Scott Klein

Mayor Mamdani and the News Judgments That Provokes Careful about religious bigotry and brandishing “socialism”

Nothing galvanizes New Yorkers quite like the rest of the country telling us what to do. open.substack.com/pub/dicktofe...

An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2024 Election See how your neighborhood voted on our interactive, precinct-level results map of the presidential election.

The @nytimes.com just posted an updated version of their detailed map of the 2024 election results, with the data available for download. This is invaluable in part because funding constraints have slowed down academic efforts at releasing precinct-level results. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Are there dead experts who can identify inspect species? Buried lede.

But I want to write in the Carroll Street bridge over the Gowanus Canal. Oldest retractable bridge in the U.S.

Some ranked choice! Smh.

Time to play another thrilling episode of Hide the Yankee Game. Spoiler alert: It’s on Prime Video.

💯 I remember watching the Vows section stream in late on Saturday night.

Trending The most popular stories with New York Times readers right now

True words.

I’ve lowkey switched to NYT trending as my homepage. www.nytimes.com/trending/

It’s still alive tho www.nytimes.com/timeswire

ChatGPT is pretty remarkable. My avatar is ChatGPT + a selfie I took + a few back-and-forth prompts. After a while you can identify its handiwork easily, though that’s true for human illustrators too.

$850 is steep. The target market can’t easily afford that. Should have aimed for $450, the price of a gaming console.

Worth the (long) read!

This is not a thing.

Why does this article not link to the website that is its subject until the 22nd paragraph?

Seems like the kind of thing @etymology.substack.com.web.brid.gy might know.

Terrific project about the neighborhoods funding the NYC mayors’ race. I just wish it used the Times’ own “extremely detailed” neighborhood map instead of Streeteasy’s. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Some important questions to think about: How long ago? Things have come a long way since even a month or two ago. Which model? There are dozens. What was your prompt? There are ways to ask that markedly improve the results.

There are many use cases. I think you mean “AI Mode” / generative search. But ask a ChatGPT “deep research” model for a backgrounder on a person or company and you’ll get a useful and thorough answer. You shouldn’t immediately publish it, but that goes for all first drafts.

The technology has moved on from the early hallucination problems. The latest models are worlds better than a year ago when they were making up court cases. Deep Research models in particular are astonishingly useful, and RAGs are in public-facing production all over the place.

Not sure if you’re trying to engage or just QT-dunking but reliability has improved tremendously since the early well-publicized flubs, and with good prompt engineering and a human-in-the-loop checking the output, GenAI can be both reliable and useful.

Springtime in Prospect Park brings the rebirth of the cherry blossom, the yellow magnolia, and the Brooklyn Leica.

I lowkey want a local LLM rig just for the cool terminal apps. lambda.ai/blog/keeping...

Deep Cogito v1, the self-referential comedian.

There's a bunch of historical data sets in the {HistData} 📦
friendly.github.io/HistData/
Would be fun to see these used in #30DayChartChallenge

Yeah their advice for window air conditioner was bad. Hard to install and have now had two that died within a year.

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

Sad to see. This is the second year in a row there’s bad news for data journalists during NICAR.

Next thing you know we’re gonna get bright red alternate road jerseys or (sob) City Connect uniforms. What is this world coming to.

On the communication side of dataviz — what would you say, were the "hits" in the last few years? Pieces that went viral, found wide adoption, opened new audiences, were shared a lot.

Also please don’t open the overhead bin as you’re boarding. It means it’s full. What I’m saying is, overhead bins are generally a problem for me.