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notes from the network.

Essays on the craft and economics of training AI, from the people who do it.

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how to classify ad tasks without losing your mind

The work isn't hard. Staying consistent across hundreds of near-identical decisions is. A practical framework for ad classification.

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transcription is not what you think it is

You're not writing a clean script for a human. You're making training data for a speech model. Why precision beats readability on CrowdGen.

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reading the voice: a guide to audio annotation

Voice characteristics, speaking style, and the inline tags that trip everyone up. What QA actually wants on Cardamom HybX tasks.

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