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 →

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 →