The Swyx Mixtape
swyx's personal picks pod.
Weekdays: the best audio clips from podcasts I listen to, in 10 minutes or less!
Fridays: Music picks!
Weekends: long form talks and conversations!
This is a passion project; never any ads, 100% just recs from me to people who like the stuff I like.
Share and give feedback: tag @swyx on Twitter or email audio questions to swyx @ swyx.io
Latest episodes
Jan 31, 2023 • 30min
[Business] App Stores: Valve and the rise of Steam - Gamecraft
30 mins in to https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/gamecraft/the-fall-and-rise-of-KIbFrC70q93/
4 snips
Jan 30, 2023 • 30min
[Business] Free2Play: From Piracy to League of Legends - Gamecraft
30 mins in https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/gamecraft/steal-this-game-ep-1-o1CHsvutpKV/
Jan 29, 2023 • 50min
[Weekend Drop] The State of JavaScript (in 2017) - swyx and Sacha Greif
https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2017/08/09/state-of-javascript-with-sacha-greif/
Jan 27, 2023 • 11min
[AI] Timnit Gebru, Margaret Mitchell and the Stochastic Parrots paper - Emily Bender
from https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/gradient-dissent/emily-m-bender-language-aVzCO4T2gGs/further readinghttps://www.theverge.com/22309962/timnit-gebru-google-harassment-campaign-jeff-deanhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1f2kYWDXwhzYnq8ebVtuk9CqQqz7ScqxhSIxeYGrWjK0/edit
Jan 26, 2023 • 11min
[AI] Small Language Models and Training PubMedGPT - Naveen Rao
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/fyi-for-your/the-evolution-of-ai-models-Fs_7Pd5f1aG/
Jan 25, 2023 • 23min
[AI] The origin of EleutherAI - Connor Leahy
From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz4G9zrlAGs
Jan 24, 2023 • 14min
[AI] Behind ChatGPT: RLHF and the Proximal Policy Optimization - Practical AI
from https://overcast.fm/+HaNPbG9CU/24:00to read: https://overcast.fm/+HaNPbG9CU/24:00
Jan 23, 2023 • 14min
[AI] GPT3's advances, applications, and prompt engineering - Peter Welinder
from: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/gradient-dissent/peter-boris-fine-tuning-iu5-hVreSF8/ from 15mins in
Jan 21, 2023 • 38min
[Weekend Drop] Swyx on Infoshare Poland
Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZnzzMbA7Vg6:55 - Product versus Platform9:05 - Durable Functions13:49 - Coding Career Handbook for Junior to Senior Developers What Inspired You To Write It16:02 - What Most Developers Should Know after They Get Their First Job21:36 - How Did You Survive during the Pandemic and no Flight Policy23:34 - Jsconf Asia 2018 Talk25:20 - The Third Age of Javascript27:28 - Perspective On on the React Ecosystem27:51 - What Do You Think about React Ecosystem Right Now35:04 - Do You Learn English at a Very Early Age
Jan 20, 2023 • 17min
[Tech] The Origin of GKE - Tim Hockin
Listen to the GCP podcast: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/google-cloud/gke-turns-7-with-tim-hockin-tnr2DzMUkY1/
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