j soma
@dangerscarf
data head, python kid, prof @columbiajourn, director @ledeprog, co-founder @bkbrains + @catrepublicbk. collecting all cats, widening all gyres
Favorite new things in Natural PDF v0.1.30: ⚾ Automatic detection of (most) strikeouts, underlines, and highlights 💐 Detect blobs/shapes of color in images ✏️ Rough RTL/Arabic/Hebrew support 👵🏼 .parent() to move "up" in the pretend visual hierarchical PDF space
FOR RELEASE: Everett Herald journalists call for community support in battle against low wages, story quotas
NYT responds to criticism of its Mamdani story, likening the concerns about their source to “Wikileaks or Edward Snowden”
Multi-page, multi-column PDFs with rows spanning pages: 🌺 defeated 🌺
the worst part about vibe coding is how depressed you can make your little mechanical turk
I figured out how to run a version of Theo's brilliant SnitchBench benchmark using my LLM CLI tool - it's so much fun, the new DeepSeek-R1 snitched to the FDA and then contacted ProPublica and the Wall Street Journal
Ranking LLMs by how aggressively they snitch you out to the government
The New York Times really asked Ms. Rachel if she's paid by Hamas: defector.com/the-new-york-t…
I think today's important updates to Natural PDF are nested .find_all queries and making semantic search 100x more lightweight, buuuut unfortunately the best visuals come from region geometry
These are the kinds of documents that could sweep the Bad PDF Contest!! badpdfs.com
Since many of you have been talking about Phaneroo, I downloaded its files from the URSB. Below are some salient features from the documents: it has three directors/shareholders: Grace Lubega, his wife Lubega Nicollette Pauline Nakintu, and Okwomi Modesta, who is Kenyan. /1
Sometimes it’s both
Sony Pictures Television has acquired the distribution rights to the upcoming series ‘THE MINIATURE WIFE’ starring Elizabeth Banks and Matthew Macfadyen. Inspired by the eponymous short story about a man who accidentally shrinks his wife.
Reward yourself for suffering through malicious FOIA compliance. Deadline this Saturday!
I am running a contest. It is about bad pdfs. It can make you independently wealthy (for immeasurably small measures of independent wealth) badpdfs.com