Two years ago my Elul accountability experiment half-worked. The problem was friction, not motivation — and I had no mechanism to adjust expectations based on actual performance. So I built one: voice capture via Telegram, weekly LLM digest, and a daily agenda calibrated to what I’ve actually been completing versus missing.
Hebrew became the mother tongue of millions; Modern Standard Arabic remains a formal register nobody speaks at home. Both underwent deliberate standardization in the same historical window — the difference reveals what language revival actually requires.
I wanted to see how hard face detection is in 2026. I tested Haar cascades, MediaPipe’s BlazeFace, and YOLO on real images. The short answer: it depends entirely on whether your subject is wearing sunglasses.