Beste TWiM podcasts (2025)

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LLMs for Equities Feature Forecasting at Two Sigma with Ben Wellington - #736 59:31

1d ago59:31

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Today, we're joined by Ben Wellington, deputy head of feature forecasting at Two Sigma. We dig into the team’s end-to-end approach to leveraging AI in equities feature forecasting, covering how they identify and create features, collect and quantify historical data, and build predictive models to forecast market behavior and asset prices for tradin…

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The Betting On pAIn Episode 2:11:00

5d ago2:11:00

2:11:00

Go on ahead and invite us into your house please, the 2 Broke Twimbos are back again with something new new. Dan & Phil take a sombre moment to address some of the tragedies that seem to be coming thick and fast these days, like the Air India flight crash or the floods in the Eastern Cape in South Africa. But the show does go on, the pair review th…

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Zero-Shot Auto-Labeling: The End of Annotation for Computer Vision with Jason Corso - #735 56:45

8d ago56:45

56:45

Today, we're joined by Jason Corso, co-founder of Voxel51 and professor at the University of Michigan, to explore automated labeling in computer vision. Jason introduces FiftyOne, an open-source platform for visualizing datasets, analyzing models, and improving data quality. We focus on Voxel51’s recent research report, “Zero-shot auto-labeling riv…

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The Break Ups And Shake Ups Episode 2:05:17

12d ago2:05:17

2:05:17

After a brief break, the boys are back! Get ready for in-depth analyses on celebrity break-ups, political break-ups and all kinds of shake-ups. Plus, Dan has stories from his vacation, and bonus! Prepare to be educated about dangerous dogs! Enjoy Subscribe and listen to 2 Broke Twimbos everywhere podcasts are available and keep up with all things 2…

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Grokking, Generalization Collapse, and the Dynamics of Training Deep Neural Networks with Charles Martin - #734 1:25:21

14d ago1:25:21

1:25:21

Today, we're joined by Charles Martin, founder of Calculation Consulting, to discuss Weight Watcher, an open-source tool for analyzing and improving Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) based on principles from theoretical physics. We explore the foundations of the Heavy-Tailed Self-Regularization (HTSR) theory that underpins it, which combines random matri…

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Google I/O 2025 Special Edition - #733 26:21

21d ago26:21

26:21

Today, I’m excited to share a special crossover edition of the podcast recorded live from Google I/O 2025! In this episode, I join Shawn Wang aka Swyx from the Latent Space Podcast, to interview Logan Kilpatrick and Shrestha Basu Mallick, PMs at Google DeepMind working on AI Studio and the Gemini API, along with Kwindla Kramer, CEO of Daily and cre…

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RAG Risks: Why Retrieval-Augmented LLMs are Not Safer with Sebastian Gehrmann - #732 57:09

28d ago57:09

57:09

Today, we're joined by Sebastian Gehrmann, head of responsible AI in the Office of the CTO at Bloomberg, to discuss AI safety in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems and generative AI in high-stakes domains like financial services. We explore how RAG, contrary to some expectations, can inadvertently degrade model safety. We cover examples o…

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The Maximise Your Leverage Episode 1:50:26

1M ago1:50:26

1:50:26

‘Ello there fellow innits and +44s! As of next week, this podcast will be focused solely on the care worker industry, with tips and tricks on how best to get a geriatric patient to stop calling you slurs while you try to give her medication. Until then, our dialogue is focused on the riveting topics of streaming services, bad reviews about sadza sp…

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From Prompts to Policies: How RL Builds Better AI Agents with Mahesh Sathiamoorthy - #731 1:01:25

1M ago1:01:25

1:01:25

Today, we're joined by Mahesh Sathiamoorthy, co-founder and CEO of Bespoke Labs, to discuss how reinforcement learning (RL) is reshaping the way we build custom agents on top of foundation models. Mahesh highlights the crucial role of data curation, evaluation, and error analysis in model performance, and explains why RL offers a more robust altern…

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The Mind The Gap Episode 1:50:26

1M ago1:50:26

1:50:26

Everyone relax and send some white smoke up the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, they’re back! Brand new episode of your favourite podcast to listen to so you amp yourself up to fight a gorilla. Dan & Phil are (somewhat) apologetic for missing a couple episodes, but the energy is the same like they never left! Hypothetical animal-based chats, best wr…

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How OpenAI Builds AI Agents That Think and Act with Josh Tobin - #730 1:07:27

1M ago1:07:27

1:07:27

Today, we're joined by Josh Tobin, member of technical staff at OpenAI, to discuss the company’s approach to building AI agents. We cover OpenAI's three agentic offerings—Deep Research for comprehensive web research, Operator for website navigation, and Codex CLI for local code execution. We explore OpenAI’s shift from simple LLM workflows to reaso…

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CTIBench: Evaluating LLMs in Cyber Threat Intelligence with Nidhi Rastogi - #729 56:18

2M ago56:18

56:18

Today, we're joined by Nidhi Rastogi, assistant professor at Rochester Institute of Technology to discuss Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), focusing on her recent project CTIBench—a benchmark for evaluating LLMs on real-world CTI tasks. Nidhi explains the evolution of AI in cybersecurity, from rule-based systems to LLMs that accelerate analysis by p…

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Generative Benchmarking with Kelly Hong - #728 54:17

2M ago54:17

54:17

In this episode, Kelly Hong, a researcher at Chroma, joins us to discuss "Generative Benchmarking," a novel approach to evaluating retrieval systems, like RAG applications, using synthetic data. Kelly explains how traditional benchmarks like MTEB fail to represent real-world query patterns and how embedding models that perform well on public benchm…

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The Buy What You Cell Episode 2:11:34

2M ago2:11:34

2:11:34

The end of another week means the end of all your problems! For now, at least, so we celebrate with a brand new episode of the only podcast to be 100% tariff-free in all countries! Dan & Phil talk YN’s, Zim Hip-Hop and Zimdancehall in the context of international exposure and collaborations, conspiracy theories about tariffs and all-female space cr…

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Exploring the Biology of LLMs with Circuit Tracing with Emmanuel Ameisen - #727 1:34:06

2M ago1:34:06

1:34:06

In this episode, Emmanuel Ameisen, a research engineer at Anthropic, returns to discuss two recent papers: "Circuit Tracing: Revealing Language Model Computational Graphs" and "On the Biology of a Large Language Model." Emmanuel explains how his team developed mechanistic interpretability methods to understand the internal workings of Claude by rep…

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The Kindly Nxsh Episode 1:16:38

2M ago1:16:38

1:16:38

In a special episode of the podcast, the 2 uncs, Dan & Phil, sit down with a YN from South Africa with a lot of motion behind him. Kindly Nxsh is originally Zimbabwean, and he’s the hottest property in the new wave of SA Hip-Hop. Fresh off his collaborations with Nasty C & Blxckie, the 2BT Bump is sure to take him to even greater heights. Enjoy thi…

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Teaching LLMs to Self-Reflect with Reinforcement Learning with Maohao Shen - #726 51:45

2M ago51:45

51:45

Today, we're joined by Maohao Shen, PhD student at MIT to discuss his paper, “Satori: Reinforcement Learning with Chain-of-Action-Thought Enhances LLM Reasoning via Autoregressive Search.” We dig into how Satori leverages reinforcement learning to improve language model reasoning—enabling model self-reflection, self-correction, and exploration of a…

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The Where The Hood Tax Episode 1:21:51

2M ago1:21:51

1:21:51

Fear not! The 2 Broke Twimbos are back once again, with maybe a new setup for video? Like, feedback please on the sound (and video for those who see it). Dan & Phil celebrate singers, worry about the fight brewing between ZIMURA & National Arts Council, and muse out loud on live music, including the Queens Sports Club situation! Enjoy! Subscribe an…

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Waymo's Foundation Model for Autonomous Driving with Drago Anguelov - #725 1:09:07

3M ago1:09:07

1:09:07

Today, we're joined by Drago Anguelov, head of AI foundations at Waymo, for a deep dive into the role of foundation models in autonomous driving. Drago shares how Waymo is leveraging large-scale machine learning, including vision-language models and generative AI techniques to improve perception, planning, and simulation for its self-driving vehicl…

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The Ghiblets and Gizzards Episode 1:39:04

3M ago1:39:04

1:39:04

Brand new pod, Dan & Phil have a whole year's worth of events to discuss that happened in one week. From jailed podcasters to problematic rappers to ChatGPT's new native image generation and discussions about copyright, there's a lot to digest. Enjoy! Subscribe and listen to 2 Broke Twimbos everywhere podcasts are available and keep up with all thi…

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Dynamic Token Merging for Efficient Byte-level Language Models with Julie Kallini - #724 50:32

3M ago50:32

50:32

Today, we're joined by Julie Kallini, PhD student at Stanford University to discuss her recent papers, “MrT5: Dynamic Token Merging for Efficient Byte-level Language Models” and “Mission: Impossible Language Models.” For the MrT5 paper, we explore the importance and failings of tokenization in large language models—including inefficient compression…

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The Balon Abroad Episode 1:07:28

3M ago1:07:28

1:07:28

Early drop! Dan & Phil link up with something short (by our standards) and sweet (by your standards) for this week's episode, where they talk some sports ball, before voicing thoughts about the entertainment scene in Zimbabwe and the rest of the world. Enjoy! Subscribe and listen to 2 Broke Twimbos everywhere podcasts are available and keep up with…

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Scaling Up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning with Jonas Geiping - #723 58:38

3M ago58:38

58:38

Today, we're joined by Jonas Geiping, research group leader at Ellis Institute and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems to discuss his recent paper, “Scaling up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach.” This paper proposes a novel language model architecture which uses recurrent depth to enable “thinking in l…

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The Taxation Without Saxation Episode 2:17:07

3M ago2:17:07

2:17:07

Attention all pothole-swimmers! Dan & Phil return with a fresh episode of one of the last few podcasts that is still free to listen to without a license. The diligent duo call Deputy Director of ZIMURA, Henry Makombe, to explain the new license fees for performing artists doing covers of songs in Zim, after which they discuss the problems facing am…

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Imagine while Reasoning in Space: Multimodal Visualization-of-Thought with Chengzu Li - #722 42:11

3M ago42:11

42:11

Today, we're joined by Chengzu Li, PhD student at the University of Cambridge to discuss his recent paper, “Imagine while Reasoning in Space: Multimodal Visualization-of-Thought.” We explore the motivations behind MVoT, its connection to prior work like TopViewRS, and its relation to cognitive science principles such as dual coding theory. We dig i…

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The Hot And Heavy Episode 2:32:14

3M ago2:32:14

2:32:14

The soundtrack to the end of the world is back! Dan & Phil link up once again, no long arguments this time, promise, and they give an in-depth review fresh from Zimbabwe's biggest awards show - The NAMAs, they talk about The Oscars, some recent AI music videos in Zim music, and some new music in general, enjoy! Subscribe and listen to 2 Broke Twimb…

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Inside s1: An o1-Style Reasoning Model That Cost Under $50 to Train with Niklas Muennighoff - #721 49:29

4M ago49:29

49:29

Today, we're joined by Niklas Muennighoff, a PhD student at Stanford University, to discuss his paper, “S1: Simple Test-Time Scaling.” We explore the motivations behind S1, as well as how it compares to OpenAI's O1 and DeepSeek's R1 models. We dig into the different approaches to test-time scaling, including parallel and sequential scaling, as well…

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Accelerating AI Training and Inference with AWS Trainium2 with Ron Diamant - #720 1:07:05

4M ago1:07:05

1:07:05

Today, we're joined by Ron Diamant, chief architect for Trainium at Amazon Web Services, to discuss hardware acceleration for generative AI and the design and role of the recently released Trainium2 chip. We explore the architectural differences between Trainium and GPUs, highlighting its systolic array-based compute design, and how it balances per…

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The Some Unsexy Shouting For You Episode 2:28:48

4M ago2:28:48

2:28:48

Dan & Phil make it through the haters trying to block the podcast release with a brand new episode on your headtop! Big argument in the beginning about balancing being offline and available for opportunities, before the belated response to the responses from the Superbowl Halftime Show. The duo also talk about the recently announced NAMA nomination…

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π0: A Foundation Model for Robotics with Sergey Levine - #719 52:30

4M ago52:30

52:30

Today, we're joined by Sergey Levine, associate professor at UC Berkeley and co-founder of Physical Intelligence, to discuss π0 (pi-zero), a general-purpose robotic foundation model. We dig into the model architecture, which pairs a vision language model (VLM) with a diffusion-based action expert, and the model training "recipe," emphasizing the ro…

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The African Podcast Landscape Ft. 6 Ft Weights x Black And Forth 1:32:15

4M ago1:32:15

1:32:15

Comrades! Consider this a peace offering! The 2 Broke Twimbos were part of a panel celebrating Africa Podcast Day this week courtesy of Afripods, together with Thabo & Sena of 6 Ft Weights & King Kandoro of Black & Forth. So after a brief intro and some noise, enjoy the discussion and shots thrown at YOU the listener. Subscribe and listen to 2 Brok…

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AI Trends 2025: AI Agents and Multi-Agent Systems with Victor Dibia - #718 1:44:59

4M ago1:44:59

1:44:59

Today we’re joined by Victor Dibia, principal research software engineer at Microsoft Research, to explore the key trends and advancements in AI agents and multi-agent systems shaping 2025 and beyond. In this episode, we discuss the unique abilities that set AI agents apart from traditional software systems–reasoning, acting, communicating, and ada…

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The 5 for 25 Episode 2:20:35

4M ago2:20:35

2:20:35

Brand new episode from your 2 favs, Dan & Phil link up to compare in-depth notes from the Grammy Awards. One of the better awards shows in recent memories, and there were so many talking points to get into, from Kendrick Lamar to Beyonce to Tems to Chappel Roan to Sabrina Carpenter... Phil breaks down the drama around the Emilia Perez movie, and as…

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Speculative Decoding and Efficient LLM Inference with Chris Lott - #717 1:16:30

4M ago1:16:30

1:16:30

Today, we're joined by Chris Lott, senior director of engineering at Qualcomm AI Research to discuss accelerating large language model inference. We explore the challenges presented by the LLM encoding and decoding (aka generation) and how these interact with various hardware constraints such as FLOPS, memory footprint and memory bandwidth to limit…

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The Deep Fleece Episode

5M ago

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The boys are back, and ooooooh what a week to be the world's official tech ombudsmen! Dan & Phil break down the whole situation with Deepseek R1 and the world of AI! They also take some time to address the DJ Akademiks situation, and basically all round deliver jokes, fashion policing, shrewd insights and raw emotion. Enjoy! Subscribe and listen to…

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