Named after our seminar room, The Virtual Jewel Box hosts conversations at the Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah. We share research, commentary, interviews, dialogue, and storytelling from across humanities disciplines. Views expressed on The Virtual Jewel Box do not represent the official views of the Center or University.
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My journey re rediscovering fly fishing and my approach to fly fishing. As well as how my kids are growing into the outdoors and learning about this endeavor as well as anything bow hunting. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fliesandwoodlines/support
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Learn how you can use intermittent fasting to improve your physical and mental health, so you can feel better, live longer, and (potentially) reverse chronic disease. Ben Tanner, PA-C explains the science and benefits of fasting in basic terms you can understand. He also shares tips and tricks to help you effectively implement fasting into your lifestyle as painlessly as possible. The show covers basic physiology about how fasting works, and step-by-step advice on how to get started with int ...
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Monday night talk with Jake and tanner. NFL talk
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In the "Learn Medical Spanish" podcast, you'll learn specific, curated vocabulary to help you communicate with your Spanish-speaking patients more easily. This podcast is focused on healthcare providers or other medical professionals who want to improve their Spanish. My background is emergency medicine and family practice, but regardless of your medical specialty, you'll likely find some useful terminology that you can use on the job. I'll cover medical Spanish dialogues, medical Spanish te ...
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Each year 2,400 people, on average, get lost in the wilderness in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. 90% of those that become lost are found alive, 8 % are located deceased, and the other 2% simply vanish without a trace. Our host Tanner Hoskins, co-Founder of Pacific Northwest Bigfoot Search and Executive Director at Pacific Northwest Missing Persons Project (PNWMPP) shares the mysterious true stories of adults and children who inexplicably disappeared while recreating in the great ...
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Technical interviews about software topics.
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BYU Football players are best known for their exploits on the football field. But in this podcast, they will share insights and testimony of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Join the Cougars and their guests as they dive into the scriptures and give unique insights into the Come Follow Me lessons from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Discussions on creativity and the parent-artist life. Parents John C. Savage, musician, and Claudia F. Savage, writer, interview parent-artists and answer your questions about balancing family needs, art-making, making money, and keeping marriage steamy without going (completely) crazy. All in under 30 minutes.
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The Coffee + Crumbs Podcast is your companion for kitchen cleanups, stroller walks, or the daily carpool hustle. Join hosts Ashlee Gadd and Katie Blackburn as they chat about the beautiful, holy work of motherhood. We hope you leave this show feeling safe, known, encouraged and loved.
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"The Leaders Lab Podcast with Ken Eslick" is a weekly show that explores the world of leadership and personal development. Host Ken Eslick, a Tony Robbins Trainer and President/Founder of The Leaders Lab, shares actionable advice and lessons from great leaders across all walks of life. Join Ken each week as he unpacks subjects like leadership mindset, business scaling, personal assessments, health & fitness, and money mindset. Ken is joined by a diverse range of expert guests, including Tomm ...
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Context-Aware SQL and Metadata with Shinji Kim
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41:38A common challenge in data-rich organizations is that critical context about the data is often hard to capture and even harder to keep up to date. As more people across the organization use data and data models get more complex, simply finding the right dataset can be slow and create bottlenecks. Select Star is a data discovery and metadata platfor…
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Send us a text In this episode, we explore two men who entered the wilderness under very different circumstances—one who fought to live, and one who vanished into the shadows. First, we follow the incredible survival story of Ralph Sawyer, a 52-year-old mountain biker from Gresham, Oregon, who disappeared in Mount Hood National Forest and was missi…
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Modern Data Visualization with Robert Kosara
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48:50Data visualization is increasingly important as organizations prioritize data-driven decision-making. Tools that transform complex datasets into intuitive, interpretable visualizations are arguably just as critical as the data itself. Robert Kosara is a Data Visualization Developer at Observable which is a platform for creating interactive data vis…
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Connor Pay and Chase Roberts welcome recently returned missionary and BYU wide receiver Trey Roberts. He also happens to be Chase's brother. The trio dive into a meaningful conversation about the seven promises made in temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They then explore the theme of loving correction, both from God and wit…
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A Conversation with Amazon CTO Werner Vogels
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48:15Werner Vogels is the Chief Technology Officer at Amazon, where he has played a pivotal role in shaping the company’s technology vision for over two decades. Before joining Amazon in 2004, Werner was a research scientist at Cornell University where he focused on distributed systems and scalability, both of which are concepts that would later influen…
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Redis and AI Agent Memory with Andrew Brookins
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48:36A key challenge with designing AI agents is that large language models are stateless and have limited context windows. This requires careful engineering to maintain continuity and reliability across sequential LLM interactions. To perform well, agents need fast systems for storing and retrieving short-term conversations, summaries, and long-term fa…
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BYU Sports Nation’s Spencer Linton joins Chase Roberts and Connor Pay to discuss Doctrine and Covenants 93. Spencer shares that this section of the Doctrine and Covenants is all about consistency and how part of the Gospel of Jesus Christ is all about “showing up.” Connor adds that true discipleship means doing what’s right—even when it’s hard or i…
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The humanities and public life, with Jodi Graham and Scott Black
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26:47What are the humanities, and how do they function in our daily lives? It might be that they’re primarily academic disciplines studied in universities and cultural institutions. Or some say they're the everyday conversations and reflections that make us fully human—like discussing a movie with friends or questioning our assumptions. In this episode,…
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Complex Workload Deployment with Will Stewart
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37:34Deploying and managing cloud workloads is a complex task that requires developers to handle infrastructure, scaling, CI/CD pipelines, and database hosting. Configuring and maintaining Kubernetes, ensuring smooth deployments, and integrating various services efficiently is a common challenge. Will Stewart is the co-founder and CEO of Northflank, whi…
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Empowering Cross-Functional Product Teams with Tobias Dunn-Krahn and Doug Peete
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46:28Modern software teams typically rely on a patchwork of tools to manage planning, development, feature rollout, and post-release analysis. This fragmentation is a known challenge that can create friction and slow down software development iteration. It’s especially problematic for cross-functional teams, where differences in roles, expertise, and wo…
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BYU Director of Football Media Relations & Communications Kenny Cox joins Connor Pay and Chase Roberts for a meaningful discussion centered on Doctrine and Covenants 89–92. Kenny shares insights into his role with the football team, explaining how he helps media professionals understand the unique spirit and culture of BYU and Cougar Football. The …
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Carbon and Modernizing C++ with Chandler Carruth
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1:02:39Carbon is a programming language developed by Google as a successor to C++, and it aims to provide modern safety features while maintaining high performance. It’s designed to offer seamless interoperability with C++ while addressing shortcomings of C++ such as slow compilation times and lack of memory safety. Carbon also introduces features like a …
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Podman is an open-source container management tool that allows developers to build, run, and manage containers. Unlike Docker, it supports rootless containers for improved security and is fully compatible with standards from the Open Container Initiative, or OCI. Brent Baude is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat where he works on Podma…
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BYU Football offensive lineman Austin Leausa joins Chase Roberts and Connor Pay on the latest episode of the Two Point Conversion podcast. Together, the trio explores Doctrine and Covenants Section 88, reflecting on moments when they’ve each felt the presence of “another Comforter” in their lives. Austin shares a deeply personal story about the bir…
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SED News: Meta’s AI Gambit, Windsurf Shake‑Up, and the UK VPN Surge
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47:25SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech industry. In this episode, they explore Meta’s bold push into AI with the launch of Meta Superintelligence Labs, the dramatic twists in the Windsurf acq…
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Electron and Desktop App Engineering with Shelley Vohr
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50:59Electron is a framework for building cross-platform desktop applications using web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. It allows developers to package web apps with a native-like experience by bundling them with a Chromium browser and Node.js runtime. Electron is widely used for apps like VS Code, Discord, and Slack because it enables a si…
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The Voice of the Cougars, Greg Wrubell, joins Chase Roberts and Connor Pay on this episode of the Two Point Conversion podcast. Greg shares his journey from Canada to BYU and how he became the broadcaster for Cougar sports. The trio explores how The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints offers a wealth of resources to help individuals draw cl…
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Modal and Scaling AI Inference with Erik Bernhardsson
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39:55Modal is a serverless compute platform that’s specifically focused on AI workloads. The company’s goal is to enable AI teams to quickly spin up GPU-enabled containers, and rapidly iterate and autoscale. It was founded by Erik Bernhardsson who was previously at Spotify for 7 years where he built the music recommendation system and the popular Luigi …
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RxJS is an open-source library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs. It provides powerful operators for transforming, filtering, combining, and managing streams of data, from user input and web requests to real-time updates. Ben Lesh is the creator of RxJS. He joins Josh Goldberg to talk about his path into engineering and the RxJS l…
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Connor Pay and Chase Roberts welcome former BYU Football standout and Cougar Sports Network analyst Hans Olsen to the podcast. Hans shares his journey to BYU, his experiences in professional football, and how he transitioned into a career as a radio analyst. The conversation takes a personal turn as they discuss Connor’s upcoming wedding. The trio …
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Authenticity work, with Kate Bowler and Gretchen Case
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27:16Kate Bowler joins Gretchen Case to discuss authenticity in academic, spiritual, and medical life; the limits of toxic positivity; and how joy can be both a surprise and a discipline. Reflecting on her own experience, Bowler examines what it means to seek truth and integrity within imperfect systems and bodies. Kate Bowler is Associate Professor of …
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JigsawStack is a startup that develops a suite of custom small models for tasks such as scraping, forecasting, vOCR, and translation. The platform is designed to support collaborative knowledge work, especially in research-heavy or strategy-driven environments. Yoeven Khemlani is the Founder of JigsawStack and he joins the podcast with Gregor Vand …
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Streamlining Cloud Infrastructure Deployments with Jake Cooper
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43:07Railway is a software company that provides a popular platform for deploying and managing applications in the cloud. It automates tasks such as infrastructure provisioning, scaling, and deployment and is particularly known for having a developer-friendly interface. Jake Cooper is the Founder and CEO at Railway. He joins the show to talk about the c…
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BYU Football safety Tanner Wall joins the podcast again, this time as a co-host. He and Connor Pay discuss the latest happenings in BYU Football's summer drills along with Connor's recent engagement to Mallory Binns. The duo also dives into this week’s "Come, Follow Me" study, exploring powerful gospel themes like the importance of forgiving others…
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Race, Religion, and Slavery in Antebellum Utah - Paul Reeve and Jordan Watkins
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48:17Historians Paul Reeve and Jordan Watkins discuss This Abominable Slavery: Race, Religion, and the Battle over Human Bondage in Antebellum Utah (by Reeve, Christopher B. Rich, Jr., and LaJean Purcell Carruth), published by Oxford University Press in 2024. Their discussion explores the origins and transcription of primary sources integral to the book…
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Building Open Infrastructure for AI with Illia Polosukhin
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49:12Illia Polosukhin is a veteran AI researcher and one of the original authors of the landmark Transformer paper, Attention is All You Need, which he co-authored during his time at Google Research. He has a deep background in machine learning and natural language processing, and has spent over a decade working at the intersection of AI and decentraliz…
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TypeScript is a statically typed superset of JavaScript that adds optional type annotations and modern language features to improve developer productivity and code safety. The TypeScript compiler performs type checking at compile time, catching errors before code is run, and also transforms TypeScript code into clean, standards-compliant JavaScript…
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Current BYU Football Center Bruce Mitchell joins Connor Pay and Chase Roberts on this week’s episode of Two Point Conversion. One of the first topics they dive into is how Bruce’s opportunity to play during the 2024 season came because of Connor’s injury, and what Connor learned from that challenging experience. The trio then reflects on how tithin…
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Wiz is a cloud security platform that helps organizations identify and remediate risks across their cloud environments. The company’s platform scans layers of the cloud stack, including virtual machines, containers, and serverless configurations, to detect vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in context. The Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is emer…
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SED News: Data Land Grabs, Copyright Fights, and the Great AI Talent War
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46:15Welcome back to SED News, a podcast series from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer break down the latest stories in software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the wider tech industry. In this episode, Gregor and Sean dig into Meta’s legal battle over AI training data, discuss the strategic implications of Meta’s $14…
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D&C 76 with Professor Anthony Sweat
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1:12:27BYU Religion professor Anthony Sweat joins BYU Football players Chase Roberts and Connor Pay for a powerful discussion on one of the most theologically transformative sections of the Doctrine and Covenants. Together, they explore how Section 76 outlines Celestial, Terrestrial, and Telestial approaches to our lives. Professor Sweat emphasizes the pr…
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Anaconda is a software company that’s well-known for its solutions for managing packages, environments, and security in large-scale data workflows. The company has played a major role in making Python-based data science more accessible, efficient, and scalable. Anaconda has also invested heavily in AI tool development. Greg Jennings is the VP of En…
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"Scent and Service" with Jensen Huffman (C.H.A.I.S.)
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1:30:35Send us a text In this powerful episode of the PNWMPP Podcast, host Tanner Hoskins sits down with his good friend and elite K9 handler Jensen Huffman — owner of Huffman K9 Obedience and Executive Director of CHAIS (Charon Human Advocacy and Intervention Services). With more than 20 years of experience training and deploying working dogs across Nort…
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ByteDance’s Container Networking Stack with Chen Tang
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47:57ByteDance is a global technology company operating a wide range of content platforms around the world, and is best known for creating TikTok. The company operates at a massive scale, which naturally presents challenges in ensuring performance and stability across its data centers. It has over a million servers running containerized applications, an…
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BYU Football safety Raider Damuni joins current teammate Chase Roberts and former teammate Connor Pay for a heartfelt conversation about boldly sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ—even when it's difficult. Connor and Chase reflect on moments when standing for Christ didn’t bring peace, but brought purpose. Raider shares how his parents’ unwavering f…
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WayForward Games with Tomm Hulett and Voldi Way
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46:03WayForward is a renowned video game studio that was founded in 1990. The company has developed games for publishers such as Capcom, Konami, and Nintendo and has released their games across major hardware platforms from the last 35 years. They are also the creators of the Shantae series of 2D platformers. WayForward recently developed the latest gam…
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Canada's Wilderness: The lost, the found, and the missing
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12:49Send us a text In this haunting episode of the Pacific Northwest Missing Persons Project Podcast, we venture beyond borders into Canada’s vast, untamed wilderness—where stories vanish into the fog, survive against impossible odds, or dissolve in waves. 🔹 Mélanie Ethier – A 15-year-old vanishes after a short walk home in New Liskeard, Ontario. Despi…
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CodeRabbit and RAG for Code Review with Harjot Gill
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48:42One of the most immediate and high-impact applications of LLMs has been in software development. The models can significantly accelerate code writing, but with that increased velocity comes a greater need for thoughtful, scalable approaches to codereview. Integrating AI into the development workflow requires rethinking how to ensure quality,securit…
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Today, we’re talking all things foster care with Jessica Mathisen, a foster, adoptive, and bio mom. Jessica sheds light on the enormous need for vulnerable kids to have a safe place to call home, misconceptions about foster care, challenges for foster families, and how churches, neighbors—and essentially everyone—can help in some capacity. Good new…
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Aesthetic experience, with Bryan Counter and Nathan Wainstein
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47:50This episode features Bryan Counter (Framingham State University) discussing his new book Four Moments of Aesthetic Experience: Reading Huysmans, Proust, McCarthy, and Cusk (published by Anthem Press) with Nathan Wainstein (Department of English, University of Utah). Counter theorizes aesthetic experience as something that mediates between subjecti…
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Former BYU Football quarterback and emeritus General Authority Seventy Gifford Nielsen joins Chase Roberts and Connor Pay to talk about his call to full-time service in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. After reading Doctrine and Covenants 68:2, "Giff" asks Chase and Connor about experiences from their mission where they shared words…
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Emulating Retro Games on Modern Consoles with Robin Lavallée and Bill Litshauer
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1:01:17Emulating retro games on modern consoles is a growing trend, and allows players to experience classic titles with improved performance, enhanced resolution, and added features like save states and rewinding. However, this process raises many challenging technical questions related to hardware compatibility, performance optimization, rendering, and …
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Travis Decker manhunt - Washington State (2025)
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10:23Send us a text Travis Decker, 32 year old army veteran, wanted for the murder of his three children, Paitlyn, Evelyn, and Olivia. Decker has been on the run for nearly a month in the remote backcountry of Chelan and Kittitas Counties in Washington State. In this episode Tanner informs listeners how to be prepared in the backcountry to human threats…
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SED News: Corporate Spies, Postgres, and the Weird Life of Devs Right Now
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43:39Welcome back to SED News, a podcast series from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer break down the latest stories in software engineering, Silicon Valley, and wider tech world. In this episode, Gregor and Sean unpack what’s going with Deel and Rippling, explore why Databricks and Snowflake are making big bets on Pos…
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Mike Hendron, professor of entrepreneurship at BYU, joins Connor Pay and Chase Roberts for a thoughtful conversation on the difference between contention and disagreement. The discussion flows into the topic of forgiveness, with Connor sharing a personal story about asking a fellow BYU Football teammate for forgiveness after a heated moment during …
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Abolitionist, Saint, Queen: Balthild of Francia - Isabel Moreira and Scott Black
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30:31 A slave becomes Queen and later is sainted for her work as an abolitionist. A new book by Isabel Moreira (Distinguished Professor of History, University of Utah) explores not only the life of Balthild of Francia (c. 633-80), but also the methods of late-medieval historical research. Professor Moreira discusses Balthild of Francia: Anglo-Saxon Slav…
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TanStack and the Future of Frontend with Tanner Linsley
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54:13TanStack is an open-source collection of high-performance libraries for JavaScript and TypeScript applications, primarily focused on state management, data fetching, and table utilities. It includes popular libraries like TanStack Query, TanStack Table, and TanStack Router. These libraries emphasize declarative APIs, optimized performance, and deve…
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The Challenge of AI Model Evaluations with Ankur Goyal
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44:22Evaluations are critical for assessing the quality, performance, and effectiveness of software during development. Common evaluation methods include code reviews and automated testing, and can help identify bugs, ensure compliance with requirements, and measure software reliability. However, evaluating LLMs presents unique challenges due to their c…
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Today, we’re doing things a little differently—our guest is a dad. Author and spoken word poet, Tanner Olson, shares his heart (and humor!) as we chat about his long journey to fatherhood and what God has taught him along the way. Tanner’s words and vulnerability are profound as he reminds us to s l o w d o w n , notice the world around us, and tha…
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BYU Cougar wide receiver Cody Hagen joins fellow receiver Chase Roberts and former BYU offensive lineman Connor Pay to talk about the hard work the team is putting in this summer and how they are magnifying the talents they've been given, like what's discussed in Doctrine and Covenants Section 60. They also spoke about the influence of head coach K…
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