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Simon Willison’s Weblog

  • By Simon Willison
  • Based in United States of America
  • Roughly three posts per day
  • First post on

Posts per month

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Posts per month
Month starting Posts
Oct 2022 14
Nov 2022 29
Dec 2022 26
Jan 2023 42
Feb 2023 50
Mar 2023 75
Apr 2023 81
May 2023 69
Jun 2023 29
Jul 2023 31
Aug 2023 45
Sep 2023 45
Oct 2023 45
Nov 2023 53
Dec 2023 63
Jan 2024 75
Feb 2024 79
Mar 2024 94
Apr 2024 90
May 2024 94
Jun 2024 96
Jul 2024 121
Aug 2024 104
Sep 2024 80
Oct 2024 115
Nov 2024 43

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

Project: Civic Band - scraping and searching PDF meeting minutes from hundreds of municipalities
I interviewed Philip James about Civic Band, his "slowly growing collection of databases of the minutes from civic governments". Philip demonstrated the site and talked through his pipeline for scraping and indexing meeting minutes from …
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NuExtract 1.5
NuExtract 1.5 Structured extraction - where an LLM helps turn unstructured text (or image content) into structured data - remains one of the most directly useful applications of LLMs. NuExtract is a family of small …
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Voting opens for Oxford Word of the Year 2024
Voting opens for Oxford Word of the Year 2024 One of the options is slop! slop (n.): Art, writing, or other content generated using artificial intelligence, shared and distributed online in an indiscriminate or intrusive …
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