All Episodes
Page 307 of 320 · January 2026
#275: Why You No Longer Have to Sand Down Your Eyeballs
Tired of contacts but rejected for LASIK? Discover how SMILE and ICL tech are revolutionizing vision correction for high myopia in 2026.
#274: The Operating System of Global Order
Discover the invisible rules of global power. Herman and Corn explore how flag placement and seating charts keep the world running smoothly.
#273: How AI Stylometry Lets Authors Vanish
Can you truly hide behind a pen name? Herman and Corn explore the history of pseudonyms and how AI is revolutionizing the art of staying anonymous.
#272: The Bill is Due: AI Training and Intellectual Property
Can you "untrain" an AI? Herman and Corn explore the legal and technical battle over copyrighted data and the future of machine unlearning.
#271: Why Gen Z Hates the AI They Can't Stop Using
Are younger generations really AI's biggest fans? Corn and Herman dive into the data behind the growing divide in AI adoption and anxiety.
#270: The Checklist That Saves Your Heart
Discover how surgeons stop the heart to save it, from AI-driven bypass machines to the psychology of peak performance in the OR.
#269: What Your Crisis Setup Can Learn from Command Centers
Discover how high-stakes command centers manage global chaos through specialized design, AI, and the "Common Operating Picture" philosophy.
#268: A Nation Without a Constitution
Explore the fascinating mix of Ottoman ghosts, British skeletons, and high-tech statutes that form the bedrock of Israeli law in 2026.
#267: Decoding the Transformer: From Attention to Inference
Herman and Corn dive into the mechanics of transformer inference, exploring how models turn massive matrices into meaningful conversation.
#266: The Telemetry Trap: Why Your Devices Won't Stop Talking
Herman and Corn dive into the hidden world of telemetry, exploring why our devices phone home and whether "anonymous" data is actually a myth.
#265: Stop Memorizing Syntax and Start Describing Results
Stop memorizing complex syntax. Explore how AI agents are transforming the terminal into a natural language "Intent-Based Interface."
#264: Can You Trust an AI with Your Credit Card?
How do we let AI agents buy groceries or book flights safely? Corn and Herman dive into the high-stakes world of agentic authentication.
#263: Why AI Needs a New Kind of Memory
Herman and Corn explore why SQL is losing ground to graph and vector databases. Discover why the "edge" is the new gold standard for AI accuracy.
#262: Beyond Git: Version Control for the Solo Creator
Is Git overkill for your projects? Herman and Corn dive into the "war" that created Git and explore simpler tools for solo developers.
#261: The 70-Year Overnight Success: How AI Finally Arrived
Think AI was an overnight success? Join Herman and Corn as they trace the 70-year journey from rigid logic rules to modern deep learning.
#260: Digital Archeology: The Primitive Power of GPT-1
Revisit the 2018 model that started it all. Herman and Corn dive into GPT-1's romance-novel roots and its 117-million-parameter legacy.
#259: When AI Argues with Reality: Mastering Search Grounding
Is your AI gaslighting you about the current date? Learn how to force LLMs to trust live search results over their outdated training data.
#258: The Geographic Soul of AI: Mapping the Global Data Divide
Why does an AI see a Chinese supermarket instead of a Western one? Explore how training data shapes the cultural worldview of modern models.
#257: AI That Evolves: Solving the Preference Problem
Why do AI recommendations feel stuck in the past? Discover the technical hurdles of real-time learning and the future of personalized agents.
#256: Breaking the Blackout: CENO and the P2P Fight for Truth
When governments cut the internet, CENO turns users into a library. Explore how peer-to-peer tech is bypassing state censorship in Iran.