Notes

Living pages. I revise these rather than replace them.

These are notes, not posts. They get edited as I learn more, so the date on each one is the date I last changed my mind about it.

Mostly about intelligence and the information underneath it. Knowledge graphs, semantic layers, information quality, retrieval. Some of them are questions I have not answered yet.

4 entries

Alignment starts with reference Before you align a system to human values, it has to know what it is talking about. rev. 16 Aug 2026
Human machine symbiosis, sixty years on Licklider wrote it down in 1960. Most of it still holds. rev. 16 Aug 2026
What an agent should refuse to do Confidence, abstention, and why "I don't know" is an answer. rev. 16 Aug 2026
What entity resolution actually is Deciding whether two records are the same thing, in plain language. rev. 16 Aug 2026