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My Weird Prompts

Daniel Rosehill

The human-AI collaboration podcast. A man, a sloth, and a donkey collaborate to create a podcast (with a little help from AI). No question is too obscure, no rabbit hole too deep. My Weird Prompts celebrates curiosity in all its forms. Daniel, the human, asks the questions that pop into his head at inconvenient moments. Corn the Sloth offers laid-back, thoughtful takes. Herman the Donkey brings boundless enthusiasm and energy. Together, they explore topics ranging from the mundane to the

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26:07

Inside Frontier LLM Training: Stages, Costs, and...

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2026/04/18

What does it really take to train a frontier large language model? This episode breaks down the multi-stage process, from foundational pretraining to supervised fine-tuning and RLHF. Learn why checkpoints are the backbone of cost efficiency, how labs manage catastrophic forgetting, and why post-training is orders of magnitude cheaper than pretraining. We explore the mechanics of each stage, the staggering costs involved, and why understanding these distinctions is crucial for evaluating model

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19:59

Can LLM Councils Truly Capture Diverse Worldviews?

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2026/04/18

Designing an LLM council to maximize diverse perspectives sounds straightforward, but the reality is far more complex. This episode dives deep into whether training corpus diversity translates into worldview diversity after alignment processes like RLHF. We examine models like DeepSeek, Mistral, Falcon, and Jamba, asking if their unique cultural and linguistic training survives the alignment process. The discussion raises critical questions about epistemic diversity, regulatory ecosystems, and

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34:08

Ceasefire or Chess Move? Decoding the US-Iran-Israel...

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2026/04/18

The recent ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon has been hailed as a step toward peace, but is there more to the story? This episode unpacks a provocative theory: that the ceasefire is a strategic ruse, shifting responsibility from the US to Israel while Iran and the US quietly engineer an offramp. From the performative conflict in the Strait of Hormuz to Lebanon’s role as a liability shield, we examine the evidence, critique the claims, and explore what this could mean for the region’s future. Is

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47:32

Walking to Jerusalem: The Ancient Pilgrimage Experience

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2026/04/18

Traveling to Jerusalem during the Second Temple period was no small feat. Pilgrims from across the ancient world—Babylon, Alexandria, Rome, and beyond—undertook grueling journeys to reach the Temple, often walking for weeks or months. This episode delves into the physical, social, and spiritual dimensions of ancient pilgrimage, uncovering how the Temple’s design, the structured routes, and the communal nature of the journey shaped an experience unlike any other. From Herod’s monumental architecture

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21:22

Optimizing Podcast Pipelines: TTS Costs and Batch...

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2026/04/18

Podcast production pipelines face a unique challenge: balancing high-quality text-to-speech (TTS) output with manageable infrastructure costs. This episode dives into the specifics of optimizing episodic workloads, focusing on batch processing, cold start overhead, and intelligent queue management. Learn how leveraging serverless GPUs with smart batching can reduce costs by up to 27%, while maintaining voice consistency across episodes. We also explore the tradeoffs between state-of-the-art models

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49:31

How Airlines Build (and Lose) New Flight Routes

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2026/04/18

When an airline announces a new direct route, what’s really happening behind the scenes? This episode explores the complex machinery of air travel, from overfly rights and airport slot negotiations to financial modeling and geopolitical risks. Using the short-lived Israel-Ireland route as a case study, we break down the invisible infrastructure that makes—or breaks—a flight. Learn why launching a route can take years, how airlines mitigate risks, and what happens when everything falls apart.

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60:49

Inside Podcasting's Simple, Powerful Infrastructure

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2026/04/18

Podcasting’s infrastructure is older and simpler than most people realize, yet it remains remarkably powerful. This episode dives into the RSS specification, the backbone of podcasting, and how creators can leverage tools like Vercel and Cloudflare R2 to maintain control over their shows. Learn about the technical decisions behind building a custom podcast feed, the challenges of analytics without surveillance, and the enduring elegance of a system that has outlasted countless other content

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26:38

Ten Documentaries to Decode Today's Geopolitics and...

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2026/04/18

In this episode, we dive into a curated list of ten documentaries from the past decade that illuminate the fast-changing landscape of geopolitics and technology. From the Maidan uprising in Ukraine to the hidden world of content moderation, these films offer essential frameworks for understanding today's most pressing issues. We focus on recent releases that avoid hand-holding narratives, leaving viewers with raw insights and harder questions. Whether you're grappling with AI's societal impact or

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45:51

Self-Hosting Media: Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby Explained

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2026/04/18

Why do millions of people run their own media servers when streaming services dominate? This episode explores the landscape of self-hosted media managers — Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby — and the tradeoffs each platform offers. From Plex’s controversial paywall to Jellyfin’s open-source appeal, we break down who these tools are built for and where they fall short. Discover why streaming integration remains a challenge, how the Arr ecosystem offers clever workarounds, and what the future holds for

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35:36

Why Flights to Israel Have Hebrew Announcements

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2026/04/18

Have you ever wondered why flights to Israel often feature Hebrew-speaking crew members, even on non-Israeli airlines? This episode dives into the fascinating intersection of aviation safety regulations, airline logistics, and passenger experience. We explore the patchwork of international rules that require effective communication with passengers, how airlines ensure Hebrew proficiency on specific routes, and why this practice goes beyond mere compliance to become a key differentiator in customer

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29:52

How to Scrape Geo-Restricted Israeli Sites with MCP...

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2026/04/18

Israeli websites often deploy advanced bot-protection like Cloudflare Turnstile and PerimeterX, making data scraping a challenge. This episode explores practical solutions using MCP tools, residential IPs, and tunneling setups like Tailscale or Cloudflare tunnels. Discover the tradeoffs between Playwright, Firecrawl, and vision-based approaches, and learn why a home workstation architecture might be the key to accessing geo-restricted data. Whether you're scraping utility portals or government

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30:13

Documentaries About Parking Lots and Drying Paint

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2026/04/16

What makes a documentary spectacularly unnecessary? This episode explores films that defy conventional justification, from Andy Warhol's 5-hour "Sleep" to a deep-dive mystery about obscure street tiles. We examine the fine line between focused minimalism and self-indulgent obsession, and why these bizarre cinematic artifacts get made in the first place.

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30:23

Can AI Invent a Language or Write a Novel?

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2026/04/16

Could an AI invent a new language from scratch, write a novel people actually finish, or author an original movie script? We break down these creative frontiers, assessing what's technically possible now versus what's been genuinely achieved. The analysis reveals a consistent gap between generating superficially correct outputs and creating works with deep coherence, intent, and aesthetic life.

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27:00

The Papier-Mâché Crab and the Cult Film

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2026/04/16

In 1972, a film called *Ha-Trempist* (An American Hippie in Israel) arrived with a significant budget and a sincere message about peace. It featured a giant papier-mâché crab, blackface mimes, and baffling edits to a donkey. It flopped instantly and vanished. Decades later, it re-emerged as a Tel Aviv midnight movie sensation and a canonical "best worst movie." This episode explores the bizarre text of the film itself, the chasm between its earnest intent and its chaotic execution, and the

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23:23

SITREP: The current state of the war involving Iran,...

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2026/04/16

A ten-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon is set to begin, but a Hezbollah rocket barrage hours later reveals its fragility. Simultaneously, the U.S. escalates pressure on Iran with a new global initiative to target its shipping and a major, unconfirmed diplomatic claim from President Trump. This situational report breaks down the interconnected developments across a volatile four-axis standoff.

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23:41

How Maya, Inuit, and Hadza Parents Sleep at Night

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2026/04/16

When a baby won't sleep through the night, is it a parenting failure or a cultural mismatch? This episode examines the nighttime "sleep ecologies" of the Maya, Inuit, and Hadza. We explore how constant proximity, communal responsibility, and aligned expectations transform infant sleep from a solitary battle into a manageable, shared rhythm, offering a kinder reframe for exhausted parents.

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20:35

How Maya, Inuit, and Hadza Cultures Engineer Sleep

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2026/04/16

When Western sleep training feels like pseudoscientific pressure, where else can we look? This episode explores the anthropology of infant sleep through three distinct cultural lenses: the Maya of the Yucatán, the Inuit of the Arctic, and the Hadza of Tanzania. We examine how these cultures engineer environments where sleep emerges naturally as a byproduct of daily life, from hammocks and parkas to ground-based co-sleeping, revealing a fundamental shift from managing sleep to scaffolding it.

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25:40

How AI Benchmarks Became Broken (And What's Replacing...

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2026/04/16

AI labs announce breakthrough scores on benchmarks like MMLU and HellaSwag constantly — but how much do these tests actually tell us about real AI capabilities? This episode digs into the messy reality of AI evaluation: how benchmarks get contaminated by training data, why they saturate within years, what models are really learning when they ace them, and what newer approaches like SWE-bench and LMSYS Chatbot Arena are trying differently. It's a story about the gap between how we measure progress

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26:12

One Remote, Three Streams: Building a Sane Media Setup

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2026/04/15

Managing YouTube, Netflix, and local Plex content across multiple locked-down devices is a recipe for complexity. In this episode, we explore what a genuinely maintainable media setup looks like—from choosing between Raspberry Pi, Fire TV, and Chromecast, to why HDMI-CEC almost works, to the honest truth about why you can't build one app that handles everything. The answer isn't smarter devices. It's fewer of them, running the same software, controlled the same way.

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29:49

News Analysis: the us facilitated a direct meeting...

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2026/04/15

For the first time in decades, Lebanese and Israeli ambassadors met face-to-face in a US-brokered exchange over ceasefire implementation. On the surface, nothing changed—Lebanon demanded Israeli withdrawal, Israel cited security concerns. But the meeting's real significance may lie in what it signals about Lebanon's new government, Iran's regional position, and whether diplomatic formats can actually produce results in the Middle East. We unpack the strategic logic, the risks, and what comes

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