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#5396: Teaching a Small Model to Stop Spelling Out NumbersYour ASR pipeline is fine until someone dictates "three point two" and gets "three point two" spelled out. Here's how inverse text normalization ac... -
#4543: WhatsApp Business API vs App: Which Fits Your Solo Practice?A solo consultant's guide to choosing between the WhatsApp Business app and the API for client messaging. -
#3711: The Hidden Last Mile: Fiber in SkyscrapersGetting fiber to the 37th floor is a messy tangle of risers, contracts, and concrete. -
#2832: The Two-Tiered World of SupportHow technical account managers and premium SLAs create a support tier that’s almost a different product from consumer chatbots. -
#2388: From Tool Picker to Problem SolverDiscover how OpenRouter intelligently routes your prompts to the most optimized AI model, reshaping how we interact with AI tools. -
#2368: The Multi-Stage Pipeline Behind Netflix's RecommendationsUnpacking the multi-stage AI pipeline behind Netflix, Spotify, and Amazon’s "you might also like" suggestions—from candidate generation to real-tim... -
#2246: Constitutional AI: Anthropic's Theory of Safe ScalingHow Anthropic's Constitutional AI replaces human raters with AI self-critique guided by explicit principles—and what it assumes about the future of... -
#2054: From Dirt to Data: How Empires Conquered the CloudWhy did we stop conquering land and start conquering servers? This episode traces the shift from soil to bits. -
#1992: The Sovereign Compute Shift: Owning vs. Renting AI IronIsrael is building a sovereign AI supercomputer with 4,000 Nvidia B200 GPUs to keep startups local. -
#1951: The Digital Ant Farm: Watching AI Agents Build Their Own SocietyExplore Moltbook, a social network where AI agents interact with persistent identities and goals, reshaping digital communication. -
#1792: Google's Native Multimodal Embedding Kills the Fusion LayerGoogle’s new embedding model maps text, images, audio, and video into a single vector space—cutting latency by 70%. -
#1538: The Cold Monetization Era: Why AI Limits are Here to StayWhy is your $200 AI plan hitting limits? Discover the hidden costs of reasoning tokens and the physical bottlenecks of the 2026 AI energy crisis. -
#1520: How Iran Weaponizes Anti-Fake News LawsExplore how countries are codifying "truth" into law and the high stakes of criminalizing disinformation in the age of AI. -
#1066: Beyond the Blank Slate: The Evolution of AI TrainingExplore the "weight surgery" techniques labs use to expand AI models without losing their core knowledge or starting from zero. -
#402: Powering the Abyss: The Secret High-Voltage Undersea WebDiscover the incredible engineering behind subsea cables, from 18,000-volt circuits to using the Earth itself as a giant return wire. -
#336: The World Model Revolution: Beyond LLM Token PredictionHerman and Corn explore why LLMs struggle with logic and how the shift to world models is giving AI a sense of physics and spatial reality. -
#334: How Governments Drink from the Internet FirehoseHerman and Corn reveal how governments ingest the internet through subsea cables and use Agentic AI to filter the global digital firehose. -
#254: Why Your Metadata Is Louder Than Your MessageEvery file has a digital shadow. Discover how metadata tracks your life, from ancient libraries to modern AI surveillance. -
#187: BGP: The Secret Glue Holding the Global Internet TogetherDiscover how BGP acts as the internet's postal service, managing data across thousands of networks through economics, policy, and trust. -
#181: Why Your AI Is Finally Stopping to ThinkDiscover how AI shifted from instant reflexes to deep reflection through inference-time compute and hidden reasoning steps. -
#92: Is AI Eating Its Own Trash?Is brute force the only path to AGI? Corn and Herman explore the limits of scaling, the risk of model collapse, and the future of world models. -
#87: Why Big Tech Gives Away AI for FreeWhy are tech giants spending millions on AI just to give it away? Herman and Corn dive into the strategic chess game of open-source models. -
#68: The Looming Digital Ice Age: AI Eating Itself?Is AI eating itself? Explore the "model collapse" and the "Hapsburg AI problem" before our digital world speaks only gibberish. -
#53: Instructional vs. Conversational AI: The Distinction Nobody Talks AboutInstructional vs. conversational AI: a crucial distinction reshaping how AI is built. Discover why it matters for the future of AI development. -
#25: The Open-Source Battle for AI's Hardware SoulUnraveling how GPUs power AI. We dive into CUDA, ROCm, and the software stack that makes it all think. -
#15: AI Gets Personal: The Power of Voice Fine-TuningAI that understands *your* voice? Dive into the fascinating world of fine-tuning and discover how AI gets personal.