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Brought to you by Meta. In addition to remaining active in the open source community and conference circuit, this podcast offers another channel that allows us to highlight the technical work of our engineers who will discuss everything from low-level frameworks to end-user features. Throughout the podcast, Meta engineer Pascal Hartig (@passy) will interview developers in the company.
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Generic Discussion

Generic Discussion Podcast

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A podcast dedicated to talking about any old generic topics that we feel fitting at the time of recording! Equipment/Software used: x2 Blue Microphones USB Yeti Microphone Audacity
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Another Generic Podcast

Another Generic Podcast

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Welcome to Another Generic Podcast. Hosted by Martin Tonner (@lookslikeanf) and Jack McPike (@jackmcpike), two of the worst podcast hosts imaginable. We only discuss important topics, at least we think we do.
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Agecast

Agecast

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Another Generic Entertainment Podcast is the brainchild of Codey Logan and Tj Hindley. With the help of Stuart Brazil and Kyle Fauber, no one can stop us.
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Nick, Katie and friends shoot the shit about social justice issues, politics and pop culture. We discuss current events and political issues from a progressive perspective that is pro-animal liberation, anti-racist, pro-feminist, pro-queer, pro-environment and anti-capitalist. Our podcast gives a voice to Left, progressive and anarchist voices and ideas that are neglected in the mainstream media.
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Blabbering: Babies!

Dan & Tilly Drummond

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Welcome to Blabbering A week by week glimpse into a couple stumbling through life with a newborn. I'm Tilly, and I'm Dan, we've been together for almost 9 years and have ticked off all the generic milestones - we met, we moved in, we got married, bought a house, got a dog and now ... A baby (technically our second as puppa was here first). Each week over dinner (you'll learn Tilly is quite the feeder) we'll discuss the realities of raising our baby, talking through the highs, lows, and hones ...
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Theodore Bolha

Theodore Bolha

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Welcome to the Theodore Bolha podcast, where I discuss philosophical ideas and topics related to sentient experience, consciousness, life, death, ethics, naturalism, atheism and more.
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Panel Jumpers

EmJekoAnalysis

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Panels Jumpers is a weekly podcast where Chris, Sean and a rotating list of guests discuss an old comic arc to death while also discussing the latest releases. All the while answering questions from you lovely listeners.
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Matt Bird (author of "The Secrets of Story: Innovative Tools for Perfecting Your Fiction and Captivating Readers") and James Kennedy (author of the novel "The Order of Odd-Fish") have raucous debates about the craft of novel writing, screenwriting, storytelling (and anything else they want to fight about!) Through their discussion you will learn how to be a better storyteller.
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Everwood? Neverwouldn't!

Everwood? Neverwouldn't!

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Everwood? Neverwouldn't! is a recap and review podcast in which Adam makes his friends KT and Eric watch and discuss the early-2000s WB teen/family drama, Everwood! We started making this because of the pandemic and all the time we had on our hands! Woo!
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Excellence is a term that is often used in academia. While we all probably have some idea of what this term means, it tends to remain superficial and generic. We therefore contend that to really understand and appreciate people, excellence should always be viewed in context. Without this, you often don’t see the complete picture, which can hinder appropriate judgement of someone’s performance. As a result, talents may go unrecognized or underappreciated. Failures, for instance, are rarely di ...
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The Hyat Report

Omar Hyat

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Hello and Welcome to The Hyat Report and this is Omar Hyat. I am a writer, a blogger and a social and political commentator. In this podcast, I will be commenting on some of our generation's critical global social and political issues. This is a fortnightly podcast and each episode of this podcast will be my commentary on a different social and/or political issue.
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Creating 3D assets can be daunting, but does it have to be? Mahima and Rakesh are on a quest to democratize 3D content creation with AssetGen, a foundation model for 3D. They discuss the challenges of training such a model given the scarcity of available data and how large language models have unlocked key solutions. As if that weren't enough, they…
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To not leave you without an episode for August, Pascal brings you an episode from the Archive. Back in August 2023 for Episode 55, Pascal spoke with Katherine and returning guest Dustin, two software engineers at Meta about how to ship code at Meta. Why do we have a monorepo? Why and how do we do pre-commit code review? What does our CI infrastruct…
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Join Pascal as he explores the groundbreaking world of generic neuromotor interfaces with Jesse, Lauren, and Sean. Discover how these technologies enable control of devices with just a flick of the wrist or even a simple intention to move. We'll discuss the role of AI in eliminating the need for personalised training, the differences between non-in…
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0:00:00 Intro 0:00:50 Trash 0:00:59 I Left My A-Rank Party to Help My Former Students Reach the Dungeon Depths! 0:02:50 Please Put Them On, Takamine-san 0:03:48 The Shiunji Family Children 0:05:10 Mediocre 0:05:15 Aharen-san wa Hakarenai 0:06:30 Fire Force Season 3 0:08:48 Food for the Soul 0:11:32 The Too-Perfect Saint: Tossed Aside by My Fiancé a…
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What happens when decades-old C code, powering billions of daily messages, starts to slow down innovation? In this episode, we talk to Meta engineers Elaine and Buping, who are in the midst of a bold, incremental rewrite of one of our core messaging libraries—in Rust. Neither came into the project as Rust experts, but both saw a chance to improve n…
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Casual murder and people crazy about rock. And these aren’t even the best or weirdest shows this season. What an amazing anime season. 00:00 Intro 00:40 A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof 11:33 Rock is a Lady’s Modesty 21:55 Outro Music Credits “Clover 3” by Vibe Mountain “Seasons” by roljuiBy Marina and Draggle
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We are uh… super late on this seeing as the spring season is almost over. But whatever! See how right we were about how everything would turn out after watching only an episode or two! 00:00 Intro 01:09 COMPASS2.0 Animation Project 01:30 The Beginning After the End 01:41 The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows 02:00 Classic★Stars 02:16 The D…
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Pyrefly is a faster, open-source Python type checker written in Rust, succeeding Pyre. But what prompted the rewrite and what besides the language choice ended up making it faster? Host Pascal talks to Maggie, Rebecca and returning guest Neil about the unexpected complexities of building an incremental type checker that scales to mono repositories …
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This season was a bit of a disappointment… but still, a number of great shows! Anything good we missed? 00:00 Intro 01:03 Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective 03:36 Aquarion: Myth of Emotions 04:43 Beheneko: The Elf-Girl’s Cat is Secretly an S-Ranked Monster! 06:57 The Daily Life of a Middle-Aged Online Shopper in Another World 08:02 Headhunted to Another …
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It's another episode of Matt's new podcast, "A Good Story Well Told" with Jonathan Auxier, this time discussing "The Giver", but from now on, to get new content, you'll have to subscribe to the "A Good Story Well Told" feed. Meanwhile, this feed will remain active so you can enjoy the wonderful archives of Matt and James's content.…
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On episode 306, Katie, Nick and Lottie discuss the Australian federal election and how they’ll be voting. We cover: our love of politics being put to the test, Glutton versus Albo, the Greens under Bandt compared to Di Natale and some of the micro-parties. How Lottie is voting: House of reps - Wills 1. Sue Bolton - Socialist Alliance 2. Samantha Ra…
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To ensure that everyone has access to resilient, high-speed and low-latency connections to Meta services, no matter where in the world they are, Meta makes large-scale investments into subsea cable infrastructure. The recently announced Project Water worth will, Once complete, reach five major continents and span over 50,000 km (longer than the Ear…
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Join Pascal and Sabrina on the latest Meta Tech Podcast episode as they discuss the evolution and future of GraphQL. From client-side consistency to innovative APIs, learn how GraphQL is making developers' lives easier and enhancing user experiences. Discover surprising insights into the challenges of building a mobile GraphQL platform and how it's…
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Excellence is a term that is often used in academia. While we all probably have some idea of what this term means, it tends to remain superficial and generic. We therefore contend that to really understand and appreciate people, excellence should always be viewed in context. Without this, you often don’t see the complete picture, hampering appropri…
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How do we sustain excellence, both at a personal and university level? In this episode, two senior TU/e colleagues dive into these questions by reflecting on their career paths, how they view themselves within the context of excellence, and what they think is needed to sustain and foster it. We learn that success often depends on others as well as …
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Is someone who obtained a personal grant excellent? And someone who didn't destined for failure? In this episode, two close colleagues at TU/e, one of whom obtained a personal grant, while the other didn't, engage in an open conversation about the differences in their career paths and the effects a personal grant (or the absence of it) can have on …
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How to find your way in academics when every day you have to prepare for the unexpected? In this episode, two colleagues at TU/e openly discuss the often invisible context of their own academic career, in which they both have extensive caring duties for their children. They talk about how it has influenced and sometimes shaped their way of working …
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In this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast, host Pascal sits down with Shane, a research scientist at Meta, to explore the cutting-edge research behind Ray-Ban Meta glasses. Shane shares insights from his seven-year journey at Meta, where he focuses on computer vision and multimodal AI within the Wearables AI organization. Tune in to learn how Shane'…
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On episode 305 we discuss “illness influencer” Belle Gibson and the TV series Apple Cider Vinegar (Netflix). We also cover broader themes of “conspirituality” (drawing on Naomi Klein’s book Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World), evidence-based versus non-evidence-based medicine, influencers and grifters. Additional links/sources covered: The …
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My favorite is dad. 00:00 Intro 00:53 From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad’s Been Reincarnated! 09:15 I May Be a Guild Receptionist, but I’ll Solo Any Boss to Clock Out on Time 15:15 The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 24:34 Outro Music Credits: “Clover 3” by Vibe Mountain “Seasons” by roljuiBy Marina and Draggle
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Some much better anime than last season! What did you all think? 00:00 Intro 00:55 Babanba Banban Vampire 01:09 Bogus Skill <> ~About that time I became able to eat unlimited numbers of Skill Fruits (that kill you)~ 01:20 Even Given the Worthless “Appraiser” Class, I’m Actually the Strongest 01:29 Farmagia 01:38 Grisaia: Phantom Trigger 01:53 Honey…
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How do you translate roughly ten million lines of Java code to Kotlin? Clicking in your the IDE gets pretty repetitive after a while and doesn’t work if you have custom APIs and requirements for null safety. Eve and Jocelyn, two software engineers on the Mobile Infra Codebases Team have taken on this challenge and talk host Pascal through the unexp…
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This season was disappointing. Hopefully next season will be better! 00:00 Intro 01:20 As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I’ll Use My Appraisal Skill to Rise in the World Season 2 02:19 Demon Lord Retry! R 02:39 Ranma1/2 (2024) 03:54 The Stories of Girls Who Couldn’t Be Magicians 05:00 365 Days to the Wedding 06:40 Acro Trip 07:36 BLUE LOCK Season 2 10:…
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