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Today in
My Weird Prompts
Tuesday, 29 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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Multimodal models are trained on video, audio, and text — but what does "multimodal" actually mean under the hood? This episode digs into late fusion versus early…
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Google DeepMind's Gemini Omni landing page claims the model has "an intuitive understanding of forces like gravity, kinetic energy, and fluid dynamics." But video…
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A bounded classifier emits a probability distribution over a fixed label set in one forward pass — no token generation, no JSON parsing, no helpfulness. This…
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Your retrieval pipeline returns a document, the model cites it, and the claim checks out. Everything in the trace looks fine. But what if the model actually pulled…
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Then we go older and deeper — Garrod and Pickering's 2004 paper "Why is conversation so easy?" — to explain why dialogue distributes cognitive load in a way no menu…
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The problem is the feed — automatic tagging that started inventing its own categories, then duplicating them in ways nobody notices. This episode works through the…
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Judaism |
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The Ketoret was the most prestigious service in the Temple — burned twice daily, carried into the Holy of Holies once a year — yet no synagogue on earth does its…
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Yosef ben Mattityahu — Josephus — was a Jerusalem aristocrat, a general in the Galilee revolt, and a man who survived a cave at Yodfat to become a client of the…
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A listener in Ireland asks why Jews don't report apparitions of Moses, and the question opens onto something bigger: how does the Catholic Church actually decide…
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Shatnez — the Torah's prohibition on wearing wool and linen together — is the paradigm of a chok: a divine statute whose reason is explicitly unknowable. This…
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Geopolitics |
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Most of us picture nuclear weapons as missiles sitting preloaded in bunkers behind blast doors. The reality is stranger and more mundane: a physics package the size…
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Israel took delivery of the INS Drakon, a 3,000-ton German-built submarine, on September 24, 2026 — the sixth and largest boat in its fleet. Officially, Germany…
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Technology |
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Encryption protects data at rest and in transit. A hardware keylogger attacks the moment before encryption, sitting between your keyboard and your operating system…
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