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Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
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Made some notes on how Cursor works under the hood based on their security documentation - it turns out an organization's list of subprocessors offers a loose form of "view source" for their infrastructure! simonwillison.net/2025/May/11/...

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llama.cpp shipped new support for vision models this morning, including macOS binaries (albeit quarantined so you have to take extra steps to run them) that let you run vision models in a terminal or as a localhost web UI My notes on how to get it running on a Mac: simonwillison.net/2025/May/10/...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Gemini 2.5 now applies the 75% cached token discount automatically - previously you had to manually configure it Potentially big cost savings here for applications that run prompts against the same long context, or continue existing conversations simonwillison.net/2025/May/9/g...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

This is delightful

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For all of the discussion of the extremely high energy usage of training a modern LLM, I don't think I've seen a comparison to the energy used building an index for a traditional search engine Anyone seen any hints as to the CO2 footprint for the Google or Bing crawling and indexing infrastructure?

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

@edyong209.bsky.social you get a mention in the latest episode of the Unbelievable Truth (National Geographic piece on prehensile elephants) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Rewatching Poker Face season one in preparation for season two (which starts airing tomorrow!) Episode eight, "The Orpheus Syndrome", is one of my all time favorite episodes of television - and also Natasha Lyonne's directorial debut Amazing score too, very Vertigo

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