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From the blog · Case study The Bake-Off: My Real Voice vs My Voice Clone Daniel recorded his half of a conversation on his phone. The other half is Meorav, a text-to-speech model trained on 88 minutes of his voice. How the clone is made, how the episode was stitched together, and where the clone still slips.
Step into the studio The hosts are real plushies — we scanned them and built them a 3D set. How it works From a voice prompt to a finished episode: script, voices, assembly. Creator's picks Daniel's favourite episodes — a good place to start.

#6321: How Interpreters Speak While Listening

Eye-tracking studies show professional interpreters look at likely items on a screen before a speaker even utters the predictable word.

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#6320: Who Sets Identity Standards for AI Agents

Drafts from authors across AWS, OpenAI, and Ping Identity argue AI agents should be treated as software workloads, not people.

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#6319: Tuning Hilbert Back from the Surreal

When prompted simply to be ridiculous, an AI persona began awarding household voting rights to an upstairs staircase landing.

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#6318: Why Election Fraud Requires Your Opponent to Cooperate

During Israeli elections, at least two committee members from rival parties maintain independent, handwritten tally sheets during the count.

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#6317: Choosing Model Precision, Quantization, and Format

Quantizing Qwen 2.5 9B to Q4_K_M boosted generation speed 2.7 times over BF16, while prompt processing rates stayed roughly unchanged.

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#6316: Why Protein Design Ignores Astronomical Counts

A hundred amino acids can form roughly 10 to the 130th possible sequences, far exceeding the number of atoms in the observable universe.

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#6315: Inside China's Mixed-Language AI Models

Domestic Chinese models typically draw sixty to eighty percent of their training data from Chinese, leaving massive room for English and code.

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#6314: Why Forgotten Runpod Workloads Keep Billing

Runpod stops pods at a zero balance, but attached volume disks double in cost when stopped and unattached pods vanish entirely.

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#6313: What Global Voter Turnout Trends Really Reveal

Global turnout fell from roughly 65 percent in 2008 to 55.5 percent of the voting-age population by 2023.

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#6312: Choosing Between Modal, RunPod, and Vast.ai

RunPod lists an H100 SXM at $3.99 an hour on Secure Cloud, but its Community marketplace drops it to $2.69.

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