Podcasts Other Curmudgeon's Corner 2019-05-10: Better Than Coil

2019-05-10: Better Than Coil

Published: May 12, 2019, 10:29 p.m.

This week on Curmudgeon's Corner, Ed and Bruce join Sam to cover a wide variety of topics. Election 2020 updates. Discussions on Syria and Iran. Some thoughts on populists and on nuclear power. And finally economic stats and machine learning. We've got about everything this week!


Show Details:


Recorded 2019-05-10
Length this week - 2:14:34


  • (0:00:20-0:36:43) Intro

    • Agenda
    • Democratic Nomination
    • Election Graphs Update

  • (0:38:04-1:08:56) Round One

    • Ed: Civilian Casualties in Syria
    • Bruce: Iran escalation

  • (1:09:36-1:35:42) Round Two

    • Ed: Populists and why they get elected and want recounts
    • Bruce: Three Mile Island closing

  • (1:36:58-2:14:13) Round Three

    • Ed: Income and Employment
    • Bruce: Machine Learning everywhere



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