather than having to fine-tune on notebooks specifically.Definitely recommend listening to this one if you are interested in getting a better understanding of how to think about AI, data, and how we can use traditional machine learning lessons in large language models. The AI PivotFor more Bryan, don't miss his fireside chat at the AI Engineer Summit:Show Notes* Hex Magic* Bryan's new book: Building Recommendation Systems in Python and JAX* Bryan's whitepaper about MLOps* “Kitbashing in ML”, slides from his talk on building on top of foundation models* “Bayesian Statistics The Fun Way” by Will Kurt* Bryan's Twitter* “Berkeley man determined to walk every street in his city”* People:* Adam Azzam* Graham Neubig* Eugene Yan* Even OldridgeTimestamps* [00:00:00] Bryan's background* [00:02:34] Overview of Hex and the Magic product* [00:05:57] How Magic handles the complex notebook format to integrate cleanly with Hex* [00:08:37] Discussion of whether to build vs buy models - why Hex uses GPT-4 vs fine-tuning* [00:13:06] UX design for Magic with Hex's notebook format (aka “Chat++”)* [00:18:37] Expanding notebooks to less technical users* [00:23:46] The "Memex" as an exciting underexplored area - personal knowledge graph and memory augmentation* [00:27:02] What makes for good LLMops vs MLOps* [00:34:53] Building rigorous evaluators for Magic and best practices* [00:36:52] Different types of metrics for LLM evaluation beyond just end task accuracy* [00:39:19] Evaluation strategy when you don't own the core model that's being evaluated* [00:41:49] All the places you can make improvements outside of retraining the core LLM* [00:45:00] Lightning RoundTranscriptAlessio: Hey everyone, welcome to the Latent Space Podcast. This is Alessio, Partner and CTO-in-Residence of Decibel Partners, and today I'm joining by Bryan Bischof. [00:00:15]Bryan: Hey, nice to meet you. [00:00:17]Alessio: So Bryan has one of the most thorough and impressive backgrounds we had on the show so far. Lead software engineer at Blue Bottle Coffee, which if you live in San Francisco, you know a lot about. And maybe you'll tell us 30 seconds on what that actually means. You worked as a data scientist at Stitch Fix, which used to be one of the premier data science teams out there. [00:00:38]Bryan: It used to be. Ouch. [00:00:39]Alessio: Well, no, no. Well, you left, you know, so how good can it still be? Then head of data science at Weights and Biases. You're also a professor at Rutgers and you're just wrapping up a new O'Reilly book as well. So a lot, a lot going on. Yeah. [00:00:52]Bryan: And currently head of AI at Hex. [00:00:54]Alessio: Let's do the Blue Bottle thing because I definitely want to hear what's the, what's that like? [00:00:58]Bryan: So I was leading data at Blue Bottle. I was the first data hire. I came in to kind of get the data warehouse in order and then see what we could build on top of it. But ultimately I mostly focused on demand forecasting, a little bit of recsys, a little bit of sort of like website optimization and analytics. But ultimately anything that you could imagine sort of like a retail company needing to do with their data, we had to do. I sort of like led that team, hired a few people, expanded it out. One interesting thing was I was part of the Nestle acquisition. So there was a period of time where we were sort of preparing for that and didn't know, which was a really interesting dynamic. Being acquired is a very not necessarily fun experience for the data team. [00:01:37]Alessio: I build a lot of internal tools for sourcing at the firm and we have a small VCs and data community of like other people doing it. And I feel like if you had a data feed into like the Blue Bottle in South Park, the Blue Bottle at the Hanahaus in Palo Alto, you can get a lot of secondhand information on the state of VC funding. [00:01:54]Bryan: Oh yeah. I feel like the real source of alpha is just bugging a Blue Bottle. [00:01:58]Alessio: Exactly. And what's your latest book about? [00:02:02]Bryan: I just wrapped up a book with a coauthor Hector Yee called Building Production Recommendation Systems. I'll give you the rest of the title because it's fun. It's in Python and JAX. And so for those of you that are like eagerly awaiting the first O'Reilly book that focuses on JAX, here you go. [00:02:17]Alessio: Awesome. And we'll chat about that later on. But let's maybe talk about Hex and Magic before. I've known Hex for a while, I've used it as a notebook provider and you've been working on a lot of amazing AI enabled experiences. So maybe run us through that. [00:02:34]Bryan: So I too, before I sort of like joined Hex, saw it as this like really incredible notebook platform, sort of a great place to do data science workflows, quite complicated, quite ad hoc interactive ones. And before I joined, I thought it was the best place to do data science workflows. And so when I heard about the possibility of building AI tools on top of that platform, that seemed like a huge opportunity. In particular, I lead the product called Magic. Magic is really like a suite of sort of capabilities as opposed to its own independent product. What I mean by that is they are sort of AI enhancements to the existing product. And that's a really important difference from sort of building something totally new that just uses AI. It's really important to us to enhance the already incredible platform with AI capabilities. So these are things like the sort of obvious like co-pilot-esque vibes, but also more interesting and dynamic ways of integrating AI into the product. And ultimately the goal is just to make people even more effective with the platform. [00:03:38]Alessio: How do you think about the evolution of the product and the AI component? You know, even if you think about 10 months ago, some of these models were not really good on very math based tasks. Now they're getting a lot better. I'm guessing a lot of your workloads and use cases is data analysis and whatnot. [00:03:53]Bryan: When I joined, it was pre 4 and it was pre the sort of like new chat API and all that. But when I joined, it was already clear that GPT was pretty good at writing code. And so when I joined, they had already executed on the vision of what if we allowed the user to ask a natural language prompt to an AI and have the AI assist them with writing code. So what that looked like when I first joined was it had some capability of writing SQL and it had some capability of writing Python and it had the ability to explain and describe code that was already written. Those very, what feel like now primitive capabilities, believe it or not, were already quite cool. It's easy to look back and think, oh, it's like kind of like Stone Age in these timelines. But to be clear, when you're building on such an incredible platform, adding a little bit of these capabilities feels really effective. And so almost immediately I started noticing how it affected my own workflow because ultimately as sort of like an engineering lead and a lot of my responsibility is to be doing analytics to make data driven decisions about what products we build. And so I'm actually using Hex quite a bit in the process of like iterating on our product. When I'm using Hex to do that, I'm using Magic all the time. And even in those early days, the amount that it sped me up, that it enabled me to very quickly like execute was really impressive. And so even though the models weren't that good at certain things back then, that capability was not to be underestimated. But to your point, the models have evolved between 3.5 Turbo and 4. We've actually seen quite a big enhancement in the kinds of tasks that we can ask Magic and even more so with things like function calling and understanding a little bit more of the landscape of agent workflows, we've been able to really accelerate. [00:05:57]Alessio: You know, I tried using some of the early models in notebooks and it actually didn't like the IPyNB formatting, kind of like a JSON plus XML plus all these weird things. How have you kind of tackled that? Do you have some magic behind the scenes to make it easier for models? Like, are you still using completely off the shelf models? Do you have some proprietary ones? [00:06:19]Bryan: We are using at the moment in production 3.5 Turbo and GPT-4. I would say for a large number of our applications, GPT-4 is pretty much required. To your question about, does it understand the structure of the notebook? And does it understand all of this somewhat complicated wrappers around the content that you want to show? We do our very best to abstract that away from the model and make sure that the model doesn't have to think about what the cell wrapper code looks like. Or for our Magic charts, it doesn't have to speak the language of Vega. These are things that we put a lot of work in on the engineering side, to the AI engineer profile. This is the AI engineering work to get all of that out of the way so that the model can speak in the languages that it's best at. The model is quite good at SQL. So let's ensure that it's speaking the language of SQL and that we are doing the engineering work to get the output of that model, the generations, into our notebook format. So too for other cell types that we support, including charts, and just in general, understanding the flow of different cells, understanding what a notebook is, all of that is hard work that we've done to ensure that the model doesn't have to learn anything like that. I remember early on, people asked the question, are you going to fine tune a model to understand Hex cells? And almost immediately, my answer was no. No we're not. Using fine-tuned models in 2022, I was already aware that there are some limitations of that approach and frankly, even using GPT-3 and GPT-2 back in the day in Stitch Fix, I had already seen a lot of instances where putting more effort into pre- and post-processing can avoid some of these larger lifts. [00:08:14]Alessio: You mentioned Stitch Fix and GPT-2. How has the balance between build versus buy, so to speak, evolved? So GPT-2 was a model that was not super advanced, so for a lot of use cases it was worth building your own thing. Is with GPT-4 and the likes, is there a reason to still build your own models for a lot of this stuff? Or should most people be fine-tuning? How do you think about that? [00:08:37]Bryan: Sometimes people ask, why are you using GPT-4 and why aren't you going down the avenue of fine-tuning today? I can get into fine-tuning specifically, but I do want to talk a little bit about the good old days of GPT-2. Shout out to Reza. Reza introduced me to GPT-2. I still remember him explaining the difference between general transformers and GPT. I remember one of the tasks that we wanted to solve with transformer-based generative models at Stitch Fix were writing descriptions of clothing. You might think, ooh, that's a multi-modal problem. The answer is, not necessarily. We actually have a lot of features about the clothes that are almost already enough to generate some reasonable text. I remember at that time, that was one of the first applications that we had considered. There was a really great team of NLP scientists at Stitch Fix who worked on a lot of applications like this. I still remember being exposed to the GPT endpoint back in the days of 2. If I'm not mistaken, and feel free to fact check this, I'm pretty sure Stitch Fix was the first OpenAI customer, unlike their true enterprise application. Long story short, I ultimately think that depending on your task, using the most cutting-edge general model has some advantages. If those are advantages that you can reap, then go for it. So at Hex, why GPT-4? Why do we need such a general model for writing code, writing SQL, doing data analysis? Shouldn't a fine-tuned model just on Kaggle notebooks be good enough? I'd argue no. And ultimately, because we don't have one specific sphere of data that we need to write great data analysis workbooks for, we actually want to provide a platform for anyone to do data analysis about their business. To do that, you actually need to entertain an extremely general universe of concepts. So as an example, if you work at Hex and you want to do data analysis, our projects are called Hexes. That's relatively straightforward to teach it. There's a concept of a notebook. These are data science notebooks, and you want to ask analytics questions about notebooks. Maybe if you trained on notebooks, you could answer those questions, but let's come back to Blue Bottle. If I'm at Blue Bottle and I have data science work to do, I have to ask it questions about coffee. I have to ask it questions about pastries, doing demand forecasting. And so very quickly, you can see that just by serving just those two customers, a model purely fine-tuned on like Kaggle competitions may not actually fit the bill. And so the more and more that you want to build a platform that is sufficiently general for your customer base, the more I think that these large general models really pack a lot of additional opportunity in. [00:11:21]Alessio: With a lot of our companies, we talked about stuff that you used to have to extract features for, now you have out of the box. So say you're a travel company, you want to do a query, like show me all the hotels and places that are warm during spring break. It would be just literally like impossible to do before these models, you know? But now the model knows, okay, spring break is like usually these dates and like these locations are usually warm. So you get so much out of it for free. And in terms of Magic integrating into Hex, I think AI UX is one of our favorite topics and how do you actually make that seamless. In traditional code editors, the line of code is like kind of the atomic unit and HEX, you have the code, but then you have the cell also. [00:12:04]Bryan: I think the first time I saw Copilot and really like fell in love with Copilot, I thought finally, fancy auto-complete. And that felt so good. It felt so elegant. It felt so right sized for the task. But as a data scientist, a lot of the work that you do previous to the ML engineering part of the house, you're working in these cells and these cells are atomic. They're expressing one idea. And so ultimately, if you want to make the transition from something like this code, where you've got like a large amount of code and there's a large amount of files and they kind of need to have awareness of one another, and that's a long story and we can talk about that. But in this atomic, somewhat linear flow through the notebook, what you ultimately want to do is you want to reason with the agent at the level of these individual thoughts, these atomic ideas. Usually it's good practice in say Jupyter notebook to not let your cells get too big. If your cell doesn't fit on one page, that's like kind of a code smell, like why is it so damn big? What are you doing in this cell? That also lends some hints as to what the UI should feel like. I want to ask questions about this one atomic thing. So you ask the agent, take this data frame and strip out this prefix from all the strings in this column. That's an atomic task. It's probably about two lines of pandas. I can write it, but it's actually very natural to ask magic to do that for me. And what I promise you is that it is faster to ask magic to do that for me. At this point, that kind of code, I never write. And so then you ask the next question, which is what should the UI be to do chains, to do multiple cells that work together? Because ultimately a notebook is a chain of cells and actually it's a first class citizen for Hex. So we have a DAG and the DAG is the execution DAG for the individual cells. This is one of the reasons that Hex is reactive and kind of dynamic in that way. And so the very next question is, what is the sort of like AI UI for these collections of cells? And back in June and July, we thought really hard about what does it feel like to ask magic a question and get a short chain of cells back that execute on that task. And so we've thought a lot about sort of like how that breaks down into individual atomic units and how those are tied together. We introduced something which is kind of an internal name, but it's called the airlock. And the airlock is exactly a sequence of cells that refer to one another, understand one another, use things that are happening in other cells. And it gives you a chance to sort of preview what magic has generated for you. Then you can accept or reject as an entire group. And that's one of the reasons we call it an airlock, because at any time you can sort of eject the airlock and see it in the space. But to come back to your question about how the AI UX fits into this notebook, ultimately a notebook is very conversational in its structure. I've got a series of thoughts that I'm going to express as a series of cells. And sometimes if I'm a kind data scientist, I'll put some text in between them too, explaining what on earth I'm doing. And that feels, in my opinion, and I think this is quite shared amongst exons, that feels like a really nice refinement of the chat UI. I've been saying for several months now, like, please stop building chat UIs. There is some irony because I think what the notebook allows is like chat plus plus. [00:15:36]Alessio: Yeah, I think the first wave of everything was like chat with X. So it was like chat with your data, chat with your documents and all of this. But people want to code, you know, at the end of the day. And I think that goes into the end user. I think most people that use notebooks are software engineer, data scientists. I think the cool things about these models is like people that are not traditionally technical can do a lot of very advanced things. And that's why people like code interpreter and chat GBT. How do you think about the evolution of that persona? Do you see a lot of non-technical people also now coming to Hex to like collaborate with like their technical folks? [00:16:13]Bryan: Yeah, I would say there might even be more enthusiasm than we're prepared for. We're obviously like very excited to bring what we call the like low floor user into this world and give more people the opportunity to self-serve on their data. We wanted to start by focusing on users who are already familiar with Hex and really make magic fantastic for them. One of the sort of like internal, I would say almost North Stars is our team's charter is to make Hex feel more magical. That is true for all of our users, but that's easiest to do on users that are already able to use Hex in a great way. What we're hearing from some customers in particular is sort of like, I'm excited for some of my less technical stakeholders to get in there and start asking questions. And so that raises a lot of really deep questions. If you immediately enable self-service for data, which is almost like a joke over the last like maybe like eight years, if you immediately enabled self-service, what challenges does that bring with it? What risks does that bring with it? And so it has given us the opportunity to think about things like governance and to think about things like alignment with the data team and making sure that the data team has clear visibility into what the self-service looks like. Having been leading a data team, trying to provide answers for stakeholders and hearing that they really want to self-serve, a question that we often found ourselves asking is, what is the easiest way that we can keep them on the rails? What is the easiest way that we can set up the data warehouse and set up our tools such that they can ask and answer their own questions without coming away with like false answers? Because that is such a priority for data teams, it becomes an important focus of my team, which is, okay, magic may be an enabler. And if it is, what do we also have to respect? We recently introduced the data manager and the data manager is an auxiliary sort of like tool on the Hex platform to allow people to write more like relevant metadata about their data warehouse to make sure that magic has access to the best information. And there are some things coming to kind of even further that story around governance and understanding. [00:18:37]Alessio: You know, you mentioned self-serve data. And when I was like a joke, you know, the whole rush to the modern data stack was something to behold. Do you think AI is like in a similar space where it's like a bit of a gold rush? [00:18:51]Bryan: I have like sort of two comments here. One I'll shamelessly steal from a friend, Adam Azzam from Prefect. He says that this is more of like an iron mine than a gold mine in the sense of there is a lot of work to extract this precious, precious resource. And that's the first one is I think, don't expect to just go down to the stream and do a little panning. There's a lot of work to be done. And frankly, the steps to go from this like gold to, or this resource to something valuable is significant. I think people have gotten a little carried away with the old maxim of like, don't go pan for gold, sell pickaxes and shovels. It's a much stronger business model. At this point, I feel like I look around and I see more pickaxe salesmen and shovel salesmen than I do prospectors. And that scares me a little bit. Metagame where people are starting to think about how they can build tools for people building tools for AI. And that starts to give me a little bit of like pause in terms of like, how confident are we that we can even extract this resource into something valuable? I got a text message from a VC earlier today, and I won't name the VC or the fund, but the question was, what are some medium or large size companies that have integrated AI into their platform in a way that you're really impressed by? And I looked at the text message for a few minutes and I was finding myself thinking and thinking, and I responded, maybe only co-pilot. It's been a couple hours now, and I don't think I've thought of another one. And I think that's where I reflect again on this, like iron versus gold. If it was really gold, I feel like I'd be more blown away by other AI integrations. And I'm not yet. [00:20:40]Alessio: I feel like all the people finding gold are the ones building things that traditionally we didn't focus on. So like mid-journey. I've talked to a company yesterday, which I'm not going to name, but they do agents for some use case, let's call it. They are 11 months old. They're making like 8 million a month in revenue, but in a space that you wouldn't even think about selling to. If you were like a shovel builder, you wouldn't even go sell to those people. And Swix talks about this a bunch, about like actually trying to go application first for some things. Let's actually see what people want to use and what works. What do you think are the most maybe underexplored areas in AI? Is there anything that you wish people were actually trying to shovel? [00:21:23]Bryan: I've been saying for a couple of months now, if I had unlimited resources and I was just sort of like truly like, you know, on my own building whatever I wanted, I think the thing that I'd be most excited about is building sort of like the personal Memex. The Memex is something that I've wanted since I was a kid. And are you familiar with the Memex? It's the memory extender. And it's this idea that sort of like human memory is quite weak. And so if we can extend that, then that's a big opportunity. So I think one of the things that I've always found to be one of the limiting cases here is access. How do you access that data? Even if you did build that data like out, how would you quickly access it? And one of the things I think there's a constellation of technologies that have come together in the last couple of years that now make this quite feasible. Like information retrieval has really improved and we have a lot more simple systems for getting started with information retrieval to natural language is ultimately the interface that you'd really like these systems to work on, both in terms of sort of like structuring the data and preparing the data, but also on the retrieval side. So what keys off the query for retrieval, probably ultimately natural language. And third, if you really want to go into like the purely futuristic aspect of this, it is latent voice to text. And that is also something that has quite recently become possible. I did talk to a company recently called gather, which seems to have some cool ideas in this direction, but I haven't seen yet what I, what I really want, which is I want something that is sort of like every time I listen to a podcast or I watch a movie or I read a book, it sort of like has a great vector index built on top of all that information that's contained within. And then when I'm having my next conversation and I can't quite remember the name of this person who did this amazing thing, for example, if we're talking about the Memex, it'd be really nice to have Vannevar Bush like pop up on my, you know, on my Memex display, because I always forget Vannevar Bush's name. This is one time that I didn't, but I often do. This is something that I think is only recently enabled and maybe we're still five years out before it can be good, but I think it's one of the most exciting projects that has become possible in the last three years that I think generally wasn't possible before. [00:23:46]Alessio: Would you wear one of those AI pendants that record everything? [00:23:50]Bryan: I think I'm just going to do it because I just like support the idea. I'm also admittedly someone who, when Google Glass first came out, thought that seems awesome. I know that there's like a lot of like challenges about the privacy aspect of it, but it is something that I did feel was like a disappointment to lose some of that technology. Fun fact, one of the early Google Glass developers was this MIT computer scientist who basically built the first wearable computer while he was at MIT. And he like took notes about all of his conversations in real time on his wearable and then he would have real time access to them. Ended up being kind of a scandal because he wanted to use a computer during his defense and they like tried to prevent him from doing it. So pretty interesting story. [00:24:35]Alessio: I don't know but the future is going to be weird. I can tell you that much. Talking about pickaxes, what do you think about the pickaxes that people built before? Like all the whole MLOps space, which has its own like startup graveyard in there. How are those products evolving? You know, you were at Wits and Biases before, which is now doing a big AI push as well. [00:24:57]Bryan: If you really want to like sort of like rub my face in it, you can go look at my white paper on MLOps from 2022. It's interesting. I don't think there's many things in that that I would these days think are like wrong or even sort of like naive. But what I would say is there are both a lot of analogies between MLOps and LLMops, but there are also a lot of like key differences. So like leading an engineering team at the moment, I think a lot more about good engineering practices than I do about good ML practices. That being said, it's been very convenient to be able to see around corners in a few of the like ML places. One of the first things I did at Hex was work on evals. This was in February. I hadn't yet been overwhelmed by people talking about evals until about May. And the reason that I was able to be a couple of months early on that is because I've been building evals for ML systems for years. I don't know how else to build an ML system other than start with the evals. I teach my students at Rutgers like objective framing is one of the most important steps in starting a new data science project. If you can't clearly state what your objective function is and you can't clearly state how that relates to the problem framing, you've got no hope. And I think that is a very shared reality with LLM applications. Coming back to one thing you mentioned from earlier about sort of like the applications of these LLMs. To that end, I think what pickaxes I think are still very valuable is understanding systems that are inherently less predictable, that are inherently sort of experimental. On my engineering team, we have an experimentalist. So one of the AI engineers, his focus is experiments. That's something that you wouldn't normally expect to see on an engineering team. But it's important on an AI engineering team to have one person whose entire focus is just experimenting, trying, okay, this is a hypothesis that we have about how the model will behave. Or this is a hypothesis we have about how we can improve the model's performance on this. And then going in, running experiments, augmenting our evals to test it, et cetera. What I really respect are pickaxes that recognize the hybrid nature of the sort of engineering tasks. They are ultimately engineering tasks with a flavor of ML. And so when systems respect that, I tend to have a very high opinion. One thing that I was very, very aligned with Weights and Biases on is sort of composability. These systems like ML systems need to be extremely composable to make them much more iterative. If you don't build these systems in composable ways, then your integration hell is just magnified. When you're trying to iterate as fast as people need to be iterating these days, I think integration hell is a tax not worth paying. [00:27:51]Alessio: Let's talk about some of the LLM native pickaxes, so to speak. So RAG is one. One thing is doing RAG on text data. One thing is doing RAG on tabular data. We're releasing tomorrow our episode with Kube, the semantic layer company. Curious to hear your thoughts on it. How are you doing RAG, pros, cons? [00:28:11]Bryan: It became pretty obvious to me almost immediately that RAG was going to be important. Because ultimately, you never expect your model to have access to all of the things necessary to respond to a user's request. So as an example, Magic users would like to write SQL that's relevant to their business. And it's important then to have the right data objects that they need to query. We can't expect any LLM to understand our user's data warehouse topology. So what we can expect is that we can build a RAG system that is data warehouse aware, data topology aware, and use that to provide really great information to the model. If you ask the model, how are my customers trending over time? And you ask it to write SQL to do that. What is it going to do? Well, ultimately, it's going to hallucinate the structure of that data warehouse that it needs to write a general query. Most likely what it's going to do is it's going to look in its sort of memory of Stack Overflow responses to customer queries, and it's going to say, oh, it's probably a customer stable and we're in the age of DBT, so it might be even called, you know, dim customers or something like that. And what's interesting is, and I encourage you to try, chatGBT will do an okay job of like hallucinating up some tables. It might even hallucinate up some columns. But what it won't do is it won't understand the joins in that data warehouse that it needs, and it won't understand the data caveats or the sort of where clauses that need to be there. And so how do you get it to understand those things? Well, this is textbook RAG. This is the exact kind of thing that you expect RAG to be good at augmenting. But I think where people who have done a lot of thinking about RAG for the document case, they think of it as chunking and sort of like the MapReduce and the sort of like these approaches. But I think people haven't followed this train of thought quite far enough yet. Jerry Liu was on the show and he talked a little bit about thinking of this as like information retrieval. And I would push that even further. And I would say that ultimately RAG is just RecSys for LLM. As I kind of already mentioned, I'm a little bit recommendation systems heavy. And so from the beginning, RAG has always felt like RecSys to me. It has always felt like you're building a recommendation system. And what are you trying to recommend? The best possible resources for the LLM to execute on a task. And so most of my approach to RAG and the way that we've improved magic via retrieval is by building a recommendation system. [00:30:49]Alessio: It's funny, as you mentioned that you spent three years writing the book, the O'Reilly book. Things must have changed as you wrote the book. I don't want to bring out any nightmares from there, but what are the tips for people who want to stay on top of this stuff? Do you have any other favorite newsletters, like Twitter accounts that you follow, communities you spend time in? [00:31:10]Bryan: I am sort of an aggressive reader of technical books. I think I'm almost never disappointed by time that I've invested in reading technical manuscripts. I find that most people write O'Reilly or similar books because they've sort of got this itch that they need to scratch, which is that I have some ideas, I have some understanding that we're hard won, I need to tell other people. And there's something that, from my experience, correlates between that itch and sort of like useful information. As an example, one of the people on my team, his name is Will Kurt, he wrote a book sort of Bayesian statistics the fun way. I knew some Bayesian statistics, but I read his book anyway. And the reason was because I was like, if someone feels motivated to write a book called Bayesian statistics the fun way, they've got something to say about Bayesian statistics. I learned so much from that book. That book is like technically like targeted at someone with less knowledge and experience than me. And boy, did it humble me about my understanding of Bayesian statistics. And so I think this is a very boring answer, but ultimately like I read a lot of books and I think that they're a really valuable way to learn these things. I also regrettably still read a lot of Twitter. There is plenty of noise in that signal, but ultimately it is still usually like one of the first directions to get sort of an instinct for what's valuable. The other comment that I want to make is we are in this age of sort of like archive is becoming more of like an ad platform. I think that's a little challenging right now to kind of use it the way that I used to use it, which is for like higher signal. I've chatted a lot with a CMU professor, Graham Neubig, and he's been doing LLM evaluation and LLM enhancements for about five years and know that I didn't misspeak. And I think talking to him has provided me a lot of like directionality for more believable sources. Trying to cut through the hype. I know that there's a lot of other things that I could mention in terms of like just channels, but ultimately right now I think there's almost an abundance of channels and I'm a little bit more keen on high signal. [00:33:18]Alessio: The other side of it is like, I see so many people say, Oh, I just wrote a paper on X and it's like an article. And I'm like, an article is not a paper, but it's just funny how I know we were kind of chatting before about terms being reinvented and like people that are not from this space kind of getting into AI engineering now. [00:33:36]Bryan: I also don't want to be gatekeepy. Actually I used to say a lot to people, don't be shy about putting your ideas down on paper. I think it's okay to just like kind of go for it. And I, I myself have something on archive that is like comically naive. It's intentionally naive. Right now I'm less concerned by more naive approaches to things than I am by the purely like advertising approach to sort of writing these short notes and articles. I think blogging still has a good place. And I remember getting feedback during my PhD thesis that like my thesis sounded more like a long blog post. And I now feel like that curmudgeonly professor who's also like, yeah, maybe just keep this to the blogs. That's funny.Alessio: Uh, yeah, I think one of the things that Swyx said when he was opening the AI engineer summit a couple of weeks ago was like, look, most people here don't know much about the space because it's so new and like being open and welcoming. I think it's one of the goals. And that's why we try and keep every episode at a level that it's like, you know, the experts can understand and learn something, but also the novices can kind of like follow along. You mentioned evals before. I think that's one of the hottest topics obviously out there right now. What are evals? How do we know if they work? Yeah. What are some of the fun learnings from building them into X? [00:34:53]Bryan: I said something at the AI engineer summit that I think a few people have already called out, which is like, if you can't get your evals to be sort of like objective, then you're not trying hard enough. I stand by that statement. I'm not going to, I'm not going to walk it back. I know that that doesn't feel super good because people, people want to think that like their unique snowflake of a problem is too nuanced. But I think this is actually one area where, you know, in this dichotomy of like, who can do AI engineering? And the answer is kind of everybody. Software engineering can become AI engineering and ML engineering can become AI engineering. One thing that I think the more data science minded folk have an advantage here is we've gotten more practice in taking very vague notions and trying to put a like objective function around that. And so ultimately I would just encourage everybody who wants to build evals, just work incredibly hard on codifying what is good and bad in terms of these objective metrics. As far as like how you go about turning those into evals, I think it's kind of like sweat equity. Unfortunately, I told the CEO of gantry several months ago, I think it's been like six months now that I was sort of like looking at every single internal Hex request to magic by hand with my eyes and sort of like thinking, how can I turn this into an eval? Is there a way that I can take this real request during this dog foodie, not very developed stage? How can I make that into an evaluation? That was a lot of sweat equity that I put in a lot of like boring evenings, but I do think ultimately it gave me a lot of understanding for the way that the model was misbehaving. Another thing is how can you start to understand these misbehaviors as like auxiliary evaluation metrics? So there's not just one evaluation that you want to do for every request. It's easy to say like, did this work? Did this not work? Did the response satisfy the task? But there's a lot of other metrics that you can pull off these questions. And so like, let me give you an example. If it writes SQL that doesn't reference a table in the database that it's supposed to be querying against, we would think of that as a hallucination. You could separately consider, is it a hallucination as a valuable metric? You could separately consider, does it get the right answer? The right answer is this sort of like all in one shot, like evaluation that I think people jump to. But these intermediary steps are really important. I remember hearing that GitHub had thousands of lines of post-processing code around Copilot to make sure that their responses were sort of correct or in the right place. And that kind of sort of defensive programming against bad responses is the kind of thing that you can build by looking at many different types of evaluation metrics. Because you can say like, oh, you know, the Copilot completion here is mostly right, but it doesn't close the brace. Well, that's the thing you can check for. Or, oh, this completion is quite good, but it defines a variable that was like already defined in the file. Like that's going to have a problem. That's an evaluation that you could check separately. And so this is where I think it's easy to convince yourself that all that matters is does it get the right answer? But the more that you think about production use cases of these things, the more you find a lot of this kind of stuff. One simple example is like sometimes the model names the output of a cell, a variable that's already in scope. Okay. Like we can just detect that and like we can just fix that. And this is the kind of thing that like evaluations over time and as you build these evaluations over time, you really can expand the robustness in which you trust these models. And for a company like Hex, who we need to put this stuff in GA, we can't just sort of like get to demo stage or even like private beta stage. We really hunting GA on all of these capabilities. Did it get the right answer on some cases is not good enough. [00:38:57]Alessio: I think the follow up question to that is in your past roles, you own the model that you're evaluating against. Here you don't actually have control into how the model evolves. How do you think about the model will just need to improve or we'll use another model versus like we can build kind of like engineering post-processing on top of it. How do you make the choice? [00:39:19]Bryan: So I want to say two things here. One like Jerry Liu talked a little bit about in his episode, he talked a little bit about sort of like you don't always want to retrain the weights to serve certain use cases. Rag is another tool that you can use to kind of like soft tune. I think that's right. And I want to go back to my favorite analogy here, which is like recommendation systems. When you build a recommendation system, you build the objective function. You think about like what kind of recs you want to provide, what kind of features you're allowed to use, et cetera, et cetera. But there's always another step. There's this really wonderful collection of blog posts from Eugene Yon and then ultimately like even Oldridge kind of like iterated on that for the Merlin project where there's this multi-stage recommender. And the multi-stage recommender says the first step is to do great retrieval. Once you've done great retrieval, you then need to do great ranking. Once you've done great ranking, you need to then do a good job serving. And so what's the analogy here? Rag is retrieval. You can build different embedding models to encode different features in your latent space to ensure that your ranking model has the best opportunity. Now you might say, oh, well, my ranking model is something that I've got a lot of capability to adjust. I've got full access to my ranking model. I'm going to retrain it. And that's great. And you should. And over time you will. But there's one more step and that's downstream and that's the serving. Serving often sounds like I just show the s**t to the user, but ultimately serving is things like, did I provide diverse recommendations? Going back to Stitch Fix days, I can't just recommend them five shirts of the same silhouette and cut. I need to serve them a diversity of recommendations. Have I respected their requirements? They clicked on something that got them to this place. Is the recommendations relevant to that query? Are there any hard rules? Do we maybe not have this in stock? These are all things that you put downstream. And so much like the recommendations use case, there's a lot of knobs to pull outside of retraining the model. And even in recommendation systems, when do you retrain your model for ranking? Not nearly as much as you do other s**t. And even this like embedding model, you might fiddle with more often than the true ranking model. And so I think the only piece of the puzzle that you don't have access to in the LLM case is that sort of like middle step. That's okay. We've got plenty of other work to do. So right now I feel pretty enabled. [00:41:56]Alessio: That's great. You obviously wrote a book on RecSys. What are some of the key concepts that maybe people that don't have a data science background, ML background should keep in mind as they work in this area? [00:42:07]Bryan: It's easy to first think these models are stochastic. They're unpredictable. Oh, well, what are we going to do? I think of this almost like gaseous type question of like, if you've got this entropy, where can you put the entropy? Where can you let it be entropic and where can you constrain it? And so what I want to say here is think about the cases where you need it to be really tightly constrained. So why are people so excited about function calling? Because function calling feels like a way to constrict it. Where can you let it be more gaseous? Well, maybe in the way that it talks about what it wants to do. Maybe for planning, if you're building agents and you want to do sort of something chain of thoughty. Well, that's a place where the entropy can happily live. When you're building applications of these models, I think it's really important as part of the problem framing to be super clear upfront. These are the things that can be entropic. These are the things that cannot be. These are the things that need to be super rigid and really, really aligned to a particular schema. We've had a lot of success in making specific the parts that need to be precise and tightly schemified, and that has really paid dividends. And so other analogies from data science that I think are very valuable is there's the sort of like human in the loop analogy, which has been around for quite a while. And I have gone on record a couple of times saying that like, I don't really love human in the loop. One of the things that I think we can learn from human in the loop is that the user is the best judge of what is good. And the user is pretty motivated to sort of like interact and give you kind of like additional nudges in the direction that you want. I think what I'd like to flip though, is instead of human in the loop, I'd like it to be AI in the loop. I'd rather center the user. I'd rather keep the user as the like core item at the center of this universe. And the AI is a tool. By switching that analogy a little bit, what it allows you to do is think about where are the places in which the user can reach for this as a tool, execute some task with this tool, and then go back to doing their workflow. It still gets this back and forth between things that computers are good at and things that humans are good at, which has been valuable in the human loop paradigm. But it allows us to be a little bit more, I would say, like the designers talk about like user-centered. And I think that's really powerful for AI applications. And it's one of the things that I've been trying really hard with Magic to make that feel like the workflow as the AI is right there. It's right where you're doing your work. It's ready for you anytime you need it. But ultimately you're in charge at all times and your workflow is what we care the most about. [00:44:56]Alessio: Awesome. Let's jump into lightning round. What's something that is not on your LinkedIn that you're passionate about or, you know, what's something you would give a TED talk on that is not work related? [00:45:05]Bryan: So I walk a lot. [00:45:07]Bryan: I have walked every road in Berkeley. And I mean like every part of every road even, not just like the binary question of, have you been on this road? I have this little app that I use called Wanderer, which just lets me like kind of keep track of everywhere I've been. And so I'm like a little bit obsessed. My wife would say a lot a bit obsessed with like what I call new roads. I'm actually more motivated by trails even than roads, but like I'm a maximalist. So kind of like everything and anything. Yeah. Believe it or not, I was even like in the like local Berkeley paper just talking about walking every road. So yeah, that's something that I'm like surprisingly passionate about. [00:45:45]Alessio: Is there a most underrated road in Berkeley? [00:45:49]Bryan: What I would say is like underrated is Kensington. So Kensington is like a little town just a teeny bit north of Berkeley, but still in the Berkeley hills. And Kensington is so quirky and beautiful. And it's a really like, you know, don't sleep on Kensington. That being said, one of my original motivations for doing all this walking was people always tell me like, Berkeley's so quirky. And I was like, how quirky is Berkeley? Turn it out. It's quite, quite quirky. It's also hard to say quirky and Berkeley in the same sentence I've learned as of now. [00:46:20]Alessio: That's a, that's a good podcast warmup for our next guests. All right. The actual lightning ground. So we usually have three questions, acceleration, exploration, then a takeaway acceleration. What's, what's something that's already here today that you thought would take much longer to arrive in AI and machine learning? [00:46:39]Bryan: So I invited the CEO of Hugging Face to my seminar when I worked at Stitch Fix and his talk at the time, honestly, like really annoyed me. The talk was titled like something to the effect of like LLMs are going to be the like technology advancement of the next decade. It's on YouTube. You can find it. I don't remember exactly the title, but regardless, it was something like LLMs for the next decade. And I was like, okay, they're like one modality of model, like whatever. His talk was fine. Like, I don't think it was like particularly amazing or particularly poor, but what I will say is damn, he was right. Like I, I don't think I quite was on board during that talk where I was like, ah, maybe, you know, like there's a lot of other modalities that are like moving pretty quick. I thought things like RL were going to be the like real like breakout success. And there's a little pun with Atari and breakout there, but yeah, like I, man, I was sleeping on LLMs and I feel a little embarrassed. I, yeah. [00:47:44]Alessio: Yeah. No, I mean, that's a good point. It's like sometimes the, we just had Jeremy Howard on the podcast and he was saying when he was talking about fine tuning, everybody thought it was dumb, you know, and then later people realize, and there's something to be said about messaging, especially like in technical audiences where there's kind of like the metagame, you know, which is like, oh, these are like the cool ideas people are exploring. I don't know where I want to align myself yet, you know, or whatnot. So it's cool exploration. So it's kind of like the opposite of that. You mentioned RL, right? That's something that was kind of like up and up and up. And then now it's people are like, oh, I don't know. Are there any other areas if you weren't working on, on magic that you want to go work on? [00:48:25]Bryan: Well, I did mention that, like, I think this like Memex product is just like incredibly exciting to me. And I think it's really opportunistic. I think it's very, very feasible, but I would maybe even extend that a little bit, which is I don't see enough people getting really enthusiastic about hardware with advanced AI built in. You're hearing whispering of it here and there, put on the whisper, but like you're starting to see people putting whisper into pieces of hardware and making that really powerful. I joked with, I can't think of her name. Oh, Sasha, who I know is a friend of the pod. Like I joked with Sasha that I wanted to make the big mouth Billy Bass as a babble fish, because at this point it's pretty easy to connect that up to whisper and talk to it in one language and have it talk in the other language. And I was like, this is the kind of s**t I want people building is like silly integrations between hardware and these new capabilities. And as much as I'm starting to hear whisperings here and there, it's not enough. I think I want to see more people going down this track because I think ultimately like these things need to be in our like physical space. And even though the margins are good on software, I want to see more like integration into my daily life. Awesome. [00:49:47]Alessio: And then, yeah, a takeaway, what's one message idea you want everyone to remember and think about? [00:49:54]Bryan: Even though earlier I was talking about sort of like, maybe like not reinventing things and being respectful of the sort of like ML and data science, like ideas. I do want to say that I think everybody should be experimenting with these tools as much as they possibly can. I've heard a lot of professors, frankly, express concern about their students using GPT to do their homework. And I took a completely opposite approach, which is in the first 15 minutes of the first class of my semester this year, I brought up GPT on screen and we talked about what GPT was good at. And we talked about like how the students can sort of like use it. I showed them an example of it doing data analysis work quite well. And then I showed them an example of it doing quite poorly. I think however much you're integrating with these tools or interacting with these tools, and this audience is probably going to be pretty high on that distribution. I would really encourage you to sort of like push this into the other people in your life. My wife is very technical. She's a product manager and she's using chat GPT almost every day for communication or for understanding concepts that are like outside of her sphere of excellence. And recently my mom and my sister have been sort of like onboarded onto the chat GPT train. And so ultimately I just, I think that like it is our duty to help other people see like how much of a paradigm shift this is. We should really be preparing people for what life is going to be like when these are everywhere. [00:51:25]Alessio: Awesome. Thank you so much for coming on, Bryan. This was fun. [00:51:29]Bryan: Yeah. Thanks for having me. And use Hex magic. [00:51:31] Get full access to Latent Space at www.latent.space/subscribe

Dave the Trimmer joins us to enlighten us on the world of interior trimming, including the answer to the most important question, what has he found tucked away when retrimming a car?Elsewhere, there's a mass update on Porsches we've driven lately, including the 993 Carrera RS, 992 Dakar, and X51-powered 996…You can find Dave at @davethetrimmer‘9WERKS Radio' @9werks.radio is your dedicated Porsche and car podcast, taking you closer than ever to the world's finest sports cars and the culture and history behind them.The show is brought to you by 9werks.co.uk, the innovative online platform for Porsche enthusiasts. Hosted by Porsche Journalist Lee Sibley @9werks_lee, 911 owner and engineer Andy Brookes @993andy and obsessive Porsche enthusiast & magazine junkie Max Newman @maxripcor, with special input from friends and experts around the industry, including you, our valued listeners.If you enjoy the podcast and would like to support us by joining the 9WERKS Driven (Not Hidden) Collective you can do so by hitting the link below, your support would be greatly appreciated.Support the show

Recorded 2023-11-24 02:59:36 Download, Distribute, and Donate!

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: AI #39: The Week of OpenAI, published by Zvi on November 23, 2023 on LessWrong. The board firing Sam Altman, then reinstating him, dominated everything else this week. Other stuff also happened, but definitely focus on that first. Table of Contents Developments at OpenAI were far more important than everything else this read. So you can read this timeline of events over the weekend, and this attempt to put all the information together. Introduction. Table of Contents. Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. Narrate your life, as you do all life. Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility. Prompt injection unsolved. The Q Continuum. Disputed claims about new training techniques. OpenAI: The Saga Continues. The story is far from over. Altman Could Step Up. He understands existential risk. Now he can act. You Thought This Week Was Tough. It is not getting any easier. Fun With Image Generation. A few seconds of an Emu. Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon. Beware phone requests for money. They Took Our Jobs. Freelancers in some areas are in trouble. Get Involved. Dave Orr hiring for DeepMind alignment team. Introducing. Claude 2.1 looks like a substantial incremental improvement. In Other AI News. Meta breaks up 'responsible AI' team. Microsoft invests $50b. Quiet Speculations. Will deep learning hit a wall? The Quest for Sane Regulation. EU AI Act struggles, FTC AI definition is nuts. That Is Not What Totalitarianism Means. People need to cut that claim out. The Week in Audio. Sam Altman, Yoshua Bengio, Davidad, Ilya Sutskever. Rhetorical Innovation. David Sacks says it best this week. Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult. Technical debates. People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone. Roon fully now in this section. Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone. Listen to them. The Lighter Side. Yes, of course I am, but do you even hear yourself? Language Models Offer Mundane Utility GPT-4-Turbo substantially outperforms GPT-4 on Arena leaderboard. GPT-3.5-Turbo is still ahead of every model not from either OpenAI or Anthropic. Claude-1 outscores Claude-2 and is very close to old GPT-4 for second place, which is weird. Own too much cryptocurrency? Ian built a GPT that can 'bank itself using blockchains.' Paper says AI pancreatic cancer detection finally outperforming expert radiologists. This is the one we keep expecting that keeps not happening. David Attenborough narrates your life how-to guide, using Eleven Labs and GPT-4V. Code here. Good pick. Not my top favorite, but very good pick. Another good pick, Larry David as productivity coach. Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility Oh no. Kai Greshake: PSA: The US Military is actively testing and deploying LLMs to the battlefield. I think these systems are likely to be vulnerable to indirect prompt injection by adversaries. I'll lay out the story in this thread. This is http://Scale.ai's Donovan model. Basically, they let an LLM see and search through all of your military data (assets and threat intelligence) and then it tells you what you should do.. Now, it turns out to be really useful if you let the model see news and public information as well. This is called open-source intelligence or OSINT. In this screenshot, you can see them load "news and press reports" from the target area that the *adversary* can publish! We've shown many times that if an attacker can inject text into your model, you get to "reprogram" it with natural language. Imagine hiding & manipulating information that is presented to the operators and then having your little adversarial minion tell them where to strike. … Unfortunately the goal here is to shorten the time to a decision, so cross-checking everything is impossible, and they are not afraid to talk about the intentions. There will be a "human in the loop"...

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Lo que está cambiando el podcasting y el marketing digital:-Google y Spotify firmaron un acuerdo secreto que exime a la empresa sueca de pagar comisiones.-Cannes Lions reestructura la categoría de audio de sus premios.-Las 15 marcas principales gastaron 68 millones de dólares en anuncios de pódcast durante octubre.-SurveyMonkey lanza su función de creación de encuestas con IA a nivel mundial.-Anthropic actualiza Claude con casi el doble de capacidades que el GPT-4 Turbo.Pódcast recomendadoMomento Guitarra. Un espacio de divulgación musical y entretenimiento educativo. En cada capítulo su presentador, Pablo Romero Luis, conversa sobre temas relacionados al aprendizaje de la guitarra española.Si te gustó esta "newsletter" ¡Suscríbete!Patrocinado por Rss.com (compañía de alojamiento de pódcast).

On this episode of Ruby for All, Andrew and Julie welcome Joe Masilotti, known as the ‘Turbo Native Guy,' to discuss Turbo Native. They cover what Turbo Native is, its advantages when building apps, and how it can be an effective tool for Rails developers.  Joe also gives us an update on his library, Turbo Navigator, and provides some insightful advice for those wanting to dive into Turbo Native.  He shares his experience of Rails World Conf, discusses the future of Turbo Native, and Joe shares advice for junior Rails developers interested in Turbo Native. Press download now to hear much more! [00:00:47] Joe introduces himself and discusses Turbo iOS and its benefits for Rails developers. He outlines the difficulties of building Native iOS and Android apps and explains how Turbo Native simplifies this.[00:03:12] Julie expresses interest in potentially using Turbo Native for her projects. Joe elaborates on the advantages of Turbo Native, such as avoiding the need to build and maintain separate screens for each platform. [00:04:50] Joe discusses the process of app release and approval on iOS and Android, highlighting the efficiency of Turbo Native in rolling out updates.[00:06:49] Julie asks how Turbo Native achieves its functionality and Joe describes the use of a web view that renders the mobile web content within the app. [00:08:19] Andrew talks about his expectations for app quality on his iPhone and Joe explains how Turbo iOS and Strata avoid poor native web implementations. [00:10:32] Andrew inquires about Strata, its necessity, and its impact now that it has been released. Joe clarifies that while Strata is not essential for building Turbo Native apps, it does facilitate easier communication between web content and native code, reducing boilerplate code. [00:12:28] Andrew comments on the marketing of Strata by 37signals and its positioning as a game-changer. Joe agrees it was a marketing issues and notes that Strata was branded as a third pillar of Hotwire, and he discusses a conversation he had with DHH about the positioning of Turbo, Stimulus, and Strata.  [00:14:49] Julie asks for an explanation of what Stimulus is. Andrew describes it as a lightweight JavaScript framework that integrates with HTML, providing a structured way to write JavaScript in Rails, and Joe adds that Stimulus allows for reusable JavaScript behaviors across multiple pages. [00:18:06] Andrew asks Joe about his library, Turbo Navigator. Joe explains that Turbo Navigator aims to bring Turbo iOS up to feature parity with Turbo Android, simplifying the use of Turbo Native on iOS by reducing boilerplate. Andrew mentions Joe's upcoming Turbo Native crash course. [00:20:58] Julie inquires about getting started with Turbo Native and Joe suggests watching his Rails World talks and checking out resources on his website and mentions a book he wrote coming out soon.  [00:24:21] Joe shares his positive experience at Rails World,  and he mentions the podcast booth at the conference and Andrew reminisces about RubyConf and looking forward to future events. [00:29:12] Andrew asks what Joe predicts happening in the new few months around iOS and what he's excited for. Joe anticipates a surge in interest for Turbo Native following the conference, and he's energized by increasing developer interest in Turbo Native and contemplates expanding his educational content as a result. [00:32:12] Andrew brings up a past RailsConf in Portland where he sought advice from Joe getting into iOS development and he credits Joe's suggestion to use Swift Playgrounds. Joe affirms that Swift Playgrounds is an excellent tool for leaning Swift, but for Turbo Native specifically, developers need to engage with Xcode and write Swift more directly related to app development.[00:35:03] Joe talks about Kotlin, noting its fast evolution and his plan to pick up more of the language due to demand for Android content. [00:35:35] Joe emphasizes that Turbo Native is a wrapper around a Rails website and suggests building a mobile website first before enhancing it with Turbo Native. [00:36:56] We end with Joe advising junior Rails developers that while Turbo Native is not necessary to know, it could provide a competitive advantage in the job market. Panelists:Andrew MasonJulie J.Guest:Joe MasilottiSponsors:HoneybadgerGoRailsLinks:Andrew Mason X/TwitterAndrew Mason WebsiteJulie J. X/TwitterJulie J. WebsiteJoe Masilotti X/TwitterJoe Masilotti WebsiteJoe Masilotti NewsletterThe reverse job board for Rails developersRails World 2023-Mobile Apps for Rails Developers with Joe Masilotti (YouTube)Turbo Native crash course-Joe MasilottiTurbo Native for iOSHotwireStradaReact NativeRemote Ruby Podcast-Episode 151: Turbo Native & Hotwire-How Polywork Supercharges DevelopmentTurbo Native DirectoryJoseph Masilotti Apps for iPhoneStimulusTurbo NavigatorSwift Playgrounds AppSwift Playgrounds KotlinXcode-SwiftUI

Join Josh and Derek as they venture into the fascinating realm of turbochargers. Discover the inner workings of these engineering marvels, unraveling how they harness exhaust gases to boost an engine's power output. In this detailed exploration, we uncover the fundamental principles behind turbocharging and the crucial role it plays in modern automotive technology. From enhancing performance in racing to improving fuel efficiency in everyday vehicles, turbochargers have become a cornerstone of automotive innovation. Explore the reasons behind the increasing adoption of turbochargers in the automotive industry today. From smaller engine sizes to the pursuit of better fuel economy without compromising power, delve into the factors driving their prevalent use in modern vehicle design. https://linktr.ee/knowledgedrop --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/knowledge-drop/message

Por-shay. I guess. Who caaaaares. The Porsche 911 is one of those "cool" cars. They are called this because they're just cool. And you know? Despite all trends, the 911 just stays cool through all its variants! You'd think the Modern Allcar design would creep in, but Porsche stands firm and it AAAAAA 996 Resources for this on Wikipedia are... bad! Thankfully, after the recording Twitter user Jamie (who requested the 911 to begin with) sent in some better sites to check. Part 2 will be using this page from supercars.net, but you should use it for this ep too! I wish we'd had it! In its absence, here's the folder of images we reference. Also, here's that interactive page I mentioned for the 1964 Porsche 911. Please note: I am not a car person, and this is evident in many parts of this show. One of them is that the unit names down below may have some errors, or strange choices. I did my best. If you want to find us on Twitter, Dylan is @lowpolyrobot and Six is @sixdettmar. Our opening theme is the Hangar Theme from Gundam Breaker 3, and our ending theme for this episode is Dr. Beat by Gloria Estefan. Our podcast art is a fantastic piece of work from Twitter artist @fenfelt. Want to see a list of every unit we've covered from every episode, including variants and tangents? It's right here. Units discussed: Porsche 911 (1964) Porsche 912 Porsche 911T (1969) Porsche 911R (1969) Porsche 911 B17 (1969) Porsche 914 Porsche 914/6 GT Porsche 914/8 Porsche Tapiro Goertz/Eurostyle 914/6R Gerber/Sbarro rotary 914 Heuliez Murène Hispano Alemán Vizcaya Porsche 916 Nordstadt Carrera Beetle Corvette XP-897 GT Porsche 911 (1972) Porsche 911 Carrera RS (1973) Porsche 911 (1976) Porsche 911 3.0 Porsche 911 Turbo (930) Porsche Slantnose 930S Porsche 930 TAG Turbo Porsche 911SC Porsche 911 Carrera (1986) Porsche 928 Max Moritz 'Semi Works' 928 GTR Porsche 942 Porsche 911 (964) Porsche 911 Turbo S Leichtbau (964) Porsche 911 Speedster (964) (1994) Porsche 911 America Roadster (964) Rinspeed Porsche 969 Porsche 911 (993) Porsche 911 Turbo (993) Porsche 911 Turbo S (993) Porsche 911 GT2 RS Porsche 911 (996) Porsche 911 (996) GT2 Porsche 911 (991) GT2 RS

This one was recorded en route to College Station, with Patrick's daughter Tara running camera once again. We talk about Patrick giving up sugar, our upcoming Arizona tour dates, ROCK THE SHELTER benefit at the Continental Club Houston, the disturbing prevalence of autotune in popular music, and why Turbo hates killing songs. SHINE-A-LIGHTS: HARRY NILSSON - Spaceman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7xOZVBAWtw RV · Faith No More https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHm3GIs2lMY Jesper Kyd - Prison Break (Track 3) with the new song "Rejects Unite" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBz1VMvYUYg The Interrupters - "Family (feat. Tim Armstrong)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ct4sjUQNcw The Specials - Do the dog (1980 live) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PquxnJkAeAk 00:00:00 — Intro (Patrick with Oscar Wilder in Dublin) 00:00:06 — Greetings and introductions 00:00:59 — Day 7 of No Sugar 00:01:17 — Arizona Tour Dates 00:03:19 — New Blaggards Christmas Cards 00:05:03 — ROCK THE SHELTER 00:10:21 — Turbo's memory vs. Chad's memory 00:12:35 — Song kills / shine-a-lights 00:13:22 — Auto-tune in popular music 00:15:26 — More song kills etc. 00:23:20 – What song(s) should Blaggards open with? 00:24:54 — Cheers to Enzo Valenzi 00:26:27 — A moment with Sean, driver of Bus 2 on our Ireland Tour Find the audio-only podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Pandora, Pocket Casts, etc. * https://slappercast.fireside.fm​ Blaggards main channel * https://www.youtube.com/blaggards Join our MAILING LIST * https://blaggards.com/mailinglist/​ Show dates * https://blaggards.com/shows/​ * https://www.facebook.com/blaggards/ev...​ * https://www.bandsintown.com/blaggards​ Follow us * https://www.facebook.com/blaggards/​ * https://twitter.com/blaggards/​ * https://www.instagram.com/blaggards/​ Special Guest: Kevin Newton.

Manly superstar Tommy Trbojevic joined the show to give an update on how he's going in his rehabilitation from injury after a mentally and physically gruelling season in 2023. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Your nose is a breathing turbocharger.If you don't use it, you lose it.Much like using filtered water, optimizing your air intake will likely impart multiple cell, tissue, organ, and organism-wide health benefits for minimal effort, cost, and energy. The information presented on this podcast is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or prescribe for any medical or psychological condition, nor prevent, treat, mitigate, or cure any conditions. Please make your own healthcare decisions based on your judgment and research in partnership with a qualified healthcare professional.

A Thanksgiving product that'll keep your bird juicy. Who's ready to get basted? Hosts Jorie Munroe, Ariel Boswell, and Jon Dick jump into the tank with their business insights on Shark Tank products. Listen for: 4 Types of distribution for any type of product Is a single holiday enough to market and sell a product on? When to take the royalty deal and when to walk Know a Shark Tank segment or company we should feature? Let us know at podcasts@hubspot.com Another Bite is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Produced by Matthew Brown.

The boys are joined by car detailing experts Maz & Rodger from Garage Therapy to answer your questions on all aspects of car detailing. Topics covered include ceramic coating, PPF, keeping glass clean, and dispelling common detailing myths.‘9WERKS Radio' @9werks.radio is your dedicated Porsche and car podcast, taking you closer than ever to the world's finest sports cars and the culture and history behind them.The show is brought to you by 9werks.co.uk, the innovative online platform for Porsche enthusiasts. Hosted by Porsche Journalist Lee Sibley @9werks_lee, 911 owner and engineer Andy Brookes @993andy and obsessive Porsche enthusiast & magazine junkie Max Newman @maxripcor, with special input from friends and experts around the industry, including you, our valued listeners.If you enjoy the podcast and would like to support us by joining the 9WERKS Driven (Not Hidden) Collective you can do so by hitting the link below, your support would be greatly appreciated.Support the show

Chris and Jim check in with some game reviews, the recent Coachella Valley call ups, Jekyll & Hyde Hockey, and the return of Ebs and Turbo.  Buy your Seattle Kraken Fancast Merch today! www.seattlekrakenfancast.com   Music provided by  Avenue East https://open.spotify.com/artist/5SoHjKsBG5CCrmTrbato10  Trapper Robbins https://open.spotify.com/artist/60WJGTw4Jxox175oDVEm0z

Recorded 2023-11-17 02:59:39 Download, Distribute, and Donate!

Descubre TEKDI GPT: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-JxmYcXxV5-tekdi-gpt La evolución de la inteligencia artificial generativa, particularmente con plataformas como ChatGPT, se desarrolla a un ritmo vertiginoso. A pesar de su rápido progreso, todavía se percibe que está en una fase temprana de desarrollo. Sin embargo, se prevé que, con su maduración, presenciaremos innovaciones y aplicaciones asombrosas.

Andrew is using what for video calls? Defaults, am I right!? Who saw that coming! Is Andrew a pro now? Martin is a one man newsstand! Who even needs internet that fast!? Using Apple Podcasts? All notes can always be found here (https://listen.hemisphericviews.com/098)! Luv u, babe ❤️❤️❤️ 00:00:00 Zoom (https://zoom.us)

Welcome to episode 235 of the Cloud Pod podcast - where the forecast is always cloudy! This week a full house is here for your listening pleasure! Justin, Jonathan, Matthew, and Ryan are talking about cyberattacks, attacks on vacations (aka Looker for mobile) and introducing a whole new segment just for AI. You're welcome, SkyNet.  Titles we almost went with this week:

There's a term of art in the business world—dogfooding. It means if you're going to propose a solution, you should use that same solution to help better understand problems the end user may encounter. Our guest today is familiar with dogfooding, both as a business process and from literally making food for pets. Isaac Langleben made the leap from consulting to leading Open Farm, a sustainable pet food business. We talk about that leap, the Canadian Startup Scene and have a news roundup with John Ruffolo.About Isaac Langleben: Isaac Langleben is the CEO and Co-Founder of Open Farm, a premium pet food brand on a mission to deliver exceptional pet nutrition while driving a positive impact on animals and the planet. Isaac leads Open Farm's team across Canada and the US in bringing innovative, healthy products to pets through over 6,000 pet stores & online. A serial entrepreneur, Isaac has also co-founded two other pet product companies – Canada Pooch, a leading pet accessories company and Diggs, an innovative pet supplies company.Prior to being a pet entrepreneur, Isaac was at Clairvest Inc, a Toronto-based private equity firm with over $2.4 billion of equity capital under management, and a consultant at Boston Consulting Group.He has two bachelor's degrees from McGill University.In this episode, we discuss:(01:02) News rundown with John Ruffolo(02:08) Developments and challenges in quantum computing(04:18) Analysis of Microsoft's investment strategies(06:12) Microsoft's approach to innovation in technology(07:24) OpenAI's expansion and its implications(08:12) Challenges and opportunities in AI and consumer technology(10:26) Impact of GPT-4 Turbo on AI development(11:06) Competitive landscape in AI startups(12:58) New AI technologies and privacy concerns(14:07) Role of AI in modern technology trends(15:21) Isaac's journey from law to pet food industry leadership(17:13) His private equity experience and insights into the pet industry(18:44) Evolution of the pet food industry(21:02) Strategies for scaling and diversifying in the pet industry(23:41) Challenges and opportunities in business growth(26:18) Different investment and growth approaches(28:18) Open Farm's commitment to sustainability(30:21) Challenges in global expansion and market entry(32:20) Strategies for customer base expansion in the U.S.(34:22) Open Farm's future growth and sustainability goals(36:15) Alignment of Open Farm's mission with business objectives(38:44) Role of investors and strategic partnerships in business growth(41:51) The Canadian startup ecosystem(44:29) Encouraging entrepreneurship in Canada(47:20) Navigating supply chain challenges during COVID-19(49:38) Isaac's advocacy and educational initiativesFast Favorites:*

Griffin's favorite set of horror movies! Rachel's favorite savory all-in-one food! Music: “Money Won't Pay” by bo en and Augustus – https://open.spotify.com/album/7n6zRzTrGPIHt0kRvmWoya Fair Elections Center: https://www.fairelectionscenter.org/

Plus, Patti's facing a tech nightmare. The IT guy she hired turned against her, hacking her online life and controlling her tech. I help her fight back. Also, a look at Waze's new crash hotspot alerts, Elon Musk's spicy chatbot, and the emergency cash you should keep on hand. 

John 00 Fleming presents JOOF Radio 048 (Tracklist below) Absolute monster of a show this month, a rollercoaster of a journey from myself squeezed into an hour starting deep, hypnotic, Trancy and ending full power Turbo. Fuenka are back on guest mix duties showcasing a load of new goodies from their new label settlement records, these guys are on fire at the moment. Guest mix: Fuenka (UK) Tracklist: ---- John 00 Fleming ---- Bemannte Bruder - Beyond Infinity (Analog Jungs Remix) [Clubsonica] Romeo ji, Deepesh Sharma, Max Tinka - Dreams do that [JOOF Aura] D-Formation - Some Where [Beatfreak] Basil O'Glue - The Passage (Rick Pier O'Neil Remix) [BAGRUHM] Basil O'Glue - Affinity Space [BAGRUHM] Basil O'Glue & Nomas - Calantha (Fuenka Remix) Protonica - Singularis [Iboga Records] Airwave - Humanoid Paranoid [JOOF Recordings] End of Analog -The Club [Sounds of earth] Teenage Mutants, MARTIN K4RMA - Take A Look Around [Filth on Acid] Lyktum - Trancequility [IONO MUSIC] ---- Guest mix ---- Guest mix: Fuenka (UK) ---- Tour Dates --- Nov 18th // Dreamstate California [USA] Nov 18th // Dreamstate (Afterparty) [USA] Nov 25th // The Manor Reunion, Bournemouth [UK] Dec 15th // Galaxy Station Festival, Houston [USA]

Episode 248 was recorded en route to Sherwood Forest Faire for a show during their "Hynafol" role-playing event. Our special guest this week is Patrick's daughter Tara, who runs camera and joins in the discussion. Discussed: The weird trend of doing slow, depressing covers of upbeat songs Tracy Chapman, Oasis, Strung Out, The Beatles, Danzig The power of live music to bring people together Why does Turbo look like a drummer? Funny stories about our friend Chris Heinrich, who used to run sound at the Continental Club Houston 00:00:00 — Intro/Show Updates 00:01:21 — Ireland tour updates 00:04:45 — Sherwood's "Hynafol" event 00:09:52 — Song kills 00:24:48 — Prodigy 00:27:06 — Last Christmas (Wham) 00:28:16 — Tara's song kill 00:33:54 — Don't take live music for granted 00:36:51 — You look like a drummer 00:41:32 — Funny soundguy stories 00:46:10 — Wrap and THANK YOU Show dates Blaggards.com (https://blaggards.com/shows/) Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/pg/blaggards/events/) Bandsintown (https://www.bandsintown.com/a/3808) Follow us on social media YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/blaggards) Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/blaggards/) Twitter (https://twitter.com/blaggards) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/blaggards/) Become a Patron Join Blaggards on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/blaggards) for bonus podcast content, live tracks, rough mixes, and other exclusives. Rate us Rate and review SlapperCast on iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/slappercast-a-weekly-talk-show-with-blaggards/id1452061331) Questions? If you have questions for a future Q&A episode, * leave a comment on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/blaggards), or * tweet them to us (https://twitter.com/blaggards) with the hashtag #slappercast. Special Guest: Kevin Newton.

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