December 2025
110 episodes
- #125 New Year's Special: Meet Herman and Corn
- #124 The $15 Radar: Inside the Global Micro-Tech Economy
- #123 The Agentic AI Dilemma: Who Holds the Kill Switch?
- #122 Deep Learning Decoded: The Math Behind the Machine
- #121 Decoding RLHF: Why Your AI is So Annoyingly Nice
- #120 Silencing the Siren: Real-Time AI Noise Reduction
- #119 The 1% Rule: Mastering Kaizen for Lasting Improvement
- #118 AI in 2025: Is Small the New Big?
- #117 From Keywords to Vectors: How AI Decodes Meaning
- #116 The Science of Lazy Prompting: Why AI Still Gets You
- #115 The Right to Breathe: Tobacco Policy and the Enforcement Gap
- #114 The Polypharmacy Puzzle: How Many Pills Are Too Many?
- #113 That New Plastic Smell: Science, Safety, and Solutions
- #112 Industrial Strength: Why Airports Don’t Use Smart Bulbs
- #111 Beyond Transformers: Solving the AI Memory Crisis
- #110 Building the Ultimate Local AI Inference Server
- #109 Teaching AI to Hear: Solving the Custom Dictionary Dilemma
- #108 The Mystery of Model Rot: Why Your AI Code Assistant Changes
- #107 The $5.5 Million Breakthrough: DeepSeek’s AI Disruption
- #106 From Moths to Models: The Rise of Computer Use Agents
- #105 Beyond Math Puzzles: The Truth About AI Benchmarks
- #104 Vibe Coding & The Rise of the AI Orchestrator
- #103 The Future of Coding: Is Your Brain Wired for AI?
- #102 The ADHD Med Maze: Bureaucracy vs. Brain Health
- #101 Monkey Jaws and Human Health: The Blueprint of Growth
- #100 AI as a Mirror: Mapping Your Philosophical Identity
- #99 Beyond the Headset: Pro Audio for AI Voice Control
- #98 The Fight for Your Financial Data: Why APIs Matter
- #97 Paying for Results: The Future of Government Spending
- #96 The Secret Language of Lines: The Evolution of Barcodes
- #95 Beat the Heat: Rugged Labels for Your Home Inventory
- #94 Inside Smallville: Can AI Agent Villages Predict Humanity?
- #93 Can AI Run a Country? Digital Twins and Sovereign Models
- #92 The Scaling Wall: Why Bigger AI Isn’t Always Smarter
- #91 The Story Behind the Show
- #90 The AI Filing Cabinet: Why Chatbots Feel So Lonely
- #89 The Digital Twin Dilemma: Can AI Truly Understand You?
- #88 Why Won't My AI Talk to Me First?
- #87 The $100 Million Giveaway: Why Big Tech Opens Its AI
- #86 The Price of Politeness: Should AI Guardrails Stay?
- #85 Why AI Lies: The Science of Digital Hallucinations
- #84 The Silicon Arms Race: Why GPUs are the New Oil
- #83 Echoes in the Machine: When AI Talks to Itself
- #82 Why GPUs Are the Kings of the AI Revolution
- #81 The Reverse Turing Test: Can AI Spot Its Own Kind?
- #80 Why Your Smart Home Isn't an Airport: Industrial Reliability
- #79 The Mystery of the Missing Years: Why Babies Forget
- #78 Zigbee vs. Matter: Is Your Smart Home Already Obsolete?
- #77 One Port to Rule Them All? The USB-C Revolution
- #76 Beyond the Titans: Navigating the AI Model Long Tail
- #75 The Future of Local AI: Stable Diffusion vs. The New Guard
- #74 The High-Stakes Tech of Modern Missile Warfare
- #73 VPNs: Privacy Myth vs. Reality
- #72 AI's Hidden Cultural Code: East vs. West
- #71 Dark Web Deception: Google's Monitoring Shift
- #70 AI for Crisis: Fact vs. Fear
- #69 Unsung Hero: The Gooseneck Mic's AI Power
- #68 The Looming Digital Ice Age: AI Eating Itself?
- #67 AI & Code: Scaling or Pivoting?
- #66 Desktop-Server Hybrid: The Virtual Solution
- #65 Security vs. Usability: A Balancing Act
- #64 AI's Senses: Seeing, Hearing, Understanding
- #63 AI for Gut Health: Beyond the Antacid
- #62 System Prompts vs Fine-Tuning: When to Actually Train Your AI
- #61 Fork or Stay? The Art of Customizing Open Source
- #60 Single-Turn AI: The Interface Pattern Nobody's Talking About
- #59 The Hidden Watermarks in Your AI: Privacy or Protection?
- #58 Clean Audio, Messy Reality: Noise Removal for Voice-to-Text
- #57 From Lawyers in Limousines to Developers in Their PJs: The Voice Tech Revolution
- #56 Building an AI Model from Scratch: The Hidden Costs
- #55 Running Video AI at Home: The Real Technical Challenge
- #54 Tokenizing Everything: How Omnimodal AI Handles Any Input
- #53 Instructional vs. Conversational AI: The Distinction Nobody Talks About
- #52 System Prompts vs. Fine-Tuning: Are We Building Solutions for Problems That Don't Exist?
- #51 AI Policy Wargaming: Can Agents Argue Better Than Humans?
- #50 AI Gone Rogue: Inside the First Autonomous Cyberattack
- #49 AI Cyberattacks Are Doubling Every 6 Months—Here's Why
- #48 AI Inference Decoded: The How & Where of AI Magic
- #47 From Sketch to Studio: AI & Control Nets in Design
- #46 Pixels, Prompts & Pseudo-Text: AI's Word Problem
- #45 AI Guardrails: Fences, Failures, & Free Speech
- #44 AI's Wild West: Battling Injection & Poisoning
- #43 Your Tech's Silent Killer: Decoding Power Quality
- #42 AI's Secret: Decoding the .5 Updates
- #41 Local AI Unlocked: The Power of Quantization
- #40 Unlocking Local AI: Privacy, Creativity & Compliance
- #39 SLMs: Precision Power Beyond LLMs
- #38 AI Supercomputers: On Your Desk, Not Just The Cloud
- #37 AI's Secret Language: Vectors, Embeddings & Control
- #36 AI's Hidden History: Beyond the Buzz
- #35 Secure Messaging: Beyond the Buzzwords
- #34 Red Team vs. Green: Local AI Hardware Wars
- #33 The Unseen Magic of AI's Ears: Decoding VAD
- #32 When Night Vanished: Light's Impact on Human Sleep
- #31 ComfyUI: Power, Polish, & The AI Creator's Frontier
- #30 RAG vs. Memory: Architecting AI's Essential Toolbox
- #29 The Multimodal Audio Revolution: A Screen-Free Future?
- #28 Your AI, Evolving: Beyond the Static Snapshot
- #27 AMD AI: Taming Environments with Conda & Docker
- #25 GPU Brains: CUDA, ROCm, & The AI Software Stack
- #26 Personalizing Whisper: The Voice Typing Revolution
- #22 Mic Check: Mastering AI Dictation Hardware
- #24 AI Upskilling: Beyond the Code
- #23 AI's Blind Spot: Data, Bias & Common Crawl
- #20 Architectural AI: Precision with ControlNet & ComfyUI
- #17 Cloud Render Superpowers: Local Edit, Remote Muscle
- #16 On Deepfakes, SynthID, And AI Watermarking
- #18 Beyond the GPU: Unpacking AI's Chip Revolution
- #19 AI Images: The Jigsaw Beneath the Magic
- #21 Is Your AI Secretly American?