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Reading The Idea FactoryJon Gertner

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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Living in the Moment 14 June 2025

Paradox of the month The ship of Theseus Replace every plank of a ship, one at a time, and you have a ship made of entirely new material. Is it the same ship? Now rebuild the original from … all paradoxes

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

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