Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 15/09/2026How about you take a haircut on your profits and pay for your pollution instead lads? 020
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 11/09/2026This is correct: the economy isn’t overheating, so interest rate rises are a double punishment for normal people. 000
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 08/09/2026Excellent cover of an excellent song from an excellent band by an excellent band. 000
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 28/08/2026Previous me: Excessive insolation is a good thing! Current me: can we move further north? 000
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 27/08/2026Research job hiring! Novel database query language runtime systems at Neo4j (London office). Check out: www.linkedin.com/posts/jtc36_...linkedin.comWe're completely rethinking graph database runtime design from the ground up at Neo4j Research. The Aurendil project is building a graph database runtime for the AI economy, and our approach to… ...We're completely rethinking graph database runtime design from the ground up at Neo4j Research. The Aurendil project is building a graph database runtime for the AI economy, and our approach to imple... 000
Reposted by Jim WebberNeo4j @neo4j.com · 18/08/2026Aura Graph Analytics is on-demand, session-based graph compute: pay-per-minute, isolated from your live database, and able to read graphs from any data source. What AGA is, when to reach for it, and how to drive sessions from any #Neo4j driver. 1-hour course! bit.ly/4qqgRNi bit.lyAura Graph Analytics fundamentalsAura Graph Analytics is on-demand, session-based graph compute — pay-per-minute, isolated from your live database, and able to read graphs from any data source. Learn what AGA is, when to reach for it... 001
Reposted by Jim WebberWolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 17/08/2026No, nuclear, gas, wind and solar power are not all equally affected by heatwaves. @carbonbrief.org - as so often - has this useful overview: www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-ho...carbonbrief.orgFactcheck: How nuclear, gas, wind and solar power are affected during heatwaves - Carbon BriefAmid a slew of misleading claims, Carbon Brief explains how key power sources - nuclear, gas, solar, wind - cope with extreme heat. 16024
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 14/08/2026This is all quite reasonable and technocratic. The UK’s remainers were reasonable and technocratic. They also lost because these arguments do not work with most people. “Leave means leave” is so much more powerful and easy to amplify. It also requires little thought. 000
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 13/08/2026TIL that the Brits use of "collegiate" (friendly, supportive environment) is the deviant and the US "collegial" is the purist version (that sounds naff here tbh). 100
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 04/08/2026Research 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...itpro.comThis new technique could improve AI output accuracy by 80% – and tackle hallucinations once and for allResearchers believe the new method will improve accuracy and help reduce costs 022
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 22/07/2026While the press rabidly hallucinates about left-wing terrorists, and governments proscribe anti-fascist movements, today we simply remember the victims of Utøya. 001
Reposted by Jim WebberSinclair Research @sinclairresearch.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Jonathan 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 0142
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 17/07/2026Last 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. 020
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 16/07/2026Last 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. 000
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 15/07/2026Some crackers and some clangers in here, but at least no C3PO or R2D2: www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...theguardian.comBite my shiny metal ass! TV’s all-time top robotsFrom 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 010
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 14/07/2026Anyone 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. 011
Reposted by Jim WebberAkshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Correct 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...bloomberg.comWho’s Really Keeping Fossil Fuels Alive? TaxpayersTo 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... 22754461
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 07/07/2026#FashTag www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...theguardian.comFresh doubt over Marine Le Pen presidential bid as court orders electronic tagCourt shortens electoral ban but custodial sentence could complicate far-right leader’s campaign hopes 000
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 03/07/2026UK Labour watching this and then siding with Fox news, 100%. 111
Reposted by Jim WebberSinclair Research @sinclairresearch.bsky.social · 02/07/2026The 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. 1348
Reposted by Jim WebberSinclair Research @sinclairresearch.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Did 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. www.zxspectrumreviews.co.uk 0152
Reposted by Jim WebberDiane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Of 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. 32898221
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 25/06/2026Grid 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. 000
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 24/06/2026Solid 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/...neo4j.comReducing AI hallucinations: New independent researchNICD benchmarked three AI retrieval approaches across 505+ questions. A knowledge graph more than doubled factual accuracy. Read the findings. 031
Reposted by Jim WebberSteve Hayes @sxh.eurosky.social · 11/06/2026This has potential (pun intended) www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...sciencedaily.comScientists discover a quantum effect that could eliminate batteriesResearchers 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... 022
Reposted by Jim WebberMichael Simons @rotnroll666.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Virtual 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...neo4j.comIntroducing Neo4j Virtual Graph: Graph reasoning on the data you already have - Graph Database & AnalyticsOver 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,... 052
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 01/06/2026I'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/...dl.acm.orgRIOT: Replicated Independently-Ordered Transactions | Companion of the International Conference on Management of Data 011
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 28/05/2026We 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...neo4j.comIntroducing Neo4j Virtual Graph: Graph reasoning on the data you already have - Graph Database & AnalyticsOver 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,... 011
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 22/05/2026So the actual grandson of British Fascist Oswald Mosley runs Palantir in the UK and Europe. This is the corniest timeline. 031
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 21/05/2026This but for number of years in the computing industry on LinkedIn bios. 011
Reposted by Jim WebberSinclair Research @sinclairresearch.bsky.social · 23/04/2026The 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 1151
Reposted by Jim WebberSinclair Research @sinclairresearch.bsky.social · 07/04/2026R Tape Loading Error. Three words. No explanation. No suggestion. No comfort. Just the cold, factual announcement that the last four minutes of your life have been wasted. The Spectrum didn't believe in softening the blow. 0151
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 24/03/2026This is spot on. The comments are well worth a read for a masterclass in ahistorical liberal self-delusion. 051
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 20/03/2026This has aged badly. Inflation means we're now way past £70 and rising fast. 000
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 18/03/2026Interesting idea. dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.... Some steps towards an oft-discussed notion of whether lots of crappy servers is better/cheaper than fewer really good servers. h/t @nacrooks.bsky.socialdl.acm.orgReal Life Is Uncertain. Consensus Should Be Too! 010
