Best Distributing Solar Podcasts (2025)

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E270: Why the Future is Distributed, Decentralized, and Solar 55:05

5d ago55:05

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In this episode, our guest is Danny Kennedy, a serial energy entrepreneur, investor, and advocate for distributed renewables. Danny shares his bold vision for a world powered entirely by solar energy and battery storage — a transformation he calls "Solar for Universal Need." Drawing on his experience leading startups and initiatives like the Califo…

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Riker's Curse, River City, EDR-Freeze, MCP, WordPress, GitHub, Josh Marpet, and More. - SWN #515 30:49

8h ago30:49

30:49

Riker's Curse, River City, EDR-Freeze, MCP, WordPress, GitHub, Josh Marpet, and More, on this edition of the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-515

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Aluminum and the Hall–Héroult breakthrough in 1886 4:39

12h ago4:39

4:39

A half-century tale of a metal that was once the pinnacle of opulence and is now everywhere. Aluminum’s abundance in ore didn’t matter—refining it was brutally hard until the Hall–Héroult breakthrough in 1886. Coupled with the rise of cheap electricity, this unlocked mass production and crashed the price, transforming aluminum from precious parlorw…

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Modular Manifolds: Co-designing Stability for Large-Scale AI 6:31

12h ago6:31

6:31

We explore Jeremy Bernstein's manifold-based approach to AI stability: constraining weight matrices to lie on a Stiefel manifold keeps singular values near one, making layers behave like rotations and improving predictability. Extending to modular manifolds, we treat each block as its own manifold with its own norm, and compose them so constraints …

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OEIS A000360: Distribution of non-empty triangles inside a fractal rep 4 tile 5:01

12h ago5:01

5:01

Join us as we explore A000360, the OEIS entry counting non-degenerate triangles inside a self-similar fractal rep-4 tile. We’ll break down the geometry of the fractal and what counts as a triangle, then uncover the surprising number-theoretic connections: the distribution ties to the Stern–Brocot sequence (A02487) via a modulo-3 reduction, with dro…

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Ghosts in Gauge Theories: The Good, the Bad, and the Goldstone 5:20

17h ago5:20

5:20

Join us as we untangle the mathematical ‘ghosts’ of quantum field theory—from Faddeev–Popov ghosts that preserve gauge symmetry to Goldstone modes that become W and Z bosons, and the troublesome negative-norm states that threaten unitarity and causality. A clear, accessible tour of why these unphysical states matter for regularization, mass generat…

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The Carrington Event: Solar Fury, Telegraph Sparks, and the Modern Grid 6:36

17h ago6:36

6:36

We dive into the 1859 Carrington storm — the first recorded solar flare and the fastest CME on record — and unravel how it lit up skies worldwide, crashed telegraph systems, and hinted at a sun-driven vulnerability in today’s electrical grid. From the auroral spectacle to near-miss modern-day scenarios, we connect history to present-day risk and ex…

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Broadcom, LastPass, SEO Poisoning, QR codes, H1B visas, Distributed Computing... - PSW #893 1:03:06

5h ago1:03:06

1:03:06

Broadcom, LastPass, Brickstone, SEO Poisoning, QR codes, H1B visas, Distributed Computing, and More... Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-893

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The Leiden Jar: From Lightning in a Glass to the First Battery 4:56

2d ago4:56

4:56

Explore the birth of the capacitor era. In the 1740s, Kleist and Muschenbroek’s shocking experiments showed a glass jar could store energy; Benjamin Franklin identified the dielectric inside and coined the term 'condenser.' Jean-Antoine Nollet popularized the device and the name 'battery,' turning it into public spectacle and laying the groundwork …

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OEIS A000351: The Powers of Five 5:20

2d ago5:20

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We dive into A000351, the powers of five, from its tidy recurrence and generating function to the surprising ways it shows up across number theory, combinatorics, and geometry. Along the way we explore connections to Pisot-number phenomena, a divisor-sum–based lens on primality, counting integers with only odd digits, generating-function identities…

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Vizhapakar Dragons: Armenia’s 6,000-Year-Old Water Monuments 4:59

2d ago4:59

4:59

We explore Armenia’s colossal Vizhapakar dragonstones—basalt megaliths dating to the Chalcolithic around 4200–4000 BCE. Shaped as fish and cowhide figures, these markers sit at springs and irrigation corridors, revealing a sophisticated, region‑wide ritual system that tied water management to monumental labor. Through new dating and spatial analysi…

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Polaritons: Light–Matter Hybrids and the Tech Frontier 6:25

2d ago6:25

6:25

Polaritons are bosonic quasi-particles formed when photons strongly couple to a material excitation (such as an exciton or a phonon), creating new mixed light–matter normal modes. This strong coupling leads to level repulsion (avoided crossing) that splits the system into upper and lower polariton branches, giving tunable light propagation inside m…

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Mosasaurs Unleashed: Lords of the Late Cretaceous Seas 6:53

2d ago6:53

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We explore Mosasaurus, the apex marine lizards that ruled 94–66 million years ago. Learn how a stiff body and a powerful crescent tail propelled shark-like bursts, why double-hinged jaws and flexible skulls let them swallow large prey, and the surprising evidence for endothermy and live birth. We also trace their dramatic extinction at the K–Pg bou…

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E271: Designing for Circularity: Rethinking Solar and Batteries 53:08

17h ago53:08

53:08

In this episode, our guest is Laura Jones, an electrical engineer, social scientist, and co-founder of the Circular PV Alliance. Laura walks us through the pioneering work behind Australia's first certification scheme for circular solar farms, CPVA Certified. From integrating circular economy principles into planning and operation, to practical reu…

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A New Coalition for a Distributed Energy Future — Episode 245 of Local Energy Rules 16:05

2h ago16:05

16:05

Learn about how Common Charge is fast-tracking a future where your distributed energy assets make the electric grid work better for everyone. | Show page available: https://ilsr.org/article/energy-democracy/common-charge-ler245 | Listen to all of our Local Energy Rules podcast episodes at our site: https://ilsr.org/energy/local-energy-rules-podcast…

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Serpentine Soil: Evolution on Toxic Ground 6:47

3d ago6:47

6:47

A tour of serpentine soils—formed from ultramafic rocks and chemically harsh, nutrient-poor, and with a skewed Ca:Mg balance. We explore where these hostile patches occur (California as a major hotspot, with other pockets around the globe), how plants survive through dwarfism, waxy leaves, and metal-accumulation strategies (like nickel hyperaccumul…

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OEIS A000350: Fibonacci numbers ending with their index in a base 4:09

3d ago4:09

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We dive into A000350, the Fibonacci-ending-in-M problem across bases. In base 10, there are many nontrivial M, suggesting rich, infinite variation. In binary, the situation collapses: only M = 0, 1, 5 work—a result finally proven by Max Alexei after extensive computation (up to M < 2^25). We trace the history back to mid-1960s Fibonacci Quarterly w…

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Rearchitecting Systems for Privacy as AI Agents Force You to Rethink Security - Guillaume Jaulerry - BSW #414 1:02:20

3d ago1:02:20

1:02:20

As AI and cloud-based services power our connected world, individuals are facing an unprecedented privacy crisis. With more than 2.3 billion people entrusting their data to the cloud and centralized servers, cyberattacks, data breaches, surveillance, identity theft, and privacy threats are now everyday risks. How do we protect against these threats…

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Shortening the nuclear development cycle from decades to years 47:51

1d ago47:51

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For decades, nuclear has struggled with cost overruns and delays — Georgia’s Vogtle plant being the latest example. Kairos Power co-founder and CEO Mike Laufer thinks the solution is to flip the script: focus first on non-nuclear demonstrations and then iterate quickly. It’s a counterintuitive and potentially risky strategy . Rapid iteration isn’t …

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Uhura, Collins, Nimbus Manticore, Sonic Wall, Async Rat, Solar Winds, Aaran Leyland.. - SWN #514 29:42

14h ago29:42

29:42

Uhura, Collins, Nimbus Manticore, Sonic Wall, Async Rat, Solar Winds, ShadowV2, H1B, Aaran Leyland, and more on the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-514

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GW190521: Echoes from a Parallel Universe? 6:33

4d ago6:33

6:33

Could the puzzling GW190521 event be more than a standard binary black hole merger? We unpack the strange short signal, the mass-gap mystery, and the missing inspiral, then dive into a radical wormhole-echo hypothesis that a merger in another universe left a ringdown echo in ours. We compare the conventional merger model with the exotic scenario us…

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OEIS A000347: Number of Partitions into Non-Integral Powers 4:46

4d ago4:46

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A dive into the niche OEIS sequence A000347, which counts partitions of integers into sums of non-integral powers. From A4 = 1 and rapid growth thereafter, the counting can be reformulated as counting ordered quadruples of positive integers x1 ≤ x2 ≤ x3 ≤ x4 with sqrt(x1) + sqrt(x2) + sqrt(x3) + sqrt(x4) ≤ n. We’ll trace the combinatorial setup, ex…

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Ouroboros: The Endless Loop of Change 5:26

4d ago5:26

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From ancient tombs to modern science, the Ouroboros has long symbolized eternal renewal and the unity of opposites. In this episode, we trace its journey from Egyptian protections of Ra through Gnosticism and alchemy, into Jungian psychology, cybernetics, and even a living lizard named Ouroboros cataphractus. We explore how a snake eating its tail …

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Design Errors in Entra ID, Design Defenses in iOS, Design Difficulties in DeepSeek - ASW #349 58:43

1d ago58:43

58:43

In the news, Microsoft encounters a new cascade of avoidable errors with Entra ID, Apple improves iOS with hardware-backed memory safety, DeepSeek demonstrates the difficulty in reviewing models, curl reduces risk by eliminating code, preserving the context of code reviews, and more! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episo…

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Under Pressure: The Power of Superheated Water 5:15

4d ago5:15

5:15

Join us on The Deep Dive as we explore subcritical water—liquid, hot, and pressurized between 100°C and 374°C. We unpack how the hydrogen-bond network breaks down, reducing polarity to roughly that of methanol, and letting hot water dissolve oils and organics that ordinary water can't touch. We'll see how water becomes a catalyst, a reactant, and a…

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OEIS A000346: Catalan Convolution and Dyck-Path Interpretations 4:56

5d ago4:56

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A quick Deep Dive into A000346, defined as the Catalan numbers convolved with powers of 4. We explore its clean closed form, generating function, and the multiple combinatorial faces—Dyck paths, symmetric functions, and integer compositions—and what these connections reveal about growth and recurrence structure. Note: This podcast was AI-generated,…

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Disruption is Coming for the Vulnerability Management Market - Tod Beardsley - ESW #425 1:47:15

5d ago1:47:15

1:47:15

Interview with Tod Beardsley This interview is sponsored by runZero. Legacy vulnerability management (VM) hasn't innovated alongside of attackers, and it shows. Let's talk about the state of VM. Check out https://securityweekly.com/runzero to learn more! Topic Segment: NPM Incidents In this week’s topic segment, we’re discussing all the NPM supply …

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A new age of wind propulsion for cargo ships | Heikki Pöntynen, CEO of Norsepower 22:36

5d ago22:36

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In this episode of Climate Positive, Gil Jenkins and Kenny Gayles speak with Heikki Pöntynen, CEO of Norsepower, about how rotor sails are helping the maritime industry cut fuel use and emissions. By harnessing the Magnus effect with spinning cylinders mounted on cargo ships, Norsepower is delivering 5–25% fuel savings today—sometimes even more. He…

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History of the Picts 6:24

5d ago6:24

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A deep dive into the enigmatic Picts—Brittonic-speaking peoples of northern and eastern Scotland—and how their rise, language, and symbols laid the groundwork for the kingdom of Alba. We trace Fortriu’s power, the pivotal battles at Dun Nechtain, the Viking-age upheavals, and Kenneth MacAlpin’s dynastic shift, exploring the gradual Gaelic integrati…

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OEIS A000345: Partitions into non-integral powers 5:01

6d ago5:01

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A journey from a physics-inspired partition problem to a concrete lattice-point counting interpretation. We explore A000345, the nonnegative sequence counting partitions into non-integral powers, with roots in a 1951 statistical mechanics paper by Agarwala and Auluck and entries in Sloan’s Handbooks. In 2009, R.J. Mathar gave a concrete reinterpret…

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OEIS A000344: Fivefold Catalan Convolution, Lattice Paths, and Young Tableaux 4:39

7d ago4:39

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A000344 counts a surprising blend of combinatorics and algebra. It arises as the number of lattice paths from (0,0) to (n,n) that touch but never cross the line x - y = 2 (i.e., stay on or below x - y = 2), which is the 5-fold convolution of the Catalan numbers. Equivalently, it tallies standard Young tableaux of shape (n+2, n, 2), and its ordinary…

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CrowdStrike's AI Innovations in Cyber Defense - SWN #513 37:15

5d ago37:15

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In this episode of Security Weekly News, Joshua Marpet and Aaran Leyland discuss the latest trends in AI and cybersecurity, focusing on innovations from CrowdStrike, the implications of new cyber incident reporting rules, and the evolving landscape of ransomware. They explore the role of AI in enhancing security measures, the challenges posed by ma…

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OEIS A000343: Five-rooted trees and linear forests 5:22

8d ago5:22

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We unpack how raising the rooted-tree generating function B(x) to the fifth power counts linear forests of five rooted trees, and the surprising equivalence with five rooted paths. We'll recap the building blocks—rooted trees, forests, and linear forests (paths) with no branches—and explain why B(x)^5 enumerates the same structures as five-path for…

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Safes, Hackers, and Web Servers - PSW #892 2:12:25

6d ago2:12:25

2:12:25

This week's technical segment is all about the T-Lora Pager from Lilygo, and really cool Meshtastic device that can also be used for some hacking tasks! In the security news: Your safe is not safe Cisco ASA devices are under attack VMScape HybridPetya and UEFI attacks in the wild Eveything is a Linux terminal Hackers turns 30 Hosting websites on di…

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OEIS A000342: Rooted trees of height 5 4:37

9d ago4:37

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We explore A000342, the OEIS entry that counts n-node rooted trees of exact height 5. Height here means the longest path from the root to a leaf is exactly 5 edges, which forces at least 6 nodes. So the early terms start 0, 0, 0, 1, 5, 19, 61, illustrating how the height constraint shapes the counts compared with unconstrained rooted trees. We’ll d…

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E269: Community Batteries, Flow Tech, and the Future of Storage 54:24

9d ago54:24

54:24

In this episode, our guest is Glenne Drover, a passionate energy professional and currently the Company Secretary at Yarra Energy Foundation. Though semi-retired, Glenne remains deeply active in shaping Australia's energy landscape through consulting, advocacy, and public engagement. We discuss the evolving battery storage landscape, with Glenne pr…

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The Sandbox Economy — When AI Agents Build Markets 6:17

10d ago6:17

6:17

A deep dive into the emergent sandbox economy of autonomous AI agents—how they buy, sell, and coordinate in digital markets and what that means for our human economy. Drawing on Virtual Agent Economies, we explore the opportunities of flexible cognitive capital, the risks of instability and inequality, and the design choices that could steer this e…

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Ice Unplugged: The Hidden Electricity of Water's Freeze 7:01

10d ago7:01

7:01

A deep dive into groundbreaking research showing ordinary ice can generate electricity through flexoelectric bending and a thin surface ferroelectric layer. We explain how strain gradients in ice crystals create charge, why the effect peaks near −113°C and grows as ice develops a quasi-liquid surface, and how electrode work functions drive interfac…

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OEIS A000341: Prime Pairs 5:42

10d ago5:42

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Join us as we unpack OEIS A000341, the count of perfect matchings of the set {1,...,2n} where each pair sums to a prime. We’ll walk through small n, visualize the pairings, and see why the terms can rise and fall in surprising ways. We’ll connect the counting to the permanent of a 0–1 matrix (with entries indicating whether i+n+j is prime), and men…

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Board Priority But Lack of Access & CISO Pressure, 360 Privacy and Pentera Interviews - Chuck Randolph, Tom Pore - BSW #413 1:10:10

10d ago1:10:10

1:10:10

In the leadership and communications segment, Lack of board access: The No. 1 factor for CISO dissatisfaction, Pressure on CISOs to stay silent about security incidents growing, The Secret to Building a High-Performing Team, and more! Jackie McGuire sits down with Chuck Randolph, SVP of Strategic Intelligence & Security at 360 Privacy, for a grippi…

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AI Nuns, Steganography, You're fired, VoidProxy, C++, Carplay Apriso, Josh Marpet... - SWN #512 34:29

8d ago34:29

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AI Nuns, Steganography, You're fired, VoidProxy, C++, Carplay Apriso, Josh Marpet, and more on the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-512

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OEIS A000340: Recursive sequences, explicit formulas, and generating functions 5:39

11d ago5:39

5:39

Today on The Deep Dive we explore OEIS A000340: the recursively defined sequence with a(0)=1 and a(n)=3·a(n−1)+n+1. We trace its explicit closed form, its generating function, and the other recurrences OEIS lists that define the same numbers. We'll also place A000340 in a broader mathematical context—its connections to sums of powers of 3, appearan…

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How OWASP's GenAI Security Project keeps up with the pace of AI/Agentic changes - Scott Clinton - ASW #348 1:08:00

11d ago1:08:00

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This week, we chat with Scott Clinton, board member and co-chain of the OWASP GenAI Security Project. This project has become a massive organization within OWASP with hundreds of volunteers and thousands of contributors. This team has been cranking out new tools, reports and guidance for practitioners month after month for over a year now. We start…

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OEIS A000339: Partitions into non-integral powers 6:26

12d ago6:26

6:26

We explore A000339, the number A_N of pairs (i1,i2) of positive integers with i1 ≤ i2 and sqrt(i1) + sqrt(i2) ≤ N. This is a non-integral-powers partition problem: we sum square roots, not integers. For each N, A_N counts all such pairs. The sequence begins 1, 5, 18, 45, 100, ... and grows as N increases. The definition and history trace to N. J. A…

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John Archibald Wheeler's Web: From Black Holes to It from Bit 5:44

12d ago5:44

5:44

John Archibald Wheeler helped revive general relativity after WWII, played a pivotal role in the Manhattan Project, and popularized transformative ideas that bridge physics and philosophy. He coined terms like black hole, wormhole, and quantum foam, and pushed the provocative notion that information—and perhaps observers—shape reality through it fr…

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Forrester's AEGIS Framework, the weekly news, and interviews with Fortra and Island - Jeff Pollard, Rohit Dhamankar, Michael Leland - ESW #424 1:40:37

12d ago1:40:37

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Segment 1 - Interview with Jeff Pollard Introducing Forrester’s AEGIS Framework: Agentic AI Enterprise Guardrails For Information Security For this episode’s interview, we’re talking to Forrester analyst Jeff Pollard. I’m pulling this segment’s description directly from the report’s executive summary, which I think says it best: As AI agents and ag…

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E268: Batteries, Carbon Capture, and the Future of Energy Systems 49:41

12d ago49:41

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In this episode, our guest is Yongping Zhai, former ADB energy leader and now Senior Advisor at Tencent, leading their carbon neutrality strategy. He shares his journey from early solar projects to driving green innovation in big tech—covering dramatic cost drops in renewables, the rise of AI in grid management, and why mindsets must shift for the …

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OEIS A000338: Expansion of x^3(5-2x)*(1-x^3)/(1-x)^4 4:49

13d ago4:49

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In this Deep Dive we unpack OEIS A000338. We explore its generating function, explain what the offset (offset 3, 1) means, and show how the infinite power-series expansion yields the sequence beginning 5, 18, 42, 75, 117. We derive the linear recurrence and connect the terms to a combinatorial story about discordant permutations, as discussed in J.…

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Computational Neuroscience: From Ion Channels to Consciousness 4:55

13d ago4:55

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A tour of how math, computation, and biology come together to model the brain—from detailed biophysical neuron models and dendritic processing to large-scale cortical circuits—and how these virtual laboratories yield testable predictions, guide clinical insights, and shape our evolving understanding of mind and consciousness. Note: This podcast was…

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The Jewel in the Proof: Exploring the Beauty of Mathematics 5:49

14d ago5:49

5:49

A guided tour through what mathematicians call beautiful—from Euler’s identity and Fermat’s theorem to Cantor’s diagonal argument and visual proofs. We’ll explore how beauty arises in elegant results, clever proofs, or even abstract structures, and what neuroscience reveals about this universal sense of harmony. Note: This podcast was AI-generated,…

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