Field Notes is an ongoing technical journal documenting work at the intersection of creative technology applications, scientific communication, media systems, AI workflows, and digital infrastructure.
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- August 5, 2026
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data-and-classification
How data structures, labels, signals, and retrieval choices shape what an organization can see and act on.
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Dispatches from the Argument FactoryThis project began as a joke about making Sam Altman and Dario Amodei fight as badly coordinated robot boxers, but it quickly turned into something much more serious: an experiment in open models, local AI, comparative retrieval, and…
5 min
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Signal to Strategy: From Scientific Activity to Demand IntelligenceScientific activity is not the same thing as scientific demand. This article argues that publications, grants, registrations, abstracts, and engagement metrics only become strategically useful when interpreted together, classified…
3 min
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Signal to Strategy: Why Scientific Classification is More than a Labeling ExerciseScientific classification is more than tagging content after the fact. This article argues that classification should function as an interpretive layer inside the data architecture, giving messy scientific and operational records a…
3 min
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Signal to Strategy: Why Scientific Demand is Difficult to DetectScientific demand is difficult to detect because it rarely appears as a single clean metric. By the time it shows up in registrations, abstracts, sponsor interest, or meeting-planning conversations, the most useful window for…
3 min