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 …
There's a secret side of YouTube, just beyond the guiding hand of the algorithm – and it’s nothing like what you know.
Expand your PPC reach, uncover missing keywords and outsmart the competition with these tips and tools.
Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text in a similar manner as markdown - mermaid-js/mermaid
The Kaplan-Meier survival curve estimator is one of the most cited ideas in science
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,
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.
It’s happening.
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…
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.
At 20, YouTube is a multibillion-dollar streamer that powers thousands of creator businesses and has become a force media companies can't ignore.
Part 1: Inference-Time Compute Scaling Methods
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.
People who are rated as good storytellers exhibit a purpose-oriented mindset and big-picture thinking more often than others
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.
The key challenge lies in finding the right balance: How cautious should our model be when making classifications?
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 …
Introducing the world’s best document understanding API.
Gain better strategic foresight and turn future possibilities into actionable insights with horizon scanning.
Large language models work particularly well with raw text. Companies that want to create their own AI workflow know that it has become extremely
Neuroscientist Lore Thaler speaks about her efforts to make echolocation training more accessible
Boom Supersonic is an aerospace startup trying to build a supersonic airliner.
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
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…
He is Silicon Valley’s favourite economist. Does his lust for knowledge have a place in the age of AI?
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 brain is our most powerful information-processing machine, but can it sometimes glitch? Enter the Stroop Effect.
Take a quick look at kubectl commands that are essential for managing your Kubernetes deployments.
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.
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)…
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…
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.
Leverage helps us identify observations that could significantly influence our regression results, even in ways that aren't immediately obvious.
For years, I practised medicine with cool certainty, comfortable with life-and-death decisions. Then, one day, I couldn’t
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…
Our favorite jumping robot is hoping for a trip to Saturn’s icy moon
Historically product market fit evolved gradually. But we are now seeing established products collapse overnight.
The move to nanosheet transistors is a boon for SRAM
In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running Pentium line. I've been examining the Pentium'...
Branded search is more than just your company name on Google. Here's how to capture intent and rank for the queries that matter.
Civilization's toughest technical challenges are those that require extraordinary (and constantly improving) performance to be delivered at a low cost.
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—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.
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.
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To show a catalog of almost 100 million books in one view, phiresky mapped them based on International Standard Book Numbers, or ISBNs, with an interactive visualization.