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32:20

C++ Safety with Herb Sutter

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2024/06/06

The U.S. government recently released a report calling on the technical community to proactively reduce the attack surface area of software infrastructure. The report emphasized memory safety vulnerabilities, which affect how memory can be accessed, written, allocated, or deallocated.The report cites this class of vulnerability as a common theme in the some of the most infamous cyber events, such as the Morris worm of 1988, the Heartbleed vulnerability in 2014, and the Blastpass exploit of

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40:42

Figma Engineering with Abhi Mathur

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2024/06/05

Figma is a cloud-based design and prototyping tool that is widely used in UI and UX work. It allows users to collaborate in real-time, a key feature that has helped drive its popularity. Figma is an impressive engineering feat, in part because of how far it pushes what’s possible in a web browser. Abhi Mathur is the VP of Engineering at Figma. He joins the show today to talk about his path to Figma, architecture, scaling, team organization, and more. Josh Goldberg is an independent full time open

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47:14

Unstructured Data and LLMs with Crag Wolfe and Matt...

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2024/06/04

The majority of enterprise data exists in heterogenous formats such as HTML, PDF, PNG, and PowerPoint. However, large language models do best when trained with clean, curated data. This presents a major data cleaning challenge. Unstructured is focused on extracting and transforming complex data to prepare it for vector databases and LLM frameworks. Crag Wolfe is Head of Engineering and Matt Robinson is Head of Product at Unstructured. They join the podcast to talk about data cleaning in the LLM

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42:46

The Changing Enterprise Linux Ecosystem with Wim...

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2024/05/30

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux distribution developed by Red Hat for the commercial market. The company recently announced changes to the availability of its source code. In response, CIQ, Oracle and SUSE formed the Open Enterprise Linux Association, or OpenELA, which aims to provide a consistent and secure upstream location for Enterprise Linux distribution sources. Wim Coekaerts is Executive Vice President of Software Development at Oracle, and he joins the podcast to explain the recent

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48:27

LLM Community Development with Antonio Velasco...

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2024/05/29

LLMs have become one of the most important technologies to emerge in recent years. Many of the most prominent LLM tools are closed source, which has led to great interest in developing open-source tools. Antonio Velasco Fernández is a Data Scientist and Jose Pablo Cabeza García is a Lead Data Engineer, both at Elastacloud. In this episode, recorded in 2023, they joined the podcast to talk about LLMs and the importance of community development for LMMs. Jordi Mon Companys is a product manager and

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52:22

Detecting Deepfakes with Ryan Ofman

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2024/05/28

A deepfake is a synthetic media technique that uses deep learning to create or manipulate video, audio, or images to present something that didn't actually occur. Deepfakes have gained attention in part due to their potential for misuse, such as creating forged videos for political manipulation or spreading misinformation. Ryan Ofman is a Lead Engineer and Head of Science Communication at DeepMedia, which is a platform for AI-powered deepfake detection. He joins the show to talk about the state of

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55:45

Bonus Episode: The N64 Decompilation Scene with Ethan...

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2024/05/24

Decompilation is the process of translating a compiled program's bytecode back into a higher-level programming language, like C. There’s a vibrant and growing scene of engineers working to decompile classic video games, and some of the most prominent projects have focused on the Nintendo 64. Recent successes include Super Mario 64, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and Paper Mario. Ethan Rose and Mark Street are both software engineers with experience in the decompilation scene. In addition to

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57:06

The State of CSS with Rachel Andrews

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2024/05/23

CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets, is a fundamental technology in web development that defines the presentation and layout of HTML documents. It serves as a styling language that allows developers to control the appearance of web pages. Rachel Andrew is a Staff Technical Writer on the Google Chrome Team. Before that she worked for Mozilla and was also the Editor in Chief at Smashing Magazine. She is a member of the CSS Working Group, the Web Standards Project, and Open Web Docs. Rachel is our guest

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49:02

Modern SecOps with Maxime Lamothe-Brassard

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2024/05/22

Security Operations, or SecOps, refers to the collaboration between security and operations teams to secure an organization's systems, applications, and data. Maxime Lamothe-Brassard is a Co-Founder of LimaCharlie which is a cloud SecOps platform. He has a background in security and has previously worked at the Canadian Intelligence service, Crowdstrike, Google, and Google X. He joins the podcast to talk about modern security operations. Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the

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49:19

Microsoft Copilot with Justin Harris

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2024/05/21

Microsoft Copilot is a chatbot developed by Microsoft that launched in 2023 and is based on a large language model. Justin Harris is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft and has an extensive background in classical machine learning and neural networks, including large language models. He joins the show to talk about Microsoft Copilot, natural language processing, ML team organization, and more. Sean's been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range

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49:59

Pinata and the Interplanetary File System with Matt Ober

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2024/05/16

The interplanetary filesystem, or IPFS, is a peer-to-peer network that uses a distributed and decentralized model. Functionally, IPFS allows users to store and share files without having to rely on a single source of truth for those files. Matt Ober is the Co-Founder & CTO of Pinata. He joins the show to talk about IPFS and Pinata. This episode is hosted by Lee Atchison. Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and thought leader on cloud computing and application modernization. His

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49:50

Animal Well with Billy Basso

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2024/05/15

Animal Well is a Metroidvania game developed as a solo project by Billy Basso over the course of seven years. It’s the first game released by publisher Bigmode, which was founded by Jason “Dunkey” Gastrow. Billy joins the show to talk about creating Animal Well’s engine from scratch, how the game handles animation, fine-tuning character movement, and more. Joe Nash is a developer, educator, and award-winning community builder, who has worked at companies including GitHub, Twilio, Unity, and PayPal

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43:42

LLMs for Data Queries with Sarah Nagy

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2024/05/14

One of the most promising applications of large language models is giving non-experts the ability to easily query their own data. A potential positive side effect is reducing ad-hoc data analysis requests that often strain data teams. Sarah Nagy is the Co-founder and CEO at Seek which is using natural language processing to change how teams work with data. She joins the podcast to talk about the platform and providing a natural language interface to databases. Sean's been an academic, startup

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56:56

Implementing KYC and User Verification with Alex Grinman

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2024/05/09

Almost every application or system involves some sort of user onboarding. Increasingly, companies must implement know-your-customer and know-your-business compliance, or KYC and KYB, as part of that process. In addition, they often handle personal identifiable information, or PII. Footprint is a developer platform that was co-founded by Alex Grinman for handling identity, security, fraud, and authentication. Alex joins the show to talk about identity verification, security, compliance, Footprint's

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52:13

Nuxt JS with Anthony Fu

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2024/05/08

Vue is a popular JavaScript frontend framework, and Nuxt is an open source meta-framework on top of Vue. Anthony Fu is a Framework Developer on the Nuxt team. He joins the show to talk about Vue, Nuxt, open source development, and more. Josh Goldberg is an independent full time open source developer in the TypeScript ecosystem. He works on projects that help developers write better TypeScript more easily, most notably on typescript-eslint: the tooling that enables ESLint and Prettier to run on

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56:44

Scaling Large ML Models to Small Devices with Atila...

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2024/05/07

The size of ML models is growing into the many billions of parameters. This poses a challenge for running inference on non-dedicated hardware like phones and laptops. Argmax is a startup focused on developing methods to run large models on commodity hardware. A key observation behind their strategy is that the largest models are getting larger, but the smallest models that are commercially relevant are getting smaller. The company was started in 2023 and has raised money from General Catalyst and

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43:33

Anaconda and Accelerating AI Development with Rob...

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2024/05/02

Anaconda is a popular platform for data science, machine learning, and AI. It provides trusted repositories of Python and R packages and has over 35 million users worldwide.Rob Futrick is the CTO at Anaconda, and he joins the show to talk about the platform, the concept of an OS for AI, and more. This episode is hosted by Lee Atchison. Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and thought leader on cloud computing and application modernization. His best-selling book, Architecting for Scale

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50:33

Engineering the Playdate Gaming Handheld with James...

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2024/05/01

Panic has created games such as Firewatch and Untitled Goose Game. They recently ventured into gaming hardware with the Playdate. The console is unique for its inputs, which include a hand crank, and because Panic provides a free SDK, so anyone can develop games for it. James Moore is a DevOps Engineer and Dave Hayden is an Engineer at Panic. They join the show to talk about developing the Playdate handheld. Joe Nash is a developer, educator, and award-winning community builder, who has worked at

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50:00

Using LLMs for Training Data Preparation with Nihit...

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2024/04/30

Machine learning models learn patterns and relationships from data to make predictions or decisions. The quality of the data influences how well these models can represent and generalize from the data. Nihit Desai is the Co-founder and CTO at Refuel.ai. The company is using LLMs for tasks such as data labeling, cleaning, and enrichment. He joins the show to talk about the platform, and how to manage data in the current AI era. Sean's been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published

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41:04

AI-Driven Observability at Kentik with Avi Freedman

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2024/04/25

Kentik is a network observability platform that focuses on letting users easily ask questions and get answers about their network. Avi Freedman is the CEO of Kentik and he joins the podcast to talk about the platform, his observability philosophy, the role of AI in observability, and much more. Full Disclosure: This episode is sponsored by 10K Media (Kentik). This episode is hosted by Lee Atchison. Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and thought leader on cloud computing and application

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