augury

On this episode, Brian Fitzgerald, the CRO at Augury joins me to discuss how A.I. is revolutionizing the manufacturing industry by using their software to predict & prevent industrial machine failure.

Augury is a billion dollar tech company that is unlocking production capacity, predictability, and sustainability while transforming how manufacturing teams work. 

You can learn more about Augury by visiting https://www.augury.com. 

On this episode, Brian Fitzgerald, the CRO at Augury joins me to discuss how A.I. is revolutionizing the manufacturing industry with its ability to predict machine and equipment failure, enhancing efficiency and reducing downtime costs. 

Augury is a Billion manufacturing tech company that is unlocking production capacity, predictability, and sustainability while transforming how manufacturing teams work. 

You can learn more about Augury by visiting https://www.augury.com. 

Continuing coverage of Augury, RJ discusses the folkloric significance of birds as they relate to psychopomps. RJ and Elle discuss the practice of sky burials and maritime lore about birds. RJ retells the Rime of the Ancient Mariner and then follows that up with a mormon folktale known as the Miracle of the Gulls, which is the reason the California Gull is Utah's state bird and is venerated among mormons. RJ then does a long list of different birds and the omens they portend. RJ and Elle then head to Allen Park, a former bird sanctuary turned ghost town. Elle performs Augury for Anya with the wildlife there. 

In this series RJ and Elle discuss Augury which is the practice of divining with birds, and a few other methods, but mostly birds. RJ tells the story of the Owl in his yard named Novartis, and Elle discusses her general aversion to birds, as well as tells the story of an ill omen she encountered in california when a crow fell from the sky. RJ goes over the history of Augury as an ancient roman practice. Augers would divine from birds prior to any political action be taken and RJ goes over the political power they wielded. RJ also discusses the "One for Sorrow" nursery rhyme as it pertains to Augury. Elle performs a reading as if she were an Augur, going on the hunt for birds in the wild and divining the political future from the auspices the birds foretell. 

"Towards a New Lexicon of Augury," by Sabrina Vourvoulias -- published in Apex Magazine, issue 114, November 2018.

Read it here: http://www.apex-magazine.com

Sabrina Vourvoulias (www.sabrinavourvoulias.com) is an award-winning Latina journalist whose work has appeared at PRI’s The World, The Guardian US, Philly.com, and Philadelphia Magazine, among others. After years of adhering to AP style, and juggling the conventions of English- and Spanish-language journalism, she turned to speculative fiction. Her short fiction has appeared at Uncanny Magazine, Tor.com, Strange Horizons, GUD Magazine, Crossed Genres, and upcoming in Apex Magazine, as well as in numerous anthologies. She is also the author of Ink, a near-future, immigration-centered dystopia which draws on her memories of Guatemala's armed internal conflict and of the Latinx experience in the United States. It was named to Latinidad’s Best Books of 2012, and was reissued by Rosarium Publishing in September 2018. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, daughter, and a dog who believes she is the one ring to rule them all. Follow her on Twitter @followthelede and on Facebook @officialsabrinavourvoulias.

This Apex Magazine podcast was produced by KT Bryski. Music in this podcast includes "Anguish," "Reaching Out," "Soaring," and "Spring Thaw," all by Kevin MacLeod and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license. For more information, visit him at www.incompetech.com.

Our narrator for this episode is Sandra Espinoza. Sandra Espinoza is a New York born and raised voice actress trained at Edge Studios and Shut Up & Talk. Being Spanish bilingual with a background in English literature, she has always been fascinated with what people were saying and the broad palette of ways to say it. 

Artists Adnan Naseem Khan and Vincent Martin discuss their audio visual journeys into Astral Hawk Interactive and give us a sneak peak into their new case study called Augury- A Digital Mythos.