Best Lattner Podcasts (2024)

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Mojo with Chris Lattner 1:49:25

14d ago1:49:25

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For the 100th episode of Software Unscripted, Richard talks with Chris Lattner, creator of Swift, the Clang C++ compiler, LLVM, and now the Mojo programming language, about Mojo, Roc, API design, compiler optimizations, and language design! "Swift for C++ Practitioners" by Doug Gregor - https://www.douggregor.net/posts/swift-for-cxx-practitioners-v…

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What It’s Like Being a Teenager in Foster Care with Britt Kelley 37:22

3h ago37:22

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In this conversation, hosts Brian and Travis interview Britt Kelley, Foster Friendly Manager with Colorado Kids Belong. Britt is a former foster youth alumni and shares about her experiences as a teenager in foster care. They discuss the challenges faced by teens in foster care, the importance of supportive foster families, and the need for empathy…

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From API to AGI: Structured Outputs, OpenAI API platform and O1 Q&A — with Michelle Pokrass & OpenAI Devrel + Strawberry team

3d ago

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Congrats to Damien on successfully running AI Engineer London! See our community page and the Latent Space Discord for all upcoming events. This podcast came together in a far more convoluted way than usual, but happens to result in a tight 2 hours covering the ENTIRE OpenAI product suite across ChatGPT-latest, GPT-4o and the new o1 models, and how…

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Inspiring Lessons From Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot 35:57

2d ago35:57

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In this lively conversation, hosts Brian, Travis, and Courtney discuss the movie 'Sound of Hope' and its portrayal of a church in Possum Trot, Texas, that adopted 77 kids. They share their personal reactions to the movie and highlight the importance of understanding the context and time period in which the story takes place. They discuss the need f…

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Couple Shares Their Journey of Fostering Kids With Special Needs with the Housers 46:48

9d ago46:48

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In this heartwarming episode of the Foster Friendly Podcast, hosts Brian and Travis interview Woody and Mindy Houser, an inspiring couple from South Dakota who specialize in caring for children with high-level medical needs. The Housers share their journey into foster care, which began after the stillbirth of their daughter and led them to adopt tw…

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Efficiency is Coming: 3000x Faster, Cheaper, Better AI Inference from Hardware Improvements, Quantization, and Synthetic Data Distillation

10d ago

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AI Engineering is expanding! Join the first 🇬🇧 AI Engineer London meetup in Sept and get in touch for sponsoring the second 🗽 AI Engineer Summit in NYC this Dec! The commoditization of intelligence takes on a few dimensions: Time to Open Model Equivalent: 15 months between GPT-4 and Llama 3.1 405B 10-100x CHEAPER/year: from $30/mtok for Claude 3 Op…

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Why you should write your own LLM benchmarks — with Nicholas Carlini, Google DeepMind

15d ago

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AI Engineering is expanding! Join the first 🇬🇧 AI Engineer London meetup in Sept and get in touch for sponsoring the second 🗽 AI Engineer Summit in NYC this Dec! The current online AI discourse only has two camps: those who think AI is going to revolutionize everything, and those who think it's all hype. Today's guest, Nicholas Carlini, a research …

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Leading Foster Care Expert Shares Powerful Stories and Insights with Dr. John DeGarmo 35:01

16d ago35:01

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In this latest episode of the Foster Friendly Podcast, hosts Courtney and Travis are joined by Dr. John DeGarmo, a renowned foster care expert who has fostered over 60 children and is the director of the Foster Care Institute. Dr. DeGarmo is a global keynote speaker and foster care consultant, best selling author, and trauma informed presenter and …

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Is finetuning GPT4o worth it? — with Alistair Pullen, Cosine (Genie)

25d ago

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Betteridge's law says no: with seemingly infinite flavors of RAG, and >2million token context + prompt caching from Anthropic/Deepmind/Deepseek, it's reasonable to believe that "in context learning is all you need". But then there’s Cosine Genie, the first to make a huge bet using OpenAI’s new GPT4o fine-tuning for code at the largest scale it has …

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Tooling-Aware Language Design with Eli Dowling 1:11:59

23d ago1:11:59

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Richard talks with Eli Dowling about his contributions to the Roc programming language, as well as the intersection of language design and editor tooling, parsers that recover from errors, tree-sitter, going beyond the language server protocol, and the downsides of macros. Perceus paper - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2020/1…

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From Foster Care to PhD: Overcoming Education Hurdles with Dr. Danisha Keating 48:47

23d ago48:47

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This week’s conversation explores how being in foster care impacts education. Dr. Danisha Keating is a former foster youth, a CEO, an international motivational speaker, and an author. She shares her personal journey and the challenges faced by foster youth in education. Dr. Keating also discusses the emotional struggles and trauma that foster yout…

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AI Magic: Shipping 1000s of successful products with no managers and a team of 12 — Jeremy Howard of Answer.ai

28d ago

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Disclaimer: We recorded this episode ~1.5 months ago, timing for the FastHTML release. It then got bottlenecked by Llama3.1, Winds of AI Winter, and SAM2 episodes, so we’re a little late. Since then FastHTML was released, swyx is building an app in it for AINews, and Anthropic has also released their prompt caching API. Remember when of coined the …

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What’s Behind the Foster Care to Prison Pipeline? with Bernie Lattner 49:46

1M ago49:46

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In this episode, we explore the sobering and eye-opening correlation of many former foster youth who end up incarcerated. Social policy experts have deemed this all too common reality as the "foster to prison pipeline." Our guest, Bernie Lattner, has an extremely unique and helpful vantage into this phenomonen as a long time foster dad, mentor, and…

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The CrowdStrike Incident with Kelly Shortridge 58:30

1M ago58:30

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Richard talks with Kelly Shortridge about the CrowdStrike Incident that caused many computers worldwide to get stuck in a boot loop on July 19, 2024. A video version of this episode is available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzjaZssBEiI or ad-free to our wonderful Patreon supporters! https://www.patreon.com/posts/109888395 The incid…

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Segment Anything 2: Demo-first Model Development

1M ago

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Because of the nature of SAM, this is more video heavy than usual. See our YouTube! Because vision is first among equals in multimodality, and yet SOTA vision language models are closed, we’ve always had an interest in learning what’s next in vision. Our first viral episode was Segment Anything 1, and we have since covered LLaVA, IDEFICS, Adept, an…

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A Critical Need for Fostering and Adopting Siblings with Former Foster Youth Tina Bauer 27:17

1M ago27:17

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Tina gives her testimony of being in the foster care system then being adopted. She is able to discuss what she had to go through during her time in foster care and her experience of recovering from the effects of being in foster care after being adopted. Tina elaborates on the issues of reciprocal adoption of siblings and the role she played as a …

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The Winds of AI Winter (Q2 Four Wars Recap) + ChatGPT Voice Mode Preview

1M ago

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Thank you for 1m downloads of the podcast and 2m readers of the Substack! 🎉 This is the audio discussion following The Winds of AI Winter essay that also serves as a recap of Q2 2024 in AI viewed through the lens of our Four Wars framework. Enjoy! Full Video Discussion Full show notes are here. Timestamps [00:00:00] Intro Song by Suno.ai [00:02:01]…

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Empty Nester Adopts Seven Siblings After Tragedy Struck with Pam Willis 50:21

2M ago50:21

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In 2019, Pam and her husband Gary were about to be empty nesters when she saw a story on Facebook about a sibling group of seven whose parents were killed in a car crash. They were desperately needing a family who could keep them all together. It was then that she and Gary made the life changing decision to become new parents again after raising fi…

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Foster Friendly Communities Providing Huge Support to Foster Families with Nanette Kirsch 33:48

2M ago33:48

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Nanette Kirsch, as the executive director of marketing and communications for America's Kids Belong (AKB), details her experience in tech marketing that contributed to spearheading AKB's marketing strategy. She delves into the idea of foster-friendly communities— underscoring that community support is vital to foster families. The discussion doesn'…

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Llama 2, 3 & 4: Synthetic Data, RLHF, Agents on the path to Open Source AGI

2M ago

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If you see this in time, join our emergency LLM paper club on the Llama 3 paper! For everyone else, join our special AI in Action club on the Latent Space Discord for a special feature with the Cursor cofounders on Composer, their newest coding agent! Today, Meta is officially releasing the largest and most capable open model to date, Llama3-405B, …

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Distributed Functions with Jonathan Magen 48:00

2M ago48:00

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Richard talks with distributed systems scientist Jonathen Magen about functional programming in distributed systems, including languages like Gleam, Elixir, Ballerina, and Jolie. They also talk about type inference, big data, and a few other topics. Jonathan Magen: https://yonkeltron.com or https://jawns.club/@yonkeltron Programming languages menti…

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Advocating for Older Children in Foster Care with Barry Farmer 37:55

2M ago37:55

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The latest episode of the Foster Friendly Podcast is spent with Barry Farmer. He is not only an adoptive father but a strong voice for foster care and adoption advocacy. Barry walks us through his personal narrative — a tale of being raised under kinship care and later becoming a foster parent at quite a young age. Barry and hosts, Travis and Court…

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Jason Wojo: Facebook Ads, Pokemon Cards, and Scaling Online Offers 49:51

2M ago49:51

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Jason Wojo is a 9 figure entrepreneur and marketing expert Connect With Jason Wojo Instagram Website Connect With Justin Caviar Instagram YoutubeBy Justin Caviar

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Benchmarks 201: Why Leaderboards > Arenas >> LLM-as-Judge

2M ago

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The first AI Engineer World’s Fair talks from OpenAI and Cognition are up! In our Benchmarks 101 episode back in April 2023 we covered the history of AI benchmarks, their shortcomings, and our hopes for better ones. Fast forward 1.5 years, the pace of model development has far exceeded the speed at which benchmarks are updated. Frontier labs are st…

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Undo-Redo and Persistent State with Tom Ballinger 59:28

2M ago59:28

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Richard talks with Tom Ballinger about undo and redo in the context of REPLs and running effects, stateful systems in general, hot code loading, and database query planning. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The 10,000x Yolo Researcher Metagame — with Yi Tay of Reka

2M ago

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Livestreams for the AI Engineer World’s Fair (Multimodality ft. the new GPT-4o demo, GPUs and Inference (ft. Cognition/Devin), CodeGen, Open Models tracks) are now live! Subscribe to @aidotEngineer to get notifications of the other workshops and tracks! It’s easy to get de-sensitized to new models topping leaderboards every other week — however, th…

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State of the Art: Training >70B LLMs on 10,000 H100 clusters

3M ago

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It’s return guest season here at Latent Space! We last talked to Kanjun in October and Jonathan in May (and December post Databricks acquisition): Imbue and Databricks are back for a rare treat: a double-header interview talking about DBRX from Databricks and Imbue 70B, a new internal LLM that “outperforms GPT-4o” zero-shot on a range of reasoning …

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[High Agency] AI Engineer World's Fair Preview

3M ago

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The World’s Fair is officially sold out! Thanks for all the support and stay tuned for recaps of all the great goings on in this very special celebration of the AI Engineer! Longtime listeners will remember the fan favorite Raza Habib, CEO of HumanLoop, on the pod: Well, he’s caught the podcasting bug and is now flipping the tables on swyx! Subscri…

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Smalltalk's Past, Present, and Future with Juan Vuletich 54:30

3M ago54:30

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Richard talks with Juan Vuletich, creator of Cuis Smalltalk, about the past, present and future of Smalltalk - including quite a bit of interesting history and programming philosophy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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How To Hire AI Engineers — with James Brady & Adam Wiggins of Elicit

3M ago

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Editor’s note: One of the top reasons we have hundreds of companies and thousands of AI Engineers joining the World’s Fair next week is, apart from discussing technology and being present for the big launches planned, to hire and be hired! Listeners loved our previous Elicit episode and were so glad to welcome 2 more members of Elicit back for a gu…

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Welcome to The Foster Friendly Podcast 49:59

3M ago49:59

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Hosts Brian Mavis, Travis Vangsnes, and Courtney Williams present the Foster Friendly podcast in its debut episode. The show seeks to widen the Foster Friendly effort, which includes The Foster Friendly App, designed to support foster families. The goal of the podcast is to give foster and adoptive parents information and assistance. This show also…

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From Game Dev to Web Dev 1:08:32

3M ago1:08:32

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Richard talks with Wolfgang Schuster about his experiences first as a professional game developer, and then later as a professional Web developer. Theytalk about the differences in programming practices he's seen between the two, including things like automated testing, dependency management, and releases. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for…

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How AI is eating Finance — with Mike Conover of Brightwave

3M ago

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In April 2023 we released an episode named “Mapping the future of *truly* open source models” to talk about Dolly, the first open, commercial LLM. Mike was leading the OSS models team at Databricks at the time. Today, Mike is back on the podcast to give us the “one year later” update on the evolution of large language models and how he’s been using…

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ICLR 2024 — Best Papers & Talks (Benchmarks, Reasoning & Agents) — ft. Graham Neubig, Aman Sanger, Moritz Hardt)

3M ago

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Our second wave of speakers for AI Engineer World’s Fair were announced! The conference sold out of Platinum/Gold/Silver sponsors and Early Bird tickets! See our Microsoft episode for more info and buy now with code LATENTSPACE. This episode is straightforwardly a part 2 to our ICLR 2024 Part 1 episode, so without further ado, we’ll just get right …

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Fuzz Testing with Brendan Hansknecht 1:06:03

4M ago1:06:03

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Richard talks with Brendan Hansknecht, an AI compiler engineer at Modular, about various testing techniques, including fuzzing, property-based tests, database tests, tests involving network requests, and more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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How to train a Million Context LLM — with Mark Huang of Gradient.ai

4M ago

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<150 Early Bird tickets left for the AI Engineer World’s Fair in SF! Prices go up soon. Note that there are 4 tracks per day and dozens of workshops/expo sessions; the livestream will air <30% of the content this time. Basically you should really come if you dont want to miss out on the most stacked speaker list/AI expo floor of 2024. Apply for fre…

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ICLR 2024 — Best Papers & Talks (ImageGen, Vision, Transformers, State Space Models) ft. Durk Kingma, Christian Szegedy, Ilya Sutskever

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Speakers for AI Engineer World’s Fair have been announced! See our Microsoft episode for more info and buy now with code LATENTSPACE1 — we’ve been studying the best ML research conferences so we can make the best AI industry conf! Note that this year there are 4 main tracks per day and dozens of workshops/expo sessions; the free livestream will air…

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A Haskeller Tries Smalltalk with Ian Jeffries 1:04:25

4M ago1:04:25

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Richard talks with Ian Jeffries about his experiences as a Haskeller exploring modern Smalltalk (arguably the original object-oriented programming language), including both the historical context of where Smalltalk came from as well as what it's like using it in a modern context. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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Emulating Humans with NSFW Chatbots - with Jesse Silver

4M ago

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Last call for AI Engineer World’s Fair early bird tix! See our Microsoft episode for more. Disclaimer: today’s episode touches on NSFW topics. There’s no graphic content or explicit language, but we wouldn’t recommend blasting this in work environments. For over 20 years it’s been an open secret that porn drives many new consumer technology innovat…

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Comparing F#, Elm, and Haskell with Michael Newton 1:09:18

4M ago1:09:18

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Richard talks to Michael Newton, a programmer working as a consultant and trainer who has used several different functional programming languages in professional settings. They talk about the differences Michael has found between using F sharp, Haskell, and Elm, and especially how those differences apply in the context of professional production pr…

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Native UIs without Electron - with Nathan Sobo 1:16:34

5M ago1:16:34

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Richard talks with Nathan Sobo, founder of Zed Industries (which creates the high-performance Zed code editor) about his time as an early developer on the Atom code editor, including how that project led to Electron. They then discuss how the Zed team has created GPUI, which uses native operating system APIs for events and goes straight to the grap…

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WebSim, WorldSim, and The Summer of Simulative AI — with Joscha Bach of Liquid AI, Karan Malhotra of Nous Research, Rob Haisfield of WebSim.ai

5M ago

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We are 200 people over our 300-person venue capacity for AI UX 2024, but you can subscribe to our YouTube for the video recaps. Our next event, and largest EVER, is the AI Engineer World’s Fair. See you there! Parental advisory: Adult language used in the first 10 mins of this podcast. Any accounting of Generative AI that ends with RAG as its “fina…

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Adam Ivy: How To Go From Zero to a Million Streams, How to Make It In The Music Industry, Music Content Secrets, and Nic D 1:19:26

5M ago1:19:26

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Adam Ivy is an award winning music producer, YouTuber, and marketing specialist. Connect with Adam Instagram TikTok Youtube Connect with Justin Instagram TikTok Spotify Apple MusicBy Justin Caviar

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Compiling Smart Contracts with Lucas Rosa 59:30

5M ago59:30

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Richard talks with Lucas Rosa, a compiler engineer working on the Aiken programming language for smart contracts, about tradeoffs in language and compiler design, property-based testing, syntax and familiarity, and compile-time evaluation of constants. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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Gleam 1.0 with Louis Pilfold 1:10:31

6M ago1:10:31

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Richard talks with Louis Pilfold, creator of the Gleam programming language, about the language's 1.0 release, as well as other topics like backwards compatibility, hot-swapping code in production, and implementing a typed version of Erlang's famous OTP system, which had also been famously considered to be un-typeable. Hosted on Acast. See acast.co…

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Compilers and Overly Complex Web Development with Thorsten Ball 1:13:30

6M ago1:13:30

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Richard talks to Thorsten Ball, a programmer at Zed Industries and author of two books on compilers. They start out talking about the differences between compilers and interpreters, what the trickiest parts are of teaching compilers, and then end up talking about the unnecessary complexity that has taken over modern Web Development. Hosted on Acast…

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Dr. Nicole LePera: Romantic Relationships, How to Become a High Value Person, and Loving Yourself 54:13

7M ago54:13

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Dr. Nicole LePera is a holistic psychologist with her traditional training in clinical psychology at Cornell University. Get Peptides Now , Promo Code: justin10 (for 10% off all orders) Connect With Dr. Nicole Instagram Website Youtube Connect With Justin Spotify Apple Music Instagram TikTokBy Justin Caviar

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Incremental Compilation with Alex Kladov 1:23:42

7M ago1:23:42

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Richard talks with Rust Analyzer creator Alex Kladov (aka matklad) about compilers, including ways they can do incremental compilation, memory management strategies, modules and boundaries, and even monomorphization! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Daniel Priestley: How to Go From Zero to a Million Dollars, How to master Running Ads, and Dent Global 1:21:03

7M ago1:21:03

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Daniel Priestly is an entrepreneur and best-selling author. Daniel started his first company at age 21 and built a multi-million-dollar enterprise by age 25. Connect With Daniel Priestly https://danielpriestley.com/ https://www.instagram.com/danielpriestley/?hl=en https://www.dent.global/ https://twitter.com/danielpriestley?lang=en Connect With Jus…

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Programming and Industrial Design with Greg Wilson 57:52

7M ago57:52

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Richard talks with programming teacher Greg Wilson about different types of beginner programmers and how they learn most effectively, what counterintuitive aspects of programming languages they tend to find more or less difficult to learn, and about the surprising relationship between software architecture and industrial design. Hosted on Acast. Se…

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