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When Your AI Agent Has Too Many Skills
Episode 6235
Installing a Claude Code skill is never free: its name and description take up permanent space in the agent's context, even if it's never used. As sk…
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Phone Mic Beats a Dictation Mic: How?
Episode 6234
A dedicated dictation microphone losing to a phone is expensive feedback — so what happens when you try to keep using the phone's mic at your desktop…
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Fibromyalgia's 26 Genetic Clues
Episode 6233
Fibromyalgia affects millions, yet it was long dismissed as a diagnosis of exclusion. A July genetic study of 2.5 million people identified 26 associ…
1 week, 2 days ago
Daycare Germs: What Immunity Actually Means
Episode 6232
Building immunity" gets said like a consolation prize every time a toddler brings home another cold. But what physically changes after an infection, …
1 week, 2 days ago
Why a Cold Makes Your Whole Body Ache
Episode 6231
You caught a cold in your nose — so why do your legs ache like you ran a marathon? This episode unpacks the biology of sickness behavior: how cytokin…
1 week, 2 days ago
Why Synthetic Speech Needs Fake Room Noise
Episode 6230
Synthetic speech can stop completely between sentences, leaving gaps of true digital black that sound unnatural on playback. This episode digs into w…
1 week, 2 days ago
Voice Design: Casting Ogres and Radio Voices
Episode 6229
Anyone can make a voice say a sentence. Designing one you can listen to for hours is a different problem. This episode breaks down how modern text-to…
1 week, 2 days ago
What 12GB of VRAM Can Actually Do Now
Episode 6228
A Radeon RX 7700 XT owner gave up on running models locally six months ago — the context window filled instantly and the model lost the plot. But the…
1 week, 2 days ago
Cork Chippers, Rooster Potatoes, and the Double Fry
Episode 6227
Jackie Lennox's closed on Bandon Road after 73 years, and Cork has opinions. Plumber and Cork native Roy joins the show to explain what actually make…
1 week, 2 days ago
Sarah Tuttle-Singer: The Writer Who Lives Inside the Story
Episode 6226
Sarah Tuttle-Singer grew up on Yiddish lullabies and civil rights anthems in Venice Beach, the daughter of a Freedom Rider who spied on the Klan befo…
1 week, 2 days ago