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ASR vs Multimodal LLMs: What Actually Won
Episode 6028
A year ago, the prediction was that dedicated ASR models would go extinct — why build a transcription model and a second model to clean up its output…
1 week, 5 days ago
Can You Snap Two Fine-Tunes Together Like LEGO?
Episode 6027
Daniel in Jerusalem has two NVIDIA Parakeet fine-tunes — one for Hebrew-English code-switching, one for niche technical vocabulary — and wants to kno…
1 week, 5 days ago
Can You Merge Two Fine-Tunes Into One ASR Model?
Episode 6026
Daniel fine-tuned Parakeet twice — once for Hebrew-English code-switching, once for niche technical vocabulary. Can he staple those fine-tunes togeth…
1 week, 5 days ago
When Should Claude Code Start a New Session?
Episode 6025
Claude Code's own docs tell you to clear between tasks — so why does the tool make you do it by hand? This episode digs into the research showing tha…
1 week, 5 days ago
What's Actually Inside the KV Cache?
Episode 6024
Every token an LLM generates has to attend to every token before it, and the KV cache is what keeps that from being recomputed from scratch — while q…
1 week, 5 days ago
How Much Voice Data Is Enough?
Episode 6023
Daniel fine-tuned NVIDIA Parakeet V2 on two hours of LLM-generated sentences recorded on his phone, and Hebrew-English code-switching recognition jum…
1 week, 5 days ago
Fine-Tuning for Code-Switched Hebrew on 2 Hours of Audio
Episode 6022
Daniel fine-tuned a speech recognition model on two hours of his own voice and hit 60% accuracy on code-switched Hebrew, up from under 20% across eve…
1 week, 5 days ago
Why Chat Templates Break Models Silently
Episode 6021
Your JSON messages don't reach the GPU as JSON. Somewhere in between, a Jinja chat template flattens them into a string of reserved special tokens — …
1 week, 5 days ago
What Buildings Do to Your Body
Episode 6020
We spend over 95% of our lives indoors, yet almost nobody asks what the building is doing to them. This episode digs into the neuroarchitecture resea…
1 week, 5 days ago
Who Should Decide What Gets Built?
Episode 6019
When a city rezones land, it creates value out of nothing — so who should capture it, and who decides what gets built? This episode digs into Hannah'…
1 week, 5 days ago