I'm British and live in the UK so BBC is a big part of my radio listening anyway, but I agree, the quality both in terms of content and recording quality is largely miles ahead of most podcasts.
Excluding things like political things which wouldn't land the same to international listeners, my favourites are:
The Kitchen Cabinet
You're Dead To Me
Crowdscience
Inside Science
Just a Minute
The Unbelievable Truth
Nature Table
Take Four Books
Witness History
Last Word
Gardener's Question Time
A Good Read (I wrote a blog post a while ago about scraping the books using LLMs to extract from the text of the descriptions: https://rpep.dev/posts/a-good-read-extracting-books-with-llm...)
> Overall, we are convinced that containers can be useful and warranted for programming.
Last week Solomon Hykes (creator of Docker) open-sourced[1] Container Use[2] exactly for this reason, to let agents run in parallel safely. Sharing it here because while Sketch seems to have isolated + local dev environments built in (cool!), no other coding agent does (afaik).
For very philosophical writings about this, read "Last and First Men" and "Star Maker" by Olaf Stapledon. Written in the 1930's, these describe on a very expansive scale the history of, respectively, humanity and the universe. Very mind bending.
It's the most high-influence, low-exposure essay I've ever read. As far as I'm concerned, this dude is a silent prescient genius working quietly for DARPA, and I had a sneak peak into future science when I read it. It's affected my thinking and trajectory for the past 8 years
> When you add an MCP server to your Claude organization, you just add the MCP server. Each user will have to go through the integration's OAuth2 authorization flow separately.
Scout claims a 10 million input token length but the available providers currently seem to limit to 128,000 (Groq and Fireworks) or 328,000 (Together) - I wonder who will win the race to get that full sized 10 million token window running?
Maverick claims 1 million and Fireworks offers 1.05M while Together offers 524,000. Groq isn't offering Maverick yet
Jimmy Maher is really a great history writer. The way he writes is very compelling. He made a whole history of windows which I somehow read through completely[0].
I can also recommend his other site, Analog Antiquarian[1] where he writes more about the larger history. His Magellan series that's going on now is really amazing, makes you feel like you're really experiencing the epic voyage through South America and South East Asia.
I haven't read that book, but I can personally attest to Josh Starmer's StatQuest Youtube channel[1] being awesome! I used his lessons as a supplement to my studies when I was studying statistics in uni.
Anyone who wants to demystify ML should read: The StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Machine Learning [0] By Josh Starmer.
To this day I haven't found a teacher who could express complex ideas as clearly and concisely as Starmer does. It's written in an almost children's book like format that is very easy to read and understand. He also just published a book on NN that is just as good. Highly recommend even if you are already an expert as it will give you great ways to teach and communicate complex ideas in ML.
In short, "meaning" is a contextual perception, not a discrete quality, though the author suggests it can be quantified based on the number of contextual connections to other things with meaning. The more densely connected something is, the more meaningful it is; my wedding is meaningful to me because my family and my partners family are all celebrating it with me, but it was an entirely meaningless event to you.
Thus, the meaningfulness of our contributions remains unchanged, as the meaning behind them is not dependent upon the perspective of an external observer.
amen, my own journey/version here. most powerful career insight ive ever had, when reflecting on why my career transition from finance to tech went so well. https://www.swyx.io/learn-in-public
(note, I have no idea how the braiding happens, or what it means, or ... the rest of the fucking owl, but ... the part about the local indistinguishability is an important part of the puzzle, and why it helps against noise ... also have no idea what's the G-factor, but ... also have no idea what the s-wave/p-wave superconductors are, but ... https://www.reddit.com/r/AskPhysics/comments/11opcy1/comment... ... also ... phew )
Tangential, and I am reluctant to share this in an important thread about loss and grief, but an occasional hobby of mine is finding an interesting headstone during my travels and researching the story.
