In a transitional period involving graphs / networks, large language modes, big data and network motifs.https://bsky.app/profile/rjurney.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/rjurney.bsky.social/post/3m7e4fombx22xI’m supposed to come here for a nicer Twitter, but the Mac app can’t get larger than an iPhone?06 Dec 2025 23:04 +0000at://did:plc:23dsvfbu2tsij5dpprg65k4x/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7e4fombx22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/rjurney.bsky.social/post/3m5hyw4pyis2bI am amazed at how helpful @notebooklm.bsky.social is for writing historical fiction… I know it’s just RAG, but it’s good RAG you can ask questions about what this or that would be like in your story!13 Nov 2025 01:22 +0000at://did:plc:23dsvfbu2tsij5dpprg65k4x/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5hyw4pyis2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/rjurney.bsky.social/post/3m23w5naujc2hI am gonna try to hit y’all with ancient history on a daily basis. Know that ancient aliens shit? Humans own those off-world fucks. Djoser’s Stepped Pyramid used hydraulics to shit 80 ton blocks out the top like a volcano 4,650 years ago… hydraulics still exists. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.030669001 Oct 2025 01:45 +0000at://did:plc:23dsvfbu2tsij5dpprg65k4x/app.bsky.feed.post/3m23w5naujc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/rjurney.bsky.social/post/3m23vd3vszk2hDoes anyone know of an alternative to @nordvpn.bsky.social Meshnet? I *love* this product and must find someone else by November 1st... five minute VPN ftw! cc @decius.bsky.social you knows the security, right?01 Oct 2025 01:30 +0000at://did:plc:23dsvfbu2tsij5dpprg65k4x/app.bsky.feed.post/3m23vd3vszk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/rjurney.bsky.social/post/3lyssamnv6k2rThe Rise of Semantic Entity Resolution is on Towards Data Science this morning…! > semantic entity resolution for knowledge graphs uses language models to automate the most painful part of building knowledge graphs from text: deduplicating records. https://towardsdatascience.com/the-rise-of-semantic-entity-resolution/14 Sep 2025 17:16 +0000at://did:plc:23dsvfbu2tsij5dpprg65k4x/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyssamnv6k2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/rjurney.bsky.social/post/3lusftgyox22xThis is really funny… arbitrary bitcoin KYC is far worse than fiat banking. Make one questionable purchase ever in your life… account DENIED. No appeal. Regulation of finance does not suck. Censorship for LIFE. [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Jul 2025 15:53 +0000at://did:plc:23dsvfbu2tsij5dpprg65k4x/app.bsky.feed.post/3lusftgyox22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/rjurney.bsky.social/post/3lqrdcklwvk2zReal utility from… NFTs? [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Jun 2025 07:55 +0000at://did:plc:23dsvfbu2tsij5dpprg65k4x/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqrdcklwvk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/rjurney.bsky.social/post/3lqppb6z7vc2nCheck out what productive settings for a Claude Code Python project looks like… CLAUDE.md, commands and allowed-tools. This setup makes me 5-10x as productive as before AI. Feedback appreciated! https://gist.github.com/rjurney/4d6c6eb29df2bfd8fb7bc5afa306ee0b03 Jun 2025 16:23 +0000at://did:plc:23dsvfbu2tsij5dpprg65k4x/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqppb6z7vc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/rjurney.bsky.social/post/3lq3deidwgs2kDistracted southern manners abroad: "Oh god, I’m so sorry!" WTF look from mother with stroller opening door for herself… "I should have held the door!" Oh, confused… no problem.26 May 2025 13:57 +0000at://did:plc:23dsvfbu2tsij5dpprg65k4x/app.bsky.feed.post/3lq3deidwgs2khttps://bsky.app/profile/rjurney.bsky.social/post/3lpub3p6fr22gEpiphany: if the population is stabilizing, we have no need to genetically engineer food. Oh yeah, coastal plains are disappearing… yeah, still need it.23 May 2025 18:28 +0000at://did:plc:23dsvfbu2tsij5dpprg65k4x/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpub3p6fr22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/rjurney.bsky.social/post/3lp6dfrkndk2oHBO + Cinemax -> HBO Max -> Max -> HBO Max. Sure. I can just imagine the quiet desperation in attendees pf the meetings around these decisions.15 May 2025 01:11 +0000at://did:plc:23dsvfbu2tsij5dpprg65k4x/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp6dfrkndk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/rjurney.bsky.social/post/3lox7am6sds2uIf superintelligence is just a few years away… will it decipher Linear A? I want to know more about what those Minoan cats were thinking…12 May 2025 05:08 +0000at://did:plc:23dsvfbu2tsij5dpprg65k4x/app.bsky.feed.post/3lox7am6sds2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/rjurney.bsky.social/post/3locb32fqmk2oLet’s take this “near AGI” for a spin… > Translate the cuneiform message to English in the stamped imprint on this mud brick from ancient Ur around 2,100 B.C. https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/2764.jpg?v=1618699512-003 May 2025 21:14 +0000at://did:plc:23dsvfbu2tsij5dpprg65k4x/app.bsky.feed.post/3locb32fqmk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/rjurney.bsky.social/post/3lo3oydnslc2pWhen Claude Code goes wrong, it goes so wrong it takes hours to fix and sucks up most of the time it saved. Maybe LLMs will always work this way? Maybe symbolic AI is required for a deeper understanding?01 May 2025 06:35 +0000at://did:plc:23dsvfbu2tsij5dpprg65k4x/app.bsky.feed.post/3lo3oydnslc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/rjurney.bsky.social/post/3lnu2w5yetk2tFascinating article on the resumption of excavation at ancient Eridu, the world’s first city by Sumerian tradition… created before the flood. That flood. Where kingship first descended from the heavens to enable organized irrigation networks. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/eridu-sumer-ancient-city-discovery28 Apr 2025 05:47 +0000at://did:plc:23dsvfbu2tsij5dpprg65k4x/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnu2w5yetk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/rjurney.bsky.social/post/3lnlifn45gc2zIt is weird to me you can’t highlight text and save to a note in Chrome or Safari. Such a critical and basic feature. Is this a copyright issue? You could limit total chars, it would drive up long-term engagement.24 Apr 2025 19:54 +0000at://did:plc:23dsvfbu2tsij5dpprg65k4x/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnlifn45gc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/rjurney.bsky.social/post/3lnhbhz75lc2fThis is maybe the most amazing opener to a paper I’ve ever read. Did they attribute it to ancient aliens? Booooring. They scienced the shit out of it! Ancient. Fucking. HYDRAULICS. Sixteen switches for all my Egyptians. Paper is a free download. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.030669023 Apr 2025 03:40 +0000at://did:plc:23dsvfbu2tsij5dpprg65k4x/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnhbhz75lc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/rjurney.bsky.social/post/3lnbf7hckp22oMost of Apple’s enormous cash horde is offshore… what’s the consequence of this regarding tariffs?20 Apr 2025 19:31 +0000at://did:plc:23dsvfbu2tsij5dpprg65k4x/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnbf7hckp22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/rjurney.bsky.social/post/3lnbeu2fhpc2oThis essay is so much badassery. https://lithub.com/viet-thanh-nguyen-most-american-literature-is-the-literature-of-empire/20 Apr 2025 19:24 +0000at://did:plc:23dsvfbu2tsij5dpprg65k4x/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnbeu2fhpc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/rjurney.bsky.social/post/3ln4knazgtc2fYawn. All the interviewer wants to talk about with Sam Altman is AI safety. So many more interesting things Sam could speculate about in this interview. It sucks they're ignoring them. He keeps trying to go positive but this guy is afraid to be seduced by AI. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MWT_doo68k&t=1s&ab_channel=TED18 Apr 2025 21:24 +0000at://did:plc:23dsvfbu2tsij5dpprg65k4x/app.bsky.feed.post/3ln4knazgtc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/rjurney.bsky.social/post/3ln4ax2bmis2qThe disturbing thing about DOGE is… cuts are required or we will spiral into a debt crisis: but cutting NIH, NHS and DoE is self defeating. There’s no judgement or wisdom in a reasonable way.18 Apr 2025 18:31 +0000at://did:plc:23dsvfbu2tsij5dpprg65k4x/app.bsky.feed.post/3ln4ax2bmis2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/rjurney.bsky.social/post/3lmtabgnm722k> "It isn't the ideas that make the story," Herbert says, "it's what you do with them. Ideas are a dime a dozen. Development of ideas—that's where the diamonds are." —Frank Herbert15 Apr 2025 04:25 +0000at://did:plc:23dsvfbu2tsij5dpprg65k4x/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmtabgnm722khttps://bsky.app/profile/rjurney.bsky.social/post/3lmsttm5yo222Early in Term 1.0 we got _alternative facts_. Now we're getting _multiple policies_ at once.15 Apr 2025 00:42 +0000at://did:plc:23dsvfbu2tsij5dpprg65k4x/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmsttm5yo222