Best The Thesis Review Podcasts (2025)

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[48] Tianqi Chen - Scalable and Intelligent Learning Systems 46:29

7M ago46:29

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Tianqi Chen is an Assistant Professor in the Machine Learning Department and Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University and the Chief Technologist of OctoML. His research focuses on the intersection of machine learning and systems.Tianqi's PhD thesis is titled "Scalable and Intelligent Learning Systems," which he completed in 2019 at…

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[47] Niloofar Mireshghallah - Auditing and Mitigating Safety Risks in Large Language Models 1:17:06

8M ago1:17:06

1:17:06

Niloofar Mireshghallah is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on privacy, natural language processing, and the societal implications of machine learning. Niloofar completed her PhD in 2023 at UC San Diego, where she was advised by Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick.Her PhD thesis is titled "Auditing and Mitigating Safe…

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[46] Yulia Tsvetkov - Linguistic Knowledge in Data-Driven NLP 59:53

2y ago59:53

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Yulia Tsvetkov is a Professor in the Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on multilingual NLP, NLP for social good, and language generation. Yulia's PhD thesis is titled "Linguistic Knowledge in Data-Driven Natural Language Processing", which she completed in 2016 at CMU.We discuss get…

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[45] Luke Zettlemoyer - Learning to Map Sentences to Logical Form 59:35

2y ago59:35

59:35

Luke Zettlemoyer is a Professor at the University of Washington and Research Scientist at Meta. His work spans machine learning and NLP, including foundational work in large-scale self-supervised pretraining of language models.Luke's PhD thesis is titled "Learning to Map Sentences to Logical Form", which he completed in 2009 at MIT. We talk about h…

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40: Parish Vision / Making Disciples / Sacred Architecture - with Fr. Paul-Michael Piega 1:01:56

2+ y ago1:01:56

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Fr. Paul-Michael Piega, Rafael, and Chris discuss the importance of vision for living the life of faith in the parish, making disciples, and sacred architecture's role in forming culture and worship.

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39: Cash-Money-Liturgiaires - How to spend a million bucks to make a more beautiful church. 51:26

2+ y ago51:26

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What do you do with a million dollars to make your church more beautiful? Tune in to find out.

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Henry VIII Lecture 1 20:19

2+ y ago20:19

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The first lecture for Henry VIII.

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38: 2022 Future Prediction Episode - Machine Learning and the Design of Sacred Architecture 1:05:15

2+ y ago1:05:15

1:05:15

Rafa and Chris make a 2022 guess at the potential future of machine learning integration into the architectural design process. We'll do an update in the future to see how much things change or stay the same.

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[44] Hady Elsahar - NLG from Structured Knowledge Bases (& Controlling LMs) 1:05:56

3y ago1:05:56

1:05:56

Hady Elsahar is a Research Scientist at Naver Labs Europe. His research focuses on Neural Language Generation under constrained and controlled conditions.Hady's PhD was on interactions between Natural Language and Structured Knowledge bases for Data2Text Generation and Relation Extraction & Discovery, which he completed in 2019 at the Université de…

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37: Clear Creek monks go to New Mexico, Monastic architecture and communal life, forming a religious architectural thesis in a secular school - A discussion with Luis Martinez on student thesis 56:03

3y ago56:03

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Today we sit down with Luis Martinez, a student in the architecture program at the University of Houston to discuss the beginnings of his thesis for a new monastery for the Benedictines of Our Lady of Clear Creek in their new location in New Mexico.

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36: Making School Beautiful - A review of John Skillen's book published by Classical Academic Press (part 1 of 2) 53:09

3y ago53:09

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We review the first of two parts of John Skillen's book "Making School Beautiful which focuses on the theory of making school beautiful. The second part will focus on the application of this theoretical framework. Use discount code "BEN20" at checkout for 20% off your copy today.

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35: Discerning the Call to Sacred Architecture: How do I know if I am called to be an Architect? 1:33:38

3y ago1:33:38

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This episode we talk about how to engage with your kids in beauty, and how to think about a career in architecture, or even sacred architecture for your high school age or undergraduate students who want to pursue a career designing in service of the church. - One of the top 10 items we discussed was reaching out to someone who is practicing archit…

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[43] Swarat Chaudhuri - Logics and Algorithms for Software Model Checking 1:06:18

3y ago1:06:18

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Swarat Chaudhuri is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas. His lab studies problems at the interface of programming languages, logic and formal methods, and machine learning.Swarat's PhD thesis is titled "Logics and Algorithms for Software Model Checking", which he completed in 2007 at the University of Pennsylvania.We discuss reasoning…

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34: Fr Richard Hinkley - Director of Spiritual Terraforming at St. Mary's Seminary 1:21:55

3y ago1:21:55

1:21:55

Rafael and Chris sit down with Fr Richard to talk about art and architectural integration in the seminary formation, the ways that diocesan practices affect architectural development, the growing trend of traditional architectural expression in catholic churches, and tilling the spiritual soil of the seminarians in the diocese of Galveston Houston.…

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33: Conference for Catholic Facility Management - 2022 Denver (Post Conference Chat) 30:15

3y ago30:15

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The Conference for Catholic Facility Management is a group that hosts an annual conference (this 2022 year the conference was in Denver), where people involved in catholic facility management gather to talk about a variety of topics from facility management, to construction, to real estate, to sustainability. This year Rafa and I attended the confe…

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[42] Charles Sutton - Efficient Training Methods for Conditional Random Fields 1:18:01

3y ago1:18:01

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Charles Sutton is a Research Scientist at Google Brain and an Associate Professor at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on deep learning for generating code and helping people write better programs.Charles' PhD thesis is titled "Efficient Training Methods for Conditional Random Fields", which he completed in 2008 at UMass Amherst. We…

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[41] Talia Ringer - Proof Repair 1:19:02

3y ago1:19:02

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Talia Ringer is an Assistant Professor with the Programming Languages, Formal Methods, and Software Engineering group at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on formal verification and proof engineering technologies.Talia's PhD thesis is titled "Proof Repair", which she completed in 2021 at the University of Washington. We …

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32: Kate Marin - Professional Sculptor 1:59:18

3y ago1:59:18

1:59:18

You can contact Kate via the links below. https://www.katemarinart.com/contact Instagram Linked In Facebook

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[40] Lisa Lee - Learning Embodied Agents with Scalably-Supervised RL 46:59

3y ago46:59

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Lisa Lee is a Research Scientist at Google Brain. Her research focuses on building AI agents that can learn and adapt like humans and animals do. Lisa's PhD thesis is titled "Learning Embodied Agents with Scalably-Supervised Reinforcement Learning", which she completed in 2021 at Carnegie Mellon University.We talk about her work in the thesis on re…

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[39] Burr Settles - Curious Machines: Active Learning with Structured Instances 1:06:33

3+ y ago1:06:33

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Burr Settles leads the research group at Duolingo, a language-learning website and mobile app whose mission is to make language education free and accessible to everyone.Burr’s PhD thesis is titled "Curious Machines: Active Learning with Structured Instances", which he completed in 2008 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. We talk about his work…

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[38] Andrew Lampinen - A Computational Framework for Learning and Transforming Task Representations 1:04:47

3+ y ago1:04:47

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Andrew Lampinen is a research scientist at DeepMind. His research focuses on cognitive flexibility and generalization. Andrew’s PhD thesis is titled "A Computational Framework for Learning and Transforming Task Representations", which he completed in 2020 at Stanford University.We talk about cognitive flexibility in brains and machines, centered ar…

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[37] Joonkoo Park - Neural Substrates of Visual Word and Number Processing 1:09:28

3+ y ago1:09:28

1:09:28

Joonkoo Park is an Associate Professor and Honors Faculty in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at UMass Amherst. He leads the Cognitive and Developmental Neuroscience Lab, focusing on understanding the developmental mechanisms and neurocognitive underpinnings of our knowledge about number and mathematics.Joonkoo’s PhD thesis is tit…

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[36] Dieuwke Hupkes - Hierarchy and Interpretability in Neural Models of Language Processing 1:02:26

3+ y ago1:02:26

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Dieuwke Hupkes is a Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research and the scientific manager of the Amsterdam unit of ELLIS. Dieuwke's PhD thesis is titled, "Hierarchy and Interpretability in Neural Models of Language Processing", which she completed in 2020 at the University of Amsterdam.We discuss her work on which aspects of hierarchical compositio…

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[35] Armando Solar-Lezama - Program Synthesis by Sketching 1:15:56

3+ y ago1:15:56

1:15:56

Armando Solar-Lezama is a Professor at MIT, and the Associate Director & COO of CSAIL. He leads the Computer Assisted Programming Group, focused on program synthesis.Armando’s PhD thesis is titled, "Program Synthesis by Sketching", which he completed in 2008 at UC Berkeley.We talk about program synthesis & his work on Sketch, how machine learning's…

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[34] Sasha Rush - Lagrangian Relaxation for Natural Language Decoding 1:08:12

3+ y ago1:08:12

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Sasha Rush is an Associate Professor at Cornell Tech and researcher at Hugging Face. His research focuses on building NLP systems that are safe, fast, and controllable.Sasha's PhD thesis is titled, "Lagrangian Relaxation for Natural Language Decoding", which he completed in 2014 at MIT.We talk about his work in the thesis on decoding in NLP, how it…

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[33] Michael R. Douglas - G/H Conformal Field Theory 1:12:58

3+ y ago1:12:58

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Michael R. Douglas is a theoretical physicist and Professor at Stony Brook University, and Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. His research focuses on string theory, theoretical physics and its relations to mathematics.Michael's PhD thesis is titled, "G/H Conformal Field Theory", which he completed in 1988 at Caltech.We talk about working with …

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[32] Andre Martins - The Geometry of Constrained Structured Prediction 1:26:39

3+ y ago1:26:39

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Andre Martins is an Associate Professor at IST and VP of AI Research at Unbabel in Lisbon, Portugal. His research focuses on natural language processing and machine learning.Andre’s PhD thesis is titled, "The Geometry of Constrained Structured Prediction: Applications to Inference and Learning of Natural Language Syntax", which he completed in 2012…

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31: N-C : When AI robots design your church 33:57

3+ y ago33:57

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The future is here, it is just unevenly distributed. Automation is a reality, and a growing part of the design and construction world. In this episode Chris lobs topics, or aspects of design and construction at Rafa and he gives his best "mid 2021" guess as to if it can, will never be, or already is automatable. Then we talk about the virtues and v…

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[31] Jay McClelland - Preliminary Letter Identification in the Perception of Words and Nonwords 1:33:51

4y ago1:33:51

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Jay McClelland is a Professor in the Psychology Department and Director of the Center for Mind, Brain, Computation and Technology at Stanford. His research addresses a broad range of topics in cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience, including Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP).Jay's PhD thesis is titled "Preliminary Letter Identification i…

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30: N-C : A Catholic Way of Building 19:41

4y ago19:41

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We received a great question from Ricardo, courtesy of the Catholic Gentleman podcast, on architecture in Latin America and guidelines for Sacred Architecture. Is there a Catholic way of building? What is the building block of western civilization? How do we return to an architecture of place? Firm I mention at the end: Estudio Urbano. Link to a le…

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29: R-T : What will churches look like in the Metaverse? 2:01:58

4y ago2:01:58

2:01:58

What started with a conversation on the future of architecture...what sould churches look like, what should we base designs on and of course how did we get here...reached a higher gear when Ryan dropped the metaverse bomb. Join Chris, Rafa and Ryan on a wide ranging conversation on the future of church architecture. Special Guest: Ryan Trusell.…

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28: N-C : Patience and Architecture 11:55

4y ago11:55

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What is the connection between patience and architecture? Could we build a Cathedral that takes 800 years to construct? In the quest to build beautiful churches again, patience will play a pivotal role.By Beauty Ever New

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[30] Dustin Tran - Probabilistic Programming for Deep Learning 1:02:50

4y ago1:02:50

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Dustin Tran is a research scientist at Google Brain. His research focuses on advancing science and intelligence, including areas involving probability, programs, and neural networks.Dustin’s PhD thesis is titled "Probabilistic Programming for Deep Learning", which he completed in 2020 at Columbia University.We discuss the intersection of probabilis…

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[29] Tengyu Ma - Non-convex Optimization for Machine Learning 1:17:22

4y ago1:17:22

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Tengyu Ma is an Assistant Professor at Stanford University. His research focuses on deep learning and its theory, as well as various topics in machine learning.Tengyu's PhD thesis is titled "Non-convex Optimization for Machine Learning: Design, Analysis, and Understanding", which he completed in 2017 at Princeton University.We discuss theory in mac…

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N-C: Hospitality and Architecture 14:10

4y ago14:10

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What does hospitality have to do with architecture? With the liturgy? With church campus design? in this Non-Cathedra segment Rafa discusses the connection between hospitality and architecture, and how love and care is conveyed through thoughtful designs.By Beauty Ever New

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July 2021 Calendar Review 50:14

4y ago50:14

50:14

Will Joel have to join CHOP? Will Deku spend 20k feathers on Corrin? Find out... in about a month. Joel is testing my patience with these outros. Thank you all for listening, I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you would like to reach out to the show you can do so at our subreddit of r/fehology. You can also email the show directly at fehology@gmai…

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[28] Karen Ullrich - A Coding Perspective on Deep Latent Variable Models 1:06:20

4y ago1:06:20

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Karen Ullrich is a Research Scientist at FAIR. Her research focuses on the intersection of information theory and probabilistic machine learning and deep learning.Karen's PhD thesis is titled "A coding perspective on deep latent variable models", which she completed in 2020 at The University of Amsterdam.We discuss information theory & the minimum …

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The FEHology Dating Game - June 2021 ft. Joel 25:55

4y ago25:55

25:55

I nearly didn't allow this episode to air. It almost never saw the light of day. It was good, except for the last minute... Thank you all for listening, I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you would like to reach out to the show you can do so at our subreddit of r/fehology. You can also email the show directly at [email protected]. If you would li…

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[27] Danqi Chen - Neural Reading Comprehension and Beyond 55:43

4y ago55:43

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Danqi Chen is an assistant professor at Princeton University, co-leading the Princeton NLP Group. Her research focuses on fundamental methods for learning representations of language and knowledge, and practical systems including question answering, information extraction and conversational agents.Danqi’s PhD thesis is titled "Neural Reading Compre…

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The Hrist Thesis 14:43

4y ago14:43

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Mori takes an in-depth look at how creative IS can be when they really put their mind to it. Episode should have come out sooner but I was stuck on a train with no internet connection for the better part of a week. Enjoy the episode! Thank you all for listening, I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you would like to reach out to the show you can do …

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Dating Game ft. Swiftsea 31:06

4y ago31:06

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Check out the YouTube video featuring all builds and submissions - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf98Wn7lFG6UnpASfotBIIA Check out Swiftsea here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZU96f4ZYlghrB2OTYjeFkw To join the Discord and submit builds yourself - https://discord.gg/bb7zXd6 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/f…

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May 2021 Calendar Review 34:07

4y ago34:07

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The Month is mostly over, BUT you do have to listen to this episode. After all, you have to know who is going to have to take the penalty at the end of the month. As if playing a Gacha game isn't enough gambling for these guys... Thank you all for listening, I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you would like to reach out to the show you can do so a…

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[26] Kevin Ellis - Algorithms for Learning to Induce Programs 1:17:49

4y ago1:17:49

1:17:49

Kevin Ellis is an assistant professor at Cornell and currently a research scientist at Common Sense Machines. His research focuses on artificial intelligence, program synthesis, and neurosymbolic models.Kevin's PhD thesis is titled "Algorithms for Learning to Induce Programs", which he completed in 2020 at MIT. We discuss Kevin’s work at the inters…

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[25] Tomas Mikolov - Statistical Language Models Based on Neural Networks 1:19:17

4y ago1:19:17

1:19:17

Tomas Mikolov is a Senior Researcher at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics, and Cybernetics. His research has covered topics in natural language understanding and representation learning, including Word2Vec, and complexity.Tomas's PhD thesis is titles "Statistical Language Models Based on Neural Networks", which he completed in 2012 at th…

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April 2021 Feh Channel Reaction 23:59

4y ago23:59

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Deku may be without his normal PC, but he still limped into the recording room to join Jackel in a quick breakdown of the latest FEH channel news. Thank you all for listening, I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you would like to reach out to the show you can do so at our subreddit of r/fehology. You can also email the show directly at fehology@gma…

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[24] Martin Arjovsky - Out of Distribution Generalization in Machine Learning 1:02:48

4y ago1:02:48

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Martin Arjovsky is a postdoctoral researcher at INRIA. His research focuses on generative modeling, generalization, and exploration in RL. Martin's PhD thesis is titled "Out of Distribution Generalization in Machine Learning", which he completed in 2019 at New York University. We discuss his work on the influential Wasserstein GAN early in his PhD,…

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A Royally Adorable Banner Review! 36:08

4y ago36:08

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Who cares what the banner is actually called, this is too perfect! Thank you all for listening, I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you would like to reach out to the show you can do so at our subreddit of r/fehology. You can also email the show directly at [email protected]. If you would like to chat you can do so on Discord at Illialidur#3320, D…