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2026

19 May: The future will be automated

At my son’s birthday party some weeks ago I was talking to a few of the other parents while kids were playing, and, as it does these days, the subject of AI came up. Of the two dads I spoke to, both.. (more)

05 May: Data annotation for low-resource NLP

It’s that time of the semester where I’m in the throes of assessing student work for classes and trying to submit grades. One of my tasks has recently involved NLP projects related to the *taggedP.. (more)

08 Apr: Comparing automated Implicit Motive models (tutorial)

Part of my research involves using machine learning and natural language processing to automate content coding. In social science there has long been recognition that humans make inferences about the .. (more)

16 Feb: A custom handler for faster-whisper on Huggingface

Recently we wanted to set up an audio transcription endpoint for our workflow with Bookscribe.ai. I’ve been using Huggingface in production for their accessible and low cost inference servers, but t.. (more)

09 Feb: Use (AI) agents or get left behind? A response

A couple of weeks ago I read a post by Tim Dettmers outlining how he has tried to use AI to automate various tasks, with some examples of successes and failures. While his attempt to automate email wr.. (more)

26 Jan: Low-resource language processing (lessons from HG2051)

Since 2023 I’ve been teaching a course on natural language processing at NTU Singapore. The goal is for students to learn basic Python programming skills that allow them to work with language data. Ty.. (more)

19 Jan: Blog Post Generator (tutorial)

I recently read a post by Tim Dettmers on how he uses AI to support his workflow. In case you don’t know of Tim, his work on quantization has been foundational to how AI has developed over the past fe.. (more)

2017

19 Feb: AI websites

This website is newly updated! I just redesigned the layout and will be making it a bit more writing-oriented over the coming days and weeks. The reason for this is because of a realization that while.. (more)