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Happy holidays everyone! While you're driving from family reunion to company party in a daze you could be learning you some knowledge here on Undersampled Radio. Tune in to the holiday episode for five minutes of content about data compression and then an hour of Matt and GRAM chit chatting about geeky gifts, singing songs, and telling science jokes. Gather the family around the fire and light the tubes on the radio as we make fools of ourselves for your benefit. Bring your own eggnog.

Gift lists, solstice poem, and science jokes forced upon you in the show notes.

You've got crazy ideas. Why don't you quit your job, pick a crazy idea and run with it? Because you've got to be able to buy groceries for your children? Okay, we hear you. But what if you had the financial support of an organization committed to assisting R+D projects? Ian Phillips is on the show this week to tell you how you can partner with the OGIC to innovate, build, make, and move the industry forward. Show notes here.

Two things are certain in life: measurement error and the UR staff's incompetence. This week we fumbled an attempt to have an open episode where anyone could join. The result? An awesome episode with Tannis McCartney and Evan Bianco discussing uncertainty in scientific experiments and the evolution of geoscience. As a bonus you'll get to hear what Evan and Tannis are up to in their research and why Matt is a great parent! Visit the show notes for links to various Easter eggs.

You thought we were just software people, didn't you? Well you were right, but our guest this week, John Leeman, is a knowledgeable hardware hacker with a passion for geology and meteorology. John builds software, firmware, and hardware solutions to bring customized instrumentation solutions to his customers. We talk to him about sensors, CAD modeling, software, and education. Tune in or check out the show notes. 

Undersampled Radio turns 25 the way Y2K was celebrated by the Y1K999ers - with a lack of enthusiasm.

Here's something to celebrate, though: Steve Purves joins us on the show! He's the original gangsta of the remote hacking lifestyle. Listen up as we discuss the future of geoscience artificial intelligence, distributed corporate architectures, and why you should learn to code. Steve's insights and Matt's thoughtfulness combine to create a whirlwind of far reaching ideas while gram cracks jokes about 1 indexed systems.

Usually at this point we tell you to read the show notes for an abbreviated version of the podcast, but this week Steve put so much content into the show notes you could read the references for weeks. Srsly. Go there. Read them. They could be our best show notes ever.

This week's guest is the brilliant Tim Hopper. He's a data scientist with brains and brawn in the operations research domain. We speak with him about the new internet security world and the algorithms on which it relies. Matt was kind enough to highlight that since we're a zero indexed show we have hit our quarter century mark, though we're still going to celebrate our 25th birthday next episode. We've got some cool non-sequitur ideas in the show notes for you this week.

David Holmes schools GRAM and matt this week on what's actually going on in the world. It's easy to get lost in the technical intricacies of the every day scitech hustle, so listen to this episode to link your little niche into the bigger picture. David isn't afraid to get his hands dirty, though. He can hammer down some lines of code with the rest of us. We cover some big topics in this episode, so check out the show notes for links and highlights.

This week we've got Dr. Amy Fox on the show. She's a brilliant scientist who specializes in geomechanics (if that's called a geomechanitian does that mean matt and GRAM can call themselves geophysicians?). Listen up as she discusses geomechanics from a high level and dives deeper into some of the technical aspects of the trade. She mentions a couple of quick references which you should read, including her blog posts which are hosted on LinkedIn. You're in luck because m+g don't have very much news to bore you with this week! Get access to all the juicy details in the show notes.

This week Graham's half asleep or something and can't formulate a coherent sentence! If you can stand to listen to it you'll hear about the new UR tech, why football is really football (not soccer), and a small bit about geoscience. Along the geoscience vein, we discuss the new TLE tutorial, the new Python (3.6), 3D predictive painting, and seismic inversion. To skip Matt and Graham's squabbling read the show notes.

Jesper Dramsch snuggles up with Undersampled Radio this week from a warm cottage in Copenhagen. Presumably his pillow laden home smells of warm apple pie and fire roasted chestnuts. But that's just our best guess, I mean, we only got to speak to him over the radio. What do you people want from us?

Jesper discusses the world of seismic processing in the land of reservoir analysts, open access to geoscience, and his take on the benefits of speaking to a crowd. Listen in as geophysicists get metaphysical on the morality of working in the oil biz, and Matt plugs his new book (which is now out on Amazon FOR PURCHASE).

Skip the sales pitch with the show notes, but be warned: this episode is worth the listen, so wrap yourself in a handmade goose down comforter and enjoy.