Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSkeleton Crew: Inside Machine Vision
Season 1 Episode 197
What the machine actually sees is almost nothing like what you see. When a volleyball AI watches a broadcast, it doesn't see athletes and a ball—it s…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Generous Grading: The Invisible Rule Behind Every Number
Season 1 Episode 196
When a tennis AI system scored 90.8% on identical footage with zero code changes, the rescoring dropped to 62.9%. Nothing broke—the matching rule jus…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Poison Gold: The Truth About Ground Truth
Season 1 Episode 195
What actually IS ground truth? And who makes it? In this episode, we finally answer the questions we've been hinting at all season: the human work th…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Frozen Bar: When Good Isn't Enough
Season 1 Episode 194
B3 achieved 72% after human audit—a significant jump from V2's 46%—but fell short of the frozen 80% bar set before grading began. Using the high jump…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Feeding the Beast: What Boundary Models Actually Eat
Season 1 Episode 193
What does a boundary model actually eat? This episode serves up the answer: a carefully curated menu of portable features that actually train models …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
From the Stands to the Algorithm: When Your Pipeline Catches Up
Season 1 Episode 192
The experiment series reached a turning point: Joey watched the G-Stod 2020 volleyball finals live in Switzerland, then went home and fed that same m…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Systems and Gaps: Why Bad Data Breaks ML
Season 1 Episode 191
A correction to episode 1 becomes the perfect teaching moment: the one untagged number sailed through quality checks while all the tagged numbers hel…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Three Years, One Ball, Zero Solutions
Season 1 Episode 190
A developer spent three years building AI to turn beach volleyball broadcasts into automated stat sheets for pro teams. Then it all fell apart in one…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Map: Your Machine Learning Roadmap
Season 1 Episode 189
Last episode explored how your brain runs an ML training pipeline during sleep. This week, the hosts realize they use AI constantly but don't actuall…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Night Class: Why Your Dreams Train Your Brain
Season 1 Episode 188
Your brain isn't just cleaning house while you sleep—it's running a machine learning training pipeline that would make a DeepMind researcher jealous.…
2 months, 2 weeks ago