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Re: What podcasts are you listening to?

#44
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I don't listen to podcasts. Can't stand em, I'd rather read.

Thank you for that insight and for sharing your opinion on a topic which is not for you.

Maybe that's the name of the podcast. Wouldn't be a bad name for a podcast about books.

Re: What podcasts are you listening to?

#46
Maybe marginally related, I used to listen to a lot of podcasts, especially when I had a severe issue in my eye and I couldn't read. I used to listen to nonfiction, lifestyle, health, tech and history (I do not follow politics in podcasting).

At least after the pandemic (ca. 2023) one thing that I noticed is that a lot of podcasts now has some rotation of the same guests, they are more tied with the world events (e.g., a "stoic" podcast talking about the POTUS that has 0% influence in my life and interest) and prominent figures that are specialized in... podcasting, or podcasts that, without any pushback, bringing outlandish guests for clicks (e.g. any of the Weinstein brothers, moon landing, etc).

I used to listen 20+ hours of podcasting per day and my feed was great, but now I cannot even listen 1 hour or even 99% of the guests are the same figures or super polarizing.

Someone have been in the same stage also?

Re: What podcasts are you listening to?

#49
I listen to a lots of podcast.

Currently here is my pinned favorites ones:

Practical AI

Grit

Wenbin Fang's Podcast Playlist (Founder of https://www.listennotes.com/)

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast

The Empty Bow

Hacker News Recap

Dwarkesh Podcast

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

Interconnects

Talk Python To Me

Training Data

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My podcast collection (opml file format). Exported from Overcast.

Feel free to import to your podcast app of choice. https://github.com/vinhnx/podcasts

Re: What podcasts are you listening to?

#50
Complex Systems by Patrick McKenzie (patio11). Casual interview format with guests from myriad industries, who try to distill human/technical bits of respective systems. Often it's about tech/finance/govt, or relates to them.

I found it independently of his other work (e.g Bits About Money, or VaccinateCA), which is fitting. The amount of stuff I've read from that guy (including on hn) but did not attribute to a single person seems anomalously high for me. https://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/

That, and "The Optimal Amount of Fraud is Non-Zero", which is an idiom I paraphrase frequently by this point.

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