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#1917: Herman's Music Hour Vol. 2: Seder Remixes for Passover 5786
Herman presents AI-generated covers of classic Passover Seder songs, produced in Suno — the second installment of Herman's Music Hour.
#1904: The Hidden Math Behind Your Blocky Photos
Why are blocky sky artifacts still haunting your photos in 2026? We break down the math behind JPEG, WebP, AVIF, and the new JPEG XL.
#1854: The Conductor as a CPU
A conductor isn't just a timekeeper; they're a CPU for the orchestra, using high-bandwidth non-verbal signals to unify 80 musicians.
#1851: AI Toasters and Poetic Gym Coaches: Why We’re Drowning in Useless AI
From smart toasters that need Wi-Fi to email rewriters that sound like corporate robots, here are the most baffling AI features we’ve seen.
#1800: Hacking the Brain's Alarm System
Why some sounds make your skin crawl: the science of emergency alerts.
#1778: Audio Is the New "Read Later" Graveyard
Why listening to AI conversations beats reading dense PDFs, and how serverless GPUs make it cheap.
#1568: The Signal Versus Symbol Gap
Is Gemini a brilliant audio engineer or just a talented lip-reader? Explore the "signal vs. symbol" gap in AI audio processing.
#1079: When Thin Walls Betray Your Voice
How do you keep your voice private when walls are thin? Explore the high-tech muzzles and throat mics designed for the remote work era.
#911: Sound as a Shield: Reclaiming Calm in High-Stress Zones
Learn how to use soundscapes, brown noise, and AI to protect your nervous system and reclaim calm during times of high-stress and sensory overload.
#732: Why Your Recorded Voice Sounds Wrong
Use AI to find your perfect EQ profile and build a pro vocal chain. Fix nasality, master de-essing, and sound your best on any device.
#731: The EQ Lasagna Problem: A Signal Processing Hierarchy
Stop layering filters on top of filters. Learn the technically correct way to sync your home audio without creating a muddy "EQ lasagna."
#660: The Bit Rate Dilemma: How Much Audio Data Do You Need?
Herman and Corn explore the science of audio compression, psychoacoustics, and finding the perfect bit rate for podcasts and AI.
#64: How AI Learns to See, Hear, and Think Together
AI is evolving beyond text, learning to see, hear, and understand our world. Discover the future of human-AI interaction!
#58: Clean Audio, Messy Reality: Noise Removal for Voice-to-Text
Fussy baby, clean audio? We dive into noise removal for voice-to-text. Discover why cleaner audio can transcribe worse.
#54: How AI Unifies Images, Audio, and Text
Omnimodal AI: How do models process images, audio, video, and text all at once? Discover the engineering behind AI that accepts anything.
#33: When AI Decides to Listen
Ever wonder how your AI knows you're talking? We're diving deep into VAD, the unseen magic behind AI's ears.
#8: Building Your Own Whisper
Ever wondered if you could build your own speech recognition tool? We dive deep into crafting custom ASR.