j soma
dangerscarf.bsky.social
j soma
@dangerscarf.bsky.social
I'm running a six-week course in November on building and evaluating AI newsroom workflows!

It's targeted at people who don't know where to start, or who build little prototypes and end up stumped about making them production-ready.

littlecolumns.com/courses/ai-n...
The Automated Newsroom: Build AI Workflows That Work
A six-week, hands-on course teaching journalists how to design, test, and improve AI workflows. Learn evaluation, testing, and product thinking for newsroom automation.
littlecolumns.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Natural PDF v0.1.13 out – a handful of useful changes but my favorite is🗼page restructuring support!

Grab sections and "flow" them together vertically or horizontally, making multi-column extraction infinitely easier than 24 hours ago.

Details at jsoma.github.io/natural-pdf/...
June 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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
Bad PDF Contest
I'm looking for the most frustrating, painful, real-world PDFs.
badpdfs.com
May 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
New release of 📝 Natural PDF 📝

A million and one table extraction/document layout/Q&A/quality of life improvements for all your PDF-processing needs

jsoma.github.io/natural-pdf/
April 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Reposted by j soma
the law clinic repping this student, CLEAR, is based out of CUNY.....once again the public city university absolutely flounces the ivy league when it comes to having a backbone and standing on actual principles
Columbia Student Hunted by ICE Sues to Prevent Deportation
Yunseo Chung, a legal permanent resident who has lived in the U.S. since she was 7, participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Immigration agents visited residences looking for her.
www.nytimes.com
March 24, 2025 at 11:16 PM