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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)

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)