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[Creator] The Chainsmokers

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Swyx on Cognition and The Meaning of Life

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[Chit Chat Stocks] swyx on the AI majors

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Intentionality, AI Eng, Devtools Angels, and DevRel - on Scaling DevTools

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AI Eng on the Sandra Kublik pod

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[Generation Ship] AI Engineering for nontechnical people

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[Plan B] swyx on nontechnical Singapore podcast

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[High Agency] AI Engineer World's Fair Preview

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The Onion's A Very Fatal Murder

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AI Engineering, Devin, and the Future of Software - swyx on Modern Web Podcast

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Serena Colyer - Intentionality

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[Weekend Drop] Swyx on CodeRyan podcast

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[Weekend Drop] Swyx on Real World Serverless

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Solitude and Leadership

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[Weekend Drop] Swyx on Podrocket #3

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[Weekend Drop] Swyx on Shoptalk Show #2

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[Weekend Drop] Swyx on Cognitive Revolution

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[Music Friday] Shouldn't I Be Less In Love With You - Oliver Tompsett

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[AI] Training Data - Shoptalk Show clip

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[AI] AGI discussion - Lex Fridman interviews John Carmack

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[AI] Making state management intelligent - Reactathon 2023, David Khourshid

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[AI] Why Chatbots are Not the Future - Amelia Wattenberger

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[AI] Hacker News Recap clip - wondercraft.ai

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Freecodecamp podcast #2

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[Weekend Drop] The Rise of the AI Engineer

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[Weekend Drop] swyx on Productivity and leverage

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[Weekend Drop] swyx on smol developer

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[Business] Why and How you should Open Source your code - David Cramer

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[Weekend Drop] No Code Jamstack (in 2019) - swyx on Software Engineering Daily

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[Business] Community Games: from MUDs to MMORPGs - Gamecraft

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[Business] Mobile Games: from iOS to Facebook/Zynga/Farmville to King/Candy Crush

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[Business] Casual Games: from Deer Hunter to Snake - Gamecraft

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[Business] App Stores: Valve and the rise of Steam - Gamecraft

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[Business] Free2Play: From Piracy to League of Legends - Gamecraft

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[Weekend Drop] The State of JavaScript (in 2017) - swyx and Sacha Greif

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[AI] Timnit Gebru, Margaret Mitchell and the Stochastic Parrots paper - Emily Bender

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[AI] Small Language Models and Training PubMedGPT - Naveen Rao

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[AI] The origin of EleutherAI - Connor Leahy

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[AI] Behind ChatGPT: RLHF and the Proximal Policy Optimization - Practical AI

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[AI] GPT3's advances, applications, and prompt engineering - Peter Welinder

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[Weekend Drop] Swyx on Infoshare Poland

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[Tech] The Origin of GKE - Tim Hockin

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[Tech] The Origin of Kubernetes - Steve Yegge

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[Tech] The Origin of MongoDB - Dwight Merriman

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[Tech] Phlogiston and The Origin of Functional Reactive Programming

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[Tech] The Origin of Markdown - John Gruber

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[Weekend Drop] Talking AI on the Techmeme Ride Home

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[Story Friday] Pole Vaulting - Matthew Dicks

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[Health] Identity Change for Weight Loss - Layne Norton

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[Health] Ultra-long Fasts as a Medical Treatment

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[Health] Ketogenic Diet & Weight Loss - Dr. Chris Palmer

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[Health] Keto Diet vs Mitochondrial Uncoupling - Steven Gundry

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[Weekend Drop] Talking ChatGPT on the Changelog

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[Story Friday] What it's Like to be Adopted - Vicky Sandison

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[Music Friday] ALMASHUPS' Mashups - Adele, Ed Sheeran, TLC

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[Career] On Speaking - Kelsey Hightower

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[Career] Being Hands-on vs Having Influence - Kelsey Hightower

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[Career] From L4 to L9 at Google - Kelsey Hightower

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[Career] Picking What To Work On - Kelsey Hightower

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[Meta] Farewell 2022 Special - swyx

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[Music Friday] The Better Call Saul Intro

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[Creator] Moloch - Liv Boeree

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[Creator] The Evolution of Social Networks - Mike Mignano

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[Creator] Defeating Impostor Syndrome - Tim Stodz

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[Creator] Optimistic Nihilism - Vincent Woo

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[Music Friday] Post-Mariah Christmas Songs?

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[Tech] Separation of (Local-first) Client vs Server - Jori Lallo

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[Tech] Separation of Storage and Compute (Real-time) - Jeffrey Needham

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[Tech] Separation of Storage and Compute (Databases) - Nikita Shamgunov

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[Tech] Separation of Control vs Data Planes - Steve Yegge

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[Weekend Drop] Talking DevRel on the Devmode.fm Podcast

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[Music Friday] The Piano Guys

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[Health] Mental Health with Kelsey Hightower

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[Health] Sit Up Straight - Posture, Tech Neck, and Movement

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[Health] We Don't Know What Causes Obesity - Chris Palmer

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[Health] Eating Ourselves to Death - Dr. Casey Means

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[Weekend Drop] How to Thought Lead, the Metacreator Ceiling, and Learning in Public on the Build in Public podcast

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[Music Friday] Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

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[Business] Starting Shazam - Chris Barton

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[Business] Oracle and the Internet Computer Architecture - David Senra

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[Business] Blockbuster's Innovation - The Great Fail

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[Business] Musicians feared the Record Player - Jason Feiffer

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[Weekend Drop] Remote IDEs and the End of Localhost on the InfoQ podcast

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[Music Friday] Stories ft. Hunter

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[Misc] Eric Schmidt on AI

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[Misc] Guided Metacognition - David McRaney

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[Misc] The James Webb Space Telescope | Heidi Hammel and Nadia Drake

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[Misc] Inside Voice: Lake Bell and the Sexy Baby Voice Phenomenon

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[Music Friday] Fly Me to the Moon - Going Spaceward

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[Business] Haseeb explains FTX

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[Tech] dbt criticism and How dbt Fails

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[Tech] dbt origins (again!) and dbt Semantic Layer - Drew Banin

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[Tech] dbt as a standard - Laurie Voss

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[Weekend Drop] Developer Experience & the Coding Career Handbook with Corey Quinn on Screaming in the Cloud

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[Music Friday] Hits of 2019 - VoicePlay A Cappella

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[Business] The Austin Powers Just Do It Award - Amazon's Bias for Action Culture

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[Tech] Reddit's Two Tables, Amazon's Biblio Records and Title Authority

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[Business] Amazon's move to subscriptions and Prime

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[Weekend Drop] Trading derivatives with VBA and Finance - swyx on the Keycuts podcast

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[Music Friday] Remixes, Interpolations and the Nostalgia Loop - Charlie Harding