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#5923: Plus Codes: Free Addressing Nobody Uses
A free, offline, 14-metre addressing system exists — so why do ambulances still can't find the house?
#5922: Teaching a Model Your Voice: SFT vs DPO
Three ways to teach a model your writing voice — and the evidence says one of them quietly makes things worse.
#5921: Israel's Urgent Care Safety Net: What Broke
A Jerusalem family's two terrifying nights expose the layer beneath the ER — and the doctor shortage behind it.
#5920: The Psychiatrist in Those 1950s Patient Films
A drug salesman's papers, a bathtub, and the 1950s interviews with Dr. Heinz Edgar Lehmann that still pull millions of views.
#5919: Why Your Toddler Dunks Crackers in Water
Ezra is 15 months old and making cracker soup. Is that teething, sensory play, or a tiny scientist running experiments?
#5918: Splitting One Camera's Audio for a Baby Monitor
One IP camera, two jobs: an open audio line for the nursery and Frigate's cry detection. Here's how go2rtc and Icecast fit together.
#5917: The Women Who Were Computers Before Computers Existed
Before machines did the math, people did — and most of them were women. Reconstructing the desk of the human computer.
#5916: Grey Rocking Meets OPSEC: A Family Firewall
Grey rocking has no clinical trials—just a 2012 blog post. What happens when you rebuild it on need-to-know and OPSEC?
#5915: How Multi-Agent AI Simulations Keep a Shared World State
Concordia keeps the world in a dictionary an LLM writes to. Generative Agents keeps it in a spreadsheet. CAMEL keeps it in the chat log.
#5914: Fire Alarms in 40-Story Towers: What Goes Wrong
How high-rise fire systems work — detection, smoke control, phased evacuation — and why burnt toast sends residents down 28 flights.