Mining a Data-Driven World with Artificial Intelligence (opens in a new tab)
Is it time for a new look at AI? Maybe AI needs to take a look at time.
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Articles by Kirk Laughead on the science, the method, and the records behind them, newest first. The book and the papers are on Publications.
Time Is the Substrate: Introducing Generative Temporal Referencing (opens in a new tab)
A method for putting a corpus in order, and what it found in a neighborhood’s memory.
Why Wouldn’t It Make That Better? (opens in a new tab)
On the Directed User Interface, agents and the difference between milk and chocolate milk.
The Interesting Part Was Hiding Under the Cartoon (opens in a new tab)
How a tool for making little animated videos turned into a method for proving they’re correct, and what two AI sessions and one stubborn operator found along the way.
The $10 Earthquake: What If the Next AI Breakthrough Isn’t an AI? (opens in a new tab)
DeepSeek showed that AI could be cheaper, and markets moved. What if the next disruption isn’t another model at all, but a better way for people to use the ones that already exist?
Beyond Prompting: The Next Interface May Be Governance (opens in a new tab)
Prompts ask a model for something. Governance shapes how a person and an AI work together over the course of a whole project.
Forty Years with the Book Nobody Could Read (opens in a new tab)
I found a lost American masterpiece in a dead man’s pockets. It took me four decades, and tools that didn’t exist when I started, to give it back.
