AI
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and everything LLM
#2526: How Peer Review Actually Works (and Fails)
The history of peer review, the Lancet's biggest scandals, and why arXiv is changing everything.
#2525: Who Actually Reads Academic Journals?
Half of all papers are read by nobody but the author and reviewers. So why do 300,000 journals exist?
#2521: Are We Really Worse Off Than Our Ancestors?
A look at 700 years of wages, housing costs, and what "purchasing power" actually means today.
#2518: How Jailbreaking Reveals AI's Hidden Tension
What the DAN prompt and grandma exploits reveal about the structural conflict inside every LLM.
#2517: How Unsloth Makes LLM Fine-Tuning 2x Faster
Unsloth cuts memory usage by 50-70% and speeds up training 2.2x for models like Llama 3 and Mistral.
#2516: How to Actually Diagnose and Fix Overfitting
Overfitting isn't binary. Learn the real triggers, the bias-variance tradeoff, and modern techniques to prevent it.
#2515: A Shekel-Backed Stablecoin: What It Actually Means
How a new shekel-backed stablecoin could reshape digital finance—and why Israel’s approach is different from CBDCs or unregulated crypto.
#2511: Measuring AI API Latency Through the Black Box
How to benchmark token throughput and debug slowdowns in closed CLI tools like Claude Code using OpenTelemetry and mitmproxy.
#2507: The AI Design Engineer: Your New Job Title?
What happens when product thinking meets AI agents? The future of software work is here.
#2501: Building a Movie Theater Database in PostgreSQL, By Ear
Can you design a relational database using only your voice? We coach a beginner through PostgreSQL from scratch.
#2500: What Actually Counts as Hacking?
The CFAA, web scraping, and the messy line between curious URL-poking and federal crime.
#2499: Building a TypeScript Tip Calculator from Scratch
Learn to code by building a real TypeScript tip calculator — no experience needed, just your ears and keyboard.
#2498: Build Your First Python Program in 7 Lines
We coach a complete beginner through building a working Python game using only voice—no screenshare, no diagrams.
#2497: Tracing One Python Print Through 6 Abstraction Layers
What actually happens when you print "Hello" in Python? Six layers, 562 system calls, and a hardware-enforced kernel boundary.
#2496: Are Hidden API Endpoints Leaks or Just Plumbing?
When LLM agents discover unauthenticated JSON endpoints in browser DevTools, is it a security breach or just reading the page?
#2495: How to Bake Personality Into an LLM in 15 Minutes
Fine-tune a model's personality with ~300 examples and a consumer GPU. SFT + DPO explained.
#2494: Active Prompt Engineering: Daniel's Diff-Based Loop
A deep dive into iterative prompt refinement using inter-iteration prediction change as an uncertainty signal.
#2493: Are You Writing for Humans or AI Agents?
How GitHub repos, JSON formats, and competing standards are reshaping who (and what) you're publishing for.
#2492: Agentic Stack Selection: How to Choose Libraries Now
How Claude Code and agentic AI are turning GitHub into a discovery layer and collapsing library evaluation from weeks to seconds.
#2487: Why AI Calls Everything a "Prediction" (Even Images)
Machine learning calls everything a "prediction" — even generated images. Here's why the terminology matters more than you think.