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Teaching a Small Model to Stop Spelling Out Numbers
Episode 5396
Dictation pipelines break on numbers, not hard words. This episode digs into inverse text normalization (ITN) — the post-processing step that turns s…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Six Colors, One Hospital Corridor
Episode 5395
When a child's chest infection sent a family through the winding corridors of Shaarei Zedek Medical Center, the instruction on the chart was simple: …
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Why Waze Sends You Into a Jerusalem Alley
Episode 5394
Daniel drives in Jerusalem and trusts the blue line — until it puts him nose to nose with a delivery truck in an alley built for one car. His questio…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Fine-Tuning a Model on 100 Hand-Edited Answers
Episode 5393
Most coverage of personal fine-tuning leads with the same line: tens of thousands of examples, a rack of GPUs, a research team. That story is mostly …
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Building Agents You Can Actually Move
Episode 5392
Everyone says they want agents they can move between clouds, laptops, and providers — until they try. The code moves fine. The memory doesn't. This e…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
The Software Behind Urgent Care Triage
Episode 5391
Daniel watched an urgent care tech work a triage screen — massive buttons, color coding, emoji condition indicators, and prompts like "order IV." Tha…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Chaining Small Models for Dictation Cleanup
Episode 5390
A listener running a Futo voice input fork on Android wants to chain a custom small model after his ASR and punctuation stages to fix number normaliz…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Hugging Face vs Kaggle: Where Models Actually Live
Episode 5389
Hugging Face and Kaggle get compared head-to-head all the time, but they're not two storefronts selling the same thing. Hugging Face is Git-backed in…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Android's Split Keyboard and Voice Input Problem
Episode 5388
Android's architecture treats your keyboard and your speech recognition engine as two independent system services — you can set each one separately. …
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Who Decides What Your Keyboard Knows?
Episode 5387
HeliBoard ships with zero dictionaries — you download a .dict file yourself, and that file may date to October 2014. This episode digs into the open-…
3 weeks, 5 days ago