Best Chris Andersen Podcasts (2025)

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The X-Plane Flight Simulator with Ben Supnik 56:26

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X-Plane is a popular flight simulator developed by Laminar Research. It features a first-principles physics engine, realistic aircraft systems, and a wide variety of aircraft. We wanted to understand the engineering that goes into creating a flight simulator so we invited Ben Supnik. Ben is a software engineer at Laminar and he’s been working on X-…

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Fire Party - "s/t" with Fire Party 1:01:55

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In this episode, we explore Fire Party, the self-titled debut from one of the most groundbreaking bands to emerge from Washington, D.C.’s post–Revolution Summer punk scene. Formed in 1986 by Amy Pickering (vocals), Natalie Avery (guitar), Kate Samworth (bass), and Nicky Thomas (drums), Fire Party brought a new perspective to D.C. punk — politically…

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NEM#240: Jonathan Rundman, Multi-Branded 1:25:04

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Singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist Jonathan (currently based in Minneapolis) has been putting out indie rock solo albums since 1992, but has also ventured into traditional Finnish folk music and has multiple releases of tunes that I won’t call Christian rock, but more rock that grapples with being someone who goes to church. We discuss “Diner …

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Turning Agent Autonomy into Productivity with Chris Weichel 1:01:22

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A common challenge in software development is creating and maintaining robust development environments. The rise of AI agents has amplified this complexity by adding new demands around permission controls, environment isolation, and resource management. Ona is a platform for AI-native software development and engineering agents. The platform combin…

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44. Dr Joni Sytsma - CEO at Rocket Fast Drones & Outer Loop Engineering 1:08:04

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It's not every day you get to meet a rocket scientist but I was lucky to live in the same building as one! After a few interesting chats about space in the lift, we decided it was time to record a podcast. In the weeks after we spoke, Jodi launched her business, Rocket Fast Drones.I hope you enjoy this very inspiring chat with Joni Sytsma, the rock…

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Homebrew and macOS Package Management with Mike McQuaid 1:05:46

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Homebrew is a widely used package manager that simplifies the installation of open-source software on macOS. It was created in response to the growing demand for a lightweight, developer-friendly tool suited to an increasingly Mac-centric development ecosystem. Today, Homebrew is a near-essential part of the macOS software development toolkit. Mike…

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Embrace - "Embrace" with Mark Jenkins 47:48

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In this episode, we dive into Embrace, the posthumously released self-titled album from one of the most pivotal bands of Washington, D.C.’s Revolution Summer movement. Though only active from 1985 to 1986, Embrace brought together vocalist Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat) with three former members of the Faith, guitarist Michael Hampton, bassist Chris Ba…

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Engineering in the Age of Agents with Yechezkel Rabinovich 50:05

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Modern software platforms are increasingly composed of diverse microservices, third-party APIs, and cloud resources. The distributed nature of these systems makes it difficult for engineers to gain a clear view of how their systems behave, which can slow down troubleshooting and increase operational risk. groundcover is an observability platform th…

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Static Analysis for Ruby with Jake Zimmerman 47:13

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Dynamic languages like Ruby, Python, and JavaScript determine the types of variables at runtime rather than at compile time. This flexibility allows for rapid development and concise code, but it also makes it harder to catch certain classes of bugs before execution. Type checkers for dynamic languages add structure and safety without compromising …

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Adam Back: BSTR - The Bitcoin Standard Treasury Company (BTCTCs Subseries 003) 53:29

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Adam Back (https://x.com/@adam3us) is the legendary cypherpunk whose early work on Hashcash inspired Satoshi Nakamoto's Whitepaper on Bitcoin. Fast forward 16 years and the next evolution of money is in the equity markets with Bitcoin treasury companies and Adam is heavily involved both as an investor but also as a founder and financial product eng…

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NEM#239: Adrian Sherwood’s Dub Productions 1:06:31

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Adrian has applied his distinctive, spacey dub mixing techniques to numerous recordings since 1978, often released under his On-U Sound label, and has effectively served as a key band member in groups like Creation Rebel, African Head Charge, Tackhead, and New Age Steppers. He has produced and/or remixed many artists including Ministry, Skinny Pupp…

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Scaling AI in Enterprise Codebases with Guy Gur-Ari 52:05

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The rise of language-model coding assistants has led to the creation of the vibe coding paradigm. In this mode of software development, AI agents take a plain language prompt and generate entire applications, which dramatically lowers the barriers to entry and democratizes access to software creation. However, many enterprise environments have larg…

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SED News: NVIDIA Bets on Intel, Meta’s Demo Crash, and Anthropic’s Explosive Growth 53:23

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SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech industry. In this episode, they cover NVIDIA‘s $5B investment in Intel and $100M stake in OpenAI, Meta’s stumble with its AR glasses demo, and the surpr…

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Dag Nasty - "Can I Say" with Broke Royals 1:06:32

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In this episode, we dive into Can I Say, the 1986 debut album from Dag Nasty - a record that helped define melodic hardcore and mark a turning point in Washington, D.C.’s punk history. Formed in 1985 by guitarist Brian Baker after the breakup of Minor Threat, Dag Nasty united veterans of the D.C. scene including Colin Sears, Roger Marbury, and voca…

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Orkes and Agentic Workflow Orchestration with Viren Baraiya 46:44

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Modern software systems are composed of many independent microservices spanning frontends, backends, APIs, and AI models, and coordinating and scaling them reliably is a constant challenge. A workflow orchestration platform addresses this by providing a structured framework to define, execute, and monitor complex workflows with resilience and clari…

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Turbopuffer with Simon Hørup Eskildsen 50:36

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Vector search has become a foundational technology for AI applications, enabling everything from semantic code search to contextual retrieval for large language models. However, a major challenge with vector databases has been the cost as data storage scales. Turbopuffer is a vector database that focuses on speed, cost and scalability. It was creat…

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Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn: How Survival States Block Our Manifestation Power and How to Move From Trauma to Transformation 1:28:26

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We’ve all heard the promises of The Secret. If you think positive thoughts and raise your frequency, you can have, be, and do anything you want. But what happens when your nervous system is stuck in trauma and doesn’t feel safe enough to receive? That’s when manifestation stops working and survival mode takes over. In this episode of Food Heals, Al…

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Rites of Spring - "Rites of Spring" with Mark Andersen 1:14:15

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In this episode, we explore Rites of Spring, the 1985 self-titled release that intertwined with Revolution Summer and reshaped the direction of punk in Washington, D.C. and beyond. Rites of Spring formed in 1984 with Guy Picciotto (vocals, guitar), Eddie Janney (guitar), Mike Fellows (bass), and Brendan Canty (drums). The band built on the foundati…

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NEM#238: Eric Andersen Endures 1:06:04

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Eric was a major figure in the 1960s NYC folk scene, and his early tunes have been covered by Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, and many others. He’s released 22 solo albums plus several live albums and two albums with The Band’s Rick Danko as Danko/Fjeld/Andersen. We discuss “Don’t It Make You Wanna Sing the Blues” from Dance of Love and Death (2025), “Rai…

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The State of the SIL Sector - Daniel Kyriacou (Achieve Australia) with Chris Hall 1:02:26

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Join us for a fascinating discussion on the philosophical distinctions that all providers should aspire to in this strategic and insightful take on the state of the SIL sector. Our guest is Daniel Kyriacou is the Chief Operations Officer of Achieve Australia, one of Australia's largest NDIS providers. Chris Hall is the CEO of Steadway, an NDIS prov…

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Building an Indie Hit in Godot with Jay Baylis and Tom Coxon 42:22

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Cassette Beasts is a turn-based monster-battling RPG that lets players record creatures onto cassette tapes and transform into them during battle. The game was an indie hit, and is also one of the most successful games built with the open source Godot Engine. Jay Baylis and Tom Coxon are the creators of Cassette Beasts at Bytten Studio. They join t…

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Rethinking GraphQL Frontends with Robert Balicki 38:00

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A challenge in modern frontend application design is efficiently fetching and managing GraphQL data while keeping UI components responsive and maintainable. Developers often face issues like over-fetching, under-fetching, and handling complex query dependencies, which can lead to performance bottlenecks and increased development effort. Relay is a …

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S.O.A - "No Policy" & Black Flag - "Damaged" with Jackson Sinnenberg 1:13:33

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In this episode, we explore No Policy, the 1981 EP by SOA, and Damaged, the legendary debut LP from Black Flag. Formed in Washington, D.C. by Henry Garfield (later Henry Rollins), Michael Hampton, Wendel Blow, and Simon Jacobsen, SOA delivered ten tracks in just over eight minutes, capturing the urgency and fury of the early D.C. hardcore scene. Re…

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pnpm with Zoltan Kochan 36:23

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Traditional package management systems for JavaScript have faced several inefficiencies related to dependency storage, resolution, and project performance. pnpm is a fast, disk-efficient package manager for JavaScript and TypeScript projects, serving as an alternative to npm and Yarn. Due to its efficiency and reliability, pnpm is increasingly popu…

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505: The Health of Our Nation Depends on More Than Food: Charlie Kirk’s Murder and the Threat to Free Speech 41:21

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Ten years into Food Heals, Allison Melody broadens the lens: from food as medicine to the health of our culture. In this deeply personal episode, Allison processes the news of a public assasination, her visceral grief as a daughter who lost her father, and the chilling implications for public figures, creators, podcasters, and anyone who speaks pub…

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SurrealDB 3.0 and Building Event-Driven AI Applications with Tobie Morgan Hitchcock 55:18

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Modern application development often involves juggling multiple types of databases to handle diverse data models. The lack of unification can lead to complex architectures with attendant security concerns and fragmented development workflows. SurrealDB is an open-source, multi-model database developed in Rust and integrates functionalities of many …

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Dr. Richard Petty: AI and the Redundant Future 36:33

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Dr. Richard Petty (https://cccw.hku.hk/team/petty-richard/) is an international professor, entrepreneur, investor and public policy expert on business, finance, accounting and technology. A prolific author, advisor and speaker on economics, finance, and policy solutions to technological disruption, he is a common keynote speaker at events and progr…

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REISSUE-NEM#172: Mark Stewart (The Pop Group): Mad Processing w/ Haikus 1:08:05

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This is an in memoriam reissue of a 2022 episode with a newly recorded introduction by Mark (your host, not the guest). Mark Stewart led the Pop Group through two albums in the late 70s two later reunion album and has released nine solo albums of trippy, experimental dance music. We discuss “Rage of Angels” (feat. Front 242) from VS (2022), “Age of…

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Angular with Jessica Janiuk 51:03

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Modern web development faces several challenges, particularly when building scalable, maintainable, and high-performance applications. As applications grow, managing complex user interfaces, and ensuring efficient data handling and modular code structures, becomes increasingly difficult. Angular is a TypeScript-based web framework developed by Goog…

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SED News: Perplexity’s Chrome Play, Meta’s AI Freeze, and Intel Becomes Too Big to Fail 48:45

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SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech industry. In this episode, they discuss Perplexity’s headline-grabbing offer to buy Google Chrome, the U.S. government’s large stake in Intel, Meta’s ab…

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Context-Aware SQL and Metadata with Shinji Kim 41:38

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A common challenge in data-rich organizations is that critical context about the data is often hard to capture and even harder to keep up to date. As more people across the organization use data and data models get more complex, simply finding the right dataset can be slow and create bottlenecks. Select Star is a data discovery and metadata platfor…

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Modern Data Visualization with Robert Kosara 49:22

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Data visualization is increasingly important as organizations prioritize data-driven decision-making. Tools that transform complex datasets into intuitive, interpretable visualizations are arguably just as critical as the data itself. Robert Kosara is a Data Visualization Developer at Observable which is a platform for creating interactive data vis…

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NEM#237: Maia Sharp’s Homey Subversion 1:16:59

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Maia has released ten lush, Americana-influenced singer-songwriter albums since 1997 and has collaborated with artists like Art Garfunkel, Bonnie Raitt, and Trisha Yearwood, and been covered by Cher, Paul Carrack, etc. We discuss “Counterintuition” (and listen to the title track) from Tomboy (2025), “Phoenix” from The Dash Between the Dates (2015),…

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A Conversation with Amazon CTO Werner Vogels 48:15

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Werner Vogels is the Chief Technology Officer at Amazon, where he has played a pivotal role in shaping the company’s technology vision for over two decades. Before joining Amazon in 2004, Werner was a research scientist at Cornell University where he focused on distributed systems and scalability, both of which are concepts that would later influen…

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Redis and AI Agent Memory with Andrew Brookins 48:36

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A key challenge with designing AI agents is that large language models are stateless and have limited context windows. This requires careful engineering to maintain continuity and reliability across sequential LLM interactions. To perform well, agents need fast systems for storing and retrieving short-term conversations, summaries, and long-term fa…

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Complex Workload Deployment with Will Stewart 39:25

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Deploying and managing cloud workloads is a complex task that requires developers to handle infrastructure, scaling, CI/CD pipelines, and database hosting. Configuring and maintaining Kubernetes, ensuring smooth deployments, and integrating various services efficiently is a common challenge. Will Stewart is the co-founder and CEO of Northflank, whi…

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H100 CEO Sander Andersen: The Winning Mindset – BTCTCs Subseries Ep.2 34:29

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Sander Andersen (https://x.com/sanderandersenn) is the CEO of H100 ($H100:NGM, $GS9:FSE, $HOGPF:OTC) (https://h100.group), the Swedish Stock Exchange listed Healthcare Tech Company with this year's most aggressive cap raising strategy to quickly accumulate Bitcoin on its balance sheet. The company listed only in April 2025 at a USD 11mn market cap …

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Empowering Cross-Functional Product Teams with Tobias Dunn-Krahn and Doug Peete 46:28

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Modern software teams typically rely on a patchwork of tools to manage planning, development, feature rollout, and post-release analysis. This fragmentation is a known challenge that can create friction and slow down software development iteration. It’s especially problematic for cross-functional teams, where differences in roles, expertise, and wo…

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43. Own Your Everest. 4:51

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43. Own Your Everest. by Chris AndersenBy Chris Andersen

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NEM#236: Tee Templeton’s Psychedelic Ending 1:15:22

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…OK, maybe not his ending, but it’s a late career boost into overdrive: This 66-year-old has been making music since the ’80s, but you’re only going to find two of his releases on the streaming services right now, and only this new album (released 20 years after the previous one) has the polish to count as a world-conquering, professional release. …

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Carbon and Modernizing C++ with Chandler Carruth 1:02:13

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Carbon is a programming language developed by Google as a successor to C++, and it aims to provide modern safety features while maintaining high performance. It’s designed to offer seamless interoperability with C++ while addressing shortcomings of C++ such as slow compilation times and lack of memory safety. Carbon also introduces features like a …

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Podman with Brent Baude 43:24

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Podman is an open-source container management tool that allows developers to build, run, and manage containers. Unlike Docker, it supports rootless containers for improved security and is fully compatible with standards from the Open Container Initiative, or OCI. Brent Baude is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat where he works on Podma…

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SED News: Meta’s AI Gambit, Windsurf Shake‑Up, and the UK VPN Surge 47:25

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SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech industry. In this episode, they explore Meta’s bold push into AI with the launch of Meta Superintelligence Labs, the dramatic twists in the Windsurf acq…

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Electron and Desktop App Engineering with Shelley Vohr 50:59

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Electron is a framework for building cross-platform desktop applications using web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. It allows developers to package web apps with a native-like experience by bundling them with a Chromium browser and Node.js runtime. Electron is widely used for apps like VS Code, Discord, and Slack because it enables a si…

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The Transformational Opportunity of AI across the NDIS - Annette Andersen and Chris Hall 1:04:07

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Annette is an Access Innovator and cofounder of AxAI (https://axai.com.au/ ), a company pioneering AI-powered advocacy tools, assistive technology, and accessibility solutions. Annette setup AxAI together with her Son, Axel, who is an NDIS participant and innovator in the NDIS space alongside Annette. In addition to AxAI, Annette recently launched …

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Modal and Scaling AI Inference with Erik Bernhardsson 39:55

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Modal is a serverless compute platform that’s specifically focused on AI workloads. The company’s goal is to enable AI teams to quickly spin up GPU-enabled containers, and rapidly iterate and autoscale. It was founded by Erik Bernhardsson who was previously at Spotify for 7 years where he built the music recommendation system and the popular Luigi …

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NEM#235: Willie Nile’s Poetic Rock Anthems 1:13:34

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New York singer-songwriter Willie has released sixteen albums since 1980. He has opened for The Who and Bruce Springsteen, among others, but rejected the major label life after his first two albums. Sponsor: Visit functionhealth.com/NAKEDLY to take control of your health through testing and get $100 off your membership. We discuss “An Irish Goodbye…

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42. Go Slow Guided Journey 2:54

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42. Go Slow Guided Journey by Chris AndersenBy Chris Andersen

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RxJS with Ben Lesh 50:29

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RxJS is an open-source library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs. It provides powerful operators for transforming, filtering, combining, and managing streams of data, from user input and web requests to real-time updates. Ben Lesh is the creator of RxJS. He joins Josh Goldberg to talk about his path into engineering and the RxJS l…

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504: Soy Doesn't Cause Man-Boobs & Proof That Food Heals: This Episode Might Change Your Diet Overnight 1:06:22

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What if the most powerful medicine isn’t in your medicine cabinet but already in your fridge? In this episode of Food Heals, we’re revealing the unexpected healing powers of four everyday foods. One balances hormones and reduces hot flashes by 92 percent. Another helps eliminate chronic skin conditions. One supports cancer recovery. And the last? I…