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paco xander nathan

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evil mad scientist { he, him } vocation: entity resolution, knowledge graphs, AI apps @ Senzing location: coastal redwoods /|\ xocation: https://derwen.ai/paco more neanderthal than most reading this remarks are personal, don't reflect employer's views

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paco xander nathan @pacoid.bsky.social · 16d

A new `sz_semantics` library is available in the "Senzing Garage" on GitHub and released as a package on PyPi:
github.com/senzing-gara...
pypi.org/project/sz_s...

#Senzing #ERKG

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Stephen Abbott Pugh @stephenabbottpugh.bsky.social · 14h

Great to see @pacoid.bsky.social and Prashanth Rao will be at Connected Data London next month doing a masterclass on high-quality knowledge graphs leveraging @openownership.bsky.social and @opensanctions.org data and Senzing / Kuzu technology

Event page: 2025.connected-data.london/talks/combin...

Connected Data London 2025

A Talk by Paco Nathan & Prashanth Rao

2025.connected-data.london

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 3d

Alarming piece from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on Blair + Murdoch + Ellison + Ellison Jr + a touch of Musk and the new world order.

www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...

'WHAT WILL JESUS SAY?' TONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE ISRAEL CONNECTION

As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel – including bill...

www.thenerve.news

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The Nerve @thenerve.news · 3d

NEW FROM THE NERVE

Inside the church of (Nigel) Farageology!

We’ve signed award-winning investigative reporter @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social as our Reform UK correspondent. Here he previews a new series in which he will report on every UK county council now controlled by the party ⬇️

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paco xander nathan @pacoid.bsky.social · 4d

There's an LLM hiding in your Chrome browser.
Check out these instructions by @petewarden.bsky.social
petewarden.com/2025/10/02/h...

How to Try Chrome’s Hidden AI Model

There’s an LLM hiding in Chrome. Buried in the browser’s basement, behind a door with a “Beware of Leopard” sign. But I’ll show you how to find it. In a couple minutes…

petewarden.com

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Stephen Abbott Pugh @stephenabbottpugh.bsky.social · 5d

Huge thanks again to @pacoid.bsky.social from Senzing for inviting me to do the chat

#ERKG #EntityResolvedKnowledgeGraphs #KnowledgeGraphs

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 7d

Please follow @thenerve.news!

Were a new female-founded publication that launched yesterday…& it was a huge team effort to get a website up & this investigation over the line.

We’re all exhausted but we want to do journalism that matters & we need your support. Thank you!!🙏

www.thenerve.news

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paco xander nathan @pacoid.bsky.social · 10d

The next two months will have loads of travel. I carved out a few moments from an impossible schedule to get my CV-19 and Flu vaccinations updated. Feeling now like navigating Saturn's gravity while in the midst of a hurricane, but in a good way, and grateful to get to do this travel!

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G.V() - Graph Database IDE @gdotv.bsky.social · 12d

The Weekly Edge: The @GraphCouncil Has Spoken, @memgraphdb 3.5 Arrives, Preventing #FinCrime & More
// by @bwmerkl.bsky.social @gdotv.bsky.social‬

This week’s graph tech tl;dr: gdotv.com/blog/weekly-...

#graphdatabases #Neo4j #Kuzu #GraphViz

The Weekly Edge: LDBC No More, Memgraph 3.5, FinCrime (Prevention), & More [25 September 2025]

Discover what’s new in the world of graph technology this week, including the end of the LDBC (as we know it), a new graph approach to smart buildings, and more.

gdotv.com

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paco xander nathan @pacoid.bsky.social · 13d

Next 4 weeks will be busy with conferences! Lots of new Senzing material to show:

* Oct 01 Semantic Layer Symposium @ Copenhagen semanticlayersymposium.com
* Oct 02 Senzing Summit
* Oct 08-09 MLOps World Summit @ Austin mlopsworld.com
* Oct 28-30 ODSC West @ SFO odsc.com/california/

#Senzing #ERKG

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Peter W🤓 @wang.social · 13d

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paco xander nathan @pacoid.bsky.social · 13d

Jackson Lamb, S5E1: "Is that your answer? Because what you responded with sounded like it quit high school at age 15 to go work in abattoir."

paco xander nathan @pacoid.bsky.social · 16d

For example, if you working with GraphRAG, or agentic workflows downstream from a knowledge graph.

See the `README.md` for details and usage.

This comes from work with DSPy and upcoming work with NIEM.

We'll be iterating on this library a lot -- feedback is welcomed.

paco xander nathan @pacoid.bsky.social · 16d

2. Transform the Sz entity resolution (ER) results into an RDF representation, based on a small SKOS taxonomy. Then ER results become a domain-specific thesaurus to use in the ontology engineering / context engineering for your use case.

paco xander nathan @pacoid.bsky.social · 16d

This includes two main feature groups:

1. Mask PII values in Senzing JSON objects, for example to be able to send masked data to a remote service such as an LLM for summarization, while maintaining data privacy -- then unmask values in the summarized results.

paco xander nathan @pacoid.bsky.social · 16d

A new `sz_semantics` library is available in the "Senzing Garage" on GitHub and released as a package on PyPi:
github.com/senzing-gara...
pypi.org/project/sz_s...

#Senzing #ERKG

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Tom Aarsen @tomaarsen.com · 16d

🐛 I've just released Sentence Transformers v5.1.1!

It's a small patch release that makes the project more explicit with incorrect arguments and introduces some fixes for multi-GPU processing, evaluators, and hard negatives mining.

Details in 🧵

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Allen Downey @allendowney.bsky.social · 16d

I have published five new chapters of Think Linear Algebra!

Read about the project here
allendowney.com/blog/2025/09...

Or jump straight to the book
allendowney.github.io/ThinkLinearA...

And now… Asteroids!

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 19d

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 20d

Good moment to remember that US foreign policy is also being reoriented to enable foreign censors and authoritarian propaganda around the world

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

America Surrenders in the Global Information Wars

The U.S. is reorienting its foreign policy to protect governments that manipulate and suppress information.

www.theatlantic.com

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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 19d

I've got a new book coming out.

Everything you wanted to know about why the world is so bad at stopping money laundering, with a surprise side detour to Bicester Village.

You can pre-order it here: geni.us/OliverBullough

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paco xander nathan @pacoid.bsky.social · 22d

You might consider using RML libraries, as a more standardized approach for generating RDF?

Colleagues at the Ontology Engineering Group in UPM (Madrid) authored `morph-kgc` which has good CSV support:
morph-kgc.readthedocs.io/en/stable/do...

Documentation - Morph-KGC

morph-kgc.readthedocs.io

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paco xander nathan @pacoid.bsky.social · 22d

Aleksander Drozd authored `csvwlib` then turned it over to use to maintain github.com/DerwenAI/csv...

It's been integrated into `kglab` though not much traffic about the library directly.

I'll go make some updates and confirm use with more current Python versions (it was at Py 3.6+)

GitHub - DerwenAI/csvwlib: Python implementation of W3C CSV on the Web recommendation

Python implementation of W3C CSV on the Web recommendation - GitHub - DerwenAI/csvwlib: Python implementation of W3C CSV on the Web recommendation

github.com

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Cassius @battleofdemocracy.bsky.social · 27d

It’s 3 a.m. I’m behind a palm tree near Mar-a-Lago. A coked up poodle w/ collagen lips panted that Trump had iced Kirk to smother the Epstein archives. The kicker: she’s hustling RFK Jr. stamped vaccines to anyone that isn’t a zombie. She fades into the darkness. I hear a bark in the distance.

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paco xander nathan @pacoid.bsky.social · 23d

forest bathing

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Graph Aware @graphaware.bsky.social · 26d

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🎙️ Live podcast & Q&A with Christophe Willemsen, CTO
🗓️ Thu 18 Sept | 09:00–10:00 PT

Discover how graphs speed intelligence analysis & power modern investigations.👇👇

paco xander nathan @pacoid.bsky.social · Sep 8

Join us for "Graph Power Hour!" live podcast and Q&A with Christophe Willemsen, CTO @ GraphAware

"Connecting the Dots: GraphAware on Modern Intelligence"

Thu Sep 18
09:00-10:00 US Pacific
app.getcontrast.io/register/sen...

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paco xander nathan @pacoid.bsky.social · 27d

Thank you so much for all your work, producing an excellent conference!

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