What kind of thing are you resolving?
The country is real. The strings are not. What that changes for entity resolution, and for systems trying to reason about the result.
Dennis Irorere
Hey there. If you're meeting my curated digital self, well, nice to meet you. I hope to meet you properly someday.
A simple rundown. I'm interested in, and actively working on, representations, information quality, and the data engineering underneath it. Entity resolution, NER, classification, and digital identity: decentralised, self-sovereign, and the question of who decides your data is yours. In more marketable terms: record linkage, knowledge graphs, semantic layers, and intelligence.
Lately that means AI agents, and whether one understands what it is acting on, and knows when to refuse. That's me.
Data for the Rest of Us is out. Order a copy.
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