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Today in
My Weird Prompts
Wednesday, 23 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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Everyone building agents reaches for the biggest model and wraps every endpoint as a tool. But there's a quieter pattern: tiny text-to-text models doing one narrow…
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When Hebrew words are written in Latin characters inside otherwise English text, standard language identification fails: it returns the dominant label and the…
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This episode digs into two questions at once — how to handle Hebrew code-switching in TTS, and how to package a chained AI workflow so it survives past the project…
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When you connect ChatGPT's email plugin to a workspace address and a Gmail address, you tick a few scope boxes and everything just works. But what's actually…
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You pass a language ID to a multilingual TTS model, and every word in that utterance obeys it — including the ones that belong to a different language. That's why…
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But when your dictation pipeline chains a voice activity detector, an ASR model, and one or more cleanup models, how do you know it's actually working — or is the…
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This episode walks through the two-hundred-millisecond median gap that governs human turn-taking, why backchannels and barge-ins need to be treated differently, and…
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NVIDIA's Parakeet family keeps winning — and surprisingly, the English-only v2 beats the multilingual v3. This episode unpacks the three dials that actually matter…
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OpenAI is retiring Custom GPTs, and the migration path has a hole in it: custom Actions don't transfer. This episode walks through what a Custom GPT and its Actions…
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Not every model is trying to talk to you. This episode looks at discriminative models — the quiet, non-generative side of the Hugging Face ecosystem that reads text…
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Technology |
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A friend of the show wants to launch a printing business in New York, and his marketing plan involves an airplane towing a QR code banner along the approach path…
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Around 40% of people worldwide now say they sometimes or often avoid the news, up from 29% in 2017. It's not fragility — it's a rational response to a feed that…
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India has overtaken the US as the largest contributor base to public open source projects, and one in three new GitHub developers now joins from a country that…
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Android keyboards quietly accumulate months of your typing habits — your email address, your common phrases, your personal words — and lock most of it inside vendor…
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This episode works through both — comparing Linus Torvalds' invisible, load-bearing infrastructure with Linus Sebastian's filmed, messy process, and examining what…
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Turns out Frigate's default model already has bird as a built-in class, and the leftover work is entirely in configuration. This episode walks through the actual…
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A viral clip claims two air-gapped machines can talk through CPU heat, and technically that's true — BitWhisper demonstrated it in 2015. But at one to eight bits…
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Health |
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Tardive dyskinesia affects roughly 20-25% of patients on long-term dopamine-blocking drugs, yet the mechanism behind its permanence is still debated. This episode…
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It turns out the research on immersion bathing is stronger than the folklore ever was, and he was robbed. This episode digs into the head-to-head trial that pitted…
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A listener with functional dyspepsia asks why dopamine-blocking drugs (like sulpiride and metoclopramide) kill his nausea but leave him exhausted the next day — and…
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The bland food rules you grew up with are being formally retired, and the mechanism behind a stomach bug explains why. But there's a second layer: for anyone living…
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Israel |
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Everyone in Israel knows the word "peripheria" — the periphery. But it isn't a geographic term. It means "not the center," and the proof is that Jerusalem itself…
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Carmei Gat is a planned neighborhood on the northern edge of Kiryat Gat, in Israel's Southern District, and it's become an unlikely magnet for English-speaking…
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Architecture |
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A listener wrote in with two building-temperature puzzles that seem to contradict each other: a parking garage four floors underground in a hot country during…
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Finance |
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A listener's email about Amazon's tightening return policy sends us down a rabbit hole of consumer overreach, from petty market grazing to industrial-scale refund…
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Geopolitics |
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What actually ends a friendship when politics gets involved? This episode starts with Ed Sheeran's rough week — pulling Macklemore from his tour over anti-Israel…
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Judaism |
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The stereotype of the anxious, overanalytical Jewish personality is persistent enough that it feels like common knowledge. But where did it actually come from? Not…
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Parenting |
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A fifteen-month-old has become intensely, specifically mom-focused — and it started right after a daycare transition and a long grandparents stay. Is this normal…
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Policy |
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When Israel grants a developer extra building rights through pinui binui, the project's profit is appraised and capped — the state knows it just handed over value…
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Everything Else |
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A grown man reaches into a bin of Haribo at Mahane Yehuda, eats a fistful, and walks on — and almost nobody stops him. This episode uses that small, gross moment as…
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A respectable burial was once something you aspired to — not something you assumed. This episode traces how that changed. The stigma of the pauper's funeral turns…
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