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Jason Bernert
@jasonbernert.bsky.social
Wannabe circuit sculpture artist
Sandwich connoisseur
NYT R&D

https://www.jasonbernert.com
Jake and Paige (@paigemoody.bsky.social) are amazing human beings and I can't wait to see what comes out of this www.hackshackers.com/hacks-hacker...
Hacks/Hackers launches new lab to empower newsrooms to build AI tools
Newsroom AI Lab participants will be guided by technical advisors Jake Kara and Paige Moody
www.hackshackers.com
June 12, 2025 at 11:55 PM
This is too good!
Fun fact about PA: All the liquor stores are run by the state. That means sales are public.

@inquirer.com acquired one year of alcohol sales data from the state — 75 million rows of data.

We used it to build a guide to your neighborhood’s drinking habits.

Presenting: Pennsylvania Uncorked.
What does your neighborhood drink? Find out with Pennsylvania Uncorked, our breakdown of the most popular wine and spirits
Analysis of a year's worth of Fine Wine and Good Spirits sales data.
www.inquirer.com
April 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Incredible that Grok 3 could not generate accurate references 94% of the time, and ChatGPT was wrong 134 times out of 200 queries, but I’m still seeing LinkedIn posters telling us “hallucinations are improving” www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
AI Search Has A Citation Problem
We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.
www.cjr.org
March 17, 2025 at 2:41 AM
This article came out three months ago and I still think about this line almost weekly: "It lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes" blog.google/technology/r....
Meet Willow, our state-of-the-art quantum chip
Our new quantum chip demonstrates error correction and performance that paves the way to a useful, large-scale quantum computer.
blog.google
March 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Always great to see some numbers to back up assumptions on link hallucinations and how LLMs source links for RAG models
March 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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As reported, the entire staff of 538 was laid off this morning. This is a severe blow to political data journalism, and I feel for my colleagues. Readers note: As we were instructed not to publish any new content, all planned updates to polls data and averages are canceled indefinitely. Huge loss :(
March 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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We just launched tldraw computer
December 18, 2024 at 3:15 PM
I backed Tachyon's Particle in August thinking by the time it arrived surely I'd have a project in mind for it... Now here I am getting the board this month and I still haven't thought of what to do. Bird call audio ID? Home assistant server? J.A.R.V.I.S.?
www.kickstarter.com/projects/par...
Tachyon: Powerful 5G single-board computer w/ AI accelerator
Embed intelligence into anything, anywhere with this Snapdragon-powered credit card-sized computer from Particle.
www.kickstarter.com
January 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Absolutely fabulous crew.
JOB: NYT is hiring for an early-career fellow on A.I. Initiatives! We're a small, interdisciplinary group experimenting to help reporters, facilitate newsroom processes and reimagine reader-facing experiences.

Apply by Dec. 2. DM with any questions!

boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti...
#JobSky
November 26, 2024 at 8:09 PM
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See how people like you vote and how that’s changed over time

www.washingtonpost.com/elections/in...
October 25, 2024 at 8:30 PM
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My colleagues and I used A.I. to sift through over 400 hours of video recordings and pinpoint salient moments that helped inform this piece's reporting.

It was great to collaborate with Alexandra Berzon, Nick Corasaniti, Duy Nguyen, Juliana Castro Varon and Matt Ruby on this investigation.
October 28, 2024 at 1:19 PM
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April 13, 2023 at 2:50 AM