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Today in
My Weird Prompts
Saturday, 12 September 2026
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A sloth and a donkey discuss anything — every episode generated by AI from a single prompt.
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AI |
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Detecting a ship at sea is nearly trivial; identifying what kind of ship it is takes custom labeled data that almost nobody publishes. This episode follows that gap…
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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash looks like a minor revision. It isn't. The layer structure is new, the KV cache was rebuilt from scratch, and nearly 200 billion parameters…
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Sixty percent of the time, student evaluators using an industry rubric judged human literary translations as no better than machine output. Switch to a simple…
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The answer isn't in the math itself — it's in the scheduling. We open the hood on what a large language model actually is (a stack of matrices doing…
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This episode digs into that framing: why the hype cycle fits awkwardly, what normalization looks like when it arrives, and why the plateau of productivity might be…
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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash looks like a point release but behaves like a new base model: a 552B-parameter mixture of experts with 8B active parameters during prefill, a…
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Health |
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Gray rocking works. It's a survival tool for people who can't go no contact with a harmful person — a parent, a co-parent, a coworker. But the strategy asks you to…
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Gray rocking is the famous survival technique: make yourself as dull as a stone so a narcissist loses interest. But there's a quieter cousin hiding in its shadow …
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Can genuine danger actually quiet a phobia? After a year of housing instability and a month-long war, one person found his lifelong fear of cockroaches, spiders…
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Hannah loved flying her whole life — until one flight in her mid-twenties, when terror showed up out of nowhere. It turns out her timing was almost exactly average…
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A toddler prescribed five puffs of Ventolin through a spacer every few hours raises two very different questions: how do you actually get the drug into a…
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Getting off a medication safely is often harder than starting it — and the final milligrams are the most destabilizing of all. This episode digs into the hyperbolic…
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Geopolitics |
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A single brass-plate company in Panama is a rookie move. Whether it's Mossad building a pager supply chain or the IRGC moving oil to China, what actually shows up…
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What do a wet-leased Arkia aircraft with a Maltese registration and a bottle of Tunisian olive oil on an Israeli shelf have in common? Both rely on the same trick …
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Everyone pictures shipping containers heaved across a gap in the dark. The reality is a hose the width of a man's torso, two tankers lashed eleven feet apart, and a…
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A bottle of Tunisian olive oil with French writing on the label sits in a Jerusalem supermarket. A rug dealer says his brand new rugs are from Iran — a country…
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This episode digs into the civil engineering of border barriers — who designs them, who pours the concrete and welds the steel, and who drives out at 3 a.m. to…
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Architecture |
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Architects once sketched how a facade would weather over decades — designing for year one hundred, not just opening day. Today, aging is treated as a maintenance…
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Can marble actually work in a kitchen? An architect in Jerusalem was trained to never put marble in a kitchen — then she saw American high-end designers doing…
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Travel |
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Flying feels like the only real way to cross a continent, but that's infrastructure lock-in, not physics. This episode digs into the alternatives that actually work…
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