Best Princeton Engineering Podcasts (2025)

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NPR and PBS are losing their federal funding, more headaches for travellers at Newark and a staffing change at the White House 46:47

17h ago46:47

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77WABC Newshour with Liz Rattoballi for 5-2-25 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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New Jersey Transit is worried about a strike. The rent may really be to dam high soon 43:29

2d ago43:29

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New Jersey Transit is worried about a strike. The rent may really be to dam high soon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Should We Rethink Engineering in the Age of AI? ft. Laura Albert 32:20

3d ago32:20

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In this thought-provoking installment, of the Decision Intelligence LAB, hosts Vijay Mehrotra and Michael Watson sit down with Professor Laura Albert, Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2023 INFORMS President, and prolific blogger at "Punk Rock Operations Research," joins the show to discuss her …

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2. Why Do 80% of Data Science Projects Fail? [And How to Beat the Odds] ft. Doug Gray 38:35

3d ago38:35

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This episode’s guest is Doug Gray, Director of Data Science at Walmart Global Tech and co-author of Why Data Science Project Fail. Whether you are a business leader trying to capture value from your analytic investments, a practicing data scientist, or a student in a technical field aspiring to bring your skills to solve real world problems, this e…

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1. How to Identify and Mitigate AI Project Risks with Princeton 20? ft. Irv Lustig 39:55

3d ago39:55

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In the first episode of the Decision Intelligence Lab podcast, hosts Vijay Mehrotra and Michael Watson interview Dr. Irv Lustig from Princeton Consultants about the Princeton 20, a framework for identifying and mitigating AI and Optimization project risks. This evaluation framework includes both business and technical factors, and is a valuable met…

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The Decision Intelligence Lab Podcast - Trailer 1:08

3d ago1:08

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The Decision Intelligence Lab podcast explores the practical challenges of implementing data science, analytics, and AI projects, shining a light on many diverse links in the information value chain that transform raw data into real business outcomes. Each episode features conversations with leaders from technology firms, consultancies, enterprise …

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Frank Morano clobbers his competition on Staten Island. What happens if NJ transit engineers really walk? 40:56

3d ago40:56

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Frank Morano clobbers his competition on Staten Island. What happens if NJ transit engineers really walk? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Ep 63: Khan Academy Founder/CEO on Salman Khan on Classrooms in 20 years, Rolling out to 1.4M Users & Sal’s Hopes for AI Education 50:53

4d ago50:53

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When Khan Academy launched Khanmigo, Salman Khan thought they might reach 100k users by 2025. Today, they’re at 1.4 million. 🎧 Sal joined us on Unsupervised Learning to talk about AI's role in education— from the vantage point of someone deploying it at scale. As founder of Khan Academy, he’s overseen the rollout of AI tools to over a million teach…

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New York lawmakers give the green light to a bell to bell classroom cell phone ban. What's up with those dropped off dogs in NJ? 42:15

4d ago42:15

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New York lawmakers give the green light to a bell to bell classroom cell phone ban. What's up with those dropped off dogs in NJ? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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The real cops are searching for a crew of fake ones. A mystery plays out in Manalapan. 41:45

5d ago41:45

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The real cops are searching for a crew of fake ones. A mystery plays out in Manalapan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Its a huge day for George Santos. Commuters are worried NJ Transit conductors will walk off the job. 41:57

8d ago41:57

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Its a huge day for George Santos. Commuters are worried NJ Transit conductors will walk off the job. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Chaos at a NYC mayoral forum. The murder of a Harlem grandmother has neighbors outraged. Rockette tryouts are underway. 45:10

9d ago45:10

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Chaos at a NYC mayoral forum. The murder of a Harlem grandmother has neighbors outraged. Rockette tryouts are underway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves 55:51

9d ago55:51

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Ages before the dawn of modern medicine, wild animals were harnessing the power of nature’s pharmacy to heal themselves. In Doctors by Nature (Princeton UP, 2025), Dr. Jaap de Roode argues that we have underestimated the healing potential of nature for too long and shows how the study of self-medicating animals could impact the practice of human me…

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Thousands line up to say goodbye to Pope Francis. A Princeton University student goes missing. 39:55

10d ago39:55

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Thousands line up to say goodbye to Pope Francis. A Princeton University student goes missing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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As Catholics mourn Pope Francis, Cardinals start looking around to see who will replace him. Street justice for an alleged rapist in the Bronx. 45:01

11d ago45:01

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As Catholics mourn Pope Francis, Cardinals start looking around to see who will replace him. Street justice for an alleged rapist in the Bronx. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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The pope passes away at 88. A gruesome find in a Bronx apartment. 44:32

12d ago44:32

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The pope passes away at 88. A gruesome find in a Bronx apartment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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The White House may come to the rescue at Penn Station. Moses is spotted celebrating Passover on the M train. 45:34

15d ago45:34

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The White House may come to the rescue at Penn Station. Moses is spotted celebrating Passover on the M train. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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A violent night in the big city. Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia a bad man? 48:54

16d ago48:54

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A violent night in the big city. Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia a bad man? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Scientists Cooperate while Humanists Ruminate (EF, JP) 41:46

16d ago41:46

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Back in 2021, John and Elizabeth sat down with Brandeis string theorist Albion Lawrence to discuss cooperation versus solitary study across disciplines. They sink their teeth into the question, “Why do scientists seem to do collaboration and teamwork better than other kinds of scholars and academics?” The conversation ranges from the merits of coll…

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Scientists Cooperate while Humanists Ruminate (EF, JP) 41:46

16d ago41:46

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Back in 2021, John and Elizabeth sat down with Brandeis string theorist Albion Lawrence to discuss cooperation versus solitary study across disciplines. They sink their teeth into the question, “Why do scientists seem to do collaboration and teamwork better than other kinds of scholars and academics?” The conversation ranges from the merits of coll…

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A Connecticut man held hostage in his home for decades speaks out. Look who is doing the turkey trot in midtown. 49:57

17d ago49:57

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A Connecticut man held hostage in his home for decades speaks out. Look who is doing the turkey trot in midtown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Yellowlees Douglas, "Writing for the Reader's Brain: A Science-Based Guide" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 1:01:55

17d ago1:01:55

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What makes one sentence easy to read and another a slog that demands re-reading? Where do you put information you want readers to recall? Drawing on cognitive neuroscience, psychology and psycholinguistics, Writing for the Reader’s Brain (Cambridge University Press, 2025) provides a practical, how-to guide on how to write for your reader. It introd…

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Ian Boyd, "Science and Politics" (Polity, 2024) 1:11:14

17d ago1:11:14

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The recent coronavirus pandemic proved that the time-old notion seems now truer than ever: that science and politics represent a clash of cultures. But why should scientists simply “stick to the facts” and leave politics to the politicians when the world seems to be falling down around us? Drawing on his experience as both a research scientist and …

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Ep 62: CEO of Cohere Aidan Gomez on Scaling Limits Emerging, AI Use-cases with PMF & Life After Transformers 50:44

18d ago50:44

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Aidan joined this week’s Unsupervised Learning for a wide-ranging conversation on model architectures, enterprise adoption, and what’s breaking in the foundation model stack. If you’re building or investing in AI infrastructure, Aidan is worth listening to. He co-authored the original Transformer paper, leads one of the most advanced model labs out…

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Another Columbia student is locked up. Why wont leaders on Long Island lock up a dog that viciously attacked a young girl? 47:26

18d ago47:26

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Another Columbia student is locked up. Why wont leaders on Long Island lock up a dog that viciously attacked a young girl? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Family from Spain come to NYC to bring home the bodies of loved ones. The governor of Pennsylvania gets emotional talking about how his family escaped a fire. A pit bull attack shakes up a Long Island ... 43:34

19d ago43:34

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Family from Spain come to NYC to bring home the bodies of loved ones killed in the Hudson River helicopter crash. The governor of Pennsylvania gets emotional talking about how his family escaped a fire. A pit bull attack shakes up a Long Island neighborhood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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Why did that chopper fall out of the sky? The Chinese have hit back hard with a very tough tariff. Finally, a place to go when you need to go. 41:52

22d ago41:52

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Why did that chopper fall out of the sky? The Chinese have hit back hard with a very tough tariff. Finally, a place to go when you need to go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Will the markets calm down amid the 90 day pause on tariffs? A brutal beatdown in Midtown in the middle of the day. The search is on for a body in the woods on Long Island. 43:26

23d ago43:26

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Will the markets calm down amid the 90 day pause on tariffs? A brutal beatdown in Midtown in the middle of the day. The search is on for a body in the woods on Long Island. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Ep 61: Redpoint’s AI Investors Break Down What Separates Enduring AI Companies from the Hype 43:28

24d ago43:28

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At Redpoint’s annual meeting with investors, Redpoint partners Scott Raney, Alex Bard, Patrick Chase and Jacob Effron shared unfiltered thoughts on some of the most topical questions in AI today, where value will accrue, which industries are best positioned for defensibility at the application layer, and more. (0:00) Intro (0:39) AI Investment Land…

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A 64-year-old Long Island man just found out he had the wrong parents. How will China respond to new crazy high tariffs? The Minecraft movie madness continues 44:36

24d ago44:36

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A 64-year-old Long Island man just found out he had the wrong parents. How will China respond to new crazy high tariffs? The Minecraft movie madness continues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Has the MTA won it's congestion pricing battle with the White House? Teenagers are wrecking local movie theatres as they watch a Minecraft movie. A family in Philly had the strangest funeral. 45:46

25d ago45:46

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Has the MTA won it's congestion pricing battle with the White House? Teenagers are wrecking local movie theatres as they watch a Minecraft movie. A family in Philly had the strangest funeral. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Rebecca Heisman, "Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration" (Harper, 2025) 41:59

25d ago41:59

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In Flight Paths (HarperCollins, 2023), Rebecca Heisman illuminates the stories and methods of the scientists who unlocked the secrets of bird migration. How and why birds navigate the skies has continually fascinated the human imagination, but only recently have we been able to fully understand these amazing journeys. Flight Paths is the never-befo…

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New Yorkers worry about what's coming in Wall Street. A man with a meat cleaver does damage in Brooklyn. Football is back, but the players look different. 43:26

26d ago43:26

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New Yorkers worry about what's coming in Wall Street. A man with a meat cleaver does damage in Brooklyn. Football is back, but the players look different. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Americans are feeling a little tariff terror. Two NYPD cops have a lot of explaining to do. A Newark high school student has an amazing journey that ends at Harvard. 42:16

29d ago42:16

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Americans are feeling a little tariff terror. Two NYPD cops have a lot of explaining to do. A Newark high school student has an amazing journey that ends at Harvard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Can Mayor Adams really win four more years? Tornadoes take down house after house in the mid west. What do you make of the new subway map? 43:28

30d ago43:28

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Can Mayor Adams really win four more years? Tornadoes take down house after house in the mid west. What do you make of the new subway map? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Ciara Greene and Gillian Murphy, "Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember" (Princeton UP, 2025) 43:50

1M ago43:50

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Today I’m speaking with Ciara Greene, co-author with Gillian Murphy of the new book, Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember (Princeton UP, 2025). Ciara is associate professor in the School of Psychology at University College Dublin, where she leads the Attention and Memory Laboratory. The scientific study of human memory has become e…

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Ciara Greene and Gillian Murphy, "Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember" (Princeton UP, 2025) 42:05

1M ago42:05

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Today I’m speaking with Ciara Greene, co-author with Gillian Murphy of the new book, Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember (Princeton UP, 2025). Ciara is associate professor in the School of Psychology at University College Dublin, where she leads the Attention and Memory Laboratory. The scientific study of human memory has become e…

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Is it really Liberation day? What was inside that house of horrors in Connecticut? Pickle lemonade is the hot new drink. 42:36

1M ago42:36

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Is it really Liberation day? What was inside that house of horrors in Connecticut? Pickle lemonade is the hot new drink. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Where do I throw out chicken bones and fish scales now? Flames rip through a cat sanctuary on Long Island. Two NYPD cops are in hot water over a prostitute. 41:57

1M ago41:57

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Where do I throw out chicken bones and fish scales now? Flames rip through a cat sanctuary on Long Island. Two NYPD cops are in hot water over a prostitute. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Tears for a Brooklyn family mowed down by woman who should have never been behind the wheel. The stock market is spooked by Liberation Day. The Working Families Party seems confused about how endorsements ... 42:46

1M ago42:46

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Tears for a Brooklyn family mowed down by woman who should have never been behind the wheel. The stock market is spooked by Liberation Day. The Working Families Party seems confused about how endorsements work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Ep 60: Swyx and Alessio (Latent Space) on What has PMF Today, Google is Cooking & GPT Wrappers are Winning 1:01:30

1M ago1:01:30

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To unpack some of the most topical questions in AI, I’m joined by two fellow AI podcasters: Swyx and Alessio Fanelli, co-hosts of the Latent Space podcast. We’ve been wanting to do a cross-over episode for a while and finally made it happen. Swyx brings deep experience from his time at AWS, Temporal, and Airbyte, and is now focused on AI agents and…

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Cops in North Bergen say their chief is a freak. The family of a teen shot dead are speaking out. Neighbors in Brookhaven will do anything to help spring peepers. 44:18

1M ago44:18

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Cops in North Bergen say their chief is a freak. The family of a teen shot dead are speaking out. Neighbors in Brookhaven will do anything to help spring peepers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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The Signal chat scandal grows. Play Ball! The Mets and Yankees begin their quest for greatness. What the heck is happening in the North Bergen police department? 42:17

1M ago42:17

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The Signal chat scandal grows. Play Ball! The Mets and Yankees begin their quest for greatness. What the heck is happening in the North Bergen police department? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Who is telling the truth about the White House text scandal? A NYC funeral home has a lot of explaining to do. Why are seals hanging out on the sand in Coney Island? 45:27

1M ago45:27

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Who is telling the truth about the White House text scandal? A NYC funeral home has a lot of explaining to do. Why are seals hanging out on the sand in Coney Island? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Ep 59: OpenAI Product & Eng Leads Nikunj Handa and Steve Coffey on OpenAI’s New Agent Development Tools 44:37

1M ago44:37

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Two weeks ago, OpenAI released its set of tools to help developers build agentic systems. Today on Unsupervised Learning, Nikunj Handa (Product Lead) and Steve Coffey (Eng Lead) answer some of the biggest questions around how developers should be thinking about building in the agentic paradigm in 2025. (0:00) Intro (0:53) OpenAI’s Vision for Consum…

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Does Pete Hegseth have a texting problem? Mayor Adams says he is confident he will get four more years. Do you believe in finders keeper losers weepers? 41:04

1M ago41:04

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Does Pete Hegseth have a texting problem? Mayor Adams says he is confident he will get four more years. Do you believe in finders keeper losers weepers? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Andrew Cuomo finally shares the stage with his fellow mayoral wannabes. Cops have a murder mystery to solve in Queens. The Yankees have added a few things to the menu this season. 45:28

1M ago45:28

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Andrew Cuomo finally shares the stage with his fellow mayoral wannabes. Cops have a murder mystery to solve in Queens. The Yankees have added a few things to the menu this season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Peter D. Hershock, "Consciousness Mattering: A Buddhist Synthesis" (Bloomsbury, 2023) 1:57:53

1M ago1:57:53

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Consciousness Mattering (Bloombury, 2023) presents a contemporary Buddhist theory in which brains, bodies, environments, and cultures are relational infrastructures for human consciousness. Drawing on insights from meditation, neuroscience, physics, and evolutionary theory, it demonstrates that human consciousness is not something that occurs only …

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Did the White House blink on congestion pricing? A Manhattan woman's Maserati does 185. The Canadians have gone missing in NYC. 43:08

1M ago43:08

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Is Columbia U caving in? A traffic nightmare in New Jersey. Where have the benches gone down below? 43:29

1M ago43:29

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Is Columbia U caving in? A traffic nightmare in New Jersey. Where have the benches gone down below? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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