j soma
dangerscarf.bsky.social
j soma
@dangerscarf.bsky.social
Find out more about the AI newsroom workflow course at its awful sales-y site, and feel free to shoot me any questions you might have!

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 8:47 PM
The course itself is six weeks long, and while it does cost money (which is crazy strange for me!), there are steep geographic pricing discounts and coupon codes for close readers of the course site.
October 30, 2025 at 8:47 PM
It's maybe like 35% a tech course, and a lot of the theory is stuff that seems simple once you've heard it: see what goes wrong, fix it, track it. That's it!

Yes, we'll learn automation tools like n8n/ActivePieces and eval suites like Opik/Arize Phoenix, buuut they're just one part
October 30, 2025 at 8:47 PM
This course is going to solve every step of those crises. How do you...

- set up an AI pipeline?
- measure if it's working?
- iterate and improve it?
- make sure you're solving a reader/reporter problem instead of just playing tech games?

It isn't magic! It's easy!!!!
October 30, 2025 at 8:47 PM
it looks like someone has been going very hard on scans

ONE MORE DAY OF ACCEPTING BAD PDF SUBMISSIONS
May 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM
you could have won EVERY CATEGORY
May 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Woke up to ton of new non-English BAD PDF CONTEST submissions: 💥 Serbian! Romanian! Chinese! 💥

Mostly not scans, though, so I predict they'll easy-peasy to extract the info from. I want to have to train a custom OCR model!!! Someone submit a big scanned non-English PDF!!!
May 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM
i know you all are hiding worse scans from me
May 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
i love this giant-pdf-with-tiny-text submission, we need a smallest font size category
May 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Live colab demo/walkthrough here: colab.research.google.com/github/jsoma...
April 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Thank you – if only we could get a fix for the bug that prevents it from working 100%!
March 14, 2025 at 3:16 AM