AI
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and everything LLM
#260: Digital Archeology: The Primitive Power of GPT-1
Revisit the 2018 model that started it all. Herman and Corn dive into GPT-1's romance-novel roots and its 117-million-parameter legacy.
#259: When AI Argues with Reality: Mastering Search Grounding
Is your AI gaslighting you about the current date? Learn how to force LLMs to trust live search results over their outdated training data.
#258: The Geographic Soul of AI: Mapping the Global Data Divide
Why does an AI see a Chinese supermarket instead of a Western one? Explore how training data shapes the cultural worldview of modern models.
#257: AI That Evolves: Solving the Preference Problem
Why do AI recommendations feel stuck in the past? Discover the technical hurdles of real-time learning and the future of personalized agents.
#248: The Sycophancy Trap: Getting Honest Feedback from AI
Is your AI just telling you what you want to hear? Learn how to break the "sycophancy trap" and get truly objective feedback from your agents.
#227: Beyond the Diaper Log: Parenting in the Age of AI
Stop tracking every milliliter and start understanding the "why." Herman and Corn explore how AI and developmental science can save new parents.
#218: When AI Agents Hire Each Other
Move past human-to-AI chat. Discover how agents are negotiating, coding, and transacting in a decentralized machine-to-machine ecosystem.
#212: Will You Pay a Monthly Subscription for Your Own Reality?
In a world of perfect deepfakes, how do we prove what is real? Explore the future of content provenance and the "Proof of Personhood" problem.
#210: Predictive Motion: How Transformers Are Learning to Walk
Explore how the same transformer architecture behind chatbots is now enabling robots to navigate the physical world using action tokens.
#200: Why Graph RAG Beats Flat Vectors for AI Memory
Explore how the AI stack is evolving from simple vector search to complex Graph RAG and why the "boring" Postgres database is winning the race.
#199: When AI Outruns Physics: The New Weather Forecaster
Exploring the shift from physics-based models to AI-driven meteorology. Can algorithms predict the next big storm better than humans?
#196: Why Your Irish Accent Sounds American
Herman and Corn dive into the mechanics of neural text-to-speech, exploring how AI masters human prosody and the "average voice" accent problem.
#182: The Quadratic Bottleneck: Why AI Needs New Architectures
Is the transformer’s reign ending? Herman and Corn explore Mamba, x-LSTM, and the architectures solving AI's massive memory problem.
#181: Why Your AI Is Finally Stopping to Think
Discover how AI shifted from instant reflexes to deep reflection through inference-time compute and hidden reasoning steps.
#176: What Are AI Weights, Really?
What actually happens inside an AI model? Corn and Herman break down the numerical "valves" and "knobs" that power modern intelligence.
#172: Taming the Sprawl: Building Your Cognitive AI Toolbox
Drowning in a sea of custom AI scripts? Learn how to turn disconnected "vibe-coded" tools into a unified, local-first cognitive operating system.
#170: How PyTorch Beat TensorFlow and Became AI's Backbone
Discover why PyTorch is the "oxygen" of AI. Herman and Corn explore its history, the magic of Autograd, and the move to the PyTorch Foundation.
#161: From Search to Design: AI's New Molecules
Discover how AI is slashing drug development times and "hallucinating" new molecules to treat once-incurable diseases.
#157: Beyond the Chatbox: The Power of Model Context Protocol
Discover why the Model Context Protocol is the "USB of AI" and how it’s fueling a new wave of autonomous agents and developer communities.
#155: Building an Ideation Factory: Beyond Generic AI Ideas
Learn how to overcome AI repetition and build a multi-agent "ideation factory" to solve complex local economic challenges.