Field Notes
How the AI you use was actually taught.
Every model that sees, reads, or hears learned it from a person — one box, one label, one point at a time. These are the field notes from inside that work. Humans teach the machine.
What is data annotation?
The complete guide: what it is, why data quality beats model choice, the 9 modalities, and how a real annotation project runs — end to end.
The Arabic LLM leaderboard in 2026
Falcon, Jais, ALLaM & Fanar — who leads, how the Open Arabic LLM Leaderboard scores them, and why Arabic data quality decides the ranking.
A machine reads a pose. A human taught it.
Skeletons, the COCO format, occlusion flags, and the human QA that makes pose models accurate — from a sprinter to a salmon.
A machine that learned to read — because a person read first
To a machine, a document is a wall of pixels. OCR is a model taught to read by people who box, label, and transcribe every region first.
Who taught the World Cup to see?
Semi-automated offside, the adidas Trionda connected ball, and the human labor behind the data that makes the calls.