Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds
New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason.
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10 Essential Bash Shell Commands for Data Science
In this tutorial, we’ll cover 10 essential Bash shell commands every data scientist should know—commands that save time, simplify tasks, and keep you focused on insights rather than busywork.
A Step by Step Guide to Build a Trend Finder Tool with Python: Web Scraping, NLP (Sentiment Analysis & Topic Modeling), and Word Cloud…
Cutting-edge web scraping techniques at NICAR
Here's the handout for a workshop I presented this morning at [NICAR 2025](https://www.ire.org/training/conferences/nicar-2025/) on web scraping, focusing on lesser know tips and tricks that became possible only with recent developments …
The hidden world beneath the shadows of YouTube's algorithm
There's a secret side of YouTube, just beyond the guiding hand of the algorithm – and it’s nothing like what you know.
How to do PPC keyword gap analysis
Expand your PPC reach, uncover missing keywords and outsmart the competition with these tips and tools.
mermaid/README.md at develop · mermaid-js/mermaid
Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text in a similar manner as markdown - mermaid-js/mermaid
Learning curve: The Kaplan-Meier estimator | The Actuary
The Kaplan-Meier survival curve estimator is one of the most cited ideas in science
Judge allows authors' AI copyright lawsuit against Meta to move forward | TechCrunch
A federal judge is allowing an AI-related copyright lawsuit against Meta to move forward, although he dismissed part of the suit. In Kadrey vs. Meta,
Unprecedented Starlink Reentries
Feb. 5, 2025 (Spaceweather.com): What goes up, must come down–which could be a problem when you’re launching thousands of satellites. Since 2018, SpaceX has placed more than 7,000 Starl…
What we’re observing is a giant uncontrolled experiment in atmospheric chemistry. The demise of just one Gen1 Starlink satellite produces about 30 kilograms (66 pounds) of aluminum oxide, a compound that eats away at the ozone layer.
On GPT-4.5
It’s happening.
September 1998: Buzz Bissinger on Stephen Glass's web of lies
At 25, Stephen Glass was the most sought-after young reporter in the nation's capital, producing knockout articles for magazines ranging from iThe New Republic/i to iRolling Stone./i Trouble was, he made things up—sources, quotes, whole stories—in a breathtaking web of deception…
10 Ancient Greek Islands to Visit
Before Athens and Sparta, before even the Parthenon, Greece’s islands shaped history. Explore 10 ancient isles where empires rose, myths were born, and time stands still.
YouTube at 20: How the Video Colossus Launched the Creator Economy and Turned From Hollywood Foe to Friend
At 20, YouTube is a multibillion-dollar streamer that powers thousands of creator businesses and has become a force media companies can't ignore.
The State of LLM Reasoning Models
Part 1: Inference-Time Compute Scaling Methods
Travelling Through India on the Himsagar Express
This was not a luxury train, but even here, as in Indian society as a whole, the distinctions between the haves and the have-nots were clear.
Leading a Meaningful Life through Storytelling Skills
People who are rated as good storytellers exhibit a purpose-oriented mindset and big-picture thinking more often than others
Ukraine rare earth minerals
The Wizard of Vinyl Is in Kansas
Chad Kassem is on a mission — saving listeners “from bad sound” — at the rural factory where he pores over LPs from some of music’s most important artists.
How to Fine-tune Model Thresholds with Yellowbrick’s ROC-AUC Visualization
The key challenge lies in finding the right balance: How cautious should our model be when making classifications?
Mistral OCR
New closed-source specialist OCR model by Mistral - you can feed it images or a PDF and it produces Markdown with optional embedded images. It's available [via their API](https://docs.mistral.ai/api/#tag/ocr), or …
Mistral OCR | Mistral AI
Introducing the world’s best document understanding API.
Four Keys to Effective Horizon Scanning | Scott D. Anthony
Gain better strategic foresight and turn future possibilities into actionable insights with horizon scanning.
Mistral’s new OCR API turns any PDF document into an AI-ready Markdown file
Large language models work particularly well with raw text. Companies that want to create their own AI workflow know that it has become extremely
Learning Human Echolocation with a Neuroscientist
Neuroscientist Lore Thaler speaks about her efforts to make echolocation training more accessible
Will Boom Successfully Build a Supersonic Airliner?
Boom Supersonic is an aerospace startup trying to build a supersonic airliner.
In search of the South Pacific fugitive who crowned himself king
Noah Musingku made a fortune with a Ponzi scheme and then retreated to a remote armed compound in the jungle, where he still commands the loyalty of his Bougainville subjects
Where Are All the Dwarf Planets? - NeuroLogica Blog
In 2006 (yes, it was that long ago - yikes) the International Astronomical Union (IAU) officially adopted the definition of dwarf planet - they are large enough for their gravity to pull themselves into a sphere, they orbit the sun and not another larger body, but they don't…
Tyler Cowen, the man who wants to know everything
He is Silicon Valley’s favourite economist. Does his lust for knowledge have a place in the age of AI?
The Golden Age of Japanese Pencils, 1952-1967
It was the summer of 1952, and the executives of Tombow Pencil were about to revolutionize the Japanese pencil industry—or, possibly, fall flat on their faces. Hachiro Ogawa, the son of founder Harunosuke Ogawa, was Tombow's managing director, and he had just finished a…
The Stroop Effect: Can Your Brain Glitch?
The brain is our most powerful information-processing machine, but can it sometimes glitch? Enter the Stroop Effect.
The Ultimate Kubectl Command Cheat Sheet
Take a quick look at kubectl commands that are essential for managing your Kubernetes deployments.
Gulf of Mexico vs. Gulf of America: How digital maps display disputed names
Mapping companies like Google Maps and Apple’s Maps navigate government pressure and political disputes over sea names. Here’s how they decide what to display.
llm-mistral 0.11
I added [schema support](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/28/llm-schemas/) to this plugin which adds support for the [Mistral API](https://docs.mistral.ai/api/) to LLM. Release notes: - Support for LLM [schemas](https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/schemas.html)…
llm-ollama 0.9.0
This release of the `llm-ollama` plugin adds support for [schemas](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/28/llm-schemas/), thanks to a [PR by Adam Compton](https://github.com/taketwo/llm-ollama/pull/36). Ollama provides very robust support for this pattern thanks to their…
How to Analyze Features Using Yellowbrick
In this article, we'll walk through the process of aggregating claims data to create meaningful provider features, visualize patterns using Yellowbrick's Parallel Coordinates, and explore other visualization tools available for feature analysis.
The Concise Guide to Leverage
Leverage helps us identify observations that could significantly influence our regression results, even in ways that aren't immediately obvious.
For an anaesthesiologist, intuition stands between life and death | Aeon Essays
For years, I practised medicine with cool certainty, comfortable with life-and-death decisions. Then, one day, I couldn’t
Mise en Place: The Chef’s Secret to a More Productive and Organized Life
People have different styles when they cook. Some people are neat and tidy. After taking out and using an ingredient they don’t need anymore, they return it to the fridge or cabinet. After chopping up vegetables, they clean up the scraps left behind. When a dish has been…
A Tiny Jumping Robot for Exploring Enceladus
Our favorite jumping robot is hoping for a trip to Saturn’s icy moon
Product Market Fit Collapse: The AI Tipping Point
Historically product market fit evolved gradually. But we are now seeing established products collapse overnight.
Intel, Synopsys, TSMC All Unveil Record Memory Densities
The move to nanosheet transistors is a boon for SRAM
The Pentium contains a complicated circuit to multiply by three
In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running Pentium line. I've been examining the Pentium'...
Olivier Grisel - Predictive survival analysis with scikit-learn, scikit-survival and lifelines
Branded search and SEO: What you need to know
Branded search is more than just your company name on Google. Here's how to capture intent and rank for the queries that matter.
Why it's so hard to build a jet engine
Civilization's toughest technical challenges are those that require extraordinary (and constantly improving) performance to be delivered at a low cost.
Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code
Today, we’re announcing Claude 3.7 Sonnet, our most intelligent model to date and the first hybrid reasoning model generally available on the market.
Michael Lewis on the Magic of One-Hit Wonders
Michael Lewis—author of “The Big Short,” “Moneyball,” and other best-sellers—discusses books by writers who didn’t publish much, and how they helped shape his career.
The Deep Research problem — Benedict Evans
OpenAI’s Deep Research is built for me, and I can’t use it. It’s another amazing demo, until it breaks. But it breaks in really interesting ways.