In the conclusion of my last blog, Chains of Unstable Correlations, I wrote: When you work around experts long enough, you notice that experts sometimes (usually?) forget what isn’t obvious to non-experts. Conversely, people in the field often see things experts overlook because they live inside the operational texture of the system. After a conversation … Continue reading An Interlude Before the Third Act of “The Assemblage of AI”
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Conditional Trade-Off Graphs – Prolog in the LLM Era – AI 3rd Anniversary Special
Skip Intro. 🎉 Welcome to the AI “Go-to-Market” 3rd Anniversary Special!! 🎉 Starring ... 🌐 The Semantic Web ⚙️ Event Processing 📊 Machine Learning 🌀 Vibe Coding 🦕 Prolog … and your host … 🤖 ChatGPT!!! Following is ChatGPT 5's self-written, unedited, introduction monologue—in a Johnny Carson style. Please do keep reading because this blog … Continue reading Conditional Trade-Off Graphs – Prolog in the LLM Era – AI 3rd Anniversary Special
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
Outside of the Box AI Reasoning with SVMs
The phrase “thinking outside the box” traces back to a deceptively simple puzzle: nine dots arranged in a 3×3 grid. The challenge is to draw four straight lines through all the dots without lifting your pencil. Most people fail at first because they instinctively keep their lines inside the square boundary implied by the dots. … Continue reading Outside of the Box AI Reasoning with SVMs
Thinking Reliably and Creatively – Prolog in the LLM Era – Summer Vacation Special
Welcome to the Prolog in the LLM Era Summer Vacation Special! Starring … Prolog ... knowledge graphs ... ChatGPT o4-mini ... neuro-symbolic AI ... and our special guest ... Thinking Fast and Slow! In this episode (Part 11 of the series), I wish to address how neuro-symbolic AI relates to this series. After all, the series title, Prolog … Continue reading Thinking Reliably and Creatively – Prolog in the LLM Era – Summer Vacation Special
Analogy and Curiosity-Driven Original Thinking
Original thinking doesn’t spring from a void. It’s the meticulous art of forging a path to a solution where none yet exists, of stitching together lessons from far-flung domains to carry us from where we are to where we wish to be. In everyday life, we rely on zero-sum games—win or lose, right or wrong—yet … Continue reading Analogy and Curiosity-Driven Original Thinking
Thousands of Senses
In this mind-bogglingly complex world in which we live—countless moving parts fraught with imperfect information of many types—a versatile highly-functioning intelligence requires quick access to a wide variety of information in order to make intelligent decisions. It's not that all decisions should be made from that full breadth of information. It's that all decisions are … Continue reading Thousands of Senses
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
Closer to Causation – Prolog in the LLM Era – Spring Break Special
Welcome to the Prolog in the LLM Era Spring Break Special! Starring ... decoupled recognition and action ... event streaming ... correlation doesn't imply causation ... and our special guest star ... Deductive Time Travel!!! Notes before diving in: Please see Part 1 in the series for background on Prolog if you're not familiar with … Continue reading Closer to Causation – Prolog in the LLM Era – Spring Break Special
Soft Coded Logic 