Russell Jurney
@rjurney.bsky.social
In a transitional period involving graphs / networks, large language modes, big data and network motifs.
I’m supposed to come here for a nicer Twitter, but the Mac app can’t get larger than an iPhone?
I 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!
I 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. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
On the possible use of hydraulic force to assist with building the step pyramid of saqqara
The Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, Egypt, is considered the oldest of the seven monumental pyramids built about 4,500 years ago. From transdisciplinary analysis, it was discovered that a hydraulic...
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Does 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?
Transform traditional study materials into interactive games with NotebookLM and CrosswordLabs. Parul Pandey's new article dives into how to engage students using technology to make lessons more enjoyable and memorable.
My Experiments with NotebookLM for Teaching | Towards Data Science
Exploring NotebookLM as a teaching companion
towardsdatascience.com
The 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. towardsdatascience.com/the-rise-of-...
The Rise of Semantic Entity Resolution | Towards Data Science
Semantic entity resolution uses language models to bring an increased level of automation to schema alignment, blocking (grouping records into smaller, efficient blocks for all-pairs comparison at qua...
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This 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.
ae@aelkus.bsky.social · last yr.cryptocurrency is, in 2025, not even remotely an object of consideration in familiar ‘de facto censorship of NSFW by payment processors’ saga
The is diabolical... a Python object that hallucinates method implementations on demand any time you call them, using my LLM Python library github.com/awwaiid/grem...
Check 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! gist.github.com/rjurney/4d6c...
My `CLAUDE.md`, command and allows-tools setup - note that everything has a CLI :) Why not?
My `CLAUDE.md`, command and allows-tools setup - note that everything has a CLI :) Why not? - CLAUDE.md
gist.github.com
Distracted 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.
Epiphany: if the population is stabilizing, we have no need to genetically engineer food. Oh yeah, coastal plains are disappearing… yeah, still need it.
Number of genetic differences between random pairs of African individuals (black points) and a corresponding random European (blue points). 20 random samples. One instance: a person from Russia has fewer differences to a Kenyan than that same Kenyan to a Namibian.
HBO + Cinemax -> HBO Max -> Max -> HBO Max. Sure. I can just imagine the quiet desperation in attendees pf the meetings around these decisions.
If superintelligence is just a few years away… will it decipher Linear A? I want to know more about what those Minoan cats were thinking…
Let’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. www.worldhistory.org/uploads/imag...
TONIGHT: some thoughts on Life, the Universe, and Everything: join me for episode 42 of the Thursday Late Night podcast! 😃 10pm ET (watch live or later): www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kR4...
When 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?
Fascinating 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. www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
How archaeologists found one of the oldest cities on earth
Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.
nationalgeographic.com
It 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.
This 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. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Most of Apple’s enormous cash horde is offshore… what’s the consequence of this regarding tariffs?
This essay is so much badassery. lithub.com/viet-thanh-n...
Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire
One way to understand the dilemma of contemporary American literature in the age of Donald Trump is to see it as an imperial literature. The United States is a different kind of empire, exerting gl…
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Yawn. 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. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MWT...
OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025
YouTube video by TED
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The 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.
> "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 Herbert
Early in Term 1.0 we got _alternative facts_. Now we're getting _multiple policies_ at once.