Daniel Donato. From Nashville, TN. A musician: A student of it, a creator of it, and a teacher of it. This podcast covers ALL the spectrums of this job and life that is music.
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Nashville local Daniel Donato, a dying breed, has been in the music industry since the age of 14. He has toured the entire country 3 times over, and has played over 2,000 shows from Honky Tonks, VFW halls, to the Grand Ole Opry. Fueled by a hyper curiosity, Donato brings on artists, creatives, and industry entities from music and beyond to fulfill his mission to reveal the honest human element in anybody’s career and life story. Through genuine and unfabricated discussion, Donato aims to tra ...
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Hi, my name is Cory Wong. This is my podcast. I'm going to talk to your favorite artists as they discuss their personal tricks of the trade, never-before-heard stories, and the proper response when Sinatra wants to peep your master tapes.
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Comedian Cam Herdt loves talking about shows, specifically, the best shows ever. Listen as he invites special guests, musicians and music journalists to reminisce about their concert-going careers and share untold stories from the history of seeing live music. Whether you’re brand new to the concert scene or a grizzled jaded vet, this unfiltered, candid and hilarious podcast is like having the best seat in the house to the best shows of all time.
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“Thinking Machines,” hosted by Daniel Reid Cahn, bridges the worlds of artificial intelligence and philosophy - aimed at technical audiences. Episodes explore how AI challenges our understanding of topics like consciousness, free will, and morality, featuring interviews with leading thinkers, AI leaders, founders, machine learning engineers, and philosophers. Daniel guides listeners through the complex landscape of artificial intelligence, questioning its impact on human knowledge, ethics, a ...
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An in depth discussion with artists, entrepreneurs, and luminaries exploring some of the songs that shaped who they are. Hosted by Ross James.
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In Tools For Nomads you'll meet insanely productive and creative people, learn how they work, what are the go-to things they can't be without, how they stay passionate, inspired and grounded so that they can do their best no matter where they are, whether at home, on the road or out in the field. Musicians, designers, architects, writers, chefs, photographers, filmmakers, entrepreneurs, environmentalists, adventurers. As creative professionals, we tackle the projects that make us stretch. Th ...
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In this podcast, we will discuss Tone, how to achieve the tone of your dreams, and what the pros are doing to get the signature sounds that we all love and admire. We will talk music as well as explore the relationship between your instrument and the rest of your equipment, such as guitars, amps, pedals, and more. So be ready for some great stories, lots of information, and cool interviews. We will explore music in general, artists/bands, and their music. In each episode I will introduce my ...
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Inside the Musician’s Brain is a deep dive into everything that’s underneath the music and the artists that inspire us. Join Grammy Award winning artist and producer Chris Pandolfi of the Infamous Stringdusters, as he explores life as a musician, and sits down with other influential artists to discuss inspiration, creativity, and the many facets of bringing a musical vision to life.
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Daniel Donato - Who’s Gonna Fix My Mirrors?
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Daniel Donato and I chat about his beginnings in Nashville and how Trey never backed down. Recorded 12/28/23 Best Show Ever is created, hosted and produced by Cam Herdt. Produced and distributed by Osiris Media.By Osiris Media
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Chris and I chat about the different pages in his ticket book and the craziest Phish story to ever be told. Recorded 2/12/2024 Best Show Ever is created, hosted and produced by Cam Herdt. Produced and distributed by Osiris Media.By Osiris Media
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Karina Rykman - Completely Knocked My Brain Open
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Karina chats with me about Bonnaroo with Phish & Snoop and all the sweet shit that's going on! Recorded 2/15/2024 Best Show Ever is created, hosted and produced by Cam Herdt. Produced and distributed by Osiris Media.By Osiris Media
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Al Di Meola: Friday Night at Olive Garden
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The legendary shred maestro—best known for his work as a solo artist and as a member of Return to Forever and other high-profile, hot-shot collabs—drops by to chat with Cory about his new epic full-length, Twentyfour. It features “sixteen brand-new compositions and they’re all very involved. I hope I don’t have to do this again.” One of Di Meola’s …
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On Emotionally Intelligent AI (with Chris Gagne, Hume AI)
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Chris Gagne manages AI research at Hume, which just released an expressive text-to-speech model in a super impressive demo. Chris and Daniel discuss AI and emotional understanding: How does “prosody” add a dimension to human communication? What is Hume hoping to gain by adding it to Human-AI communication? Do we want to interact with AI like we int…
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Mike & I chat about seeing Phish in the 90's what we're thinking about at shows. Best Show Ever is created, hosted and produced by Cam Herdt. Produced and distributed by Osiris Media.By Osiris Media
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Sneakin' Ally & I chat about making comedy in the Phish scene and dealing with the weirdos. Best Show Ever is created, hosted and produced by Cam Herdt. Produced and distributed by Osiris Media.By Osiris Media
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Jon Barber - We Gotta Get This Guy Outta Here
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Baba G and I chat about early Phish shows, seeing the Dead in High School and bringing Bob Marley back. Recorded 4/4/24 Best Show Ever is created, hosted and produced by Cam Herdt. Produced and distributed by Osiris Media.By Osiris Media
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Matt Busch - We Didn’t Just Listen On The Radio
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Matt Busch chats about late 80s/early 90s Grateful Dead shows and what it takes to produce the Super Bowl (of jam shows). Recorded 1/23/24 Best Show Ever is created, hosted and produced by Cam Herdt. Produced and distributed by Osiris Media.By Osiris Media
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Marcus King has already been through the wringer, but he’s on the come-up. His hotly anticipated third LP, Mood Swings, drops this Friday, April 5, and on this episode of Wong Notes, the earnest, honest 28-year old South Carolinian goes deep on his career with Cory Wong. The two shredders open by swapping notes on how touring has changed post-pande…
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Warren & I chat about his insane Phish career, what Phish kids were wearing on lot back in the day and how things have changed in 40 years of Phish. Best Show Ever is created, hosted and produced by Cam Herdt. Produced and distributed by Osiris Media.By Osiris Media
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Gator from Pigeons Playing Ping Pong chats about an epic Tool show and seeing shows while sitting down. Best Show Ever is created, hosted and produced by Cam Herdt. Produced and distributed by Osiris Media.By Osiris Media
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Roi Donk - Are There Drugs In These?
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Roi and I talk about the beginnings of his Baklava empire and his epic Phish career. Recorded 1/16/24 Best Show Ever is created, hosted and produced by Cam Herdt. Produced and distributed by Osiris Media.By Osiris Media
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Sarah and I chat about Phish shows of all kinds and sticking through the ups and downs of the artistic pursuit. Recorded 1/16/24 Best Show Ever is created, hosted and produced by Cam Herdt. Produced and distributed by Osiris Media.By Osiris Media
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Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned (with Joel Lehman)
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Former OpenAI Research Scientist Joel Lehman joins to discuss the non-linear nature of technological progress and the present day implications of his book, Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned. Joel co-authored the book with Kenneth Stanley back in 2015. The two did ML research at OpenAI, Uber, and the University of Central Florida and wrote the book ba…
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Marina Weiss & Vince DiMichele - I Can’t Leave
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Marina, Vince & I chat MSG stories, Phish and what happens when you need to go. Recorded 1/18/24 Best Show Ever is created, hosted and produced by Cam Herdt. Produced and distributed by Osiris Media.By Osiris Media
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Jake Brownstein from Eggy chats about seeing Grateful Dead music for the first time and finding what works for you. Recorded 1/4/24 Best Show Ever is created, hosted and produced by Cam Herdt. Produced and distributed by Osiris Media.By Osiris Media
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Where are the good AI products? (with Varun Shenoy)
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“Where are the good AI products?” asks Varun Shenoy, ML engineer in his latest blog post. Varun and I talk through: What are the cool applications that exist? Why aren't there more of them? What do (the few) good AI application companies have in common? What technological or societal leaps are blocking the existence of more AI apps that matter? The…
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Brett Dunkin - Here's Your Backstage Pass
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Brett & I chat about getting in to the Grateful Dead and the Slayer show to end all Slayer shows. Recorded 1/23/24 Best Show Ever is created, hosted and produced by Cam Herdt. Produced and distributed by Osiris Media.By Osiris Media
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Rick Mitarotonda & Peter Anspach - Da Pahdcaaast
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Rick & Peter chat about jamming with Cotter Ellis and what happens on the lawn at these shows. Recorded 2/13/24 Best Show Ever is created, hosted and produced by Cam Herdt. Produced and distributed by Osiris Media.By Osiris Media
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Sax & I talk about Phish and where we go when we die. Recorded 11/30/23 Best Show Ever is created, hosted and produced by Cam Herdt. Produced and distributed by Osiris Media.By Osiris Media
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Torrin Daniels - We Are So F*cking Back
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Torrin & I discuss cowboy music and the relationship between the band and the audience. Recorded 2/5/24 Best Show Ever is created, hosted and produced by Cam Herdt. Produced and distributed by Osiris Media.By Osiris Media
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ML Engineer and tech writer Donato Riccio wrote an article entitled "The End of RAG?" discussing what might replace Retrieval Augmented Generation in the near future. The article was received as highly controversial within the AI echo chamber, so I brought Donato on the podcast to discuss RAG, why people are so obsessed with vector databases, and t…
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Respect, Psychedelics, and the Future of Bluegrass With Billy Strings
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The ascendant roots shredder shares intimate details from his musical upbringing and gets philosophical on the past and future of bluegrass. Millennial folk philosopher Billy Strings joins this episode of Wong Notes. The Grammy-winning acoustic picker is an open book—nothing is off limits with Billy, from recounting his days selling magic mushrooms…
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GPUs and how the cloud is changing (with Cedana Founder, Neel Master)
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What’s going on with GPUs? We talk through the GPU bottleneck/supply gut, Meta’s apparent 600,000 H100-equivalents and the future of the GPU cloud. Neel Master is the CEO and founder of Cedana, enabling pause/migrate/resume for compute jobs. Neel is a serial entrepreneur, former founder of Engooden and angel investor. He started his career in ML re…
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Joe Dart Talks Bass Philosophy and the Benefits of High Action
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This time on Wong Notes, Cory is joined by his Vulfpeck and Fearless Flyers copilot Joe Dart. Wong doesn’t waste any time, diving in by asking Dart, by now renowned as a modern bass wizard with flawless fundamentals, how he developed he signature “voice” on the bass. As Dart explains, it came from listening to players who had their own distinct “vo…
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Founders of Lingopal, Deven Orie and Casey Schneider, join to talk about their startup story, developing real-time translation software for enterprises. Topics include: Why is translation so hard? How are enterprise and consumer AI products different (e.g. Google Translate vs Lingopal)? Should AI product companies be doing AI research? Is it safe t…
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Is open-source AI safe? (with SafeLlama founder, Enoch Kan)
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Founder of the SafeLlama community, Enoch Kan joins us today, to talk about safety in open source and medical AI. Enoch previously worked in AI for radiology, focused on mammography at Kheiron Medical. Enoch is an open source contributor, and his substack is called Cross Validated. Key topics they discuss include: New jailbreaks for LLMs appear eve…
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Multi-instrumentalist Louis Cato has had a lot on his plate since taking over as bandleader for Jon Batiste on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in late 2022, but has been enjoying every minute of it. "I feel like I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, with exactly the people I'm supposed to be there with," he tells Cory on this episode of Wong Not…
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What is the future of AI-assisted or AI-driven software?
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Join Daniel Cahn on another SlingTalk episode with Kristian Freed (ex-CTO at Pariti and Elder), discussing the past, present and future of AI-assisted or AI-driven software. They talked about: The Evolution of Coding Tools: From basic text editors to advanced IDEs and the integration of AI tools like Co-Pilot. The Impact of AI on Software Developme…
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In 1950, Alan Turing asked, “Can machines think?” He suggested the Imitation Game as a test to evaluate whether a machine can think, more commonly called the “Turing Test.” Today we ask, is the Turing Test outdated? Joining Slingtalks this week are Kristian Freed & Guilherme Freire, founding engineers at Slingshot. Guilherme argues against the Turi…
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Join Daniel Cahn on SlingTalks as he welcomes Jonathan Pedoeem (Founder of PromptLayer) to talk through Prompt Engineering. This episode offers an in-depth look into the past, present, and future of prompt engineering and the intricacies of crafting effective AI prompts. Key topics they discuss include: Is prompt engineering more art or more scienc…
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Aaron Sterling’s Pedalboard Approach to the Drums
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Session drum ace Aaron Sterling might have fusion roots, but his bread-and-butter work lives at the top of the charts, where’s he’s featured on tracks by artists such as John Mayer, Taylor Swift, Harry Styles, and Lana Del Rey. He tells Cory what brought him to Los Angeles, why he’s “meant to be in the studio” instead of the stage, and he shares th…
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Adam Kirsh (Head of Product & Engineering, Stealth Startup) joins Slingshot to talk about how AI is transforming investment due diligence. Beyond AI in diligence, we discuss: “Horizontal” and “vertical” business models, that start from a point solution Building products vs. building relationships, and on being an AI partner for the enterprise AI-na…
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How Bruce Lee Inspired Margaret Glaspy’s New Record
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Cory Wong sits down with indie-rock bandleader Margaret Glaspy for an in-depth dialogue on artistry, celebrity, and the wisdom of Bruce Lee. Glaspy shares how she cut her latest record, Echo The Diamond, live off the floor, with most of the “homework” happening beforehand and studio performances happening in-the-moment. “It really felt like air ble…
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Ex-Datadog Founding PM, Ayush Kapur, joins Daniel Cahn on SlingTalks to talk through the overloaded term, "Human in the Loop". They hone in on the impact of both, emotional and philosophical aspects of human interactions, for instance, your interaction with a doctor, and how those services can be considered irreplaceable by AI. Key topics include: …
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Charlie Hunter: Graduating Busking Boot Camp
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"I don't consider myself a jazz musician," says guitarist Charlie Hunter on this episode of Wong Notes—essentially refuting how he's known in the music world. "I am maybe jazz adjacent." Most listeners probably wouldn't agree, but if nothing else, Hunter is experimental. He's known for playing a guitar that's strung with both bass and electric guit…
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AI-Generated Content and the Boring Apocalypse
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AI is increasingly doing the heavy lifting in our communications and content generation. On this episode, Guilherme Freire, Founding ML Engineer at Slingshot, joins the podcast to discuss the impact of AI-generated content. Some of the topics discussed: “Proof of Work” for humans, when AI makes personalization and connection too easy Potential for …
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Programming for Machine Learning (Tech Talk)
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Daniel hosts our machine learning research intern and Cambridge Masters student, Andy Lo, to talk about the present and future of ML programming. Topics include: PyTorch vs. TensorFlow vs. Jax vs MoJo No-code, low-code and pro-code for ML engineers The (frustrating) world of debugging ML code Have thoughts? We'd love to hear them! Drop an email at …
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In this episode, Daniel shares his perspective on the opportunities for the next wave of AI-native startups. Machine Learning isn’t just about sentiment classification, churn prediction, and revenue forecasting anymore. Generative models can simulate real intelligence. But hard problems continue to require hard solutions, and prompt engineering wit…
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Cory’s cast is off and he’s here to tell you to “go get hip” to Bruno Major! The soulful, jazzy British singer-songwriter shares why he prefers to record in his bedroom than a studio to create his “relatively lo-fi” music. “It’s far more important to be transmitting a privacy than an audio quality,” Major says. But he’s quick to point out that you …
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Phish Lyricist & Osiris Co-Founder Tom Marshall has some of the best stories a Phish fan could ever hear, and we hardly talk about Phish. Tom talks King Crimson, Yes and his buddy Trey on this episode of Best Show Ever. Recorded 8/15/23 Best Show Ever is created, hosted and produced by Cam Herdt. Produced and distributed by Osiris Media.…
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Daniel hosts our Founding Engineer, Edwin Zhang to unravel the balance in Design Driven Developments. Key things they cover: The conundrums faced when balancing user wants with real, valuable needs - showcasing our stance on "Doing what people need, not just what they want." A peek into the futuristic vision of browsers like Arc and how we regard t…
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"When you switch the gear of what you're operating on from the memorized information to the gear of intuitive, faithful response, it's a whole different frequency that's emitted from the hands and from the soul," country shredder Daniel Donato expresses on this episode of Wong Notes. He's talking about what makes for powerful improvisation, and if …
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RJ saw one of my favorite Phish shows ever, and a bunch of other awesome Phish shows too! RJ & I talk about the eras of Phish on this episode of Best Show Ever. Recorded 7/17/23 Best Show Ever is created, hosted and produced by Cam Herdt. Produced and distributed by Osiris Media.By Osiris Media
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On this week's episode, Chris chats with Daniel Donato. The guitarist from Nashville is taking the world by storm with his Cosmic Country, and just released his latest single "Hi-Country," produced by Vance Powell. This is a fantastic conversation with an up and coming artist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Leslie does shows the right way and she’s seen some of the coolest shows you could possibly see. We talk New York, Front Row at Goose & Big Cypress on this episode of Best Show Ever. Recorded 7/28/23 Best Show Ever is created, hosted and produced by Cam Herdt. Produced and distributed by Osiris Media.…
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In this tech talk, we dive deep into the technical specifics around LLM inference. The big question is: Why are LLMs slow? How can they be faster? And might slow inference affect UX in the next generation of AI-powered software? We jump into: Is fast model inference the real moat for LLM companies? What are the implications of slow model inference …
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The Loudest The Garden Ever Got with Brian Murray
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Brian plays some very sick shows with Dogs In A Pile, but we don’t talk about those on this podcast. We talk MSG, picking styles and getting ready for shows on this episode of Best Show Ever. Recorded 8/1/23 Best Show Ever is created, hosted and produced by Cam Herdt. Produced and distributed by Osiris Media.…
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