Research by the UK’s National Innovation Centre for Data shows that graphs can significantly outperform vector-only LLM systems in accuracy and cost. @itpro.com writes: www.itpro.com/business/dat...
This new technique could improve AI output accuracy by 80% – and tackle hallucinations once and for all
Researchers believe the new method will improve accuracy and help reduce costs
itpro.com
While the press rabidly hallucinates about left-wing terrorists, and governments proscribe anti-fascist movements, today we simply remember the victims of Utøya.
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 2w ago#OtD 22 Jul 2011 neo-Nazi Anders Breivik killed 77 and injured 242 in separate bomb and gun terrorist attacks in Norway. Many of those killed were children at a Labour Party Youth camp, murdered as he screamed "You are going to die today, Marxists!" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9489...
Jonathan Cauldwell breaks down how enemy sprites work in ZX Spectrum games - from the simple back-and-forth patrols in Jet Set Willy to complex attack wave patterns. Pure Z80 assembly, beautifully explained. chuntey.wordpress.com
Last night I finished watching the first season of Star City. It's brilliant, anxiety-inducing, horrifying, uplifting, dark and a raft of other emotions. The cast is amazing, and Anna Maxwell Martin's character is stone cold terrifying. Looking forward, I think, to Season 2.
Last time ENG-ARG played this match, the score was counted in thousands of deaths. A poor way to celebrate a win from a consistently unpleasant set of men.
Some crackers and some clangers in here, but at least no C3PO or R2D2: www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Bite my shiny metal ass! TV’s all-time top robots
From mechanical mutts to android assassins, our cybernetic companions have been entertaining us, their organic overlords, for decades. Here are the 20 best automatons ever to grace the small screen
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Anyone got any opinions on 4G/5G home internet in an area where the signal is very weak (can't make phone calls indoors). I need backup internet and I don't really want to buy Starlink.
Correct your priors: Private money is going after clean energy, governments are using public money to prop up fossil fuels "About 59% of all money spent on the fossil fuel system came from taxpayers in 2015. By 2025, that climbed to 68% and spiked at 78% in 2022." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Who’s Really Keeping Fossil Fuels Alive? Taxpayers
To judge by the way many people discuss the energy transition, we’re engaged in a fight between green idealogues in government and academia on the one hand, and a more realistic private sector that re...
bloomberg.com
UK Labour watching this and then siding with Fox news, 100%.
Tamoor Hussain@tamoorh.com · last mo.Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them
The ZX Spectrum manual had a chapter on binary arithmetic. It explained AND, OR, and NOT to children who had not yet learned long division. Some of those children went on to design processors. The rest went into estate agency. Both groups blame the Spectrum.
Did you know there's a REST API serving every ZX Spectrum magazine review ever published? ZXSR has the full text of reviews from Crash, Your Sinclair, Sinclair User and more - all searchable by game ID. An incredible community preservation effort. http://www.zxspectrumreviews.co.uk/
Of course unions look out for their members but it defies belief that they chose *this week* to lobby for more North Sea oil drilling. They should be lobbying for super-generous retraining terms.
Grid are expensive because they are built at scale. By all means have both, but understand that distributed solar is not a replacement for the grid, simply an optimisation. FWIW 50% of my electricity still comes (overnight) from the grid and that will increase as I move more load to heat-pumps.
Ember@ember-energy.org · last mo.💰 Distributed solar was CHEAPER... Residential solar with a medium battery makes electricity at HALF the cost as grid electricity
Solid piece of empirical research out of NIC-D today. Turns out graphs > vectors for building agentic systems, and sometimes raw LLMs > vectors (interesting). Graphs make agents both cheaper and better which is quite an unusual result. Read more: neo4j.com/whitepapers/...
Reducing AI hallucinations: New independent research
NICD benchmarked three AI retrieval approaches across 505+ questions. A knowledge graph more than doubled factual accuracy. Read the findings.
neo4j.com
This has potential (pun intended) www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Scientists discover a quantum effect that could eliminate batteries
Researchers have discovered how microscopic imperfections and atomic vibrations can be used to control a powerful quantum effect in an advanced material. The effect can turn alternating electrical sig...
sciencedaily.com
Virtual graphs sourced from relational databases: this is what a great team and I have been working on @neo4j.com the last months. For me, it’s kind of full circle: #SQL, #Cypher and now SQL again behind the scenes. A journey way over a decade for me personally. neo4j.com/blog/graph-d...
Introducing Neo4j Virtual Graph: Graph reasoning on the data you already have - Graph Database & Analytics
Over the past few quarters, we’ve seen tremendous growth in enterprise adoption of agentic workflows. Large enterprises are realizing that GraphRAG delivers more accurate results than traditional RAG,...
neo4j.com
I've been stewing on high-throughput, everyone's-a-writer, all-the-shards-all-the-time transactions-for-graph data since around 2012. The RIOT protocol is, I think, a good step in the right direction: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
RIOT: Replicated Independently-Ordered Transactions | Companion of the International Conference on Management of Data
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We launched a new product, bringing graphs where there were only tables. Solves for those times when you just can’t migrate to a graph database because of reasons. neo4j.com/blog/graph-d...
Introducing Neo4j Virtual Graph: Graph reasoning on the data you already have - Graph Database & Analytics
Over the past few quarters, we’ve seen tremendous growth in enterprise adoption of agentic workflows. Large enterprises are realizing that GraphRAG delivers more accurate results than traditional RAG,...
neo4j.com
So the actual grandson of British Fascist Oswald Mosley runs Palantir in the UK and Europe. This is the corniest timeline.
This but for number of years in the computing industry on LinkedIn bios.
Randall Munroe@xkcd.com · 3mo ago182.8 Meters xkcd.com/3248/
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The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge sells officially licensed prints of John Harris's stunning sci-fi illustrations from Sinclair manuals - the ZX Spectrum floating city, the ZX81 cover, and the Microdrive manual art. Beautiful on any wall. computinghistory.org.uk
