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    <title>Increments - Episodes Tagged with “Book Review”</title>
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    <description>Vaden Masrani, a senior research scientist in machine learning, and Ben Chugg, a PhD student in statistics, get into trouble arguing about everything except machine learning and statistics. Coherence is somewhere on the horizon. 
Bribes, suggestions, love-mail and hate-mail all welcome at incrementspodcast@gmail.com. 
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  <description>This week we take a break from our regularly scheduled programming to listen to Ben, Rich, and Cam loutishly pontificate on one of the oldest poems in history. That's right, three fiction noobs take on Homer. Ladies, have you ever wondered what your fella is doing when you're out for the evening? Look no further. 
The podcast you're listening to is Do You Even Lit? (https://doyouevenlit.podbean.com/) which you can find on any podcast platform and on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/@DoYouEvenLit). The hosts are Richard Meadows (https://thedeepdish.org/blog/), Cam Peters (https://falliblepieces.substack.com/), and some third guy. 
Back to increments in a couple weeks! In the meantime: 
- find us on twitter at @BennyChugg, @VadenMasrani, and @Incrementspod 
- come join our discord channel! Send us a message or an email to get a supersecret link 
- hit those like buttons on youtube to show off your virtuosity 
Should we switch out Vaden for Rich and Cam? Tell us at incrementspodcast@gmail.com. Special Guest: Richard Meadows.
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<p>The podcast you&#39;re listening to is <a href="https://doyouevenlit.podbean.com/" rel="nofollow">Do You Even Lit?</a> which you can find on any podcast platform and on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@DoYouEvenLit" rel="nofollow">youtube</a>. The hosts are <a href="https://thedeepdish.org/blog/" rel="nofollow">Richard Meadows</a>, <a href="https://falliblepieces.substack.com/" rel="nofollow">Cam Peters</a>, and some third guy. </p>

<p>Back to increments in a couple weeks! In the meantime: </p>

<ul>
<li>find us on twitter at @BennyChugg, @VadenMasrani, and @Incrementspod </li>
<li>come join our discord channel! Send us a message or an email to get a supersecret link </li>
<li>hit those like buttons on youtube to show off your virtuosity </li>
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<p><em>Should we switch out Vaden for Rich and Cam? Tell us at <a href="mailto:incrementspodcast@gmail.com" rel="nofollow">incrementspodcast@gmail.com</a>.</em></p><p>Special Guest: Richard Meadows.</p><p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/Increments">Support Increments</a></p>]]>
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<p>The podcast you&#39;re listening to is <a href="https://doyouevenlit.podbean.com/" rel="nofollow">Do You Even Lit?</a> which you can find on any podcast platform and on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@DoYouEvenLit" rel="nofollow">youtube</a>. The hosts are <a href="https://thedeepdish.org/blog/" rel="nofollow">Richard Meadows</a>, <a href="https://falliblepieces.substack.com/" rel="nofollow">Cam Peters</a>, and some third guy. </p>

<p>Back to increments in a couple weeks! In the meantime: </p>

<ul>
<li>find us on twitter at @BennyChugg, @VadenMasrani, and @Incrementspod </li>
<li>come join our discord channel! Send us a message or an email to get a supersecret link </li>
<li>hit those like buttons on youtube to show off your virtuosity </li>
</ul>

<p><em>Should we switch out Vaden for Rich and Cam? Tell us at <a href="mailto:incrementspodcast@gmail.com" rel="nofollow">incrementspodcast@gmail.com</a>.</em></p><p>Special Guest: Richard Meadows.</p><p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/Increments">Support Increments</a></p>]]>
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