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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OpenAI Build Week: What Would You Ask Sam?OpenAI emailed me about Build Week with four days left, which meant choosing between several questionable Codex projects and figuring out how to make a meaningful addition to SamNav —an application that was already built, deployed,…
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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…
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