Jim Webber
jimwebber.org
Jim Webber
@jimwebber.org
Chief Scientist @ Neo4j
To paraphrase Alf Dubs, "there goes one more Labour vote." Mine.
November 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
While I do not condone violence, there is straightforwardly no equivalence between antifascists and fascists. Feels like Germany has gone down this path before and it did not end well.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Seven alleged members of German far-left group go on trial over attacks
Militant group Antifa Ost said to be behind assaults on rightwing extremists in Germany and Hungary
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:06 AM
This is an excellent piece on graphs and semantics. Very balanced and well researched: substack.com/inbox/post/1...
Labels as the Real Semantic Layer of LPG in GraphRAG and Applied Knowledge Graphs
Table of Contents
substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Hey journalists! I know you're very smart and literate, but you are not very numerate.

This should say "your already very expensive shopping is going up by another 3.6%" Instead you imply things are getting better for me, rather than getting worse at a slightly slower rate than feared.
November 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
This is simply lovely - the agentic graph of Stranger Things. Feels like a return to form for @neo4j.com's nerd-led marketing!

neo4j.com/blog/news/ho...
"Stranger Things"  —  The Gate to True Sight With Graph Intelligence  - Graph Database & Analytics
The final season of "Stranger Things" is upon us. Discover how Neo4j used graph technology to build HopperGraph and model fan predictions.
neo4j.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Heh, science.
November 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Not so much solar power in these Autumnal days. Elon pushed a new firmware update to my batteries that is "smarter" and greatly limits the amount of (cheap, off peak) electricity I import.

Now I don't have enough battery power to get through the day if I do laundry etc.
November 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Today in “politicians don’t understand computers”
November 12, 2025 at 6:34 AM
This will not end well.
November 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Pratley by name...
November 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I could definitely argue any parking fine for this, right?
November 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
JFC. Seems like the UK Labour policy wonks have been kicked in the head by a horse.

The alternative: Tax heavy polluting vehicles properly, including stupidly large EVs, through VED.

Stop subsidising fossil fuels. Increase benefits for low-income people to offset the removal of said subsidies.
November 6, 2025 at 10:29 AM
November 5, 2025 at 7:39 AM
No Nazis on scooters?
October 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
TIL that I badly mispronounce the Spanish verb to pay (pagar). Thankfully the bloke at the cafe had a sense of humour when I told him “I’d like to hit with my card, please.” (pegar)
October 19, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I’m hoping this is the Guardian being the Guardian. The Bank of England should know that private schools fees are not in its basket of goods and services for measuring CPI, I imagine because so few people pay private school fees.
October 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Me: which cities or towns are in more than one country.

AI: Cities located in more than one country are rare, but examples include Istanbul (straddling Europe and Asia).

The same company's knowledge graph could, no doubt, have answered correctly.
October 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
This is the most thermodynamically illiterate BS that I’ve read in a long time:

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

note also the 2% by volume which is much smaller as a proportion of energy.

Absolutely dismal.
Energy firms complete UK’s first ‘hydrogen blending’ trial to power grid
A 2% blend of low-carbon gas injected into gas grid to fuel Brigg power station in North Lincolnshire is a UK first
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Incredibly sad and shameful.
#OtD 9 Oct 1945 the UK Labour govt defended its jailing of 226 Spanish Civil War and anti-Nazi resistance fighters, describing them as "members of an enemy paramilitary organisation". Some killed themselves, others were deported to Spain for execution stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1094...
October 9, 2025 at 7:57 AM
No Pasaran.
October 2, 2025 at 8:54 AM
This is the confluence of two things I really like, graph databases and renewable electricity:

neo4j.com/customer-sto...
Enel Rebuilt Its Grid as a Digital Twin — Now It Sees, Plans, and Acts in Real Time with Neo4j
ENEL delivers real-time grid intelligence across 9 countries, automating 80% of customer quotes that once required manual processing
neo4j.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Reposted by Jim Webber
September 26, 2025 at 1:12 AM
LOL, ok boomer.
September 26, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Does anyone know how to completely turn off (not just tone down via accessibility) the transparency options on Mac OS?

It's dumb that I see through web pages to other stuff that changes the colours of the page I'm viewing.
September 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The UK has no domestic uranium mining nor does it have the technology to reprocess waste any longer.

This is swapping one set of overseas dependencies for another, even if the tech can be made to work.

This does not make any sense.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
UK and US line up string of deals to build modular nuclear reactors in Britain
Agreements include plan to build 12 reactors in Hartlepool with Centrica, creating 2,500 jobs, and fast-tracking UK and US safety checks
www.theguardian.com
September 15, 2025 at 7:21 AM