Day 92 of #100daysofnetworks
We have gone so far! Let's keep going!
Hi everyone. I want to write a free article today, and I want to talk about how far we have gone and think about where we are going with this series.
Before the very first #100daysofnetworks series was created in 2020, I ran another series called #100daysofnlp. NLP is Natural Language Processing. I realized a long time ago that language data (text, words, tokens) could be useful for learning about things happening in the real world. I wrote frequently about NLP back then, and I did all of my posts on LinkedIn. I wish I had used a blogging platform back then, because all of that is gone, now, but I still have the code and everything I learned.
Back in 2020, NLP was not popular. That’s ok. I chase what I need, and I needed NLP in order to use the internet as a dataset. You cannot do trend analysis of the entire internet if you cannot use language as data.
By the way, I wrote about how to do trend analysis of the internet.
And yesterday I wrote another article about how to identify the top themes happening in the physical world using 24 hours of internet claims.
But if you collect claims, you can get a sense for what is happening. If a hundred sources are making the same claim on the internet at roughly the same time, it is either coordinated manipulation or it could be chatter of some real happening that took place.
Anyway, #100daysofnlp was the predecessor. I probably did 150-200 posts/articles for that series, and then I decided that I wanted to improve my capabilities at working with the graph data that I was seeing in all of this language data that I had learned how to use. Language and graphs go together.
In fact, I wrote a book about it, and after three years on Amazon, it is currently rated five stars out of five. That is just wild. A thing that has been sold on the internet for three years has a perfect score rating, when rounded up. I’ll take it.
See for yourself. Five stars, 28 reviews. You can order it here.
I worked so hard writing that book, giving up almost every weekend for about a year and a half. I am so happy to see people like it that much. That book will never be outdated. Approaches may change, but the techniques do not go out of date.
But before I was able to write a book about graphs and networks, I spent about a year writing the first #100daysofnetworks series. What I am teaching on this blog, I learned from years of research and development, and I would say that I really started chasing Network Science around 2017 when I worked in Data Operations. Wow, nine years ago! That feels like yesterday…
What I am explaining on this blog and going to show now is the result of nine years of reading, research and development, experimentation, innovation, and invention, and I share it with you. That’s what I do. I learn things, and then I show others how to do or use the things I learned about. I choose to be signal, not noise.
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I created a new blog!
I have built technology that has two purposes:
Support Life
Help people enjoy life
What does it mean to support life? It means to give awareness of things so that people can be proactive about getting ahead of problems instead of being blindsided and surprised by problems. Remember COVID-19? I remember people saying that they wish they could rewind the internet and get to the first claim of the outbreak, so that the spread could be stopped. Well…. I built that thing.
What does it mean to help people enjoy life? It means I help them find cool events to go to, including free events. I help people find things to enjoy.
If people want to use my technologies, they can email me at info@verdantintel.com
I decided to create blogs and websites to support my mission. I will get valuable and useful information out, no matter what. That is what I do.
I recently created a new blog. I originally created it to track Hantavirus, but then I decided to track Ebola as well, and then I decided to just turn it into an OSINT blog to show people what is happening in the world in a way that the media cannot or does not really do.
For instance, here are a few screenshots:
My intelligences have space and time awareness. Remember? LLM + LLK = Realtime AI. Time. This is ICE activity across the last year. You can see the spikes in January and February, and it has gotten quieter, but not quiet. It is louder than Hantavirus and Ebola chatter COMBINED.
It is just as simple for me to track Ebola.
Or Hantavirus.
My technology is versatile. I’ve already written about when I used my World AI to go to a punk rock show.
So, there is the proof. I support life and living. Want access to my technologies? Email me at info@verdantintel.com.
Tour of the Mind of World AI
I took some cool screenshots this morning and I thought they might be neat to look at and talk about.
This is a picture of 24 hours of internet claims, and attached metadata. A lot happens every day! Do you know about all of the things that happened yesterday? I wrote an article yesterday showing how to find out.
I enjoy inspecting the SVG exports of my graphs as the colors pop more with a white background. These images remind me of looking out a window in an airplane, or looking at a map.
We’re out of space. If you are reading this over email, please check out the story online. Your email should provide a link.
Here is another side of the graph.
And another. I’m intentionally not zooming in. I just want you to see how much is happening. It’s a cool view.
Here is another. I really like that cluster on the right. That’s so cool.
Let’s Watch Some Videos!
I’ve also recently been getting into making videos, but am not good at it. I haven’t figured out how to add background music or audio, but at least you can see neat stuff. I’ll end with these videos.
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