Best Token For Your Thoughts Podcasts (2025)

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Scaling Bitcoin Without Compromises: Jagdeep Sidhu on 10 Years of Building Syscoin 47:16

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🎙️ Guest: Jagdeep Sidhu, Core Developer of Syscoin 🕒 Duration: ~47 minutes Episode Overview In this episode of Token for Your Thoughts, host Lindsey McConaghy sits down with Jagdeep Sidhu, the longtime core developer behind Syscoin, to talk about what it really takes to scale blockchain infrastructure without compromising on decentralization or sec…

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Episode 63: Hedge Fund Offering Terms, Part 2: Liquidity 15:56

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Episode 63: Hedge Fund Offering Terms, Part 2: Liquidity Today is the second in a series of Tokens of Wisdom episodes walking through the main offering terms for an open-ended fund, aka a hedge fund. One of the first things I do with new fund clients is take them through a fund questionnaire to determine the offering terms for their new fund. This …

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LLMs for Equities Feature Forecasting at Two Sigma with Ben Wellington - #736 59:31

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Today, we're joined by Ben Wellington, deputy head of feature forecasting at Two Sigma. We dig into the team’s end-to-end approach to leveraging AI in equities feature forecasting, covering how they identify and create features, collect and quantify historical data, and build predictive models to forecast market behavior and asset prices for tradin…

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Culture & Leadership 41:22

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Joe Dalton interviews Stacey Mill. She discusses her journey in the tech industry, emphasizing the significance of culture and leadership. She shares personal anecdotes about her experiences as a woman in a male-dominated field and highlights the importance of building relationships and effective communication within teams. The discussion also touc…

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How Black women and others experience discrimination at work while pregnant 14:54

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How Black women and others experience discrimination at work while pregnant In today's episode Simone reflects on how Black women and others experience discrimination at work while pregnant, linked in to Black Maternal Health Week that took place in April earlier this year, organised by the Black Mamas Matter Alliance: https://blackmamasmatter.org/…

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Why I Rebranded My Podcast + The Strategy Small Businesses Actually Need | IconiQ Entrepreneurs 97 17:54

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Welcome to the first episode of the newly rebranded IconiQ Entrepreneurs podcast! 🎙️ In this episode, host Erica Bailey—managing partner of IconiQ Marketing—pulls back the curtain on why the podcast formerly known as Innovative Entrepreneurs got a brand new name, a bold new direction, and a much bigger mission. 🔗 Timestamps 0:00 – Welcome & Big New…

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Zero-Shot Auto-Labeling: The End of Annotation for Computer Vision with Jason Corso - #735 56:45

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Today, we're joined by Jason Corso, co-founder of Voxel51 and professor at the University of Michigan, to explore automated labeling in computer vision. Jason introduces FiftyOne, an open-source platform for visualizing datasets, analyzing models, and improving data quality. We focus on Voxel51’s recent research report, “Zero-shot auto-labeling riv…

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Radical Humility In Leadership 42:43

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Joe Dalton and Urs Koenig discuss the principles of humble leadership, contrasting it with toxic leadership styles. He emphasizes the importance of self-awareness, relational leadership, and a growth mindset. Urs shares personal anecdotes from his military service and professional journey, highlighting the significance of trust, feedback, and commu…

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Grokking, Generalization Collapse, and the Dynamics of Training Deep Neural Networks with Charles Martin - #734 1:25:21

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Today, we're joined by Charles Martin, founder of Calculation Consulting, to discuss Weight Watcher, an open-source tool for analyzing and improving Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) based on principles from theoretical physics. We explore the foundations of the Heavy-Tailed Self-Regularization (HTSR) theory that underpins it, which combines random matri…

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Episode 62: Sharing the Wisdom (Salman Ali) 43:57

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Episode 62: Sharing the Wisdom (Salman Ali) When I set out to do this show, my goal was to arm aspiring fund managers with the information they need to launch and operate a fund. In the legal realm, I happen to possess a lot of that information from my day job, but there’s so much more that goes into launching and operating a fund. And wise though …

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A few thoughts on the situation in Burkina Faso 24:25

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In today's episode Guilaine reflects on a the situation in Burkino Faso and what we can learn from that in relation to the workplace. How we can see the ways that whiteness, colonialism, and coloniality are playing out and glean insights into the working of those systems of domination. Fundamentally she urges us to pay attention to how what happens…

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IEP 96: Scaling with Clarity: How to Lead, Build, and Grow Without Burnout with Courtney De Ronde 1:14:26

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In this episode of Innovative Entrepreneurs, Erica Bailey sits down with Courtney De Ronde, CPA, CEO of Forge Financial, and creator of the Simple Scale-Up System. With over 20 years in finance and leadership, Courtney shares the frameworks that help businesses escape the chaos of startup life and transition into sustainable, scalable growth. Disco…

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Google I/O 2025 Special Edition - #733 26:21

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Today, I’m excited to share a special crossover edition of the podcast recorded live from Google I/O 2025! In this episode, I join Shawn Wang aka Swyx from the Latent Space Podcast, to interview Logan Kilpatrick and Shrestha Basu Mallick, PMs at Google DeepMind working on AI Studio and the Gemini API, along with Kwindla Kramer, CEO of Daily and cre…

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IEP 95: How Jay Conner Raised $2M in 90 Days Without Asking for a Dime 45:50

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In this powerhouse episode of Innovative Entrepreneurs, Erica Bailey sits down with real estate investing legend Jay Conner—widely known as The Private Money Authority. Jay shares how he raised over $2 million in under 90 days without ever pitching a deal or asking anyone for money. Learn Jay’s proven approach to raising capital through self-direct…

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Yield Without Banks: Eneko Knorr on Building USB, a Fully Crypto-Backed Stablecoin 41:33

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🎙️ Guest: Eneko Knorr, Cofounder and CEO of Stabolut 🕒 Duration: ~42 minutes Episode Overview In this episode of Token for Your Thoughts, host Lindsey McConaghy chats with Eneko Knorr, Cofounder and CEO of Stabolut, about building a fully crypto-backed, yield-generating stablecoin that doesn’t rely on banks. Eneko shares how USB is pushing stableco…

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RAG Risks: Why Retrieval-Augmented LLMs are Not Safer with Sebastian Gehrmann - #732 57:09

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Today, we're joined by Sebastian Gehrmann, head of responsible AI in the Office of the CTO at Bloomberg, to discuss AI safety in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems and generative AI in high-stakes domains like financial services. We explore how RAG, contrary to some expectations, can inadvertently degrade model safety. We cover examples o…

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Episode 61: Hedge Fund Offering Terms, Part 1: Compensation 17:26

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Episode 61: Hedge Fund Offering Terms, Part 1: Compensation Today is the first in a series of Tokens of Wisdom episodes walking through the main offering terms for an open-ended fund, aka a hedge fund. One of the first things I do with new fund clients is take them through a fund questionnaire to determine the offering terms for their new fund. Thi…

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Why does the scapegoat become picked as the scapegoat? 29:12

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In today's episode Guilaine reflects on a question she has received in multiple settings about how scapegoating operates, and why specific people might be targeted as scapegoats. This query is very prominent in the work she does and is a major part of her current doctoral thesis. She expands around the thinking previously shared on the podcast abou…

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From Prompts to Policies: How RL Builds Better AI Agents with Mahesh Sathiamoorthy - #731 1:01:25

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Today, we're joined by Mahesh Sathiamoorthy, co-founder and CEO of Bespoke Labs, to discuss how reinforcement learning (RL) is reshaping the way we build custom agents on top of foundation models. Mahesh highlights the crucial role of data curation, evaluation, and error analysis in model performance, and explains why RL offers a more robust altern…

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IEP 94: From Tanks to Tees: How Brandon Built a 7-Figure Brand from a Pandemic Purchase 56:12

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Hey, entrepreneurs! Welcome back to the Innovative Entrepreneurs Podcast, where we bring you the brightest minds in business, design, and strategy. I’m Erica Bailey, and today’s guest is Brandon Mills—a veteran, tech geek, and powerhouse CEO who turned an outdated embroidery shop into a 7-figure branding company with national and international reac…

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How OpenAI Builds AI Agents That Think and Act with Josh Tobin - #730 1:07:27

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Today, we're joined by Josh Tobin, member of technical staff at OpenAI, to discuss the company’s approach to building AI agents. We cover OpenAI's three agentic offerings—Deep Research for comprehensive web research, Operator for website navigation, and Codex CLI for local code execution. We explore OpenAI’s shift from simple LLM workflows to reaso…

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Govern Like You Mean It: Dennison Bertram on How Tally Is Making DAOs Work at Scale 48:45

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🎙️ Guest: Dennison Bertram, Co-founder & CEO of Tally.xyz 🕒 Duration: ~49 minutes --- Episode Overview On this week’s episode of Token for Your Thoughts, Lindsey McConaghy sits down with Dennison Bertram, Co-founder of Tally.xyz. They cover a lot: From accidentally getting subpoenaed by the SEC… to helping DAOs like Uniswap and Arbitrum run votes t…

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The merging of institutions with DEI policy and procedures 24:57

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In today's episode Guilaine reflects on when Diversity, Equality and Inclusion policies, procedures, rules and regulations, become blockers to achieving, or advancing, diversity, equality and inclusion within the workplace. Or as she prefers to see define it blockers to combating inequality, injustice and oppression getting in the way of achieving …

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Veronica Kirin on How Asterisk Is Fixing the Data Crisis in Women’s Health 45:25

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🎙️ Guest: Veronica Kirin, Founder of Asterisk Women's Health 🕒 Duration: ~46 minutes Episode Overview In this episode of Token for Your Thoughts, host Lindsey McConaghy speaks with Veronica Kirin, anthropologist, author, and founder of Asterisk Women's Health, about rewriting the rules of women’s health and what it means to build a data-first DAO t…

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Episode 60: Sharing the Wisdom (Bert McCooey) 30:03

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Episode 60: Sharing the Wisdom (Bert McCooey) This is an exciting day in Tokens of Wisdom history! Not only do you get to see my real-life face, but you also get the unparalleled wisdom of Bert McCooey from Ascent Fund Services. When I set out to do this show, my goal was to arm aspiring fund managers with the information they need to launch and op…

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CTIBench: Evaluating LLMs in Cyber Threat Intelligence with Nidhi Rastogi - #729 56:18

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Today, we're joined by Nidhi Rastogi, assistant professor at Rochester Institute of Technology to discuss Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), focusing on her recent project CTIBench—a benchmark for evaluating LLMs on real-world CTI tasks. Nidhi explains the evolution of AI in cybersecurity, from rule-based systems to LLMs that accelerate analysis by p…

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How AI & Web3 are Shaping the Global Work Force 50:02

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In this powerful episode of Digital Transformers, from the Emerging GovTech livestream series, sponsored by GBA and National DigiFoundry, hosts Kevin L. Jackson and Gerard Dache dive into emerging government technology and the future of the workforce. Topics include: How Web3 is reshaping jobs with decentralized workforces, smart contracts, and tok…

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Generative Benchmarking with Kelly Hong - #728 54:17

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In this episode, Kelly Hong, a researcher at Chroma, joins us to discuss "Generative Benchmarking," a novel approach to evaluating retrieval systems, like RAG applications, using synthetic data. Kelly explains how traditional benchmarks like MTEB fail to represent real-world query patterns and how embedding models that perform well on public benchm…

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Beyond Likes: Andrew Berkowitz on ValuesCo, Meme Coins, and a Purpose-Driven Social Network 49:58

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🎙️ Guest: Andrew Berkowitz, Founder of ValuesCo 🕒 Duration: ~45 minutes Episode Overview In this episode of Token for Your Thoughts, host Lindsey McConaghy speaks with Andrew Berkowitz, Cofounder and CEO of ValuesCo, about rethinking social media, incentivizing impact, and why meme coins might just be the fuel for purpose-driven economies. They cov…

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Episode 59: Peeling Layers 7:45

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Episode 59: Peeling Layers At the federal level, the tables are turning faster than at a vintage Tiesto performance: it’s honestly hard to keep up with how quickly the federal government has done a total 180 on crypto. Key Points From This Episode: What was the now-disbanded National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team? How is the United States similar…

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Students of colour and their invisible labour in higher education 14:00

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In today's episode Simone reflects on the invisible and unpaid labour that students of colour do within higher education. They use the article The Invisible Labor of BIPOC Students by Stephanie Tavares: https://www.ncan.org/news/560484/The-Invisible-Labor-of-BIPOC-Students.htm as a jumping off point, drawing on their lived experience within higher …

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Roman Cyganov of Antix: Build an AI Twin That Works 24/7 - in 30 Languages 45:33

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🎙️ Guest: Roman Cyganov, Founder of Antix 🕒 Duration: ~46 minutes Episode Overview What if you could clone yourself - digitally - and keep working (and earning) around the clock? In this week’s episode of Token for Your Thoughts, host Lindsey McConaghy chats with Roman Cyganov, founder of Antix, a platform that lets you build your own AI twin. This…

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Exploring the Biology of LLMs with Circuit Tracing with Emmanuel Ameisen - #727 1:34:06

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In this episode, Emmanuel Ameisen, a research engineer at Anthropic, returns to discuss two recent papers: "Circuit Tracing: Revealing Language Model Computational Graphs" and "On the Biology of a Large Language Model." Emmanuel explains how his team developed mechanistic interpretability methods to understand the internal workings of Claude by rep…

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Paul Giordano: How MARA Is Using Bitcoin Mining to Build Global Infrastructure 34:55

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🎙️ Guest: Paul Giordano, VP of Digital Asset Management at MARA 🕒 Duration: ~34 minutes Episode Overview In this episode of Token for Your Thoughts, host Lindsey McConaghy sits down with Paul Giordano, VP of Digital Asset Management at MARA, one of the largest Bitcoin mining operations in the world. Paul’s not just talking hash rates. From Wall Str…

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Teaching LLMs to Self-Reflect with Reinforcement Learning with Maohao Shen - #726 51:45

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Today, we're joined by Maohao Shen, PhD student at MIT to discuss his paper, “Satori: Reinforcement Learning with Chain-of-Action-Thought Enhances LLM Reasoning via Autoregressive Search.” We dig into how Satori leverages reinforcement learning to improve language model reasoning—enabling model self-reflection, self-correction, and exploration of a…

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More money 22:50

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Today's episode is a follow up to this previous episode: Money, money, money: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1623760/episodes/13872328 Guilaine begins by reflecting on how her specific collection of intersections interact with her relationship to money/worth, considering what it means to be a Black woman from the inner-city and how that collection of i…

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How The ZAO Is Helping Artists Keep Their Music, Data, and Dollars 47:53

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🎙️ Guest: Zaal, Founder of The ZAO 🕒 Duration: ~47 minutes Episode Overview In this episode of Token for Your Thoughts, host Lindsey McConaghy sits down with Zaal, the founder of The ZAO - a Web3 music collective helping artists reclaim their ownership, data, and creative freedom. Zaal shares how supporting a friend’s music career turned into a mis…

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Waymo's Foundation Model for Autonomous Driving with Drago Anguelov - #725 1:09:07

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Today, we're joined by Drago Anguelov, head of AI foundations at Waymo, for a deep dive into the role of foundation models in autonomous driving. Drago shares how Waymo is leveraging large-scale machine learning, including vision-language models and generative AI techniques to improve perception, planning, and simulation for its self-driving vehicl…

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Episode 93: Kimberly Hightower on Reinventing Success After 50 | Bold Moves & Career Evolution 1:22:54

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Hey, entrepreneurs! Welcome back to the Innovative Entrepreneurs Podcast, where we bring you the brightest minds in business, design, and strategy. I’m Erica Bailey, and today’s guest is Kimberly Hightower—a powerhouse entrepreneur and business strategist who’s redefining what it means to evolve and thrive at any age. Kimberly’s story is a mastercl…

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Blockchain for Critical Businesses 42:42

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In this episode of Digital Transformers, host Kevin L. Jackson sits down with Mark Rakhmilevich, Senior Director of Blockchain Product Management at Oracle, to explore the evolving landscape of blockchain, digital assets, and fintech. Mark shares insights from his career journey—from early days at IBM and BEA Systems to leading Oracle’s initiatives…

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Episode 58: Yet Another CTA Update (Yawn) 4:26

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Episode 58: Yet Another CTA Update (Yawn) Last time I spoke to you about the CTA, I said I wanted to discuss it about as much as I wanted a hole in the head. A little over a month later, nothing has changed. In my mood that is. But alas, much has changed in the world of required BO reporting, so here I am standing in front my mic and talking about …

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Episode 57: Fixing the Hole in Your Net (And More!) 12:37

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Episode 57: Fixing the Hole in Your Net (And More!) If you thought the kinder, gentler SEC was only going to be kinder and gentler to the crypto community, you thought wrong. Today I’m going to briefly summarize two recent SEC actions that relaxed marketing-related rules: clarifying requirements for marketing materials and elements of 506(c). Key P…

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Ermin Sharich of Aegis: Creating Transparency and Yield with Bitcoin-Backed YUSD 43:15

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🎙️ Guest: Ermin Sharich, Co-Founder of Aegis 🕒 Duration: ~45 minutes Episode Overview In this episode of Token for Your Thoughts, host Lindsey McConaghy sits down with Ermin Sharich, co-founder of Aegis, the company behind YUSD - a Bitcoin-backed stablecoin designed to minimize risk and maximize transparency. Ermin takes us through his journey from…

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Dynamic Token Merging for Efficient Byte-level Language Models with Julie Kallini - #724 50:32

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Today, we're joined by Julie Kallini, PhD student at Stanford University to discuss her recent papers, “MrT5: Dynamic Token Merging for Efficient Byte-level Language Models” and “Mission: Impossible Language Models.” For the MrT5 paper, we explore the importance and failings of tokenization in large language models—including inefficient compression…

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Banking and Financial Services: Putting Government Budgets on Blockchain 52:57

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In this episode of Digital Transformers, hosts Kevin L. Jackson and Gerard Dache explore the role of blockchain in government operations in this recent Emerging GovTech livestream, produced in partnership with the Government Blockchain Association and the National DigiFoundry. They welcome Amelia Powers Gardner, a pioneer in digital government serv…

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Episode 92: Merging Design & Science: How Todd Bracher is Disrupting Innovation & Problem-Solving 51:39

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Hey, entrepreneurs! Welcome back to the Innovative Entrepreneurs Podcast, where we bring you the brightest minds in business, design, and strategy. I’m Erica Bailey, and today’s guest is Todd Bracher, a globally recognized industrial designer, strategist, and thought leader in innovation. Todd has spent years at the intersection of design, science,…

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From Burning Banksy to Building XION: How 'Burnt Banksy' is Making Crypto Invisible 44:44

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🎙️ Guest: Anthony Anzalone (aka Burnt Banksy), Founder of XION 🕒 Duration: ~45 minutes Episode Overview In this episode of Token for Your Thoughts, host Lindsey McConaghy sits down with Anthony Anzalone, aka Burnt Banksy, the founder of XION, a blockchain built to make crypto so seamless, it practically disappears. Anthony takes us on a wild ride f…