"For those looking to research Epstein's vast correspondence and web of connections across industry, government, and academia, some of the most effective tools have been built not by federal investigators or big-name news organizations but by a scrappy team of volunteer developers. Starting with a website called Jmail, which made Epstein's publicly released emails searchable through an interface cheekily copied from Gmail, they have since built a set of web apps modeled after familiar sites like Google Drive,"
"Key to the project's speedy success is the technical talent of the team of around 15 named core contributors. But equally vital, they say, is the current wave of AI tools that helped them rapidly generate code and process huge troves of data. "So not only do we have an app that we were able to make very quickly, we have data that can populate that app with real content,""
Officials released millions of pages of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, producing revelations that led to corporate resignations, new investigations into abuses and potential accomplices, and the arrest of the United Kingdom's former Prince Andrew. Volunteer developers created public web tools to let researchers and journalists search and analyze Epstein's emails and related files. The project began with Jmail, which made publicly released emails searchable through an interface modeled on Gmail, and expanded into apps modeled on Google Drive, Wikipedia, Amazon, and YouTube to organize messy PDFs and bulk releases. The core team consists of about 15 named contributors. The developers credit modern AI tools with enabling rapid code generation and large-scale data processing to populate and launch the apps quickly.
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