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Studying Probabilistic record linkage Robin Linacre's write-up. The clearest account of Fellegi-Sunter I have found, and it is free. Apache Ossie The semantic interchange spec, formerly OSI. A common format for what a metric actually means, across tools.

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A library catalogue is a knowledge graph. We just took 150 years to say it that way. Aug 2026 · Something I keep coming back to. · all marginalia

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Real Takes Time 17 August 2026

Paradox of the month The sorites paradox A heap of sand stays a heap if you remove one grain. Remove grains one at a time and at some point it is not a heap, but no single grain was the one … all paradoxes

Question · maths Similarity is not transitive. So how does anything ever get grouped? Aug 2026

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