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Today in
My Weird Prompts
Tuesday, 22 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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When someone asks how open source enthusiasts combine two AI models into a hybrid, the intuitive answer — snap the attention heads together — turns out to be wrong…
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In 2022, researchers defined an ability as "emergent" if smaller models lack it and larger models have it — meaning you couldn't have predicted it from the smaller…
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Large language models are, at their core, language technologies. So why did the people who study language for a living become peripheral to building them? This…
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There's no off-the-shelf LLM tick detector — but there is a whole discipline built for exactly this. This episode walks through corpus linguistics tooling…
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This episode works through the mechanics of why prohibition prompts fail, why multi-agent correction passes leak feedback into the final text, and why regex…
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Text normalization is the invisible layer that turns written text into something a TTS model can actually speak: "1,234" becomes "one thousand two hundred…
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If a tool runs inference on your device, it has no legitimate reason to touch the network. That makes outbound traffic from a "local" AI tool one of the few clean…
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Everyone names Llama, Gemma, Mistral, and DeepSeek — but BERT is the second-most-downloaded model on Hugging Face, and encoder-only models collectively out-download…
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This episode unpacks the attention tradeoff behind speech recognition — why streaming models punctuate badly, why full-batch transcription is too expensive on a…
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Hugging Face quietly migrated 500,000 repositories and 20 petabytes to Xet, a chunk-level dedup engine that replaced file-level Git LFS. This episode unpacks how…
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This episode unpacks the research behind both — user-edit fine-tuning (Gao et al., NeurIPS 2024) and critique-and-revise (Jin et al., Amazon) — and asks which…
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What actually happens when you fine-tune a quantized model instead of the original weights? This episode walks through the mechanics of QLoRA versus full-parameter…
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A 403GB base model, a 102KB adapter file, and a deliberate choice never to merge them. This episode unpacks what a model adapter actually is — formally, a small set…
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A 744-billion-parameter model appeared on Hugging Face with no announcement, no paper, no API, and no independent evaluation — but a grand title ("The Dawn of…
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Every language problem gets routed to a frontier text-generation model these days — and sometimes that's exactly the wrong engineering choice. This episode tours…
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Hemmingway-1, a 27B model from Altworld built on Qwen3.8-27B, claims to skip the preamble and answer your whole message instead of a piece of it. But the benchmark…
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Technology |
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A thermostat looks like the simplest device ever built: sensor, set point, switch. But the bleeping battle between an IR blaster and an air conditioner is really a…
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A solo developer wrote in with a confession: he knows preview deployments are best practice, he's set them up for clients, and he has never once set one up for…
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Two years later the arrow keys are dying, the trackpad needs to be slammed to click, and a key popped out of the shell with no liquid anywhere near it. He's asking…
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The catch: Android's documentation is explicit that ordinary apps cannot programmatically switch the active input method. So what's actually happening under the…
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When you tap the microphone button on your phone's keyboard, what actually happens? Not the marketing answer — the plumbing. This episode traces the input method…
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Android Developer Verification enforcement began this month in Brazil, Singapore, Indonesia, and Thailand, and F-Droid says it can't comply. Meanwhile, a listener…
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F-Droid has been the oldest surviving alternative to the Play Store since 2010 — and its small catalog is a feature, not a bug. This episode unpacks the…
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Anna Delvey defrauded banks, hotels, and New York's elite without hacking a single thing. Her entire toolkit was Microsoft Word, fake AOL accounts, and a burner…
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Eight in ten passengers use the seatback screen, and the Big Four US carriers alone carry over 525,000 of them. Yet the teams choosing what plays on those screens…
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Omarchy is an opinionated Arch-based Linux distribution from David Heinemeier Hansson that hit 1.16 million ISO downloads in its first year and pulled $18.7 million…
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Geopolitics |
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatened to cut off any foreign company that fuels, lands, or sells tickets for Iranian airlines — "you will be cut off from the…
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The U.S. Space Force became its own branch in 2019, but the military had been flying satellites since the late 1950s — so what actually changed? It also goes…
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Pituffik Space Base sits 1,500 kilometers from the North Pole on Greenland's northwest coast — the northernmost installation in the entire U.S. Department of…
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Jerusalem's Har HaMenuchot cemetery looks like municipal infrastructure from Highway 1 — until you learn the parking spaces are 24,000 graves, reached by three…
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Judaism |
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So why does it bite so hard, and why do so many atheists nod along? This episode digs into what superstition actually is, how it differs from religion, and what the…
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This episode traces the real, funded world of AI prayer apps like Kavanah and Hallow, the AI church services staged in Fürth, Helsinki, and Lucerne, and the…
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Yom Kippur empties Israel's highways and fills its synagogues, even among people who describe themselves as secular. Why does a country that mostly doesn't keep the…
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Health |
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A UK-wide survey of 104 Marie Curie palliative care staff found that 97% had witnessed at least one deathbed phenomenon in five years — an average of 7.7 each…
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A healthy adult can go weeks without food, but only hours without water — and in a hot climate, that gap narrows fast. This episode walks through the clinical…
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Audio & Speech |
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Raw ASR output is a wall of uncased, unpunctuated words. The accessory models that clean it up are the back half of the pipeline nobody talks about. This episode…
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Parenting |
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Bathtime looks simple until you read the research. Two-thirds of child drownings inside the home happen in the bathtub, and the most common cause of a supervision…
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Preparedness |
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So how does someone who's scared to even think about this get started? And how do healthy families handle it with grace instead of turning the document into a…
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