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Notes, essays, and tutorials on machine learning, NLP, and the digital humanities.

  • May 11, 2026

    Whisper Achieves 85% Accuracy on Holocaust Testimonies in Yale's Fortunoff Archive

    • asr
    • machine learning
    • holocaust

    We evaluated Whisper on 1,847 Holocaust testimonies and found 85 percent accuracy, though the model routinely normalizes raw speech and heritage spellings.

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  • May 3, 2026

    Parsing 3.6 Million Historical Names with Small Models

    • yale
    • machine learning
    • name parsing

    We moved from expensive frontier AI to fine-tuned Qwen 3.5 models to parse historical data, achieving 96% accuracy by switching from JSON to YAML.

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  • April 25, 2026

    Bye Conda, Hello uv

    • uv
    • environment management
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