Podcast Episodes

Rooting for the Home Team with Paul Freedman and Bryan Carmel

Season 6 Episode 12

Two years ago we introduced listeners to the Oakland Ballers, the startup returning baseball to the city of Oakland. Bryan and Adam were joined again…

4 months, 2 weeks ago

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The Tale of Reverso

Season 6 Episode 11

Oxide ships a rack scale system--how to test the manufacturing of the backplane and switches? Previously we've been using a collection of sacrificial…

5 months ago

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AI in Computer Science Education

Season 6 Episode 10

AI is an existential topic for all aspects of education--for none more so than Computer Science. Bryan and Adam were joined by Kathi Fisler and Shrir…

5 months, 1 week ago

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Mechanical Engineering at Oxide [chapter images]

Season 6 Episode 9

Bryan and Adam were joined by members of the Oxide mechanical engineering team to talk the mechanical challenges of building a rack-scale computer, a…

5 months, 1 week ago

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Are LLMs Insufficently Lazy?

Season 6 Episode 8

Brogrammer Garry Tan has been boasting about "writing" tens of thousands of lines of code each day as the paragon of productivity. Is this really the…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

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Building a Quorum of Trust in the Oxide Rack

Season 6 Episode 7

The Oxide rack contains within it a distributed system that needs to trust itself. But how is this trust built? Bryan and Adam were joined by colleag…

6 months, 1 week ago

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When Nine Nines Isn't Enough

Season 6 Episode 6

Bryan and Adam were joined by members of the Oxide team to describe the multi-year search for a mysterious source of hardware failures. All related t…

6 months, 4 weeks ago

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Oxide's $200M Series C

Season 6 Episode 5

Oxide raised a truckload of capital a few weeks ago to fund the business for the foreseeable future. Bryan and Steve describe the raise, and Adam pos…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

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Shell Game with Evan Ratliff

Season 6 Episode 4

Evan Ratliff, journalist and podcaster, joined Bryan and Adam to talk about his extraordinary podcast, Shell Game, in which he started a company staf…

8 months ago

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Software Engineering Past, Present, and Future with Grady Booch

Season 6 Episode 3

Bryan and Adam were joined by Grady Booch, software engineering pioneer and living legend, to speak about the past present and future of software eng…

8 months, 1 week ago

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