Los mejores podcasts de TWiM (2024)

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The Freaks Come Out At Nite Episode 2:25:24

4d ago2:25:24

2:25:24

Early drop to make up for the missed week! The Twimbos are back with a fresh new episode, featuring frontline accounts from Nitefreak at Hinde, in-depth reports from Kigali, expert analysis of Sakhile Dube and Chidimma Adetshina's performances at Miss Universe, and shrewd diplomacy in their takes on the South African Mining standoff and El Salvador…

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AI for Network Management with Shirley Wu - #710 53:44

6d ago53:44

53:44

Today, we're joined by Shirley Wu, senior director of software engineering at Juniper Networks to discuss how machine learning and artificial intelligence are transforming network management. We explore various use cases where AI and ML are applied to enhance the quality, performance, and efficiency of networks across Juniper’s customers, including…

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Why Your RAG System Is Broken, and How to Fix It with Jason Liu - #709 58:03

13d ago58:03

58:03

Today, we're joined by Jason Liu, freelance AI consultant, advisor, and creator of the Instructor library to discuss all things retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). We dig into the tactical and strategic challenges companies face with their RAG system, the different signs Jason looks for to identify looming problems, the issues he most commonly en…

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The If Your Election Lasts Longer Than 400 Hours Episode 2:13:29

16d ago2:13:29

2:13:29

So much news. Too much news. Dan & Phil return for another episode of the only podcast to not have Kamala or Donald on it in 2024. The boys talk the US Election and lessons learnt, they look with disgust at Equatorial Guinea, and they get into their nerdy bag to talk DC Comics announcement of Aaron Pierre as John Stewart Green Lantern, and more stu…

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An Agentic Mixture of Experts for DevOps with Sunil Mallya - #708 1:15:09

20d ago1:15:09

1:15:09

Today we're joined by Sunil Mallya, CTO and co-founder of Flip AI. We discuss Flip’s incident debugging system for DevOps, which was built using a custom mixture of experts (MoE) large language model (LLM) trained on a novel "CoMELT" observability dataset which combines traditional MELT data—metrics, events, logs, and traces—with code to efficientl…

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The Nepotilitan Episode 2:07:09

22d ago2:07:09

2:07:09

The boys are back! Dan & Phil sit and catch up on a bunch of stuff, they celebrate Zimbabweans opening for Coldplay in Australia, their great experience at the 263 Culture Fest, some stuff about the American election and even touch on Chris Brown's concert in South Africa. It's fun, enjoy! Subscribe and listen to 2 Broke Twimbos everywhere podcasts…

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Building AI Voice Agents with Scott Stephenson - #707 1:01:44

27d ago1:01:44

1:01:44

Today, we're joined by Scott Stephenson, co-founder and CEO of Deepgram to discuss voice AI agents. We explore the importance of perception, understanding, and interaction and how these key components work together in building intelligent AI voice agents. We discuss the role of multimodal LLMs as well as speech-to-text and text-to-speech models in …

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Is Artificial Superintelligence Imminent? with Tim Rocktäschel - #706 55:52

1M ago55:52

55:52

Today, we're joined by Tim Rocktäschel, senior staff research scientist at Google DeepMind, professor of Artificial Intelligence at University College London, and author of the recently published popular science book, “Artificial Intelligence: 10 Things You Should Know.” We dig into the attainability of artificial superintelligence and the path to …

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ML Models for Safety-Critical Systems with Lucas García - #705 1:16:06

1M ago1:16:06

1:16:06

Today, we're joined by Lucas García, principal product manager for deep learning at MathWorks to discuss incorporating ML models into safety-critical systems. We begin by exploring the critical role of verification and validation (V&V) in these applications. We review the popular V-model for engineering critical systems and then dig into the “W” ad…

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The Poor Protocol Observed Episode 2:09:47

1M ago2:09:47

2:09:47

The boys are back on the pod and they decide to take on the globally impactful but deathly dangerous topic of... Zim Hip Hop. And also technology ombudsmanship. And also Phil recounts his experience at the Jacaranda Music Festival. And other stuff, enjoy! Subscribe and listen to 2 Broke Twimbos everywhere podcasts are available and keep up with all…

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AI Agents: Substance or Snake Oil with Arvind Narayanan - #704 54:22

2M ago54:22

54:22

Today, we're joined by Arvind Narayanan, professor of Computer Science at Princeton University to discuss his recent works, AI Agents That Matter and AI Snake Oil. In “AI Agents That Matter”, we explore the range of agentic behaviors, the challenges in benchmarking agents, and the ‘capability and reliability gap’, which creates risks when deploying…

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The Wrong Side of Town Episode 1:18:48

2M ago1:18:48

1:18:48

Dan & Phil dip their toes back into weekly recording after a brief break, did you miss us? This week, some strong takes on Oliver Mtukudzi and his family shenanigans, Cassper Nyovest and his family shenanigans and general shenanigans all round. Enjoy! Subscribe and listen to 2 Broke Twimbos everywhere podcasts are available and keep up with all thi…

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AI Agents for Data Analysis with Shreya Shankar - #703 48:24

2M ago48:24

48:24

Today, we're joined by Shreya Shankar, a PhD student at UC Berkeley to discuss DocETL, a declarative system for building and optimizing LLM-powered data processing pipelines for large-scale and complex document analysis tasks. We explore how DocETL's optimizer architecture works, the intricacies of building agentic systems for data processing, the …

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Stealing Part of a Production Language Model with Nicholas Carlini - #702 1:03:30

2M ago1:03:30

1:03:30

Today, we're joined by Nicholas Carlini, research scientist at Google DeepMind to discuss adversarial machine learning and model security, focusing on his 2024 ICML best paper winner, “Stealing part of a production language model.” We dig into this work, which demonstrated the ability to successfully steal the last layer of production language mode…

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Supercharging Developer Productivity with ChatGPT and Claude with Simon Willison - #701 1:14:15

2M ago1:14:15

1:14:15

Today, we're joined by Simon Willison, independent researcher and creator of Datasette to discuss the many ways software developers and engineers can take advantage of large language models (LLMs) to boost their productivity. We dig into Simon’s own workflows and how he uses popular models like ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude to write and test hundr…

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The 2 Artists One Cup Episode 1:48:35

2M ago1:48:35

1:48:35

By the skin of our teeth we got an episode this week, and you can make it the first podcast you play on your brand new iPhone 13 4th Gen! Dan & Phil remember James Earl Jones, celebrate Learnmore Jonasi and fan out over Lil Wayne, remembering the impact he had, but then explain why they don't believe he was ever an option for the Super Bowl halftim…

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The Kings of Kaos Episode 2:50:02

3M ago2:50:02

2:50:02

The boys are back with a fresh, crispy episode of the only podcast that DJs can play clips of at a concert. Dan & Phil start on a sombre note, remembering Fatman Scoop, and lamenting the state of a world that continues to allow violence against women. But, the show must go on, and Dan & Phil have a spirited debate about credit on songs, sparked by …

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Automated Design of Agentic Systems with Shengran Hu - #700 59:30

3M ago59:30

59:30

Today, we're joined by Shengran Hu, a PhD student at the University of British Columbia, to discuss Automated Design of Agentic Systems (ADAS), an approach focused on automatically creating agentic system designs. We explore the spectrum of agentic behaviors, the motivation for learning all aspects of agentic system design, the key components of th…

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The Blooming Olympics Episode 2:02:19

3M ago2:02:19

2:02:19

Testing 1, 2, can you see this episode? Have we been... copyright-struck? Brand new episode of your favourite all-male podcast that has ZERO opinions about any women's business! In this episode, Dan & Phil discuss the ridiculous online feud between South Africa and Nigeria on Bolt, the incredible numbers at the Doek and Slay, and they get into thei…

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The EU AI Act and Mitigating Bias in Automated Decisioning with Peter van der Putten - #699 45:34

3M ago45:34

45:34

Today, we're joined by Peter van der Putten, director of the AI Lab at Pega and assistant professor of AI at Leiden University. We discuss the newly adopted European AI Act and the challenges of applying academic fairness metrics in real-world AI applications. We dig into the key ethical principles behind the Act, its broad definition of AI, and ho…

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The Mayo Madness Episode 2:07:46

3M ago2:07:46

2:07:46

Dan & Phil show up once again, very demure, very mindful on a brand new episode of your favourite nerdy podcast, 2 Broke Twimbos. Expect hard-hitting journalism on philosophical questions such as: How do you greet someone when they’re with their person? How much should you get paid for going viral? And how do you win or lose a fight against Disney?…

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The Building Blocks of Agentic Systems with Harrison Chase - #698 59:17

3M ago59:17

59:17

Today, we're joined by Harrison Chase, co-founder and CEO of LangChain to discuss LLM frameworks, agentic systems, RAG, evaluation, and more. We dig into the elements of a modern LLM framework, including the most productive developer experiences and appropriate levels of abstraction. We dive into agents and agentic systems as well, covering the “sp…

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The Gunned And Rayed Episode 2:00:46

3M ago2:00:46

2:00:46

As you count down the time before 11 men who get paid 100K a week to kick a ball around ruin your weekend, the 2 Broke Twimbos bring you a brand new episode of the only podcast that is a certified breakdance representative. Call us 2B-Boys! This week Dan & Phil catch up with what’s been happening with Chidimma Adetshina and the whole Miss South Afr…

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Simplifying On-Device AI for Developers with Siddhika Nevrekar - #697 46:37

3M ago46:37

46:37

Today, we're joined by Siddhika Nevrekar, AI Hub head at Qualcomm Technologies, to discuss on-device AI and how to make it easier for developers to take advantage of device capabilities. We unpack the motivations for AI engineers to move model inference from the cloud to local devices, and explore the challenges associated with on-device AI. We dig…

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The Adelle Onyango Episode 2:28:08

4M ago2:28:08

2:28:08

Happy gold medals top Africa! And happy new episode to you! The only podcast certified to be played by Motswana sprinters before beating arrogant Americans brings you something different. Today, Dan & Phil cross over to Kenya to speak to former radio host, entrepreneur, and podcast host Adelle Onyango. Almost 3 years ago, Adelle hosted us as guests…

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Genie: Generative Interactive Environments with Ashley Edwards - #696 46:51

4M ago46:51

46:51

Today, we're joined by Ashley Edwards, a member of technical staff at Runway, to discuss Genie: Generative Interactive Environments, a system for creating ‘playable’ video environments for training deep reinforcement learning (RL) agents at scale in a completely unsupervised manner. We explore the motivations behind Genie, the challenges of data ac…

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The Downer of The Culture Episode 2:37:21

4M ago2:37:21

2:37:21

Consistent Gold Winner in the Podcasting Olympics, Dan & Phil are back with a brand new episode that DOES NOT MOCK ANY RELIGIONS IN ANY OPENING CEREMONY. This week Dan & Phil review the amazing news that Zimbabwe has grocery stores, and would like to thank Tiffany Haddish for this incredible revelation. They also look at what it takes for them to e…

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Bridging the Sim2real Gap in Robotics with Marius Memmel - #695 57:21

4M ago57:21

57:21

Today, we're joined by Marius Memmel, a PhD student at the University of Washington, to discuss his research on sim-to-real transfer approaches for developing autonomous robotic agents in unstructured environments. Our conversation focuses on his recent ASID and URDFormer papers. We explore the complexities presented by real-world settings like a c…

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The Showing Discord Episode 2:10:51

4M ago2:10:51

2:10:51

Fear not! The 2 Broke Twimbos return after another monumental, nay, cataclysmic week to calm you down, explain stuff and make jokes. In this episode of the pod, Dan & Phil find out what’s going on with the world’s biggest creator Mr Beast, and ask, should you be revealing your sordid past to your employer? They dive into the murky waters of the Sou…

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Building Real-World LLM Products with Fine-Tuning and More with Hamel Husain - #694 1:20:05

4M ago1:20:05

1:20:05

Today, we're joined by Hamel Husain, founder of Parlance Labs, to discuss the ins and outs of building real-world products using large language models (LLMs). We kick things off discussing novel applications of LLMs and how to think about modern AI user experiences. We then dig into the key challenge faced by LLM developers—how to iterate from a sn…

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The No Clown in the DM Episode 1:44:47

4M ago1:44:47

1:44:47

Turn on multifactor authentification and delete your DM’s because the 2 Broke Twimbos are back with. brand new episode of the only podcast to remain unaffected by global Windows failures (because we use typewriters). In this episode, Dan & Phil explore the real issues of our time, like what kinds of cringy things do men send in DM’s? What on earth …

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Mamba, Mamba-2 and Post-Transformer Architectures for Generative AI with Albert Gu - #693 57:54

4M ago57:54

57:54

Today, we're joined by Albert Gu, assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, to discuss his research on post-transformer architectures for multi-modal foundation models, with a focus on state-space models in general and Albert’s recent Mamba and Mamba-2 papers in particular. We dig into the efficiency of the attention mechanism and its limi…

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The Charisse C Episode 1:50:25

5M ago1:50:25

1:50:25

Dan & Phil have finally decided to just ask a DJ all those questions they’ve been having. None other than Zimbabweans Doing It Big alum, Charisse C, celebrated DJ and artist based in the UK. She shares her story, the early days of amapiano in the UK, and how DJ’s can become “better” and stuff. Enjoy! Subscribe and listen to 2 Broke Twimbos everywhe…

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Decoding Animal Behavior to Train Robots with EgoPet with Amir Bar - #692 43:16

5M ago43:16

43:16

Today, we're joined by Amir Bar, a PhD candidate at Tel Aviv University and UC Berkeley to discuss his research on visual-based learning, including his recent paper, “EgoPet: Egomotion and Interaction Data from an Animal’s Perspective.” Amir shares his research projects focused on self-supervised object detection and analogy reasoning for general c…

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The Travel and Tributes Episode 2:22:14

5M ago2:22:14

2:22:14

Put out a flyer and host a welcome-back dinner for us because Dan & Phil return to the podcast after a brief hiatus! There’s a lot to catch up on, from a review of the BET Awards, to the furore surrounding Madam Boss attending, and even a conversation on nepotism after Saweetie asked people to stop calling her a nepo baby. We even have leftovers fr…

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