Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Hidden Sensor: Why Your Gut Knows Before Your Brain Does
Season 1 Episode 261
Your body is constantly sending signals about what's happening inside—hunger, temperature, pain, heartbeat. But for decades, neuroscience treated thi…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Broken Thermometer: When Your Fix Can't Be Trusted
Season 1 Episode 260
We're circling back to Episode 15's cliffhanger: the four-point improvement that was verified, ignored, and now demands a reckoning. The outside worl…
1 month, 1 week ago
Watch the Ball: The Band-Pass Filter That Beat Two GPUs
Season 1 Episode 259
What happens when you stop trying to see the hands and start tracking the ball instead? The lab abandons explanation and embraces detection—building …
1 month, 1 week ago
Same Experiment, Different Verdict
Season 1 Episode 258
Why did correcting one number make another number better? Because you're not measuring reality—you're measuring the tool that measures reality. This …
1 month, 1 week ago
The Knob Nobody Had Turned
Season 1 Episode 257
We correct a critical error from episode 12: the model wasn't actually mislabeling attack and block swaps—the greedy scoring algorithm was. The model…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Compliance Machine: How You Fund Forced Labor Without Trying
Season 1 Episode 256
While 40% of consumers say they'll pay more for ethical products, only 4% actually do. This episode explores the machinery of consumer complicity—how…
1 month, 1 week ago
Thread Protocol: The 3000-Year-Old Code of Rakshabandhan
Season 1 Episode 255
Why did three coworkers disappear from Slack? The host, shamed by his own episode about cultural curiosity, finally discovers Rakshabandhan—the ancie…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Proof Problem: Why Being Human Got Expensive
Season 1 Episode 254
In 2026, proving you're human became a job. With 50-74% of online content now AI-generated, creators are live-streaming their process, signing legal …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Ripple Effect: How One Rule Reshapes Everything
Season 1 Episode 253
From wolves in Yellowstone to sports rule changes—discover how altering a single rule can cascade through an entire sport with unintended consequence…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Lab That Runs While You Sleep
Season 1 Episode 252
How a machine learning project navigates the tension between expensive frontier models and free local alternatives. We revisit a failed experiment fr…
1 month, 2 weeks ago