Latest Throwdown Podcast Episodes
174: Devops
Programming Throwdown - June 10, 2024 20:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsIntro topic: Social Media Auto Responder LLM News/Links: Amazon releases Amazon Q https://press.aboutamazon.com/2024/4/aws-announces-general-availability-of-amazon-q-the-most-capable-generative-ai-powered-assistant-for-accelerating-software-development-and-leveraging-companies-inter...
CFT 173: Spring Game Recap and Major NCAA Changes
College Football Throwdown - June 07, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAlex and Pete sat down to discuss the highs and lows or Nebraska's Spring Game as well as some recruiting news. They also break down the implications of the NCAA's $2.7 billion settlement. 42:55 - NCAA talk begins
173: Mocking and Unit Tests
Programming Throwdown - April 29, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratings173: Mocking and Unit Tests Intro topic: Headphones News/Links: Texas A&M University Physics Festival https://physicsfestival.tamu.edu/ Rust vs Cpp at Google Lars Bergstrom (Google Director of Engineering): Rust teams at Google are as productive as the ones using Go and 2x those ...
CFT 172: Nebraska's New AD and Spring Practice Recap
College Football Throwdown - April 25, 2024 00:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAlex and Pete sat down to discuss Trev Alberts leaving Nebraska as well as the latest news for the Husker basketball and volleyball teams. They also break down football spring practice and the upcoming spring game. 44:21 - Football talk begins
CFT 171: Coaching Changes, New Rules, and Transfer Portal
College Football Throwdown - April 22, 2024 18:58 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAlex and Pete return to their microphones to discuss national topics in college football from the past few months. They break down the end of the 2023 coaching carousel and discuss the new playing rules for 2024.
172: Transformers and Large Language Models
Programming Throwdown - March 11, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratings172: Transformers and Large Language Models Intro topic: Is WFH actually WFC? News/Links: Falsehoods Junior Developers Believe about Becoming Senior https://vadimkravcenko.com/shorts/falsehoods-junior-developers-believe-about-becoming-senior/ Pure Pursuit Tutorial with python code...
171: Compilers and Interpreters
Programming Throwdown - February 12, 2024 17:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsIntro topic: Monitor setups News/Links: BlueScuti, Willis, beats Tetris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuJ5UuknsHU PalWorld accused of being an AI Product https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2024/01/22/palworld-accused-of-using-genai-with-no-evidence-so-far/?sh=26a9651b4239 4 ...
CFT 170: National Championship and Saban Steps Down
College Football Throwdown - January 14, 2024 06:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAlex and Pete finished off the football season discussing Michigan's win in the Championship. They also talk about Nick Saban leaving Alabama and the crazy coaching carousel this offseason. This episode was recorded on 1/11/24.
CFT 169: Bowl Game Results, Nebraska Updates, and Championship Prediction
College Football Throwdown - January 06, 2024 21:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAlex and Pete sat down this week to go over the results of the major bowl games and the playoff semifinals. They also talk some Nebraska QB recruiting and volleyball before giving their predictions for the national championship. 10:46 - National discussion begins
170: 2023 Holiday Special Live
Programming Throwdown - December 24, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsPredictions: Jason VR for Work Lowering AI training cost/ improved efficiency RISC-V takeoff Patrick Ai claim of AGI Ai peer reviewer Ai Video Generator More space vehicles reaching orbit Early career, finding role at FAANG, liaising vs shipping code. Startup? 3 part. 1. How ...
CFT 168: Nebraska Recruiting, Volleyball, and Bowl Game Predictions
College Football Throwdown - December 17, 2023 02:31 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAlex and Pete sat down this week to go over the Nebraska QB search and the volleyball team's journey to the finals. They also discuss the Heisman and give their predictions for all the major bowl games. 34:50 - National discussion begins
CFT 167: ESPN Robbed FSU
College Football Throwdown - December 07, 2023 06:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsFollowing their previous podcast, Alex and Pete sat down for a breakdown of the Playoff Committee's betrayal of the sport.
CFT 166: Conference Championships Recap and Nebraska Volleyball
College Football Throwdown - December 06, 2023 04:59 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAlex and Pete sat down this week to go over the Power 5 Conference Championships as well their predictions from last week. They also discuss a bit of Nebraska news and the current standing of the Volleyball team in the NCAA Tournament. 23:25 - National discussion begins
CFT 165: Nebraska vs Iowa Recap and Conference Championships Preview
College Football Throwdown - December 01, 2023 08:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAlex and Pete sat down this week to go over Nebraska's final game of the season against Iowa. They also discuss Nebraska's season overall, cover the biggest games of rivalry week, and give predictions for the Power 5 conference championship games. 32:38 - National discussion begins
169: HyperLogLog
Programming Throwdown - November 27, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsIntro topic: Testing your car battery News/Links: Tech Layoffs still going on https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/google-layoffs-california-companies-18465600.php Real-time dreamy Cloudscapes with Volumetric Raymarching https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/real-time-cloudscape...
CFT 164: Nebraska vs Wisconsin Recap and Week 13 Preview
College Football Throwdown - November 24, 2023 01:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAlex and Pete sat down this week to go over Nebraska's overtime loss to Wisconsin and the final game against Iowa. They also discuss the volleyball's team's chances against Wisconsin, the biggest upsets of Week 12, and preview the final week of the football regular season. 52:00 - National disc...
168: Godot
Programming Throwdown - November 20, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsIntro topic: What are expectations on developers that have nothing to do with programming News/Links: Pushing for a lower dev estimate is like negotiating weather with a Meteorologist https://smartguess.is/blog/your-estimate-is-less-than-that/ Announcing python in excel https://tec...
CFT 163: Nebraska vs Maryland Recap, Couching Carousel, and Week 12 Preview
College Football Throwdown - November 18, 2023 05:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAlex and Pete sat down this week to go over Nebraska's loss to Maryland and the QB situation. They also discuss the Big 10's Michigan penalty, the recent coach shakeups, and the biggest games from last week. 35:58 - National discussion begins
CFT 162: Nebraska vs Michigan St. Recap and Week 11 Preview
College Football Throwdown - November 10, 2023 04:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAlex and Pete sat down this week to go over Nebraska's tough loss to Michigan State. They also discuss the upsets from Week 10, the playoff ranking, and preview the biggest games of Week 11. 40:02 - National discussion begins
CFT 161: Nebraska vs Purdue Recap and Week 10 Preview
College Football Throwdown - October 31, 2023 18:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAlex and Pete sat down this week to go over Nebraska's win over Purdue. They also discuss the big games from Week 9, the tight race in the Big 12, and preview Nebraska's important game against Michigan St. 44:15 - National discussion begins
CFT 160: National Week 8 Recap and Signal Stealing
College Football Throwdown - October 26, 2023 21:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAlex and Pete recorded a 2nd podcast this week going over the initial reports on the Michigan signal stealing scandal as well as the biggest national games from week 8 and previewing the best week 9 matchups.
CFT 159: Nebraska vs Northwestern Recap and Volleyball Discussion
College Football Throwdown - October 25, 2023 17:51 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAlex and Pete sat down this week to go over Nebraska's football victory over Northwestern, the brutal injury situation, and to predict the upcoming Purdue game. They also discuss the volleyball team's historic win over #1 Wisconsin. 48:08 - Volleyball discussion begins
167: Desktop User Interfaces
Programming Throwdown - October 23, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsIntro topic: Jogging Metrics News/Links: Unholy LLM https://huggingface.co/Undi95/Unholy-v1-12L-13B The reverse red herring https://www.blameless.com/blog/the-reverse-red-herring The "ens–tification" of TikTok https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/ Resp...
CFT 158: Weeks 6/7 Recap and Northwestern Preview
College Football Throwdown - October 20, 2023 19:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAlex and Pete sat down this week to preview Nebraska's upcoming game with Northwestern and to discuss a variety of national topics. They discuss the biggest games from the past two weeks, the reduction to the transfer portal window, and the Big 10's new 2024 schedule. 31:27 - National discussio...
166: Speedy Database Queries with Lukas Fittl
Programming Throwdown - October 16, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratings- pganalyze: https://pganalyze.com/ - Weekly series "5mins of Postgres": https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDV_1Dz2Ixgl1nT_3DUZVFw - How Postgres chooses which index to use: https://pganalyze.com/blog/how-postgres-chooses-index - CMU databases courses: https://db.cs.cmu.edu/courses/ ...
CFT 157: Nebraska vs Illinois Recap
College Football Throwdown - October 12, 2023 04:49 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsPete is podcasting from a cruise ship this week along with Alex at home. They sat down to go over Nebraska's win over Illinois and their mixed feelings about the messy game.
CFT 156: Nebraska vs Michigan Recap and Week 6 Preview
College Football Throwdown - October 05, 2023 06:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAlex and Pete sat down this week to go over Nebraska's rough loss to Michigan and how critical the upcoming Illinois game is. They also discuss the Pac 12's success on the field, the latest upsets, and preview the Red River Shootout. 41:26 - National discussion begins
CFT 155: Nebraska vs Louisiana Tech Recap and Week 5 Preview
College Football Throwdown - September 26, 2023 23:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAlex and Pete sat down this week to go over Nebraska's win over Louisiana Tech and the tough upcoming game against Michigan. They also discuss the biggest national games, evaluate Nebraska's season so far, and talk a little Nebraska Volleyball. 36:10 - National discussion begins
165: Differential Equations
Programming Throwdown - September 25, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsIntro topic: Revisiting the power of Spreadsheets News/Links: LK-99 Isn’t a Superconductor https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02585-7 Normalizing Flows https://pyro.ai/examples/normalizing_flows_i.html How is llama.cpp possible? https://finbarr.ca/how-is-llama-cpp-possibl...
CFT 154: Nebraska vs N. Illinois Recap and Week 4 Preview
College Football Throwdown - September 20, 2023 22:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAlex and Pete sat down this week to go over Nebraska's win over Northern Illinois, the quarterback situation, and some key injuries. They also discuss the biggest national upsets and give predictions for several headline week 4 matchups. 34:00 - National discussion begins