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Hearing Speech in Noise: What Actually Works
Episode 6121
You pass the hearing test. You still can't follow the conversation at the next table over the espresso machine. This episode digs into the gap betwee…
1 week, 4 days ago
What Actually Helps When Sound Is Too Much
Episode 6120
The last time we went near this topic, we walked away gloomy: nobody has built a treatment for adults with ADHD whose problem is sound. This week we …
1 week, 4 days ago
Two Keys and a Polite No: Labeling a Claude Code Approve Button
Episode 6119
A developer wants two spare laptop keys to approve or reject Claude Code actions — one says yes, the other says "no, not approved, please await my re…
1 week, 4 days ago
What NRR Actually Means for Your Ears
Episode 6118
Every hearing protection box promises big numbers, but what do those ratings actually mean for your ears? This episode breaks down the gap between la…
1 week, 4 days ago
Earmuffs, Earplugs, and the Café Speech Problem
Episode 6117
A busy café sits around 70–80 decibels, but volume isn't what wrecks your focus — intelligible speech is. This episode digs into the irrelevant speec…
1 week, 4 days ago
Why Noise Makes You Snap at Your Kid
Episode 6116
A drill three floors down shouldn't make you snap at your toddler two hours after it stops — but it does, and the reason is stranger than "noise is a…
1 week, 4 days ago
Claude Cracked the NSA's 1997 Curve Seeds
Episode 6115
For 25 years, nobody could explain where the NSA's elliptic curve seeds came from — until Anthropic says Claude traced them to a Unix clock in 1997. …
1 week, 4 days ago
We Reviewed Our Own Worst Episode
Episode 6114
What happens when two AI hosts sit down to critique their own earliest episode? Corn and Herman replay the raw audio of "AI Gets Personal: The Power …
1 week, 4 days ago
The Interpreter That Doesn't Know Who's Talking
Episode 6112
Google's Gemini 3.5 Live Translate handles 70+ languages in real time, OpenAI has a realtime translation model, and Apple, Samsung, and Meta all run …
1 week, 4 days ago
Translation Models That Know Drama From Contracts
Episode 6111
This week the show goes out in Hebrew, Russian and French, all of it translated by a system prompt rather than a translation engine — which raised a …
1 week, 4 days ago