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Oct 2026

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October 23, 20261 hr 25 min

Death Throes Of The Republic Part Four

On the fall of the Roman republic The fall of the Roman Republic

October 21, 20261 hr 37 min

Death Throes Of The Republic Part Three

Death Throes Of The Republic Part Three The fall of the Roman Republic

October 21, 20261 hr 35 min

Death Throes of the Republic Part Two

Death Throes of the Republic Part Two The Fall of the Roman Republic.

October 20, 20261 hr 22 min

Death Throes Of The Republic - Part One (Reupload)

On the fall of the Roman republic - This Too Shall Pass

October 20, 20261 hr 22 min

Death Throes Of The Republic I

On the fall of the Roman republic - This Too Shall Pass

May 15, 202638 min

MIT Futuretech : Training Pathways that Work

The future of work is being rewritten now. Hear how government, industry, labor, and civil society are supporting the workforce to successfully transition into AI-augmented roles that drive real impact.Angie Cooper, President, Heartland Forward Keith Sonderling, Deputy Labor Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor Jessica Garner, Managing Director, Innovative Learning, ISTE+ASCD Elisabeth Jacobs, Associate Vice President, Urban Institute Let me know what you want. DM or email me at https://talkwithbooks.substack.com/ so I can send you the wisdom and resources you would like :)

May 14, 202620 min

Robotics' End Game with Nvidia's Jim Fan

Jim Fan, who leads the embodied autonomous research group at Nvidia, walks through what he calls "the great parallel": robotics following the LLM path from pre-training to reasoning to auto research, but with world models replacing language models, egocentric video replacing teleoperation, and world action models replacing the VLA paradigm. Along the way: why he thinks we'll pass the physical Turing test within 2–3 years, why "compute now equals environment equals data," and why this generation was born just in time to solve robotics. 00:00 Introduction 00:30 DGX One Origin Story 01:42 The Great Parallel 03:31 Robotics Endgame Setup 03:39 Why VLA Falls Short 04:32 Video World Models 06:09 DreamZero World Action 07:46 Scaling Data Collection 11:06 EgoScale And Scaling Laws 15:39 DreamDojo And The Roadmap Let me know what you want. DM or email me at https://talkwithbooks.substack.com/ so I can send you the wisdom and resources you would like :)

May 14, 202629 min

On AI: Andrej Karpathy - From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering

00:00 - Introduction 00:44 - Feeling Behind as a Coder 02:28 - Software 3.0 Explained 03:44 - Agents as the Installer 04:49 - Menu Gen vs Raw Prompts 07:37 - What’s Obvious by 2026 09:41 - Verifiability and Jagged Skills 13:39 - Founder Advice and Automation 15:46 - From Vibe Coding to Agent Engineering 25:17 - Agents Everywhere and Learning Let me know what you want. DM or email me at https://talkwithbooks.substack.com/ so I can send you the wisdom and resources you would like :)

August 7, 20251 min

Get what you want free. Update on uploading of new episodes!

Just an update on the uploading of new episodes. Let me know what you want. DM or email me at https://talkwithbooks.substack.com/ so I can send you the wisdom and resources you would like :)

January 20, 20256 hr 37 min

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life by C.S. Lewis

For many years an atheist, C. S. Lewis vividly describes the spiritual quest that convinced him of the truth and reality of Christianity, in his famous autobiography. “In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God … perhaps the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.” Thus Lewis describes memorably the crisis of his conversion. ‘Surprised by Joy’ reveals both that crisis and its momentous conclusion that would determine the shape of Lewis’s entire life.

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