Chains of Unstable Correlations

Introduction Like it or not, competition is arguably the biggest force affecting how things in our world work, in terms of both evolution and society. Without competition among genes, at the least, life on Earth wouldn't be as it is today. And for better or worse, societal competition at various levels (individual, tribes/cities, countries) wouldn't … Continue reading Chains of Unstable Correlations →

Explorer Subgraph—The Dynamic Cartography of Relation Space

Abstract This blog introduces the Explorer Subgraph, a navigational knowledge structure designed to support System ⅈ (the ⅈ as in the imaginary number). I introduced System ⅈ a few weeks ago in my blog, System ⅈ: The Default Mode Network of AGI. The Explorer Subgraph is a background, always-on layer of intelligence that operates below conscious … Continue reading Explorer Subgraph—The Dynamic Cartography of Relation Space →

System ⅈ: The Default Mode Network of AGI

Abstract: TL;DR Preface—The System ⅈ Origin Story For my AI projects back in 2004, SCL and TOSN, the main architectural concept centered on how I imagined our conscious and subconscious work. In my notes, I referred to the conscious as the "single-threaded consciousness". The single-threaded consciousness made sense to me because we have just one … Continue reading System ⅈ: The Default Mode Network of AGI →

Context Engineering and My Two Books

“Context engineering” is emerging as the evolutionary step over prompt engineering. It's the deliberate design of everything an AI system can access before it produces an answer. The goal is to make it work on the right problem, with the right facts, under the right constraints. That is, by mitigating "context drift" as the AI … Continue reading Context Engineering and My Two Books →

The Ghost of OLAP Aggregations – Part 2 – Aggregation Manager

This is Part 2 of a 3-part series where I make the case that pre-aggregated OLAP is essential in this era of AI. The intent of this post is to describe just enough of how a pre-aggregated OLAP engine works for those who are unfamiliar with this technology: Those who have joined the business intelligence … Continue reading The Ghost of OLAP Aggregations – Part 2 – Aggregation Manager →

The Ghost of OLAP Aggregations – Part 1 – Pre-Aggregation

If your entry into the business intelligence (BI) game began after around 2010, it could be difficult to appreciate the value of OLAP cubes (referring mostly to SQL Server Analysis Services MD, ca. 1998-2010), those aggregations, and that MDX query language. In fact, you may have a negative impression of those relics, those "cubes", based … Continue reading The Ghost of OLAP Aggregations – Part 1 – Pre-Aggregation →

BI-Extended Enterprise Knowledge Graphs

Enterprise Intelligence and Time Molecules link through the Tuple Correlation Web. Introduction The main takeaway of this blog is an explanation of how my two books, Enterprise Intelligence (June 21, 2024) and the more recently published Time Molecules (June 4, 2025), connect. Time Molecules is a follow-up to my first book, Enterprise Intelligence. It connects … Continue reading BI-Extended Enterprise Knowledge Graphs →

From Data through Wisdom: The Case for Process-Aware Intelligence

My new book, Time Molecules, is available!! This is its launch-day blog (June 4, 2025)! Time Molecules is a book about bringing process awareness to business intelligence (BI). Traditional BI flattens reality into snapshots— scalar values, points of information— leaving us staring at dimensionally flattened shadows on a wall. But life unfolds over time, and … Continue reading From Data through Wisdom: The Case for Process-Aware Intelligence →

Sneak Peek at My New Book—Time Molecules

This is a sneak peek of my upcoming book, Time Molecules: The BI Side of Process Mining and Systems Thinking—to be published in the May-June 2025 timeframe. I’ve long been fascinated by systems thinking, ever since reading The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge, when it was first released. The idea that complex systems behave in ways … Continue reading Sneak Peek at My New Book—Time Molecules →

The BI Counterpart to AI Infinite Context

This post maps the ideas in the recent paper Leave No Context Behind: Efficient Infinite Context Transformers with Infini-attention (Munkhdalai, T., Faruqui, M., & Gopal, S. 2024) to concepts from my book, Enterprise Intelligence, including the Tuple Correlation Web (TCW), Insight Space Graph (ISG), and cubespace as a semantic layer. In business intelligence (BI) and … Continue reading The BI Counterpart to AI Infinite Context →