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Hunting the Tells That Vanish When Named
Episode 5437
Daniel noticed "failure mode" showing up everywhere in our own scripts, and wondered what other verbal tics are hiding in a corpus of thousands of ep…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
Small Models as Rewriters, Not Writers
Episode 5436
Daniel noticed certain idioms keep surfacing in the show's dialogue, and system-prompting the problem away made it worse — the model started using th…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
When Your TTS Model Eats the Numbers
Episode 5435
Text normalization is the invisible layer that turns written text into something a TTS model can actually speak: "1,234" becomes "one thousand two hu…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
When Local AI Tools Phone Home
Episode 5434
If a tool runs inference on your device, it has no legitimate reason to touch the network. That makes outbound traffic from a "local" AI tool one of …
3 weeks, 4 days ago
Thermostats, Thermal Mass, and the Buildings That Fight Back
Episode 5433
A thermostat looks like the simplest device ever built: sensor, set point, switch. But the bleeping battle between an IR blaster and an air condition…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
What Hospice Workers See at the Deathbed
Episode 5432
A UK-wide survey of 104 Marie Curie palliative care staff found that 97% had witnessed at least one deathbed phenomenon in five years — an average of…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
The Other Half of Hugging Face: Why BERT Still Out-Downloads Llama
Episode 5431
Everyone names Llama, Gemma, Mistral, and DeepSeek — but BERT is the second-most-downloaded model on Hugging Face, and encoder-only models collective…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
Two Boxes: ASR and the Text Fixer Behind It
Episode 5430
Raw ASR output is a wall of uncased, unpunctuated words. The accessory models that clean it up are the back half of the pipeline nobody talks about. …
3 weeks, 4 days ago
Bathtime Safety: What the Data Actually Says
Episode 5429
Bathtime looks simple until you read the research. Two-thirds of child drownings inside the home happen in the bathtub, and the most common cause of …
3 weeks, 4 days ago
Wills, Superstition, and the One Event With 100% Probability
Episode 5428
Daniel wrote in with a confession: he's a prepper who plans for everything except the one event with a hundred percent probability. He's deeply super…
3 weeks, 4 days ago