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The four stages of a fine-tuning pipeline: data collection, data processing, fine-tuning, testing.

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Good speech data is the hard part

Locally fine-tuning Whisper and ASR models with Listenr · Part 1

Whisper is impressive and its vocabulary stopped in 2023. Fine-tuning fixes that, but only if you have high quality data, and getting that is the part nobody wants to do.

A cartoon image of a laptop with a magnifying glass looking at a concern human using the machine

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Why do Canadian News Sites Track Me so Much?

After noticing CBC blocking 11 tracker domains in uBlock Origin, I built an automated tool to scan Canadian and international news sites and measure exactly how many trackers each one loads. The results reveal a pattern of aggressive, ad-network-driven data collection that goes well beyond basic analytics.