@glenjamin honestly that post is a pretty thorough description - I mainly participate in PSF things through board meetings, I need to ramp up my work group involvement this year
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Things I’ve learned serving on the board of the Python Software Foundation -
Things I’ve learned serving on the board of the Python Software FoundationThis is one of my favorite genres of blog post: the article I wish I’d been able to read myself
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Things I’ve learned serving on the board of the Python Software FoundationThings I’ve learned serving on the board of the Python Software Foundation
If you’re curious about what the PSF is and how it works, here’s much of what I’ve figured out so far @ThePSF
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Has there ever been a better pre-credit sequence than the 20 minute Spider-Gwen story at the start of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse?@scanner hah, I was literally just thinking about Up in comparison to Across the Spider-Verse, as one of the only other examples I can think of where they packed so much storytelling, character development and emotional depth into a relatively short sequence at the start of the film
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Has there ever been a better pre-credit sequence than the 20 minute Spider-Gwen story at the start of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse?Has there ever been a better pre-credit sequence than the 20 minute Spider-Gwen story at the start of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse?
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OK, I _swear_ I didn’t do this on purpose but PDF sucks so bad as a publishing format that the easiest way to build search traffic to a website turns out to be republishing information that’s otherwise locked up in a PDF@alvaro I expect it would take quite a lot of prompt engineering, maybe even across multiple prompts, one per page of the document
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OK, I _swear_ I didn’t do this on purpose but PDF sucks so bad as a publishing format that the easiest way to build search traffic to a website turns out to be republishing information that’s otherwise locked up in a PDF@mark I'm sure that's what's going on here - HTML is a far better format for machine-readability than PDF
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OK, I _swear_ I didn’t do this on purpose but PDF sucks so bad as a publishing format that the easiest way to build search traffic to a website turns out to be republishing information that’s otherwise locked up in a PDF@alvaro I've had success using Gemini 1.5 Pro to convert PDFs to both HTML and to Markdown, so I'm very confident it could output ePub (effectively HTML + assets in a zip file) given the right prompts and the right harness around it
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OK, I _swear_ I didn’t do this on purpose but PDF sucks so bad as a publishing format that the easiest way to build search traffic to a website turns out to be republishing information that’s otherwise locked up in a PDF@arichtman yeah!
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OK, I _swear_ I didn’t do this on purpose but PDF sucks so bad as a publishing format that the easiest way to build search traffic to a website turns out to be republishing information that’s otherwise locked up in a PDFHeck, I did it with a paper that had been published by Google’s own research team and my version was in the top three results on Google within 2 hours of putting it online https://simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/24/pipe-syntax-in-sql/
Don’t let friends publish useful information in PDFs!
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OK, I _swear_ I didn’t do this on purpose but PDF sucks so bad as a publishing format that the easiest way to build search traffic to a website turns out to be republishing information that’s otherwise locked up in a PDFOK, I _swear_ I didn’t do this on purpose but PDF sucks so bad as a publishing format that the easiest way to build search traffic to a website turns out to be republishing information that’s otherwise locked up in a PDF
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I'm always interested in exposure to management advice from unconventional sources... and there's a leaked PDF floating around called "HOW TO SUCCEED IN MRBEAST PRODUCTION" which appears to be the onboarding document for new members of the MrBeast prod... -
My latest special interest is why the space shuttle was a terrible idea@zinnia wow, this essay is 19 years old now! I really enjoyed it https://idlewords.com/2005/08/a_rocket_to_nowhere.htm
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I'm always interested in exposure to management advice from unconventional sources... and there's a leaked PDF floating around called "HOW TO SUCCEED IN MRBEAST PRODUCTION" which appears to be the onboarding document for new members of the MrBeast prod...@david @timbray it's hosted in this Google Drive folder linked from a Tweet: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YaG9xpu-WQKBPUi8yQ4HaDYQLUSa7Y3J/view
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I'm always interested in exposure to management advice from unconventional sources... and there's a leaked PDF floating around called "HOW TO SUCCEED IN MRBEAST PRODUCTION" which appears to be the onboarding document for new members of the MrBeast prod...@acdha I got to spend a day on a film set a few months ago and it was fascinating seeing how it all worked
In particular I finally understood why you'd have 30 people on set... it's so that if a problem comes up people can get it solved in parallel without blocking production, which is timeboxed, so any delays are extremely expensive
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I'm always interested in exposure to management advice from unconventional sources... and there's a leaked PDF floating around called "HOW TO SUCCEED IN MRBEAST PRODUCTION" which appears to be the onboarding document for new members of the MrBeast prod...@timbray the leaked MrBeast one or the Showrunner one?
The MrBeast one may well have been booted offline already - it's a leak but there are a whole load of copies floating around I think, search for "HOW TO SUCCEED IN MRBEAST PRODUCTION pdf" and other copies may show up
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I'm always interested in exposure to management advice from unconventional sources... and there's a leaked PDF floating around called "HOW TO SUCCEED IN MRBEAST PRODUCTION" which appears to be the onboarding document for new members of the MrBeast prod...One of my favourite documents in this genre remains "THE ELEVEN LAWS OF SHOWRUNNING", about how to run production of a TV show
It's unintentionally a fantastic guide to being an engineering manager, or startup founder, or indeed any role where you need a bunch of different creative people to understand and work together to bring about a creative vision:
https://simonwillison.net/2019/Feb/19/eleven-laws-showrunning/
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I'm always interested in exposure to management advice from unconventional sources... and there's a leaked PDF floating around called "HOW TO SUCCEED IN MRBEAST PRODUCTION" which appears to be the onboarding document for new members of the MrBeast prod...I'm always interested in exposure to management advice from unconventional sources... and there's a leaked PDF floating around called "HOW TO SUCCEED IN MRBEAST PRODUCTION" which appears to be the onboarding document for new members of the MrBeast YouTube production company
It's 36 pages long, so I put together some of my own notes from reading it here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/15/how-to-succeed-in-mrbeast-production/
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Jamie Brandon's Speed Matters post has aged really well. It's also pretty much what @simon is observing about LLMs@happyborg @jadp @reillywood an open question to me is how the energy usage of many people running their own local LLMs would compare to the energy usage of many people sharing access to much more power-hungry hosted LLMs