A series of informal conversations with thought leaders, researchers, practitioners, and writers on a wide range of topics in technology, science, and of course big data, data science, artificial intelligence, and related applications. Anchored by Ben Lorica (@BigData), the Data Exchange also features a roundup of the most important stories from the worlds of data, machine learning and AI. Detailed show notes for each episode can be found on https://thedataexchange.media/ The Data Exchange p ...
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This is a Loric class in Tibetan given by Geshe Lobsang Dakpa
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A Lorica is a prayer recited for protection in which the petitioner invokes the power of God as a safeguard against evil. lōrīca originally meant “armor” or “breastplate.” The title is taken from St. Patrick’s Breastplate, his much loved prayer written in 433 A.D.
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Jackie Brosamer and Brad Axen from Block discuss codename goose (Goose), their open-source AI agent designed to automate complex engineering and knowledge work. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter 📩 https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple · Spotify · Overcast · Pocket Casts · AntennaPod · Podcast Addict · Amazon · RSS. Detailed sh…
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How a Public-Benefit Startup Plans to Make Open Source the Default for Serious AI
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48:45Oumi Labs CEO Manos Koukoumidis lays out a vision for “unconditionally open” foundation models—where data, code, weights, and recipes are all transparent and reproducible—arguing this is the only path to production-grade, trustworthy AI. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter 📩 https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple · Spotify · Over…
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Dan Schwarz (CEO & Co-Founder, Futuresearch) explains why his firm finds OpenAI’s $125 billion revenue projection highly implausible, citing fierce competition, pressure on ChatGPT/API revenue, and fleeting technical advantages. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter 📩 https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple · Spotify · Overcast · Po…
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Beyond Guardrails: Defending LLMs Against Sophisticated Attacks
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44:31Jason Martin is an AI Security Researcher at HiddenLayer. This episode explores “policy puppetry,” a universal attack technique bypassing safety features in all major language models using structured formats like XML or JSON. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter 📩 https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple · Spotify · Overcast · Pocke…
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Evangelos Simoudis is Managing Director at Synapse Partners, a firm that helps corporations apply AI and invests in startups developing data-driven AI applications. This episode explores the current state of enterprise AI adoption, distinguishing between the steady progress of traditional AI and the experimental phase of generative AI. Subscribe to…
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Lin Qiao, CEO of Fireworks AI, dives into the practical challenges AI developers face, from UX/DX hurdles to complex systems engineering. Discover key trends like the convergence of open-source and proprietary models, the rise of agentic workflows, and strategies for optimizing quality, speed, and cost. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter 📩 h…
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Beyond the Demo: Building AI Systems That Actually Work
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27:36Hamel Husain is the founder of Parlance Labs. He discusses how successful AI implementation requires fundamental data science skills often overlooked in current educational resources that focus too heavily on tools and frameworks. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter 📩 https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Support our work by leaving a small tip …
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Vibe Coding and the Rise of AI Agents: The Future of Software Development is Here
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36:35Steve Yegge is an evangelist at Sourcegraph, a startups that is industrializing software development with AI agents. This episode explores the paradigm shift in software development with the rise of “vibe coding” and AI agents, moving beyond traditional code completion. It discusses how developers are transitioning from line-by-line coding to orche…
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Nestor Maslej is a Research Manager at Stanford's HAI, and editor-in-chief of the 2025 AI Index Report. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter 📩 https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Support our work by leaving a small tip 💰 https://buymeacoffee.com/gradientflow Subscribe: Apple · Spotify · Overcast · Pocket Casts · AntennaPod · Podcast Addict · Am…
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Workera founder, Kian Katanforoosh, discusses how skills verification has evolved into a critical market focused on both assessment and professional development. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter 📩 https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple · Spotify · Overcast · Pocket Casts · AntennaPod · Podcast Addict · Amazon · RSS. Detailed s…
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Prompts as Functions: The BAML Revolution in AI Engineering
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38:49David Hughes, Principal Data & AI Solution Architect at Enterprise Knowledge. Our discussion centers on BAML, a domain-specific language that transforms prompts into structured functions with defined inputs and outputs, enabling developers to create more deterministic and maintainable AI applications. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter 📩 htt…
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Chi Wang is co-creator of AG2, and a Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind. This episode explores AG2, an open-source “agent OS” that provides infrastructure for developers to build sophisticated multi-agent AI systems. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter 📩 https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple · Spotify · Overcast · …
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Ilan Kadar is co-founder and CEO of Plurai. This episode introduces IntellAgent, an open-source platform designed to address these challenges through synthetic data generation, knowledge graph construction, and reinforcement learning for agent optimization. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter 📩 https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Support our w…
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Travis Addair is Co-Founder & CTO at Predibase. In this episode, the discussion centers on transforming pre-trained foundation models into domain-specific assets through advanced customization techniques. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter 📩 https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Support our work by leaving a small tip 💰 https://buymeacoffee.com…
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Beyond GPUs: Cerebras’ Wafer-Scale Engine for Lightning-Fast AI Inference
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39:26Hagay Lupesko is the SVP for AI Inference at Cerebras Systems. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter 📩 https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Support our work by leaving a small tip 💰 https://buymeacoffee.com/gradientflow Subscribe: Apple · Spotify · Overcast · Pocket Casts · AntennaPod · Podcast Addict · Amazon · RSS. Detailed show notes - with li…
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The Future of AI: Regulation, Foundation Models & User Experience
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47:42This is our semi-regular conversation on topics in AI and Technology with Paco Nathan, the founder of Derwen, a boutique consultancy focused on Data and AI. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS. Detailed show no…
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This episode explores the rapidly evolving world of AI agents, covering topics from GUI-based interaction and layered architectures to modular design, safety, and real-world deployment challenges. This episode relies on visuals, to view the visual presentation, go to the Youtube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsmBYBqQMIo Subscribe to the …
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Why ‘Structure’ Is All You Need: A Deep Dive into Next-Gen AI Retrieval
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32:27Tom Smoker is the co-founder of WhyHow.ai, a startup that transforms unstructured data into structured knowledge, including knowledge graphs, enabling enterprises to deploy accurate and explainable AI solutions with its open-source graph tooling. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter 📩 https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Support our work by leav…
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Why Legal Hurdles Are the Biggest Barrier to AI Adoption
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38:57Andrew Burt is CEO of Luminos AI, a startup that provides AI and legal teams the tools they need to reduce AI liabilities and sign off on AI risks. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter 📩 https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Support our work by leaving a small tip 💰 https://buymeacoffee.com/gradientflow Subscribe: Apple · Spotify · Overcast · Poc…
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Hjalmar Gislason is founder and CEO of Grid, a startup focused on bringing spreadsheets into the AI-first era. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS. Detailed show notes - with links to many references - can be f…
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Monthly Roundup: Deregulation, Hardware, and Inference Scaling
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45:41This is our monthly conversation on topics in AI and Technology with Paco Nathan, the founder of Derwen, a boutique consultancy focused on Data and AI. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS. Detailed show notes -…
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Today in Cana, a village not far from Nazareth, the village where the disciple Nathanael grew up in a small house built into the hill, a young couple, a boy and a girl, friends or maybe relatives of Mary, are celebrating their marriage. Was the love of this boy and girl not also a sign of the day of union of Christ and his bride the Church? And fur…
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As AI moves from buzzword status to a core business driver, 2025 will be a turning point for organizations adopting advanced machine learning and generative models. This episode explores pivotal themes—from post-training optimization and agentic AI architectures to emerging regulations and data infrastructure. This episode relies on visuals, to vie…
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Generative AI is transforming industries, but its full potential is hampered by a critical bottleneck: data. This episode explores the challenges of processing unstructured data, the shift from SQL-centric to AI-centric systems, and the emerging tools that are bridging the gap between AI models and real-world data. This episode relies on visuals, t…
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The Data-Centric Shift in AI: Challenges, Opportunities, and Tools
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27:43Robert Nishihara is co-founder of Anyscale and co-creator of Ray, the open source project that has emerged as the AI Compute Engine. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS. Detailed show notes - with links to many…
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The flesh of man now made the glorious apparel of Christ is glorious because it is a manifestation of His love. What shall we do in response to this love? We must follow him. We must become as little children, because he became a little child.
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Third Mass of Christmas 2024
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First Mass of Christmas 2024
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Monthly Roundup: Semiconductors, Frontier Models, and Practical Innovations
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48:51This is our monthly conversation on topics in AI and Technology with Paco Nathan, the founder of Derwen, a boutique consultancy focused on Data and AI. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon • RSS. Detailed show notes -…
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Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard? That the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not neither is weary. He giveth power to the faint, and to them that have no might, he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall, but they that wait upon the Lord shal…
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Advent III 2024
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Advent II 2024
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Advent I 2024
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Last Sunday After Pentecost 2024
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Pentecost XXI 2024
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Pentecost XX 2024
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Pentecost XIX 2024
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Feast of Jesus Christ The King 2024
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Pentecost XVII 2024
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Seven Sorrows of the BVM 2024
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Nativity of the BVM 2024
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Breaking the Cloud Barrier: How DBOS Transforms Application Development
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36:02Qian Li and Peter Kraft, co-founders at DBOS, Inc., a startup that’s building a serverless platform for building highly reliable applications. We dive into DBOS, a system built on Postgres that addresses workflow management and application durability. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • S…
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Shreya Rajpal serves as CEO and co-founder of Guardrails AI , where she also co-created the popular open-source project Guardrails, a Python framework designed to help developers build reliable AI applications. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Overcast • Pocket Casts • Antenn…
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Beyond ETL: How Snow Leopard Connects AI, Agents, and Live Data
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43:33Deepti Srivastava is the Founder and CEO of Snow Leopard. We dive into Snow Leopard’s innovative approach to data integration, exploring its live data access model that bypasses traditional ETL pipelines to offer real-time data retrieval directly from source systems. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter: https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subs…
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