#133: Quantum AI: The End of Brute Force Computing

Discover how quantum computing is transforming AI from brute-force scaling to surgical precision in this deep dive into the 2026 tech landscape.

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#132: Can AI Map Your House Just by Looking Around?

Discover how spatial-temporal tokenization and 3D world modeling are revolutionizing real-time video-to-video AI interaction.

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Thursday, Jan 1

#131: 2026 AI Roadmap: From Invisible Agents to Physical Robots

Discover how 2026 transforms AI from a digital novelty into essential infrastructure through local agents, reasoning depth, and physical robotics.

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#130: The Benchmark Battle: Decoding the Rise of Chinese AI

Are Chinese AI models actually beating the West, or just gaming the system? Herman and Corn dive into the reality of modern AI benchmarks.

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#129: Stop Writing Prompts and Start Writing Constitutions

Is prompt engineering a dying art? Herman and Corn explore why the future of AI lies in context, domain expertise, and outcome architecture.

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#128: AI’s Dial-Up Era: Looking Back from 2036

Herman and Corn explore why today's AI prompts and latency will look like "dial-up modems" to our future selves in 2036.

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#127: Modular Code Indexing: Separating AI Memory from Intelligence

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#126: The Spotlight Effect: Understanding AI Attention Mechanisms

Why do AI models "lose the plot" after a few thousand words? Discover the mechanics of attention and the innovations solving context window limits.

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December 2025

#125: New Year's Special: Meet Herman and Corn

Herman and Corn finally tell their origin stories as 2025 comes to a close.

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Monday, Dec 29

#124: The $15 Radar: Inside the Global Micro-Tech Economy

How can a high-tech radar sensor cost less than a sandwich? Explore the hidden machinery of the 2025 global supply chain.

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#123: The Agentic AI Dilemma: Who Holds the Kill Switch?

As AI shifts from chatbots to autonomous agents, Herman and Corn explore how to maintain human control in a high-stakes automated world.

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#122: Deep Learning Decoded: The Math Behind the Machine

Herman and Corn pull back the curtain on AI to explain the mathematical "plumbing" of neural networks and the future of machine learning.

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#121: Decoding RLHF: Why Your AI is So Annoyingly Nice

Ever wonder why AI is so polite? Herman and Corn dive into the mechanics of RLHF and how "niceness" gets baked into modern language models.

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#120: Silencing the Siren: Real-Time AI Noise Reduction

How do phones remove sirens and crying babies in real time? Explore the neural networks and hardware making crystal-clear audio possible.

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#119: The 1% Rule: Mastering Kaizen for Lasting Improvement

Stop the rush and start the spiral. Discover how the 1% rule and the philosophy of Kaizen can transform your productivity and quality in 2026.

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Sunday, Dec 28

#118: AI in 2025: Is Small the New Big?

If the cost is the same, should you always use the biggest AI model? Discover why smaller models often win on speed, steering, and accuracy.

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#117: From Keywords to Vectors: How AI Decodes Meaning

Why can AI write poetry but struggle to find a file? Explore the history and math of semantic understanding with Herman and Corn.

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#116: The Science of Lazy Prompting: Why AI Still Gets You

Ever wonder why AI understands your messy typos? Explore how models "denoise" chaotic input through tokenization and semantic context.

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#115: The Right to Breathe: Tobacco Policy and the Enforcement Gap

Explore the global divide in tobacco control, from Ireland’s success to Israel’s enforcement gaps, and the new "end-game" strategies of 2025.

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#114: The Polypharmacy Puzzle: How Many Pills Are Too Many?

Are we becoming more chemistry than biology? Herman and Corn explore the science of polypharmacy and the limits of the human liver.

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