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What It's Like to Be a Token Inside an LLM
Episode 6169
Most explanations of how a language model works show you a diagram. This one hands you a coat and walks you through the building. Starting from the t…
1 week, 4 days ago
Hebrish: Hebrew-Aware Dictation That Actually Works
Episode 6168
If you dictate in English but live in Jerusalem, stock speech recognizers mangle words like arnona and makolet. Hebrish is a not-for-profit project t…
1 week, 4 days ago
Streaming Browser Cookies to a Headless Server
Episode 6167
Daniel wants his agent-driven browser off his laptop and onto the home server, but the server has never logged into anything. Chrome closed the obvio…
1 week, 4 days ago
Turning a Drifted Server Into a Rebuildable Playbook
Episode 6166
Every tutorial starts with an empty machine and a playbook you write first. But what if your Ubuntu box grew for years — packages, containers, midnig…
1 week, 4 days ago
Watching 20 Batch Jobs at Once
Episode 6165
Everyone talks about batch API discounts, but nobody talks about the babysitting. When you're running a speech fine-tune across thousands of clips or…
1 week, 4 days ago
We Gave Each Host Its Own AI Agent
Episode 6164
What happens when you stop letting one model voice every character? This week the show rebuilt itself on Google DeepMind's Concordia framework — a se…
1 week, 4 days ago
Forking a Keyboard for One Voice Feature
Episode 6163
Daniel has a working voice model that flips between English and Hebrew, shipping as a standalone Android dictation app. The obvious next move — fork …
1 week, 4 days ago
Why Dictated Words Rewrite Themselves
Episode 6162
You dictate into a voice prompt, watch a word appear in gray, and the moment you release the key it quietly becomes a different word. That flicker is…
1 week, 4 days ago
Turning Words Into Sound: G2P, IPA, and the Hebrew Vowel Problem
Episode 6161
Daniel records himself reading prompts aloud to fine-tune a speech recognition model, and every brand name, Hebrew term, or Yiddish word he's only se…
1 week, 4 days ago
Where Do Tiny Speech Rules Live? A Ladder From Regex to LoRA
Episode 6160
Daniel wants his on-phone Parakeet model to write "FBI" instead of "F B I" and "fifty NIS" instead of "fifty shekels." That sounds like a rule, but s…
1 week, 4 days ago