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Ross Mounce 1d ago

Martin Paul Eve 3d ago

Big let down, to be honest

Ross Mounce 1d ago

Dr. Serge Zaka 1d ago

Le record national de chaleur de mai a été dépassé/égalé avec une facilité déconcertante par 24 stations. Depuis le 22 mai, 1364 records de chaleur ont été battus. Du jamais vu. Le nouveau record national sera surement la station de Perpignan (37.4°C). Attendons l'expertise de Météo-France.

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Ross Mounce 1d ago

...and albeit this is an n=1 example lacking rigor but...

if you ask standard Mistral "Write a SPARQL query for Wikidata to find all planets that have more than two moons" it gives a very poor answer that doesn't give a sensible SPARQL query.

Whereas _after_ connecting the Wikidata MCP, Mistral with the very same prompt generates a Wikidata-informed SPARQL query which "works" (gives the expected/intended result in the Wikidata Query Service).

Interesting.

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Ross Mounce 1d ago

'normal' mainstream LLMs appear to be unbelievably poor at writing Wikidata SPARQL queries. I'm hoping that connecting the WIkidata MCP will enable LLMs like Mistral to help write _better_ if not perfect SPARQL queries for me.

Ross Mounce 1d ago

Really enjoying the AI-Bridges Symposium (I'm attending virtually, from the Arcadia office in another part of London).

Exciting to be playing with the Wikidata MCP. Probably my first time actually consciously using MCP.

Curiously it hits the exact use case I have for LLMs -> generating better wikidata SPARQL queries.

Also first time playing with the Mistral LLM.

Here's the response to my #FoI request
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/information_relating_to_guidance_2?nocache=incoming-3429727#incoming-3429727

There are no minutes of any meeting where this new anti-open-source guidance was discussed. Lends credence to the suggestion that a non-technical manager made this up on the hoof.

All other requests denied on security grounds.
#NHS #OpenSource

Ross Mounce 1d ago

DrALJONES 1d ago

Francesca Albanese's family recently won a case against punitive US sanctions, but a US appeal has put the sanctions back in place.

Albanese says the sanctioning “equates to a civil death. She is unable to access her bank accounts & savings or continue her work as a lecturer."

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2026/may/28/human-rights-lawyer-francesca-albanese-on-life-under-us-sanctions-podcast

#USPol #USSanctions #EUPol #FrancescaAlbanese #news #palestine .

Human rights lawyer Francesca Albanese on life under US sanctions - podcast

The UN’s special rapporteur for Palestine, Francesca Albanese, on the war in Gaza, living under US sanctions and accusations of antisemitism

The Guardian

Ross Mounce 2d ago

wild.

Is the UK the new enemy of the USA?

QUOTE:

"" The letter says that the suspension of her grant was due to undisclosed funding from the United Kingdom, which has baffled her: “I cannot recall any funding that I’ve ever had from the UK,” she says. ""

https://archive.ph/07Tmi#selection-1355.192-1355.391

Ross Mounce 3d ago

SKitch be Skitching again *sigh*

Low quality trolling. And misinformation. As ever.

Ross Mounce 6d ago

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