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What Hospice Workers See at the Deathbed
Episode 5432
A UK-wide survey of 104 Marie Curie palliative care staff found that 97% had witnessed at least one deathbed phenomenon in five years — an average of…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
The Other Half of Hugging Face: Why BERT Still Out-Downloads Llama
Episode 5431
Everyone names Llama, Gemma, Mistral, and DeepSeek — but BERT is the second-most-downloaded model on Hugging Face, and encoder-only models collective…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Two Boxes: ASR and the Text Fixer Behind It
Episode 5430
Raw ASR output is a wall of uncased, unpunctuated words. The accessory models that clean it up are the back half of the pipeline nobody talks about. …
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Bathtime Safety: What the Data Actually Says
Episode 5429
Bathtime looks simple until you read the research. Two-thirds of child drownings inside the home happen in the bathtub, and the most common cause of …
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Wills, Superstition, and the One Event With 100% Probability
Episode 5428
Daniel wrote in with a confession: he's a prepper who plans for everything except the one event with a hundred percent probability. He's deeply super…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Why Atheists Still Knock on Wood
Episode 5427
Daniel wrote in with a puzzle: he's Jewish, he believes in God, he's not especially observant — and he still can't bring himself to say the word "dea…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
AI Wrote His Yom Kippur Prayer
Episode 5426
When Daniel couldn't find his good clothes or his iron on Yom Kippur, he stayed home for the first time in his life — then opened ChatGPT and asked f…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Preview Branches Without the Branch Dance
Episode 5425
A solo developer wrote in with a confession: he knows preview deployments are best practice, he's set them up for clients, and he has never once set …
3 weeks, 2 days ago
ThinkPad E15: Swollen Battery or Bad Keyboard?
Episode 5424
Daniel bought a ThinkPad E15 because he trusted the name. Two years later the arrow keys are dying, the trackpad needs to be slammed to click, and a …
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Underground Burial in Jerusalem: 24,000 Graves, 3 Elevators
Episode 5423
Jerusalem's Har HaMenuchot cemetery looks like municipal infrastructure from Highway 1 — until you learn the parking spaces are 24,000 graves, reache…
3 weeks, 2 days ago