Uncanny Japan is a podcast about all the more obscure corners of old Japan, from strange superstitions, cultural curiosities, to creepy creatures. Here you can discover all the lesser known gems that author Thersa Matsuura digs up while doing research for her writing. Every episode is uniquely soothing, brought to life by immersive sound design or relaxing binaural soundscapes (ocean waves, autumn crickets, rice field frogs) all recorded right here in Japan. Thersa Matsuura is a writer, folk ...
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Everly Heights, Ohio—where the past clings like smoke, and every escape route loops you back to Main Street. In each standalone episode of this scripted anthology, you'll hear stories set in Everly Heights about growing up, breaking down, and being pulled back to where it all began. Equal parts quirky and tender, these stories drift between the uncanny and the everyday—haunted theaters, fractured families, strange friendships, and the kind of hometown lore that follows you long after you’ve ...
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Set in the nineteen-thirties, From Within weaves an epistolary tale of terror and loss through the letters and journals of those who survived... and some who did not. Season one follows Sheriff Flynn, Dr. Cooper, and Hattie Ogle as they and their fellow residents of the township of Blightwood endure a threat beyond the reach of their comprehension. Something lurks in the hills and coves that surround the isolated mountain community. Something violent, uncanny, and hungry.
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no. 1 meme girl in tech explains what it's like to live in San Francisco. Uncanny Valley is a mixed bag of humor, music, tech, design, and of course, Product Hunt.
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If Between Two Ferns and C-SPAN had a child, it would be All Quiet on the Second Front. Blending the very best (and the worst) of government gravitas with technical expertise, Second Front’s Chief Executive Officer, Tyler Sweatt, cuts through the noise and the bureaucratic BS surrounding all things defense tech, national security, and government markets. Be warned: this is not your typical military or government podcast. As host, Tyler has an uncanny ability to get people to talk honestly, m ...
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The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)
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Machine learning and artificial intelligence are dramatically changing the way businesses operate and people live. The TWIML AI Podcast brings the top minds and ideas from the world of ML and AI to a broad and influential community of ML/AI researchers, data scientists, engineers and tech-savvy business and IT leaders. Hosted by Sam Charrington, a sought after industry analyst, speaker, commentator and thought leader. Technologies covered include machine learning, artificial intelligence, de ...
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Humorous and surreal short stories and audio dramas read and performed by humans. || Multi Dimension Independent Film Festival "Best Podcast Stories" Winner Written and performed by Bram Stoker Award Finalist and Clarion West 2015 Graduate Thersa Matsuura and audio engineer Rich Pav.
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Listen in as speculative fiction writer and Bram Stoker Award Finalist and Clarion West 2015 Graduate Thersa Matsuura reads and shares some great tales. Each episode aims to showcase the most immersive storytelling with both classics and Thersa's own writing accompanied by high quality soundscapes created for hours of relaxation. Also check out her other podcast, Uncanny Japan for Japanese folklore, folktales, cultural tidbits and superstitions!
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Every year Jonathan and Douglas dust off their podcasting mics and sit down to predict the year ahead with uncanny accuracy. Just two guys. So kick back and settle in for an enjoyable listen. Pro tip: listen to the most recent episode.
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Prepare to enter an amazing world of suspense and high adventure. Join us for continuing chapters of serialized excitement.
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Every five minutes, a transplant candidate dies while waiting for a compatible heart, liver, or kidney. Imagine a technology that could provide those life-saving transplant organs for a high price, and imagine what a company would do to monopolize that technology. On a remote island in Lake Superior, a team of geneticists has unlocked this holy grail of medicine. By reverse-engineering thousands of genomes, they dial back the evolutionary clock to re-create the progenitor of all mammals. The ...
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Comic book nerds Assemble! In each episode, we discuss one superhero, character, villain, team, or ensemble from comic books, comics history, and their impact on our society. Join Chris and Lance as they have an equally nerdy and informative chat about comic book characters, comic creators, best stories, powers or abilities, media appearances, and what if scenarios. Marvel, DC, Image, Dark Horse BOOM!, IDW, and more! New episodes every Wednesday.
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Noone, a timid young girl, is committed to The Counties Psychiatric Institute due to her ever-worsening nightmare disorder. She is placed under the care of The Counsellor who has dedicated his life to helping kids overcome their ailments, himself a product of childhood trauma. As Noone recounts her nightly torments during their sessions together, it becomes clear that her dreams unfold with a sinister life of their own. When The Counsellor realizes that her nightmares bear uncanny similariti ...
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AI Orchestration for Smart Cities and the Enterprise with Robin Braun and Luke Norris - #755
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54:46Today, we're joined by Robin Braun, VP of AI business development for hybrid cloud at HPE, and Luke Norris, co-founder and CEO of Kamiwaza, to discuss how AI systems can be used to automate complex workflows and unlock value from legacy enterprise data. Robin and Luke detail high-impact use cases from HPE and Kamiwaza’s collaboration on an “Agentic…
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Get ready to fight for peace by any means necessary. This chrome helmeted hero burst onto the scene in The Suicide Squad and got his own spin off show, but he's actually been around for over 50 years! Dive in to the history and origins of Peacemaker, powers, reading recommendations, and adaptations as we learn more about Christopher Smith. Episode …
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The Trials of King Sparrow: Left to the Wolves
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1:07:30When King Sparrow is betrayed by his most trusted captain, a monarch of the skies is cast to the ground, doomed to wander the forest broken, alone, and certain his reign is over. Struggling through a merciless winter, the injured bird fights to find his way back to his Queen, his host, and the life Captain Sparrow ripped away from him. A fairy tale…
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Isolated with no means to communicate with the outside world, Horace and the other survivors must attempt a desperate trek through miles of wilderness before nightfall.By Superhappy Productions
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DC: The New Frontier (CBK Book Club)
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1:19:05The CBK Book Club returns to discuss one of the best DC runs in recent history, DC: The New Frontier! Lance and Jeremy (The Geekly Grind) share their thoughts and takeaways from Darwyn Cooke and Dave Stewart's masterpiece. The New Frontier brilliantly serves as an allegory for social injustice and political change during the 1940s and 1950s in the …
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Love @ Night with Bernie Love (featuring Dave Theune)
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38:07Settle in, cool cats and kittens, for Love @ Night on WART-FM broadcasting LIVE from Everly Heights. Your host, Bernie Love, is live and on the line to help you find your ideal match, keep that spark alive, and make amends when you inevitably mess it up. The evening kicks off with a special remote broadcast featuring three colorful Milwaukee locals…
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Building an AI Mathematician with Carina Hong - #754
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55:52In this episode, Carina Hong, founder and CEO of Axiom, joins us to discuss her work building an "AI Mathematician." Carina explains why this is a pivotal moment for AI in mathematics, citing a convergence of three key areas: the advanced reasoning capabilities of modern LLMs, the rise of formal proof languages like Lean, and breakthroughs in code …
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Hōichi the Earless: A Lafcadio Hearn Reading (Ep. 182)
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30:51A blind musician is summoned to perform in the darkness. But who is listening? And what terrible price awaits a moment's oversight? Today I read to you one of Lafcadio Hearn's most famous Japanese ghost stories: "Mimi-nashi Hōichi" or "The Earless Hōichi." Please Note: Some of the links are affiliate links (both Amazon and other). This means that a…
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A hunting party organized by the mayor travels deep into the mountain wilderness to trap or kill whatever is terrorizing the town. The experienced men are well-armed and provisioned, but soon find their task might prove more complex and dangerous than they realize. Listener's Discretion advised. If you are enjoying the show, please consider leaving…
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105. Zachary Long, Founder of ConductorAI
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25:42Government bureaucracy isn’t exactly the sexiest problem in defense—but it’s one of the most painful. In this episode, host Tyler Sweatt sits down with Zachary Long, Founder of ConductorAI and former Palantir leader, to unpack how his team is taking on one of the biggest bottlenecks in government operations: paperwork. From automating complex appro…
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What Empty Spaces Need (Audio Drama) (Ep. 181)
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26:55🎃 HALLOWEEN SPECIAL 🎃 This year's Halloween episode is a full-length audio drama based on the urban legend of Sukima-onna—the woman who watches from the gaps. An American English teacher in Japan loses everything: his job, his apartment, his passport. Drunk and desperate during a snowstorm, he finds shelter in an abandoned house. But he's not alone…
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In "The Quackening," Angela Craig is back in Everly Heights, and she's not happy about it. Sleeping in her old room and haunted by a fresh divorce from her gaslighting ex, Travis, her life is a mess. That is, until she has a bizarre run-in with Beatrix Knapp and her old high school bullies, "The Sparkles". They offer her a strange inheritance from …
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High-Efficiency Diffusion Models for On-Device Image Generation and Editing with Hung Bui - #753
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52:23In this episode, Hung Bui, Technology Vice President at Qualcomm, joins us to explore the latest high-efficiency techniques for running generative AI, particularly diffusion models, on-device. We dive deep into the technical challenges of deploying these models, which are powerful but computationally expensive due to their iterative sampling proces…
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Fed up with Sheriff Flynn’s lack of progress regarding the gruesome deaths, the town’s Mayor, Moses Owmby, takes matters into his own hands, much to Sheriff Flynn’s dismay. Meanwhile, Hattie Ogle has a most unusual encounter with a customer in her shop. Doctor Cooper attempts to inspect a patient and discovers instead a mystery. Listener discretion…
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Vibe Coding's Uncanny Valley with Alexandre Pesant - #752
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1:12:36Today, we're joined by Alexandre Pesant, AI lead at Lovable, who joins us to discuss the evolution and practice of vibe coding. Alex shares his take on how AI is enabling a shift in software development from typing characters to expressing intent, creating a new layer of abstraction similar to how high-level code compiles to machine code. We explor…
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Ame-onna - Rain Woman's Original Ghost Story (Ep. 180)
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27:13We're getting closer to Halloween. How about another ghost story? Ame-onna, the rain woman - a haggard looking thing, soaked to the bone, wandering rainy nights. There's lore about her, rumors, theories... but she doesn't have her own ghost story. So I fixed that. First, I'll tell you the fascinating history: from Toriyama Sekien's 18th century yok…
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104. Tyler Xuan Saltsman, Co-Founder and CEO of EdgeRunner AI
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26:49Tyler sits down with Tyler Xuan Saltsman, co-founder and CEO of EdgeRunner AI, to talk about building air-gapped, domain-specific AI for the warfighter. From his time as a Penn State wrestler and Army logistics officer to leading supercompute projects at AWS and Stability AI, Saltsman’s journey has been about speed, precision, and making technology…
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Sheriff Flynn and Dr. Cooper make a desperate search for a missing man, but to no avail. Once again, a resident falls victim to a violent death from the unknown menace. Someone, however, will soon have first-hand experience with the thing that stalks the town, and with that learns just how strange and terrible it is. Additional voices by Strother S…
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Clara, a devoted usher at the historic Cornerstone Theater uncovers a chilling secret hidden within its velvet seats: a mysterious power that lets audience members live their best life. When curiosity gets the best of her, Clara is drawn into a fairy tale fantasy that feels more real than her own life. But as the mysterious Zarvan winds her up, she…
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Assorted Crisis Events (CBK Book Club)
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1:12:55Welcome to the debut episode of our latest series, the Comic Book Keepers Book Club! At least once a month we will be bringing you an in-depth discussion breaking down comic runs, one-shots or graphic novels ranging from the iconic and beloved to the weird and wacky. Lance and Jeremy (The Geekly Grind) will be spearheading this new endeavor, while …
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Dataflow Computing for AI Inference with Kunle Olukotun - #751
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57:37In this episode, we're joined by Kunle Olukotun, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford University and co-founder and chief technologist at Sambanova Systems, to discuss reconfigurable dataflow architectures for AI inference. Kunle explains the core idea of building computers that are dynamically configured to match th…
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After the terrible discovery high in the mountains, Sheriff Flynn reflects on his past. Dr. Cooper travels to examine a fellow veteran from the Great War, one who bears deep scars, both physical and emotional. Later on, at the town’s Winter Carnival, Hattie overhears some disturbing information regarding the deaths of some local men. Additional Voi…
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Tonight, my ghoulish guests, we crack open a chilling case of sorority sisterhood gone horribly flat! When Madison invites her frenemy Faith down to the basement for a taste of an exclusive new White Claw flavor, things get bubbly in all the wrong ways. One sip too many, and the claws really come out... A wickedly funny tale of basic witches, haunt…
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Paul Zaloom on Beakman’s World, Puppetry, and the Art of Curiosity
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1:14:00In this bonus episode of Everly Heights Tales, I talk to an actor I have an awful lot of nostalgia for: Paul Zaloom, best known as Beakman from the hit ’90s educational series Beakman’s World. This hour-long interview traces Zaloom’s journey from his own “Everly Heights,” Garden City in New York state, to his work in avant-garde theater and puppetr…
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Recurrence and Attention for Long-Context Transformers with Jacob Buckman - #750
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57:23Today, we're joined by Jacob Buckman, co-founder and CEO of Manifest AI to discuss achieving long context in transformers. We discuss the bottlenecks of scaling context length and recent techniques to overcome them, including windowed attention, grouped query attention, and latent space attention. We explore the idea of weight-state balance and the…
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Japan's Most Famous Ghost: My Retelling of Oiwa and the Yotsuya Kaidan (Ep. 179)
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34:25By SpectreVision Radio
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103. Andrew Black, Co-Founder and CEO of Kovr.ai
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30:06By Second Front
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Sheriff Lester Flynn, Dr. Cooper, and assorted deputies travel to the remote highlands in search of a missing hunting party. What they discover reveals something has come to their mountain home… Something dangerous. Additional voices provided by Strother Stingley, Tippen, Adam Arthur, and David Broshar. Listener discretion advised. If you are enjoy…
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Still reeling from the death of her father, Hattie Ogle sets about to put the business she inherited back in order. As she does, she learns one of her late father’s loyal employees may not be so loyal after all. Meanwhile, far off in the highlands, an isolated sheep herder makes a grisly discovery. Additional voices provided by Charles Mills and St…
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In the spirit of a classic 90s educational science show like Beakman's World or Mr. Wizard, "Hey, Marie Molecule!" follows a young girl named Eliza, who visits the titular scientist with an anxiety-fueled question: "Will my brother become a super-villain from an X-ray?". With the help of the good-natured Marie Molecule, Eliza learns all about scien…
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Set in the nineteen-thirties, From Within weaves an epistolary tale of terror and loss through the letters and journals of those who survived... And some who did not. Season one follows Sheriff Flynn, Dr. Cooper, and Hattie Ogle as they and their fellow residents of the township of Blightwood endure a threat beyond the reach of their comprehension.…
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The Decentralized Future of Private AI with Illia Polosukhin - #749
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1:05:03In this episode, Illia Polosukhin, a co-author of the seminal "Attention Is All You Need" paper and co-founder of Near AI, joins us to discuss his vision for building private, decentralized, and user-owned AI. Illia shares his unique journey from developing the Transformer architecture at Google to building the NEAR Protocol blockchain to solve glo…
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When failing salesman Don House returns to his hometown, he’s confronted by the ghosts of his past. This mini-musical follows a man as he reconnects with a troubled musician, a shady restaurant owner, and his first love, all while exploring if it's possible to ever truly go home again. And stick around for the aftershow where Bill Meeks dives deep …
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What kinda hare brained scheme are we up to? Yes friends, this episode is deep diving into a cartoony anthropomorphic character that might be a little off beat to some of you... Captain Carrot. Did you know that he's a DC character? Did you know that Grant Morrison wrote the comic for a bit? Did you know he has a whole team called the zoo crew? Wel…
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Making "Welcome, Freshmen", a Roundtable Discussion with the Cast
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1:04:18In this bonus episode, the cast of "Welcome, Freshmen" celebrates the final recording session with a virtual cast party! Join writer Bill Meeks and the voice actors behind the Special family—Laurin Skarr (Zara), Bill Meeks (Mr. Matheson, Ricky), Sean Siegler (Michael), Kristyna Zahrek (Abby), Howard F. Hulin (Mayor Brown/Ron Linus), Samuel Lewis (S…
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Inside Nano Banana 🍌 and the Future of Vision-Language Models with Oliver Wang - #748
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1:03:39Today, we’re joined by Oliver Wang, principal scientist at Google DeepMind and tech lead for Gemini 2.5 Flash Image—better known by its code name, “Nano Banana.” We dive into the development and capabilities of this newly released frontier vision-language model, beginning with the broader shift from specialized image generators to general-purpose m…
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102. Geoff Wylde, VP & General Manager of Ōura
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25:10On this episode of All Quiet on the Second Front, Tyler sits down with Geoff Wylde, VP and General Manager of ŌURA to talk about what happens when consumer tech collides with national security. What started as a global health project in 2019 quickly became a breakthrough for the U.S. military: using the ŌURA Ring to predict illness, monitor fatigue…
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Meet the Special family, a theater-loving, stoner couple and their three very different kids. It’s 1994, and Michael and Jennifer Special are just trying to help fund in the arts in their community, but their son Ricky is on the run from a school bully, and their daughter Zara is betting everything on a plan to start the school year as a popular gi…
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