Best Bridges And Bytes Podcasts (2025)

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Bio Bytes 44: AI to Bridge Biology and Medicine with Dr. Nima Aghaeepour 37:12

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Dr. Nima Aghaeepour, Professor at Stanford University, discusses the nuances of working with clinical data, ways predictive models can add value to physicians and drive behavioral change, and the process of spinning scientific ideas out into startups.

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The Dirt on Biogas 17:02

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In this episode of Power Bytes, we explore how biogas is turning organic waste into revenue. From dairy farms to landfills and local communities, discover how this solution is bringing reliable energy to communities worldwide. Email us: [email protected] LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/cat-electric-power/ Facebook: https://www.facebook…

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#64 Why we hate recycling with Elaine Brown and Ross Cockburn 55:42

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Elaine and Ross hate recycling. Both know first hand about our computers’ and smartphones’ life. About the wasted opportunities to better use the precious resources into it. Elaine Brown is the CEO of the Edinburgh Remakery who refurbished 295 laptops last year. She’s also a keen expert on the right to repair issues. Ross Cockburn is the Trustee of…

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#63.b AI & Energy Efficiency: just follow the money? with Anne Currie 35:38

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Anne Currie is the co-author of the acclaimed O’Reilly book “Building Green Software”, a pillar of the GSF, a veteran in the Cloud Industry and also a SF novelist with her series of panopticon books. Preparing her forthcoming keynote at Green IO London, she went all the way down into the rabbit hole of AI and energy efficiency. She investigated fro…

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Bio Bytes 43 [BenchtoBedside Series]: Pediatric Cardiology and AI with Dr. Son Duong 29:58

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In this episode of BenchtoBedside, Dr. Son Duong, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at the Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Heart Center and Icahn School of Medicine, discusses pediatric cardiology and the evolving role of AI within the speciality. He highlights how machine learning and AI tools can democratize …

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#63a AI & Energy Efficiency: why was DeepSeek a defining moment? with Anne Currie 41:45

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Anne Currie is the co-author of the acclaimed O’Reilly book “Building Green Software”, a pillar of the GSF, a veteran in the Cloud Industry and also a SF novelist with her series of panopticon books. Preparing her forthcoming keynote at Green IO London, she went all the way down into the rabbit hole of AI and energy efficiency. She investigated fro…

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Brandon Powers on dance, technology, immersive experiences, reframing the role of the audience, working with engineers, and the importance of translation 45:00

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A chat with New York-based creative director and choreographer, Brandon Powers. Brandon works with technology to create experiences across physical and virtual spaces. We talked about his early experiences with technology, inter-disciplinary teams, the various ways that technology and virtual spaces can enhance and extend experiences for both artis…

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The TCO Survival Guide 20:30

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In this episode of Power Bytes, we explore why understanding the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is critical for businesses relying on generator sets for prime power. From fuel efficiency and maintenance strategies to predictive technologies and regulatory compliance, we break down hidden costs that impact long-term performance and profitability. Lea…

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#62 Thirsty datacenters in the heart of Silicon Valley with Masheika Allgood 49:04

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A month ago, Google released its 2024 sustainability report. Its overall water consumption increased by 28% in a year. Less publicized than the data center energy boom, water is also pivotal for the Tech industry and data is even scarcer. To better understand this secret but serious love affair between big tech and water, what better location to in…

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Turning Up the Heat: Microgrids & Chilies 18:43

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In this episode of the Power Bytes podcast, Neil Smith discusses the significant demand for microgrid solutions, especially for rural electrification, and highlights how these projects can drastically improve quality of life in communities. He also shares insights on the Nagaland project, which aims to help bring sustainable energy to remote areas,…

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Neil Williams (BFI) on transforming organisations through digital, comparisons between the civil service and the cultural sector, working in the open, and intentionally not empire-building 57:19

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A conversation recorded in-person (hurray!) with the BFI's Exec Director of Technology and Digital Transformation, Neil Williams. Neil writes a regular 'fortnight notes' post on his blog, which you can find here neilojwilliams.netBy Digital Works

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#61 Scaling Green Software with Anita Schüttler 49:16

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What does it take to go beyond raising awareness in green software? To avoid checking just boxes? What is required to scale green software practices in a company? To discuss these issues, Gaël Duez welcomes Anita Schüttler on this episode “from the trenches”. Anita is a seasoned software engineer and expert on digital sustainability. She works as H…

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The Power Struggle: Disruptors, Developers, and the Future of Power 19:30

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In this episode of the Power Bytes Podcast, host Ryan Karlin sits down with Brandon Lynn, Caterpillar Electric Power’s Global Director of Business Development, to discuss the growing role of distributed generation and how industries are adapting to enhance operational efficiencies and achieve their goals. Email us: [email protected] LinkedIn: http…

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#60 Why Tech companies should not deprioritize future readiness with Rainer Karcher 49:37

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“Climate activist in a suit”. This is how Rainer Karcher describes himself. It is an endless debate between people advocating for the system to change from the outside and those willing to change it from the inside. In this episode Gaël Duez welcomes a strong advocate of moving the corporate world into the right direction from within? Having spent …

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Tash Willcocks (TPX Impact) on navigating uncertainty, intellectual humility, leadership in turbulent times, why zebras don't get ulcers, the importance of structure in enabling agility, how to actually ... 56:03

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A wide-ranging chat with Tash Willcocks (Head of Learning Design at TPX Impact) on organisational culture, leadership, and how to deal with change and uncertainty. Tash mentioned a whole load of ideas, articles, books, and thinkers - a few of which I've linked to below: Tash's Medium lives here: https://medium.com/@tash-willcocks This is the first …

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#59 Debriefing Qcon Sustainability track with Erica Pisani 39:32

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How is sustainability covered in main tech conferences? Sure cybersecurity, DevOps, or anything related to SRE, is covered at length. Not to mention AI… But what room is left for the environmental impact of our job ? And what are the main trends which are filtered out from specialized conferences in Green IT such as Green IO, GreenTech Forum or eco…

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Bio BITES 42: Bites, Blood Meals, and Behavioral Switches: Decoding Mosquito Behavior with Dr. Duvall 43:44

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Even if mosquitoes make your skin crawl—or you think of them as nothing more than the flying, biting pests we all can’t stand—you'll be surprised by how fascinating they really are. In this episode of Bio Bytes, Dr. Laura Duvall, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, joins Celine to explore the surprising science behind…

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#58b Avoided emissions thanks to Tech: the Vinted use case with Laetitia Bornes - Part 2 39:15

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Why is the model of a Nobel prize winner not necessarily good science? What is “good” modelling? Is access to information enough to change a system behavior? This episode is the second part of a long interview with Laetitia Bornes, a Doctor in Human-Computer Interaction, Systems Engineering and Systemic Design who is one of the co-authors of a rese…

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Bio Bytes 41: From Bedside to Breakthrough: Dr. Rosenblatt on Innovation and Impact in Anesthesiology 40:42

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In this episode of Bio Bytes and our ongoing Bench to Bedside series, we learn about Dr. Meg Rosenblatt, Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at Mount Sinai Morningside and West and Professor of Anesthesiology. She is recognized as the first person to deliver 20% intralipid therapy to treat local anesthetic systemic toxicity in a patient. We e…

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#58a Avoided emissions thanks to Tech: the Vinted use case with Laetitia Bornes - Part 1 48:03

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Can a digital company be “carbon negative”? What should we think of these claims of “tons of carbon avoided” coming from 2nd hand platforms such as Vinted or Back Market? Dr Laetita Bornes conducted research on Vinted claims, investigating its data sources and the methodology used with her colleague David Ekchazer. Their findings were surprising, e…

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Beyond Backup: Financing the Future of Data Centers 22:03

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In this episode, host Ryan Karlin engages in a compelling conversation with Adam Brown, Senior Manager of Sales at Caterpillar Financial. They delve into the financial intricacies of the data center industry, highlighting key challenges such as extended lead times for grid connectivity and significant capital investments. Email us: [email protected]…

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#57 Greening Intelligence: Bridging Infrastructure and Governance for a Sustainable AI Future with Pr. PS Lee and Pr. Heng Wang 24:46

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Description “It's always a case of fit for purpose, or what we call a proper engineering.” Some down-to-earth facts and analysis were coined by Pr PS Lee, one of the world's top experts in liquid cooling - and Pr. Heng Wang - a renowned expert in digital governance - while cross-analysing Singapore’s main challenges from an infrastructure and gover…

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Bio Bytes 40: Engineering Novel Immune Circuits with Dr. Livnat Jerby 39:56

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Join us for a fascinating conversation with Dr. Livnat Jerby, an Assistant Professor of Genetics at Stanford University, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator, and Paul Allen Distinguished Investigator. In this episode, Dr. Jerby shares how her lab is decoding and engineering immune circuits to create next-generation cell therapies, drawing on high-t…

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#56 Building Green Software, the one year anniversary with Sarah Hsu 49:10

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A year ago, Building Green Software was released by O’Reilly. Since Tim Frick’s book “Designing for sustainability” (8 years ago!), O’Reilly didn’t publish anything fully focusing on sustainability. So, it’s a fair statement that this book was long awaited. But a year is an eternity in IT. This is why Sarah Hsu, one of its 3 co-authors as well as t…

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Emma Keith (National Theatre) on NT Live, remote audiences, experimentation, learning, thinking about value, leadership, and the importance of pilots 56:27

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A great chat with the National Theatre's outgoing Managing Director - Digital, Emma Keith. We talked about how digital practice has developed at the NT and how that differs from other performing arts organisations. The history of the NT Live programme, and the importance of pilots and testing ideas. The hidden value of digital infrastructure, remot…

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#55 Decarbonizing Kubernetes with Flavia Paganelli and Niki Manoledaki 44:41

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Did containerisation ship away our environmental responsibility? Containers come with the promise of automation, scalability and reliability. The question is how to add sustainability to the list without breaking its other benefits. To talk about these challenges, Gaël Duez welcomes Flavia Paganelli and Niki Manoledaki, 2 experts in Kubernetes who …

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# 54 Agility and Sustainability with Joanna Masraff and Joanne Stone 48:44

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"We are 100% convinced that IT sustainability matters but we can’t add more non business requirements, we have agile teams." This often heard sentence from product managers or CPOs, led to this dedicated episode on agility and sustainability where host Gaël Duez welcomes 2 seasoned agile coaches: Joanne Stone, the founder of Agilist 4 planet and th…

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Beks Leary (National Gallery) on the challenges & opportunities of working in larger vs smaller teams, different ways of thinking about audiences, and the value of building meaningful relationships with ... 31:35

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A chat with Beks Leary, Senior Social Media and Content Lead at the National Gallery in London. We talked about Beks's career, which has encompassed working at a diverse range of organisations including the Bush Theatre, BBC, and National Theatre before Beks's current role at the National Gallery. Beks explained the opportunities and challenges tha…

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#53 Scaling GreenOps at Back Market with Dawn Baker 37:03

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Changing its Cloud provider is never small potatoes, especially when a platform operates up to 40,000 containers and has about 4 million unique visitors a day to its website. Yet Back Market made the move from AWS to Google Cloud Platform motivated primarily by … sustainability concerns! In this episode its CTO, Dawn Backer, chats with Gaël Duez an…

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#52 Sustainability at WordPress: an update with Csaba Varszegi, Nahuai Badiola, and Nora Ferreiros 47:46

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“Today I learned that we have a sustainability team.Thank you for your effort in this area, looking at results of the team so far, and the ROI of time invested, it's probably a good time to officially dissolve the team entirely”. In 3 sentences, almost 3 years of work from the WordPress Sustainability Group vanished and their Slack channel archived…

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Mike Keating (Art Fund) on the collaborative development of AI policy, balancing the priorities of being both a membership and sector support organisation, and the impact of COVID on Art Fund's digital ... 35:44

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A conversation with Art Fund's Associate Director of Digital Experience, Mike Keating. Most of our chat focused on Mike's relatively recent work in developing Art Fund's first AI policy. The collaborative, open, and pragmatic approach that Mike and colleagues took to this work feels like a useful model that other cultural organisations could borrow…

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#51 Exploring the digital revolution paradox from a UN perspective with Paz Pena and Pablo José Gamez Cersosimo 56:41

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It’s a 252 pages report with the foreword of António Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, talking about digitalization and sustainability. And, for once, it’s not another report from the UN stating “let’s digitize everything to boost sustainability”. Quite the contrary as it states a “unequal ecological exchange between developed …

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Bio Bytes 39 [BenchtoBedside Series]: Biomedical Informatics in Neurocritical Care with Dr. Soojin Park 23:18

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Join us for an illuminating discussion with Dr. Soojin Park, an Associate Professor of Neurology (in Biomedical informatics) and an Associate Attending Physician at Columbia University. Dr. Park discusses her career trajectory in neurocritical care and biomedical informatics as well as the potential of machine learning techniques to leverage clinic…

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#12 Implementing AI Agents—From Vision to Execution 46:03

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In this episode of 'AI Demystified for Executives,' host Andrew Psaltis provides a comprehensive guide on implementing AI agents within organizations. The discussion includes aligning AI strategies with business goals, scoping use cases, and identifying tasks suitable for automation. Practical advice is offered on the build versus buy dilemma, pilo…

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Bio Bytes 38 [BenchtoBedside Series]: Biomedical Informatics with Dr. George Hripcsak 33:51

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Join us for an enlightening conversation with Dr. George Hripcsak, the Vivian Beaumont Allen Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University. Dr. Hripcsak shares insights regarding his research in biomedical informatics, focusing on how data from electronic health records can be leveraged to transform clinical research and patient care. …

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#11 - Understanding AI Agents 39:50

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This episode of 'AI Demystified for Executives' explores the concept of AI agents, highlighting their fundamental differences from traditional chatbots and automation tools. Host Andrew Saltz describes AI agents as autonomous, decision-making software entities that can sense and respond to their environment, operate independently, and improve with …

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#50 Is Eroom's law the future of Moore's law? with Tristan Nitot 44:27

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Moore’s law is dead! Long live Eroom’s law! This provocative statement from Tristan Nitot highlights the pivotal role of software engineers in our journey as an industry toward a sustainable and more frugal digital world. The majority of our old devices, from smartphones to desktop, still work. How come that we waste such a massive gathering of pre…

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7. Season in Review 33:14

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Welcome to the season-in-review episode. Thank you for coming along on this journey with us where UCD engineering students investigate AI use in university assessments. In this episode, Ashly Antony and Derin Gurman review the main highlights from each episode, as well as some tips and tricks for those of you who have been inspired to try to use AI…

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#10 - Deep Dive - The AI Usage Gap: From Shadow Innovation to Strategic Advantage 31:26

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This episode covers three key themes: the gap between individual AI use and organizational strategy, the hidden potential of 'shadow AI,' and transitioning from ad hoc to strategic AI usage. It highlights communication, trust, and implementation as critical gaps hindering AI adoption and provides actionable steps for building an AI-ready culture. T…

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#49 How to actually do Green Software in my company? with Annie Freeman 36:25

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Have you ever heard “The complaint of the lonely sustainability champion”? Its IT sector version? Here it is “I listen to the Green IO podcast and others as well, I read newsletters and articles from CAT, GWF, Boavizta, Greenit.fr, GSF, etc. But I’m isolated as a green software champion. I have the feeling that I cannot achieve much by myself. How …

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6. Individual Assignments 23:27

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This episode explores the blurred lines between using AI as a helpful tool for research and crossing into plagiarism in individual assignments. On one hand, AI can streamline research and enhance learning but also raises concerns about diminishing critical thinking and the risk of over-reliance. Hosts: Bharath Radharkrishnan, Harinee Shanmugam and …

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#48 - Greening the video game industry with Ben Abraham and Maria Wagner 53:23

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3 billion gamers worldwide, billions of devices, terabytes of data streamed, the gaming industry comes with pretty big numbers starting with its $455 billion sales in 2023. Is its environmental footprint as big? (Not) fun fact, not a single executive in this sector could answer the question. A new non-profit initiative, the Sustainable Gaming Allia…

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#9 - Quick Bytes: The AI Usage Gap: From Shadow Innovation to Strategic Advantage 9:31

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This episode explores how organizations can bridge the gap between individual AI innovation and a cohesive organizational AI strategy. Highlighting studies that show a significant percentage of marketers and journalists using AI informally, it emphasizes the need for clear communication and governance to mitigate risks and capture innovation. The d…

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5. Reflective Assignments 24:16

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This episode examines the unique power of reflective assignments (journals, logs diaries), which, when done properly, require the genuine thoughts and feelings of students—something AI can’t truly replicate. However, the discussion also acknowledges the risk of AI being used to craft reflections. Listen in for a nuanced exploration of how reflectio…

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#8 RAG Deep Dive: Transforming Business with Retrieval Augmented Generation 36:55

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This episode of the AI Demystified for Executives podcast delves into Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and its strategic importance for businesses. It covers the components of a RAG system, various use cases such as enhancing productivity and speeding up onboarding, and the challenges and steps for implementation. Real-world examples, like Morg…

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Bio Bytes 37: Academia, Scientific Publishing, and Translational Research in Targeted Protein Degradation with Michele Pagano 47:11

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Michele Pagano, Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at NYU School of Medicine, takes us through his groundbreaking research on the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System and Cullin-RING Ligases. As a leading Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Professor Pagano shares insights into targeted protein degradation…

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141 Discovering Beauty in the Finest Details | Kerim Miskavi 16:43

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In this episode, Longitude fellow Jessica Shi from Rice University narrates remarks from Kerim Miskavi, Architect and Founder of MAS Architecture Studio in Istanbul. See transcript at: https://longitude.site/discovering-beauty-in-the-finest-details/ We hope you enjoy our episodes and share them with friends. This podcast is a production of Longitud…

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#7 - RAG: Bridging AI and Business Data for Executives - Quick Bytes 8:35

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In this podcast episode, host Andrew Psaltis of Dragonfly Risings School of Data discusses how executives can leverage Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to make AI systems business ready. Highlighting the benefits of RAG and practical applications to help you understand how you can apply this to your business.…

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#6 - Unlocking Business Value with Vector Databases – A Deep Dive 36:14

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This episode of the AI Demystified for Executives podcast, presented by Dragonfly Risings School of Data and hosted by Andrew Psaltis, dives deep into the concept of vector databases. Discussing their importance in applying AI to business contexts, the episode explores the fundamentals of vector databases, their embedding models, and their applicat…

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140 The Elegance of Formulation | Luay Nakhleh 25:01

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In this episode, Longitude fellow Helen Citino from Rice University narrates remarks from Luay Nakhleh, Dean of Engineering at Rice University. See transcript at: https://longitude.site/the-elegance-of-formulation/ We hope you enjoy our episodes and share them with friends. This podcast is a production of Longitude.site, a 501(c)3 nonprofit charita…