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Are you on top of the latest innovations in data, analytics, and AI? With data being pivotal to strategy and change, the Data-powered Innovation Jam podcast gives you the key to some of the most crucial aspects of business success. Through our guests, we bring you the latest trends from the world of data and AI, discussing the best ideas and experiences. Our hosts with their decades of profound experience and a background in avant-garde music, will also explore the edges of jazz, rock, and p ...
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Oracle University Podcast delivers convenient, foundational training on popular Oracle technologies such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Java, Autonomous Database, and more to help you jump-start or advance your career in the cloud.
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Tune into Digital Impact Radio where we’ll talk capabilities, projects and emerging trends from Oracle. Whether you’re an IT manager or a developer you will hear insights and interviews to gain deep knowledge about latest innovations from Oracle experts and evangelists from the community.
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Join us as we train our neural nets on the theme of the century: AI. Sonya Huang, Pat Grady and more Sequoia Capital partners host conversations with leading AI builders and researchers to ask critical questions and develop a deeper understanding of the evolving technologies—and their implications for technology, business and society. The content of this podcast does not constitute investment advice, an offer to provide investment advisory services, or an offer to sell or solicitation of an ...
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Installing Oracle GoldenGate 23ai is more than just running a setup file—it’s about preparing your system for efficient, reliable data replication. In this episode, Lois Houston and Nikita welcome back Nick Wagner to break down system requirements, storage considerations, and best practices for installing GoldenGate. You’ll learn how to optimize di…
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From Data Centers to Dyson Spheres: P-1 AI's Path to Hardware Engineering AGI
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38:25Former Airbus CTO Paul Eremenko shares his vision for bringing AI to physical engineering, starting with Archie—an AI agent that works alongside human engineers. P-1 AI is tackling the challenge of generating synthetic training data to teach AI systems about complex physical systems, from data center cooling to aircraft design and beyond. Eremenko …
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The six pistols of technology trends
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1:18:45Ready for the remix? You might have already listened to one of the most recent episodes of the Cloud Realities podcast, where six dynamic voices from two podcast teams came together to unpack Capgemini’s TechnoVision 2025. From infrastructure and applications to collaboration, user experience, automation, and — naturally — a heavy dose of data and …
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Gong’s Amit Bendov: From Meeting Recordings to Revenue AI
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42:05CEO Amit Bendov shares how Gong evolved from a meeting transcription tool to an AI-powered revenue platform that's increasing sales capacity by up to 60%. He explains why task-specific AI agents are the key to enterprise adoption, and why human accountability will remain crucial even as AI takes over routine sales tasks. Amit also reveals how Gong …
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Oracle GoldenGate 23ai Security Strategies
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16:13GoldenGate 23ai takes security seriously, and this episode unpacks everything you need to know. GoldenGate expert Nick Wagner breaks down how authentication, access roles, and encryption protect your data. Learn how GoldenGate integrates with identity providers, secures communication, and keeps passwords out of storage. Understand how trail files w…
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LIVE: Google's Jeff Dean on the Coming Transformations in AI
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30:59At AI Ascent 2025, Jeff Dean makes bold predictions. Discover how the pioneer behind Google's TPUs and foundational AI research sees the technology evolving, from specialized hardware to more organic systems, and future engineering capabilities.By Sequoia Capital
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LIVE: Ambient Agents and the New Agent Inbox ft. Harrison Chase of LangChain
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8:28Recorded live at Sequoia’s AI Ascent 2025: LangChain CEO Harrison Chase introduces the concept of ambient agents, AI systems that operate continuously in the background responding to events rather than direct human prompts. Learn how these agents differ from traditional chatbots, why human oversight remains essential and how this approach could dra…
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LIVE: How AI is Reinventing Software Business Models ft. Bret Taylor of Sierra
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34:30Recorded live at Sequoia’s AI Ascent 2025: Sierra co-founder Bret Taylor discusses why AI is driving a fundamental shift from subscription-based pricing to outcomes-based models. Learn why this transition is harder for incumbents than startups, why applied AI and vertical specialization represent the biggest opportunities for entrepreneurs and how …
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LIVE: Sam Altman of OpenAI on Building the ‘Core AI Subscription’ for Your Life
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32:27Recorded live at Sequoia’s AI Ascent 2025: Sam reflects on OpenAI’s evolution from a 14-person research lab to a dominant AI platform. He envisions transforming ChatGPT into a deeply personal AI service that remembers your entire life's context—from conversations to emails—while working seamlessly across all services. Sam describes the generation g…
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GoldenGate 23ai: Terminology & Architecture
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18:13In this episode, Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham, along with Nick Wagner, focus on GoldenGate’s terminology and architectural evolution. Nick defines source and target systems, which are crucial for data replication, and then moves on to explain the data extraction and replication processes. He also talks about the new microservices architecture, w…
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What happens when Professor Erik Proper of the Technical University of Vienna teams up with the ever-inquisitive ‘Dr. Bob’ Robert Engels – modestly supported by co-hosts Weiwei Feng and Ron Tolido - to discuss AI, models, semantics, ontologies, and context? A true PhD Fest? Or a practical exploration of the synergies between the academic and busine…
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Oracle GoldenGate 23ai: New Features & Product Family
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17:39In this episode, Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham continue their deep dive into Oracle GoldenGate 23ai, focusing on its evolution and the extensive features it offers. They are joined once again by Nick Wagner, who provides valuable insights into the product's journey. Nick talks about the various iterations of Oracle GoldenGate, highlighting the si…
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Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach: Building the System of Record for the AI Era
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47:49Workday CEO and Sequoia partner Carl Eschenbach explains how the company is evolving its platform to handle both human and AI workers. He shares Workday’s three-pronged approach to monetizing AI through seat-based pricing, role-based agents and consumption-based API access. Eschenbach discusses why domain-specific agents with curated data will be m…
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In a new season of the Oracle University Podcast, Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham dive into the world of Oracle GoldenGate 23ai, a cutting-edge software solution for data management. They are joined by Nick Wagner, a seasoned expert in database replication, who provides a comprehensive overview of this powerful tool. Nick highlights GoldenGate's ab…
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The Quest to ‘Solve All Diseases’ with AI: Isomorphic Labs’ Max Jaderberg
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55:40After pioneering reinforcement learning breakthroughs at DeepMind with Capture the Flag and AlphaStar, Max Jaderberg aims to revolutionize drug discovery with AI as Chief AI Officer of Isomorphic Labs, which was spun out of DeepMind. He discusses how AlphaFold 3's diffusion-based architecture enables unprecedented understanding of molecular interac…
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Much like a hammer sees every problem as a nail, data experts tend to see opportunity in every single data field. Collaboration on data is still one of the best ways to bring data to life and build business value on top of it. Sharing data across organizations is one of the most powerful ways to spark innovation. But when data needs to stay private…
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Discover how Oracle APEX leverages OCI AI services to build smarter, more efficient applications. Hosts Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham interview APEX experts Chaitanya Koratamaddi, Apoorva Srinivas, and Toufiq Mohammed about how key services like OCI Vision, Oracle Digital Assistant, and Document Understanding integrate with Oracle APEX. Packed wi…
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Pricing in the AI Era: From Inputs to Outcomes, with Paid CEO Manny Medina
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45:29Former Outreach CEO Manny Medina discusses his new company Paid, which provides billing, pricing and margin management tools for AI companies. He explains why traditional SaaS pricing models don’t work for AI businesses, and breaks down emerging approaches like outcome-based and agent-based pricing. Manny shares why he believes focused AI applicati…
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Arc Institute's Patrick Hsu on Building an App Store for Biology with AI
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58:11Patrick Hsu, co-founder of Arc Institute, discusses the opportunities for AI in biology beyond just drug development, and how Evo 2, their new biology foundation model, is enabling a broad ecosystem of applications. Evo 2 was trained on a vast dataset of genomic data to learn evolutionary patterns that would have taken years to find; as a result, t…
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Get ready to explore how generative AI is transforming development in Oracle APEX. In this episode, hosts Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham are joined by Oracle APEX experts Apoorva Srinivas and Toufiq Mohammed to break down the innovative features of APEX 24.1. Learn how developers can use APEX Assistant to build apps, generate SQL, and create data …
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Ever thought AI practitioners could win a Noble prize? Well, they already have. Not for predicting your next favourite movie or generating poetry, but for groundbreaking advancements in Life Sciences. And it won’t be the last time. In this episode, hosts Ron Tolido, Robert Engels, and Weiwei Feng find themselves venturing into unexpected territory …
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Unlocking the Power of Oracle APEX and AI
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15:08Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham kick off a new season of the podcast, exploring how Oracle APEX integrates with AI to build smarter low-code applications. They are joined by Chaitanya Koratamaddi, Director of Product Management at Oracle, who explains the basics of Oracle APEX, its global adoption, and the challenges it addresses for businesses man…
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Replit CEO Amjad Masad on 1 Billion Developers: A Better End State than AGI?
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1:26:18Amjad Masad set out more than a decade ago to pursue the dream of unleashing 1B software creators around the world. With millions of Replit users pre-ChatGPT, that vision was already becoming a reality. Turbocharged by LLMs, the vision of enabling anyone to code—from 12-year-olds in India to knowledge workers in the U.S.—seems less and less radical…
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Raise Your Game with Oracle Cloud Applications
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14:48In this special episode of the Oracle University Podcast, Bill Lawson and Nikita Abraham chat with Peter Fernandez, Senior Director of Cloud Certification at Oracle University, about the exciting new Raise Your Game challenge. They discuss how the initiative is designed to enhance participants' skills in Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications and Oracle …
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Why CRM Needs an AI Revolution, with Day.ai Founder Christopher O’Donnell
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1:11:05Christopher O’Donnell believes the fundamental problems with CRM—incomplete data, complex workflows, siloed work products and the fear of leads falling through the cracks—can finally be solved through AI. Founder of Day.ai and former Chief Product Officer of HubSpot, Christopher explains how his team is building a system that automatically captures…
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In for a new venture? This episode of the Data-powered Innovation Jam has you covered. Our hosts Weiwei, Robert, and Ron welcome Brett Clark, Director, Global Business Development at blackshark.ai—a company with the modest mission of creating a digital twin of the entire planet using satellite data. It all started with Microsoft Flight Simulator, b…
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The final episode of the multicloud series focuses on Oracle Database@Azure, a powerful cloud database solution. Hosts Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham, along with Senior Manager of CSS OU Cloud Delivery Samvit Mishra, discuss how this service allows customers to run Oracle databases within the Microsoft Azure data center, simplifying deployment and…
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From Software Engineers to AI Word Artisans: Filip Kozera of Wordware
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43:04Filip Kozera sees parallels between Excel’s democratization of data analytics and Wordware’s mission to put AI development in the hands of knowledge workers. Drawing inspiration from Excel’s 750 million users (compared to 30 million software developers), Wordware is creating tools that balance the rigid structure of programming with the fuzziness o…
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Join Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham as they interview Samvit Mishra, Senior Manager of CSS OU Cloud Delivery, on Oracle Interconnect for Azure. Learn how this interconnect revolutionizes the customer experience by providing a direct, private link between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Microsoft Azure. From use cases to bandwidth considerations, g…
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Josh Woodward: Google Labs is Rapidly Building AI Products from 0-to-1
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51:16As VP of Google Labs, Josh Woodward leads teams exploring the frontiers of AI applications. He shares insights on their rapid development process, why today’s written prompts will become outdated and how AI is transforming everything from video generation to computer control. He reveals that 25% of Google’s code is now written by AI and explains wh…
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It’s the ultimate new hit album for generative AI: intelligent automation, autonomous systems, and—of course—agents. But while ServiceNow has been a pioneering force in this space for a long time, it still seems to fly under the radar for many data and AI experts. Time to change that. Time to bridge the worlds of Planet Process and Planet Data! For…
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How AI Breakout Harvey is Transforming Legal Services, with CEO Winston Weinberg
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54:09Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg explains why success in legal AI requires more than just model capabilities—it demands deep process expertise that doesn’t exist online. He shares how Harvey balances rapid product development with earning trust from law firms through hyper-personalized demos and deep industry expertise. The discussion covers Harvey’s ap…
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This week, hosts Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham are shining a light on multicloud, a game-changing strategy involving the use of multiple cloud service providers. Joined by Senior Manager of CSS OU Cloud Delivery Samvit Mishra, they discuss why multicloud is becoming essential for businesses, offering freedom from vendor lock-in and the ability to…
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Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Foundations Training & Certifications
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11:58In this special episode of the Oracle University Podcast, hosts Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham dive into Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications and the new courses and certifications on offer. They are joined by Oracle Fusion Apps experts Patrick McBride and Bill Lawson who introduce the concept of Oracle Modern Best Practice (OMBP), explaining how it h…
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The AI Product Going Viral With Doctors: OpenEvidence, with CEO Daniel Nadler
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1:04:52OpenEvidence is transforming how doctors access medical knowledge at the point of care, from the biggest medical establishments to small practices serving rural communities. Founder Daniel Nadler explains his team’s insight that training smaller, specialized AI models on peer-reviewed literature outperforms large general models for medical applicat…
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"It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing"—Duke Ellington’s immortal words composed almost a century ago resonate deeply in the latest episode of the Data-powered Innovation Jam. Hosts Ron Tolido, Robert Engels, and Weiwei Feng explore TechnoVision 2025, Capgemini’s annual technology trend analysis, where ‘The Pendulum Swing’ captures the r…
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In this episode, Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham chat with MySQL expert Perside Foster on the importance of keeping MySQL performing at its best. They discuss the essential tools for monitoring MySQL, tackling slow queries, and boosting overall performance. They also explore HeatWave, the powerful real-time analytics engine that brings machine lear…
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OpenAI’s Deep Research Team on Why Reinforcement Learning is the Future for AI Agents
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32:45OpenAI’s Isa Fulford and Josh Tobin discuss how the company’s newest agent, Deep Research, represents a breakthrough in AI research capabilities by training models end-to-end rather than using hand-coded operational graphs. The product leads explain how high-quality training data and the o3 model’s reasoning abilities enable adaptable research stra…
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Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham continue their conversation with MySQL expert Perside Foster, with a closer look at MySQL Enterprise Backup. They cover essential features like incremental backups for quick recovery, encryption for data security, and monitoring with MySQL Enterprise Monitor—all to help you manage backups smoothly and securely. MySQL…
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Palo Alto Networks’ Nikesh Arora: AI, Security and the New World Order
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1:00:08Palo Alto Networks’s CEO Nikesh Arora dispels DeepSeek hype by detailing all of the guardrails enterprises need to have in place to give AI agents “arms and legs.” No matter the model, deploying applications for precision-use cases means superimposing better controls. Arora emphasizes that the real challenge isn’t just blocking threats but matching…
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MongoDB’s Sahir Azam: Vector Databases and the Data Structure of AI
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44:26MongoDB product leader Sahir Azam explains how vector databases have evolved from semantic search to become the essential memory and state layer for AI applications. He describes his view of how AI is transforming software development generally, and how combining vectors, graphs and traditional data structures enables high-quality retrieval needed …
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Cloud computing has long been a familiar fixture in the digital sky, but that doesn’t mean innovation has stopped soaring. In this episode, hosts Ron Tolido, Robert Engels, and Weiwei Feng discuss all things cloud with Carolin Eggers, Director, Data & AI, EMEA North, Google Cloud. The first kind of cloud? There’s nothing UFO about it. That’s well u…
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Join Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham as they kick off a two-part episode on MySQL backups with MySQL expert Perside Foster. In this conversation, they explore the critical role of backups in data recovery, error correction, data migration, and more. Perside breaks down the differences between logical and physical backups, discussing their pros and …
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Picking up from Part 1, hosts Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham continue their deep dive into MySQL security with MySQL Solution Engineer Ravish Patel. In this episode, they focus on user authentication techniques and tools such as MySQL Enterprise Audit and MySQL Enterprise Firewall. MySQL 8.4 Essentials: https://mylearn.oracle.com/ou/course/mysql-8…
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Roblox Studio Head Stef Corazza: Using AI to Empower Creators
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54:46Stef Corazza leads generative AI development at Roblox after previously building Adobe’s 3D and AR platforms. His technical expertise, combined with Roblox’s unique relationship with its users, has led to the infusion of AI into its creation tools. Roblox has assembled the world’s largest multimodal dataset. Stef previews the Roblox Assistant and t…
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Is quantum computing an early ‘70s thing? Well, certainly if you compare it to the new, experimental music that was released then. To many, quantum computing feels like listening to an early Pink Floyd record for the very first time: alien, incomparable, confusing, but above all: intriguing. Quite different from the more mainstream band the Floyd l…
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Security takes center stage in this episode as Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham are joined by MySQL Solution Engineer Ravish Patel. Together, they explore MySQL’s security features, addressing key topics like regulatory compliance. Ravish also shares insights on protecting data through encryption, activity monitoring, and access control to guard aga…
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ReflectionAI Founder Ioannis Antonoglou: From AlphaGo to AGI
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52:29Ioannis Antonoglou, founding engineer at DeepMind and co-founder of ReflectionAI, has seen the triumphs of reinforcement learning firsthand. From AlphaGo to AlphaZero and MuZero, Ioannis has built the most powerful agents in the world. Ioannis breaks down key moments in AlphaGo's game against Lee Sodol (Moves 37 and 78), the importance of self-play…
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Explore the essentials of MySQL database design with Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham, who team up with MySQL expert Perside Foster to discuss key storage concepts, transaction support in InnoDB, and ACID compliance. You’ll also get tips on choosing the right data types, optimizing queries with indexing, and boosting performance with partitioning. M…
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Kumo’s Hema Raghavan: Turning Graph AI into ROI
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52:06Hema Raghavan is co-founder of Kumo, a company that makes graph neural networks accessible to enterprises by connecting to their relational data stored in Snowflake and Databricks. Hema talks about how running GNNs on GPUs has led to breakthroughs in performance as well as the query language Kumo developed to help companies predict future data poin…
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