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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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Entities do not exist in the information system. They exist in the real world. Information systems store references to entities, never the entities themselves. Sep 2026 · Something I keep coming back to. · all marginalia

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Similarity is not transitive 5 September 2026
A place is not a point 22 August 2026

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? Sep 2026

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