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#5630: Josephus: The Priest Who Wrote From Rome's Side
Priest, general, defector, Roman pensioner — how one first-century author became the lens through which we see ancient Judaism.
#5629: Keyloggers, Stingrays, and the Library Laptop Grab
Tor, Signal, full-disk encryption — and a chip on the motherboard that none of them can see.
#5628: What a Nuclear Warhead Actually Looks Like
Real warheads aren't cinematic — they're warm, gold-plated, softball-sized pits inside floor vaults under aircraft shelters.
#5627: Knock, Medjugorje, and the Church's Apparition Playbook
295 Marian apparitions studied, only 12 approved. How the Church vets visions—and what happens when it says no.
#5626: What Multimodal Models Actually Learn From Video
Late fusion, early fusion, and vision laziness — what actually happens when models train on video, audio, and text together.
#5625: Omni and the Marble That Rolls Uphill
Google's Omni claims an intuitive grasp of gravity and momentum. Can a video model really learn physics, or just remember what physics looks like?
#5624: One Forward Pass: Building a Bounded Classifier
No generation, no parsing — just label scores in a single pass. How to build a small encoder classifier that actually works.
#5623: When Your AI Cites Sources It Didn't Actually Use
Your RAG pipeline cites a source — but did the model actually use it? New interpretability research says you can't tell from the trace.
#5622: Why Talking to AI Feels Easier Than Using It
ChatGPT split into Chat and Work. A broken label printer shows why conversation beats menus — and what's hiding under the hood.
#5621: Constrained Decoding for AI-Generated Podcast Tags
A working AI podcast pipeline has one quiet failure: the tagging. Here's how constrained decoding and a stable taxonomy fix it.