Russell Jurney
rjurney.bsky.social
Russell Jurney
@rjurney.bsky.social
In a transitional period involving graphs / networks, large language modes, big data and network motifs.
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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...
towardsdatascience.com
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...
journals.plos.org
October 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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?
October 1, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Reposted by Russell Jurney
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
September 16, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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...
towardsdatascience.com
September 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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.
cryptocurrency is, in 2025, not even remotely an object of consideration in familiar ‘de facto censorship of NSFW by payment processors’ saga
July 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Reposted by Russell Jurney
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...
July 4, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Real utility from… NFTs?
Currently, the best use-case is for example ENS - the domain system. Each domain is also an NFT that you can buy and sell through that interface.
June 4, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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
June 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Reposted by Russell Jurney
I regret nothing yet! fly.io/blog/youre-a...
My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts
My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.
fly.io
June 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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.
May 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Epiphany: if the population is stabilizing, we have no need to genetically engineer food.

Oh yeah, coastal plains are disappearing… yeah, still need it.
May 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Reposted by Russell Jurney
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.
May 4, 2025 at 3:27 AM
HBO + Cinemax -> HBO Max -> Max -> HBO Max. Sure.

I can just imagine the quiet desperation in attendees pf the meetings around these decisions.
May 15, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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…
May 12, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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...
May 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Reposted by Russell Jurney
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...
May 1, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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?
May 1, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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.
www.nationalgeographic.com
April 28, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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.
April 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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...
April 23, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Most of Apple’s enormous cash horde is offshore… what’s the consequence of this regarding tariffs?
April 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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
www.youtube.com
April 18, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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.
April 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM