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Jerusalem's Shuk Is Getting 10 New Towers
Episode 6077
Every article about Mahane Yehuda says the towers are coming for the shuk. They aren't — not one of the ten new towers approved or rising within a fe…
1 week, 5 days ago
How AI Actually Predicts Elections
Episode 6076
AI is used to predict elections in three very different ways: Bayesian statistical models like Nate Silver's and The Economist's, "silicon sampling" …
1 week, 5 days ago
Israel's Pollsters: Who Calls the Race Before You Vote
Episode 6075
Israel votes in nine days, and the people who try to call the result before it happens are a small, famous, and fiercely debated cast. This episode m…
1 week, 5 days ago
The Worst Documentaries of 2026 (So Far)
Episode 6074
After a day of recommending documentaries, Daniel asks for the other list: the most unnecessary, limited and critically panned documentaries and true…
1 week, 5 days ago
Israel Votes, Part 4: The Forecast
Episode 6073
Ten days before Israel's 27 October 2026 election, Corn, Hilbert and Herman each forecast it a different way. Corn uses a structural model: how stabl…
1 week, 5 days ago
China Beyond Beijing and Shanghai: A Regional Guide
Episode 6072
Beijing and Shanghai are to China what New York and LA are to America — a fraction of the picture. This episode walks through all six traditional reg…
1 week, 5 days ago
Outside the English Bubble: Where to Find Dubbed Asian Documentaries
Episode 6071
Following our Chinese AI episode, Daniel asked where to find documentaries from beyond the English-language bubble, especially Chinese and other Asia…
1 week, 5 days ago
The Papers That Moved AI: From AlexNet to This Year's Fights
Episode 6070
Beyond "Attention Is All You Need": the papers that changed what the AI field believed was possible, and the ones from the past year that researchers…
1 week, 5 days ago
The Whole Machine: How an Episode Gets Made, Send to Publish
Episode 6069
Not a changelog this time but the full tour. Hilbert walks Corn and Herman through every stage of the pipeline that makes the show, as it runs in Oct…
1 week, 5 days ago
Chinese AI Models: Refusing vs. Reframing
Episode 6068
How honest are the newest Chinese AI models, really? This episode digs into the measured data — not screenshots — on DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, GLM, and X…
1 week, 5 days ago