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Messy flip-the-script cli-fi about AI, animism, national security liberals, overlapping polycrisis, and the strangest of bedfellows.

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Dec 28, 2023

Best Paper, 2023

For a year-end review, my pick for Best Paper of 2023 goes to:

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Dec 26, 2016

Natural Language Processing in Python

Practical techniques for preparing text for building knowledge graphs, custom search, content recommenders, and other areas of AI…

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Aug 5, 2021

Graph Thinking

A kind of cognitive framework called graph thinking is circulating through the KGC community. So let’s explore this notion. Also, let’s…

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Jun 2, 2020

Visualizing Geospatial Data in Python

Open source tools and techniques for visualizing data on custom maps

Visualizing Geospatial Data in Python

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Aug 22, 2016

Hylburt-Speys

Posting for a friend who doesn’t want to be linked directly, for obvious reasons. Part interview, part summary analysis. While I cannot…

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Nov 30, 2025

Strwythura

TL;DR: build a Streamlit app for a question/answer chat bot about a specific topic (which behaves like Perplexity, Claude, Le Chat, etc.)…

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Oct 26, 2025

“Future of AI” guest discussion, late 2025

Suggested readings for a guest lecture / Q&A in a graduate seminar in media studies:

“Future of AI” guest discussion, late 2025

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Jun 1, 2025

Blowing Bubbles

Silicon Valley venture capital investors used to focus on startups which had at least one of the following:

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Jan 12, 2025

Graph technologies outlook in 2025

Ashley Faith hosted Amy Hodler and me on a recent episode about “2025 Predictions” — here are notes I prepared, to review in 2026…

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Feb 19, 2024

Graphs for Inference

Lately I’ve become intrigued about the published research + open source code for a relatively specific topic: generating graphs to use for…

Graphs for Inference

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evil mad scientist @ Senzing ; https://derwen.ai/paco ; @pacoid.bsky.social ; lives on an apple orchard in the coastal redwoods coastal redwoods /i\

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