Watching Our World Unfold
Exploring the events, narratives, and forces shaping our shared world.
Behind The Scenes: Some Initial Archive-Scale Closed Captioning Statistics
PolitiFact: Early Reports of Four Survivors Show “This DC Plane Crash Story Isn’t Adding Up.”
At-Scale OCR Of Television News: 18.8 Billion Seconds Of Global Television News OCR'd For $71K Vs $47M
NBC News: How 'Dr. Phil' suddenly became so outspoken about immigration
Snopes: Misleading Rumor Claims Trump Admin Found 75K-80K 'Missing' Migrant Children
Politifact: Republican leaders want to put conditions on California wildfire aid. Is there precedent for that?
Spatiotemporal Evolution of Hedging Effects in Asia-Pacific Countries Amid Sino-US Competition: Insights From Massive Event Data
Behind The Scenes: Identifying Mismatches Between Expected And Real Video File Durations & Single Version Of The Truth (SVOT)
At-Scale OCR Of Television News Experiments: OCR Of Interlaced Video Using GCP's Cloud Vision
At-Scale OCR Of Television News Experiments: Optimizing The Still Frame File Storage Format
The New York Times: Five Presidents and a Funeral
From LSM's To LMMs For ASR: Evaluating Gemini's Performance At Transcribing An Evening News Broadcast
Comparing GCP's Chirp & Chirp 2 ASR Models: Dropping Entire Passages
Comparing GCP's Chirp & Chirp 2 ASR Models: Hallucinating Speech During Music
Audience-Specific Podcasts: Customizing Our Daily "Top Stories" Biosurveillance Podcast Concept For Experts, Policymakers & The American Public
A Daily "Top Stories" Global Disease Outbreak Podcast Concept Using GCP's Gemini 2.0 Thinking + Text-to-Speech API
Using GCP's Chirp + Gemini 1.5 Pro + Speech-To-Text API To Summarize A Day Of Russian TV News Into A 3 Minute "Top Stories" Podcast
A Daily "Top Stories" Global Investment News Podcast Concept Using GCP's Gemini 2.0 Thinking + Text-to-Speech API