Brandon Roberts @bxroberts
Investigative data journalist + News apps dev. AI/ML research. Work: @ProPublica @PolisLSE #JournalismAI @OPB @SeattleTimes He/him 📧 [email protected] bxroberts.org WA, USA Joined December 2013-
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"Publishers are middlemen who have lost their monopolies and their pricing power. That is the harsh reality of capitalism and technology disruption, not the invention of two internet companies." Interesting read about the CA Journalism Preservation Act niemanlab.org/2024/04/the-ca…
“For so long, it’s been, ‘Boys will be boys. You just got to deal with it,’” one officer told KUOW. When the MeToo movement took hold, she said, “It felt like it didn’t apply to us or reach us because there weren’t enough of us to speak up.” kuow.org/stories/10-fem…
Here's an AI generated image the BBC republished. (I added the facepalm.) Could the BBC have buried the "AI-generated image" tag any more? Turns out yes: it goes away completely when you open the image in a tab. IMO this falls clearly under "repeating false claims" territory.
Will be watching this independent/open source search engine. I'm pretty into the "block the top 10k results from the result" filter. stract.com/about
These two statements shouldn't ever appear together: "100% hallucination-free" and "AI Guardrailing to minimize errors and avoid hallucinations" igenius.ai/ai-research
This is why I love @404mediaco and why you should give them your email address 404media.co/why-404-media-…
This is exactly the kind direct-to-reader AI use case I'm extremely skeptical of. No consideration for checking facts or hallucination or anything. github.com/assafelovic/gp…
Initial Phi-2 results are a little underwhelming ... I'm into this doing more with less MSFT strategy, but I think some reinforcement learning based fine tuning would go a long way here.
If you want to try out the latest Mixtral 8x7B MoE model, it's super easy and I created a gist with all the instructions. gist.github.com/brandonrobertz…
Lightning fast work. Mistral 7B did the best in my benchmark (generative-ai-newsroom.com/can-llms-help-…), so I'm excited to see how well 8xMistral MoE does.
Lightning fast work. Mistral 7B did the best in my benchmark (generative-ai-newsroom.com/can-llms-help-…), so I'm excited to see how well 8xMistral MoE does.
New from 404 Media: we got thousands of pages of docs on an unlikely force overwhelming US local governments... the pickleball lobby. Sounds funny (and it is) but local govs are strained to limit mediating a beef between pickleball and tennis across US 404media.co/fyi-pickleball…
This is the Datasette plugin I've been wanting for a long time (but never found the time to write): inline annotation and comments on data. This makes Datasette an even better low-barrier tool for distributed journalism teams. datasette.cloud/blog/2023/data…
I moved from Mailchimp to TinyLetter in 2017. Mailchimp bought and is now shutting down TinyLetter so I need to move my mailing list again. Where do I go from here???
This is really cool. Finding and creating appropriate depictions of technical subjects I've written on has always been a challenge.
This is really cool. Finding and creating appropriate depictions of technical subjects I've written on has always been a challenge.
We worked real hard on this. Take the new Nonprofit explorer for a test drive, lots of new ways to find interesting nonprofits. 👇
We worked real hard on this. Take the new Nonprofit explorer for a test drive, lots of new ways to find interesting nonprofits. 👇
Very nice explainer on the difficult topic of transformer models/generative AI ig.ft.com/generative-ai/
Derek Willis @derekwillis
26K Followers 1K Following I teach data journalism at @merrillcollege @UofMaryland. Words + data @decisiondeskhq & @herhoopstats, run @openelex. Now at @dwillis.bsky.social.
Mattia Peretti @xhgMattia
4K Followers 3K Following 2024 @ICFJ Knight Fellow AI Consultant & Learning Experience Designer + Former Manager of #JournalismAI. Lucky guy. (Not here anymore. Find me on LinkedIn👇)
Charlie Beckett @CharlieBeckett
24K Followers 723 Following Journalist. LSE Media Professor. Director, Polis, LSE's journalism think-tank. Leading the LSE Journalism and AI project. Now on Threads & [email protected]
Dan Nguyen @dancow
20K Followers 7K Following Nicolas Kim Coppola, aka Nicolas Cage, is an American actor and film producer. He is the recipient of various accolades and starred in John Woo's FACE/OFF (1997
Nicholas Diakopoulos @ndiakopoulos
10K Followers 2K Following Northwestern Prof. of Computational Journalism.
Ken Schwencke @schwanksta
8K Followers 223 Following Journalist & programmer. Editor of @propublica's news apps. Super gay. Email: [email protected] | Mastodon: @[email protected]
Polis@LSE @PolisLSE
12K Followers 2K Following Journalism think-tank at @LSEnews. Home of the #JournalismAI project. Follow for international #journalism events and research. #PolisTalks
UFRONT MEDIA INSIGHT @UFRONT1125
689 Followers 3K Following UFRONT MEDIA INSIGHTS is a channel that highlights the latest media news. We want you to join the Media collective.
Lucy Provan @LucyProvan
785 Followers 4K Following Docs and journalism, 2020 Edinburgh TV Fest One to Watch @OnestoWatch_TV, @onewm and @IWMF grantee, selected for BFI NETWORK x BAFTA Crew 2021.
El Yaakabi Mouaad م�.. @ElYaaMou
376 Followers 983 Following Journaliste - Sentiment ambivalent envers Twitter, service minimum donc
Everleigh Tawwater @EverleighT62717
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Saoirse Manson @SaoiManso
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Tazbia Fatima @tazbia_fatima
283 Followers 373 Following Engineer, journalist and everything in between | AI & Data @THECITYNY | M.S in CS+Journalism @columbia | Previous: @theuptowner, @NCRCorporation
Lola @Lola1380326500
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Elsie-rose Poynton @ros_poynt
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Natalia Bessette @natali_besse
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Nel Tomjack @ne_tomja
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Lucie Auker @LuciAuker
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Eduardo Domínguez @DecDominguez
475 Followers 478 Following 🔸️#DataJournalist e investigador en @diarioelheraldo y @diariolaprensa 🔸️Mejorado en @m_investigacion 🔸️Adoptado en @TheFacto_ 🔸️Docente de @ceutec_hn
Earlie Skovira @SkoviEarl
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Fairy Niimi @niim_fai
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Benny Lam @kebenny
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Geighth @Geighth145681
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Anon Anon @AnonAno51268752
58 Followers 348 Following verified asshole, active listener (Alpha Male)
↙️↙️↙️Nex.. @nyc_data_geek
3K Followers 5K Following Call your Senators @(202)224-3121|Her Name Was Heather Heyer|Amplifying the weirdest shit on Twitter and berating fascists|Views and opinions solely mine
محسن الإفرن.. @MohsenAlafranj
7K Followers 4K Following دكتوراه دولية في الإعلام التلفزيوني والرقمي صحفي، ومحاضر جامعي، ومدرب إعلامي. ✍لو لم أكن صحفيا لوددت أن أكون صحفيا✍
douglasX @Douglas74706081
159 Followers 3K Following I just enjoy researching and sharing about computer science, computer graphics, and artificial intelligence.
Paloma Robles @thepalomines
2K Followers 2K Following Periodista fallada, politóloga no nacida, performera del cotidiano, cocinera errante, migrante en el cosmos de Mike Laure.
Chris Dawson @xrd
654 Followers 4K Following Father of 3. My book: Building Tools with GitHub (https://t.co/73WEs8yC8F). Japan&Brazil. UWash CS. Black Lives Matter.
ALL-Angelina @Thathought73300
5 Followers 735 Following Aproveite a oportunidade,junte-se a All,ganhe mais de 200 por dia,se estiver interessado,por favor,tome a iniciativa de conversar comigo em particular!
Nazafarin Mirzakhali @NazafarinMirzak
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Laura_Weffer @Laura_Weffer
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JeremyReesnz @JeremyReesnz
4K Followers 4K Following Journalism believer, China watcher. Proud father and husband, lover of cricket and cycling, good at neither. Napoli FC fan. Executive editor Radio New Zealand
Mackenzie Reinkemeyer @reinkemeye73517
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Deacho @Deacho14002
177 Followers 2K Following I'm new to Twitter accounts so I tried the messaging feature and it's great to meet you.
View Prime Global (VP.. @vprimeglobal
2K Followers 4K Following View Prime Global is a online Shopping Platform for the consumers from across the Globe as VPG earns a little commission from your shoppings.
Vikram Oberoi @voberoi
774 Followers 605 Following Writing @ https://t.co/0tnGGKTyGi. Owner @ https://t.co/vSEUO8pkhV. Creator @ https://t.co/cQzPDZPwdf. Curator @ https://t.co/DXRUIzbyHk.
Robert Scoble @Scobleizer
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Christa Messana @ChristaMessan
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Reya Rear @RearReya36721
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Natasha Caudillo @CaudilloNa42153
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Freeda Diver @dive_fre
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Stacey @Stacey112831
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Lyra Rosiek @LyraRosiek55348
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Julius Sandmann @Julius_Sandmann
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Adeena Pincock @adeen_pinc
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Bella-grace Bamforth @BamforthBe10853
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Ben Welsh @palewire
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Derek Willis @derekwillis
26K Followers 1K Following I teach data journalism at @merrillcollege @UofMaryland. Words + data @decisiondeskhq & @herhoopstats, run @openelex. Now at @dwillis.bsky.social.
Mattia Peretti @xhgMattia
4K Followers 3K Following 2024 @ICFJ Knight Fellow AI Consultant & Learning Experience Designer + Former Manager of #JournalismAI. Lucky guy. (Not here anymore. Find me on LinkedIn👇)
Dan Nguyen @dancow
20K Followers 7K Following Nicolas Kim Coppola, aka Nicolas Cage, is an American actor and film producer. He is the recipient of various accolades and starred in John Woo's FACE/OFF (1997
Jeremy Bowers @jeremybowers
16K Followers 6K Following Chief Technology Officer @POLITICO — ❦ #TheSqueezle ❦ #TheGiblette ❦ @beckybowers
Nicholas Diakopoulos @ndiakopoulos
10K Followers 2K Following Northwestern Prof. of Computational Journalism.
Jim Brunner @Jim_Brunner
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StructuredStories @StructStories
2K Followers 766 Following News should be economically sustainable, differentiated, adaptable, personally relevant and truly accessible to everybody. Computers can help.
Ken Schwencke @schwanksta
8K Followers 223 Following Journalist & programmer. Editor of @propublica's news apps. Super gay. Email: [email protected] | Mastodon: @[email protected]
Steven Rich @dataeditor
26K Followers 1K Following account mostly inactive @datab.ae where the sky is blue data @washingtonpost @wpinvestigates @wpdatateam | woodwork @databaewoodshop
Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos
88K Followers 2K Following Correspondent @BusinessInsider. Extremely kind and amazing person, just like, so super nice and caring. Open DMs.
The Needling @TheNeedling
21K Followers 4K Following Seattle's Only Real Fake News (Satire/Parody) Have a hot headline tip? Send it to [email protected]
Lenny Bronner @lennybronner
8K Followers 2K Following currently (elections + data) @washingtonpost. previously data @sidewireinc. originally 🇦🇹
amanda strydom @A_Strydom
2K Followers 2K Following Senior Programme Manager: CivicSignal @Code4Africa. Former managing ed @AfricanCIR. AI media ethics + ML + disinfo. She/her
Alberto Cairo @AlbertoCairo
68K Followers 5K Following For news, follow me on BLUESKY: https://t.co/nN8zwUEmZs and LINKEDIN: https://t.co/BV7fInzN6w
Polis@LSE @PolisLSE
12K Followers 2K Following Journalism think-tank at @LSEnews. Home of the #JournalismAI project. Follow for international #journalism events and research. #PolisTalks
Will Welch @willcwelch
481 Followers 379 Following Software engineer @nytimes. Previously @THECITYNY and @Newsday. Reach me on LinkedIn: https://t.co/ewkmgG471S
Joshua Benton @jbenton
47K Followers 4K Following Senior writer + founder of @NiemanLab at @Harvard. I write about (a) digital journalism, (b) southern history, mostly. Cajun. Takes mine, not Harvard's.
404 Media @404mediaco
17K Followers 10 Following a journalist-founded tech outlet here to fuck up the internet.
↙️↙️↙️Nex.. @nyc_data_geek
3K Followers 5K Following Call your Senators @(202)224-3121|Her Name Was Heather Heyer|Amplifying the weirdest shit on Twitter and berating fascists|Views and opinions solely mine
Aaron Colby Williams @aboutaaron
7K Followers 2K Following data equity + viz + analysis ✊🏿 staff viz engineer @netflix ✊🏿 past: data reporter @washingtonpost ⚡ board: @OpenNews @newsproduct ✉️ [email protected]
Mistral AI @MistralAI
90K Followers 0 Following Fast, open-source and secure language models. Join us https://t.co/INALdNGvCP
Carmen Aguilar Garcí.. @C_AguilarGarcia
3K Followers 3K Following Senior data journalist at @guardian by @BCUMedia and #ddj trainer. Worked at @SkyNews @24horasTVN @telemadrid
Leonardo @Leonardonclt
2K Followers 1K Following Visual investigations at @BBGVisualData @business. Creator of https://t.co/z93KsZ9B4o Opinions are my own.
Hannes Cools @CoolsHannes
2K Followers 647 Following Assistant Professor Human Factor in New Technologies • @AIMediaDem_Lab 🇳🇱 & @DDC_SDU 🇩🇰 • Affiliate Researcher @Georgetown, @KU_Leuven • #FirstGen 👨🎓
Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein
56K Followers 4K Following Managing editor/local at @ProPublica, past prez of @ahcj, Detroit Lions fan. Email: [email protected] Tweets are my own.
Georgi Gerganov @ggerganov
38K Followers 243 Following Not AI | 0x0e59 0x2550 24th at the Electrica puzzle challenge
Joe Amditis @jsamditis
2K Followers 1K Following products and events @centercoopmedia + producer @wtfjht + adjunct @montclair_scm (he/him)
Tshepo Tshabalala @TshepototheT
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Clement Levallois / s.. @seinecle
4K Followers 3K Following Associate professor at @emlyon Maker of https://t.co/tz4qS8JtPe Developer of @Gephi plugins Java dev ❤️ Author https://t.co/p1hDu8B0eP
Max Woolf @minimaxir
19K Followers 460 Following Data Scientist at @BuzzFeed in San Francisco // AI content generation R&D // Mastodon: @[email protected]
maddy varner @tenuous
3K Followers 1K Following technologist. engagement != endorsement, tweets auto-delete. she/her. prev @themarkup @propublica
HyoJin Park @hyojinandtonic
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kayla zhu (朱泳茹) @kylzhu
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Anthony DeBarros @anthonydb
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George LeVines @rhymeswthgeorge
594 Followers 1K Following Current deputy @datagraphics. But let's go over here now: https://t.co/8n5YhtOudz… ... Not that I'm going to use it any more often.
Molly White @molly0xFFF
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Mahmoud Mabrouk @mmabrouk_
405 Followers 2K Following Co-founder at https://t.co/RxOHpyrRm6 The open-source developer LLM developer platform. Manage prompts, evaluate, and deploy LLM apps with confidence. Prev: PhD @rbolab
Eve Fairbanks @evefairbanks
7K Followers 690 Following Writer, singer, & author of THE INHERITORS @simonandschuster. [email protected]
Cory Doctorow NONCONS.. @doctorow
498K Followers 3K Following Author/activist/journalist. New novel: THE BEZZLE, a thriller of hi-tech fraud and the Shitty Tech Adoption Curve https://t.co/4ZExCQHv6q @[email protected]
John Wiseman @lemonodor
14K Followers 2K Following Persistent sousveiller. Walt Disney R&D Imagineer. DM for Signal.
Lisa LaRochelle @lisa_laro
53 Followers 293 Following software developer @positiondev who does a tweet once in a while
Will James @otherwilljames
5K Followers 585 Following Journalist making audio documentaries with @seattletimes/@kuow/@knkxfm/@npr "Lost Patients" (2024) "The Walk Home" (2022) "Outsiders" (2020)
Agnes Stenbom @AgnesStenbom
980 Followers 916 Following Head of @IN__LAB (@SchibstedGroup) & Industrial PhD Candidate @KTHuniversity exploring AI x human setups. Co-founder of #NordicAIJournalism / #NAMS24. 🤖 = us!
Jordan Wilkie @JWilkie_WITF
2K Followers 1K Following democracy, election administration, election technology for @witfnews
rebecca jennings @rebexxxxa
43K Followers 2K Following sr correspondent at Vox covering the internet, fame + money / WGAE forever / https://t.co/NrMhw2Bj1h
TaylorLorenz.Substack.. @TaylorLorenz
342K Followers 10K Following Tech reporter, host of Power User podcast on Vox Media. Buy my book EXTREMELY ONLINE (out now!) Subscribe to my YouTube 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
Scientific American @sciam
4.4M Followers 834 Following Awesome discoveries. Expert insights. Science that shapes the world.
Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee
48K Followers 1K Following Author of Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations: The Art of Analyzing Hacked and Leaked Data https://t.co/8q8Aq7nUwJ masto: @[email protected] bsky: @micahflee.com
David Eads @eads
6K Followers 4K Following Data editor @MarshallProj. Founder @invinst. Taking an extended break from social media. (he/him)
AlgoTransparency @aiTransparency
3K Followers 86 Following Our organization informs citizens regarding the workings and consequences of the algorithms that shape our access to information.
Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski
899K Followers 2K Following Editor-in Chief https://t.co/HLS0hEHY1C, Co-host Uncovered, Attorney, Marine, Former Federal and State Prosecutor, Republican Party Insane Asylum Escapee
Meghan McCain @MeghanMcCain
795K Followers 704 Following Rabble rouser. Mountain mama. Political nepo baby. 🇺🇸🌵
Stuart Duncan @stuartbduncan
481 Followers 829 Following PhD candidate @torontomet Studying algorithms, AI and automation in journalism. Former producer @cbcnews - Sometimes teach: @RTA_tmu @LakeheadOrillia
Jennifer LaFleur @j_la28
5K Followers 3K Following @ucbsoj, @publicintegrity, proud alum: @reveal & @propublica; @fundfij & @ncdj_asu boards. Also https://t.co/1dbp2Ga27T
𝙳𝚞𝚌-𝚀𝚞.. @duc_qn
3K Followers 4K Following Data Journalist/Scientist @leTemps | Lecturer #ddj @AJMunine | #dataviz #rstats #datascience | Formerly @tamedia, @srgssr, quant, genetics PhD | He/him
Al Shaw @A_L
8K Followers 2K Following developer / reporter / map maker at ProPublica • signal: ashaw.01 • also at: @[email protected] & https://t.co/QoY4JoaC2R • he/himThe FT launched an archive search tool framed as a chatbot: theverge.com/2024/3/23/2410…
Sydney Sweeney reveals in an interview she’s worried climate policy ignores neurological costs. “Climate anxiety is the tip of the iceberg—and notoriously difficult to price. What about non-malarial infectious brain disease?” She adds, “You should just read Aldern’s book tbh.”
I'm going to be at @nytimes games this summer as a data analyst intern!!!! enjoy this visual aid👍
🚨The @BW issue of @LeonYin @daveyalba and myself's latest story on Generative AI bias is out. In an experiment, we found that OpenAI's GPT will racially discriminate job applications based only on their name. Check out the web version for free here: bloom.bg/3PigB1p
🤯 Our story on Generative AI bias shortlisted for @sigmaawards! Impact so far: Cited in AI policy recs by @UN @UNHABITAT @IMFNews @amnesty + more Used by 10s of institutions like @MIT @IBM for AI best practices @Google tried to act on it 🤔? 🔗🎁 ⤵️ bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-…
Lots of my faves last year from @dmehro @gabriels_geiger @jus_braun @EvaConstantaras @colinlecher @tenuous @Leonardonclt @dinabass and much more! Congrats data journos worldwide
New project! We asked ChatGPT to find the locations in every story @THECITYNY published from 2019 to last year (then checked and rechecked what it told us). Here's an interactive map of the results. Careful, brilliant work by @tazbia_fatima projects.thecity.nyc/thecity-covera…
What is the purpose of color encoding on this chart? I investigate: junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/20…
Today is the 6 month anniversary of me and a group of friends quitting corporate media and launching 404 Media. I can now say with confidence that 404 Media is the most impactful tech publication on the internet. Here's a list of our most recent impact, thanks to our subscribers—
ChatGPT out of nowhere started speaking complete gibberish on Tuesday. Multiple users reporting bizarre non-sensical answers. If the biggest AI product can shit the bed like this, how can we reliably trust them in more important situations 404media.co/chatgpt-starte…
The first-ever human composting conventions opens today, with attendees arriving from around the world. It’s in Tacoma (of course). thenewstribune.com/opinion/articl…
A: …so we may be able to breed cats that are 30 times smarter B: wouldn’t they be limited by brain volume? A: nah, we evolve the capability in a larger brain, and then distill it down to a smaller model B: idk man, “don’t uplift the cats” seems like excellent life advice
@prijindal @ImSh4yy That's what litestream.io solves
earnest dog post but while perfectly healthy & with plenty good years left inshallah, Wendy is starting to get a bit more grey/white & whenever I notice it, I find myself really appreciative of our time together. Almost 5 years, most of them just the two of us, doing our best.
i'm going to be at #NICAR2024!! come hang w me, my amazing staffers and some other super cool student journalists at our panel on starting & maintaining a student data desk💫 schedules.ire.org/nicar-2024/ind…
Today at @grist we launched our yearlong land-grant university investigation, a collaboration with newsrooms around the country to share our data. And today, we're open-sourcing the data. grist.org/land-grant-uni…
@bxroberts @404mediaco I gave them my email address and then 10 minutes later thought, screw it, and gave them my money too.
If you're still scraping dynamic sites with Selenium, I'm here to save you!! (technically Playwright is here to save you but I'll take the credit) 🐁 Saturday, Feb 10, 10am 🐁 It's a Lede sample class but whatever 🐁 Infinite fun + joy + skill awaits eventbrite.com/e/advanced-web…
@bxroberts @IwriteOK Brandon might be someone cool for you to talk with about this stuff; he's on the cutting edge of it, using these tools for good causes
Upload a PDF, ask for a spreadsheet, get one back — sounds like a dream AI tool for journalism, right? @bxroberts tests ChatGPT's ability to extract data from PDFs and shares code you can use for your own experiments. buff.ly/43V1m3d
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