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.
Guide · Computer vision
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.
Guide · Documents
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.
Field note · Sports AI
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.