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Packaging AI Pipelines So They Actually Get Reused
Episode 5465
Daniel has a working podcast pipeline: a language model writes scripts, retrieval tools feed it, and text-to-speech reads it out. But the occasional …
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Your Keyboard's Hidden Data Problem
Episode 5464
Android keyboards quietly accumulate months of your typing habits — your email address, your common phrases, your personal words — and lock most of i…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
What Happens When You Click "Connect" on an AI Plugin
Episode 5463
When you connect ChatGPT's email plugin to a workspace address and a Gmail address, you tick a few scope boxes and everything just works. But what's …
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Why Dopamine Blockers Stop Nausea (And Cause Fatigue)
Episode 5462
A listener with functional dyspepsia asks why dopamine-blocking drugs (like sulpiride and metoclopramide) kill his nausea but leave him exhausted the…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
TTS Can't Pronounce Hebrew Inside English
Episode 5461
You pass a language ID to a multilingual TTS model, and every word in that utterance obeys it — including the ones that belong to a different languag…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Four Small Models, One Android Phone: Does It Actually Work?
Episode 5460
Daniel has been replacing typing with voice for two years, and moving from Whisper to Parakeet V2 on Android was a massive step up. But when your dic…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Rebuilding the Podcast: Turn-Taking, Buttons, and Chatterbox
Episode 5459
Daniel is sick in bed and has decided the podcast needs a rebuild: bring back audio prompts, add follow-up questions, and give him a push-to-interrup…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Two Linuses and the Fun in Technology
Episode 5458
A listener named Daniel asked two questions: who models technology as something playful rather than something to be mastered, and how do you keep the…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Pigeon Alerts on a Repurposed i5: Frigate Without the TPU
Episode 5457
Daniel wanted a notification whenever a pigeon landed on his balcony, and he was ready to buy a TPU and hunt for a species-ID model on Hugging Face. …
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Parakeet vs Whisper: Picking a Phone ASR Model
Episode 5456
Daniel wants dictation-first speech-to-text running entirely on his phone, and after two years of trying, Whisper still isn't it. NVIDIA's Parakeet f…
3 weeks, 2 days ago