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Earlier this year I worked with the The Upshot crew on WordleBot: it implements a solving algorithm and uses that to rate players on skill and luck WordleBot just got a big update. To celebrate I wanted to share some fun tech details of the "screenshot recognizer" feature... 🧵

spike in people choosing QUEEN as their first guess in this morning's Wordle

Absolute bloodbath in wordle-land today…just 41 percent solving after 6 turns. Normally it’s around 99 percent.

it is back nytimes.com/interactive/20…

The exceptionally American problem of rising roadway fatalities: nytimes.com/2022/11/27/ups…

Tunisia is currently IN to the round of 16 -- unless any of the other three teams scores a goal nytimes.com/interactive/20…

If NYTimesGuild members don't have a deal soon, we’re asking readers to not engage in any The New York Times platforms tomorrow and stand with us on the digital picket line! Read local news. Listen to public radio. Pull out a cookbook. Break your Wordle streak.

This contract is more than an investment in us: This is an investment in the future of the The New York Times and an investment in the public that we serve. I’m walking out with 1,150 of my NYTimesGuild colleagues for a fair and complete contract.

Republicans in the House have been talking about balancing the budget. Since budget season kicks off this week, Alicia Parlapiano Josh Katz and I took a look at what that would take. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

The presidential budget got lots of attention this week. How likely is it to match up with reality? Alicia Parlapiano Josh Katz and I took a look back and how previous presidential budgets have performed. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

So you want to turn an office building into housing? Let's dig into how that actually works, and why older buildings are much easier to convert. w/ the amazing Larry Buchanan nytimes.com/interactive/20…

New this week over in Upshot, we've launched a companion product to Spelling Bee, called Bee Buddy, which will offer you customized hints that update as you play Spelling Bee, every day. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

One of many good charts in today's deep dive into college-educated migration, by Emily Badger + Robert Gebeloff + Josh Katz: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

It’s been clear for years that workers without a college degree have been migrating away from the most expensive parts of the country. In this project, Robert Gebeloff Josh Katz + I show that *college-educated workers* are now migrating away from them, too. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Helpful chart from Aatish + Josh Katz + Margot Sanger-Katz on how bad the smoke was in NYC yesterday: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Smoke from Canadian wildfires continues to blanket the Northeast with pollution. Aatish + Masaki Watanabe on just how bad the air was in NYC / why smoke is so hard to forecast: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

April 8 is eclipse day🌑🌞! If you're planning to watch it, use our handy tool to see what historical cloud cover was like at your location. We will update this page with real weather forecast data closer to the day of. w/ Josh Katz William B. Davis nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Will there be a needle? A quick thread.