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#3171: How to Break an LLM's Bad Verbal Habits
Blacklists fail and regex inverts meaning. Here's what actually works to clean up AI writing tics.
#3170: Pharmacokinetics vs Neural Nets: Two Meanings of "Model
Two things called "models" that work completely differently — and why the confusion matters for patient safety.
#3169: Why Your Phone Betrays You to a Nursery Speaker
Android’s Bluetooth still can’t manage multiple devices. Here’s why—and what actually works.
#3168: 30 BLE Tags for $60: DIY ADHD Object Tracking
Stop losing your stuff. Build a self-hosted BLE tracker system for 30 items at 1/8 the cost of commercial trackers.
#3167: DeFi vs Microlending: What Actually Works?
DeFi's $180B locked vs 1.7B unbanked. Where does credit actually help?
#3166: The Split in Insomnia Treatment: SOI vs SMI
Sleep-onset and sleep-maintenance insomnia have different biology, different drugs, and different treatments.
#3165: A Floor That Holds: Housing, Food, and Job Guarantees Explained
What happens when nobody can fall through the floor? The evidence from real experiments might surprise you.
#3164: The Million-Dollar Cost of Avoiding an Invoice
Why your brain treats charging for work like a social threat — and the neurological research that explains it.
#3163: How to Learn Life Skills Without the Shame
Why millions of adults can't do laundry without Google — and the emerging market for shame-free skill coaching.
#3162: Sovereign SATCOM: Inside the Military's Orbital Arms Race
Why the US, Russia, and China each build their own military satellite networks — and how WGS, Blagovest, and Tiantong compare.