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Re: Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?

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A few good ones:

Decoder Ring: Jane Fonda Workout tapes.

Hang up and Listen: The Last Last Dance. An exploration of Michael Jordan's time on the Wizards.

99% Invisible: In the Unlikely Event. About the design of airplane safety cards and how getting people off the plane quickly saves lives.

Planet Money: All Your Genes Are Belong to Us. On gene patenting. Good interview subject with the plaintiff who overturned these patents.

Software Engineering Daily: Federated Learning with Mike Lee Williams. Don't usually like this podcast very much, but this episode was an excellent overview of how federated learning works.

The Allusionist: No Title. Interesting examination of titles (e.g. "mrs.", "mr."). This podcast always has hilarious asides.

30 for 30 Bloodlines. A mini-series on the state of horse racing.

Retronauts: '90s Video Game Websites.

You're Wrong About: Shaken Baby Syndrome. Exploration of how this basically made-up syndrome became weaponized.

Don't remember the exact episode name but there was a recent episode of The Weeds on college debt which added some nuance to that discussion that I wasn't aware of.

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?

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TrueAnon podcast episode 100: Brat Camp. It's about "therapy boarding schools" or "residential treatment facilities" that purport to help teens with behavioral or emotional issues, drug addiction etc. but often are absolutely horrifying dens of severe child abuse and borderline cult-like brainwashing techniques to get kids in line. I can personally attest to the accuracy of their description of what goes on at these…

I will be launching a podcast soon and would love to listen to you about this. Can promise nothing regarding audience size but do guarantee a good interview (used to have a radio show back in the day). This subject has begun to haunt me. Deets in profile.

I appreciate the offer, but sadly it's not something I'm really comfortable reliving. When I get into details about that time period I have a tendency to dissociate somewhat, which I've been told by psychiatrists and psychologists is due to PTSD that I developed from the experience.

I normally do my best not to think about it at all, but the recent Paris Hilton documentary brought a lot of eyeballs to these places which has led to a lot of public discourse. I think that's great, I'm happy that it's not being ignored as much as usual, but there are plenty of other people that would be better suited to educate the public than me.

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?

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https://lemire.me/blog/2020/12/01/interview-by-adam-gordon-b...

Daniel Lemire details how he was able to massively speed up json parsing by thinking from first principles.

TLDL: he removed all abstractions and coded directly for the hardware.

Great interview. Makes me want to learn assembly programming (perhaps ARM64 since that seems to be the latest hotness thanks to the M1).

I also enjoyed this interview on the upcoming JIT/AOT for the BEAM: https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/017-jit-compiler...

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?

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I will be launching a podcast soon and would love to listen to you about this. Can promise nothing regarding audience size but do guarantee a good interview (used to have a radio show back in the day). This subject has begun to haunt me. Deets in profile.

I appreciate the offer, but sadly it's not something I'm really comfortable reliving. When I get into details about that time period I have a tendency to dissociate somewhat, which I've been told by psychiatrists and psychologists is due to PTSD that I developed from the experience. I normally do my best not to think about it at all, but the recent Paris Hilton documentary brought a lot of eyeballs to these places wh…

Thank you for the reply. Obviously I understand, and my best to you.

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?

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I appreciate the offer, but sadly it's not something I'm really comfortable reliving. When I get into details about that time period I have a tendency to dissociate somewhat, which I've been told by psychiatrists and psychologists is due to PTSD that I developed from the experience. I normally do my best not to think about it at all, but the recent Paris Hilton documentary brought a lot of eyeballs to these places wh…

Thank you for the reply. Obviously I understand, and my best to you.

Thanks! A thought just popped into my head on this topic. There's apparently a podcast called Troubled that specifically tackles this topic. I have no idea if it's good or not, but it was also suggested to me. I didn't get around to it because I don't really listen to podcasts often. You might find some interesting people on that!

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?

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First episode is really good but the second time he was on lex podcast was even better in my opinion: https://youtu.be/_L3gNaAVjQ4

Yeah, I got on a real big george hotz kick. I wanted to go more in depth into the interview so I built out a transcription platform to easily be able to transcribe and host audio or youtube programs. It uses aws transcribe under the hood. Here's his second interview transcript. I've been meaning to do his first one as well [0] https://www.deep-chats.com/programs/lex/132

nice you should compair notes with Listen Notes guys they make podcasts searchable using similar tech...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15825900

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?

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Oops it was from July 2019, but I heard it in 2020... 13 Minutes to the Moon. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xttx2 A magnificent BBC podcast series that covers in extreme detail the Apollo 11 mission, including explanations of the busy chatter that you hear from mission control audio.

They had a series about Apollo 13 this year. It needed to be paused because one of the producers were a doctor that needed to help with Covid, but later it was completed.

Yeah, the Apollo 13 season in 2020 was also amazing. It was the mission that had to abort the mission and return to Earth without landing on the Moon.

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?

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Thank you for the reply. Obviously I understand, and my best to you.

Thanks! A thought just popped into my head on this topic. There's apparently a podcast called Troubled that specifically tackles this topic. I have no idea if it's good or not, but it was also suggested to me. I didn't get around to it because I don't really listen to podcasts often. You might find some interesting people on that!

That podcast is a national treasure. Thanks for the pointer, am listening now.

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?

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Credentials? Lex has no such thing. Hes an imposter leveraging his association with MIT. His work was never peer reviewed and he shills for tesla. When he was called out on this he started to sensor people on twitter for highlighting these facts. Lex is a fraud. I can't believe how easily some people are duped into belief. But then I remember Joe rogan probably has the biggest podcast flowing on earth.

Forgive my ignorance, but why do you believe he is a fraud? There are a lot of public 'scientists' who have never been peer-reviewed. I have enjoyed listening to quite a bit of Lex's content and to say 'Lex is a fraud' without any proof strikes me as unfair. I did a quick search to try to check your assertions but didn't find anything troubling. My only gripe about Lex is that he is annoyingly good at SEO and I find…

It looks like at least a few of his papers have been peer-reviewed: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wZH_N7cAAAAJ
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