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Free, Offline Speech-to-Text for Non-English Languages (Claude Code Included)

How I run Whisper on my own laptop – no cloud, no API keys, no usage limits – to transcribe Hebrew meetings and hand an LLM full context by talking instead of typing.
AI
transcription
Whisper
tools
Voice input is everywhere in AI tools now, and it is almost always English-first. Claude Code’s dictation, and most built-in voice features, cover English and a short list…
Jun 29, 2026
Matan Hakim

Why Data Scientists Are Well Positioned for the AI Revolution

The three skills that have always defined the job – coding, statistics, and domain expertise – are exactly what it takes to direct AI tools like Claude Code, and to know when not to trust them.
AI
data science
R
Most of the AI conversation is about whose job is at risk. I want to make the opposite case for one specific role. Data scientists are about as well positioned as anyone to…
Jun 24, 2026
Matan Hakim

Introducing il.cbs.muni - An R Package for Handling Israeli CBS Municipal Data

Streamlining Israeli Municipal Data Analysis
R
packages
release
CRAN
data
I’m excited to announce that il.cbs.muni 0.1.0 is now available on CRAN! This package provides analyst-oriented utility functions to work with Israeli Central Bureau of…
Feb 15, 2026
Matan Hakim

Beyond the 3-Point Revolution: A Deep Dive into NBA Shot Selection by Position and Distance

How different positions have adapted to the changing landscape of NBA shooting
code
analysis
NBA
Summer is when you have time in the NBA media and fandom world to relax for a second, and look for multi-year trends. I find specifically interesting the NBA discussion that…
Aug 1, 2025
Matan Hakim

Height per Minute - Analyzing Height Trends in the NBA

code
analysis
NBA
It’s hard to point on the specific moment where my passion for the NBA started. It might have been somewhere during the 1997-98 season, when I remember myself having a huge…
Sep 9, 2023
Matan Hakim

Introducing rtlr - an R Package for RTL Languages

Convenience functions to make some common tasks with right-to-left string printing easier, more convenient and with no need to remember long Unicode characters. Specifically helpful for right-to-left languages such as Arabic, Persian and Hebrew.
news
code
rtlr
RWeekly Highlights
(This blog post was chosen as a highlight for R Weekly issue 2023-W15)
Apr 5, 2023
Matan Hakim
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