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Looking Back at AI Scaling with Anthropic Co-Founder Jared Kaplan
Send us Fan Mail "An archival 2023 interview with Anthropic co-founder Jared Kaplan discussing scaling laws, large language models, and the trajectory of artificial intelligence." "What is the universe? What is intelligence? What is the mind?" When theoretical physicist turned AI researcher Jared Kaplan shifted his focus to artificial intelligence, he wasn't just looking to build software—he was…
Looking Back at AI Scaling with Anthropic Co-Founder Jared Kaplan
Send us Fan Mail "An archival 2023 interview with Anthropic co-founder Jared Kaplan discussing scaling laws, large language models, and the trajectory of artificial intelligence." "What is the universe? What is intelligence? What is the mind?" When theoretical physicist turned AI researcher Jared Kaplan shifted his focus to artificial intelligence, he wasn't just looking to build software—he was…
Send us Fan Mail Is The Earth Losing Its Balance and beginning to turn against us? Author Dominic Nessi explores that terrifying possibility in The Source , a gripping new science thriller that combines geophysics, political suspense and human survival in a story where Earth’s very stability begins to unravel. The first installment in a planned trilogy, The Source follows a team of brilliant women…
Send us Fan Mail Host and Executive Producer of the podcast will discuss his latest science fiction novel, The Progenitor Field. The novel tells the story of the experiment to reunite the seventeen known fields of physics and prove that the universe is conscious. The experiment fails and plunges the world back into primordial DARKNESS. Ethiopian twins, endowed from birth with an enhanced genetic…
DC Golf Course Restoration Threatens Affordable Access
Send us Fan Mail Michael Williams joins us to discuss the proposed restoration of the golf courses in DC including Langston Golf Course and East Potomac. We will explore the effects of the proposed restoration on future affordability and the restorations relation to the Act of 1897 and the history of public golf course development in the 20th century. In 2005, Mr. Williams launched his first radio…
The First Women Lifeguards: How Perseverance and Skill Overcame Obstacles
Send us Fan Mail “Debbie Friedman adds a bouyant new element to history, introducing the strong and brave women who battled ocean waves and stinging sexism to become the first ocean lifeguards on the California coast. GUARDED combines tender memoir and heart-pounding rescue scenes. Friedman captures the salty grit of her fellow guards as they smash through boundaries and risk their lives.” —Elaine…
Sustainable Farming Brings Healthy Food To Your Table
Send us Fan Mail Sustainable Farming Brings Healthy Food To Your Table is what this podcast is all about. Shawn and Lindsay and their three children work to provide you with healthy food through practicing permaculture and raising their farm animals in a humane way. Their pigs are pastured raised meaning they are allowed to roam free and forage on the land. They will tell the story of how they…
Send us Fan Mail This is the story of how a young man fell in love with the beauty and mystery of the desert and translated that love into a career as ranger protecting that desert. Vic Maris began his career with California State Parks, working at Red Rock Canyon in 1974. He served throughout the State during his 30-year career working as a park ranger, supervising ranger, and superintendent. His…
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to my third memoir about my unusual trajectory in the world of medicine. In my first memoir, “ Medicine and Miracles in the High Desert ,” I shared with readers my profoundly life-changing and eye-opening time on the Navajo Reservation as a young schoolteacher in the early 1970s. Many years later, I returned to the Navajo people to serve them as a medical doctor in Cuba,…
Two Time Loser To Revolution: The Birth of Ky’Orda
Send us Fan Mail Hello everyone, I'm your host of Nature and Science Podcast, Don Murphy. In the episode I am interviewed by our producer, Anna Murphy to discuss, how my two time failure in chemistry ultimately led to the founding of Ky'Orda. The mission of Ky'Orda is to eliminate the fear and failure in learning complex subjects for everyone by creating an education app with a personal guide that…