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DEAN / INTELLIGENCE ARCHIVEPUBLIC WORKING MEMORY
ARCHIVE ONLINE · LAST SYNC 03:42 AGO

BUILDING
MENTAL MODELS
FOR INTELLIGENT
SYSTEMS.

A continuously evolving collection of notes on artificial intelligence, software systems, machine reasoning, agents and computation. This site is less a blog than a public working memory — an attempt to turn reading, experiments and engineering experience into durable knowledge.

284NOTES
127PAPERS
43EXPERIMENTS
1.28MWORDS INDEXED
01 / Latest research notes

Recent additions to the archive

ORDER: LAST UPDATED ↓

02 / Knowledge index

Browse by research domain

284 DOCUMENTS / 39 TOPICS

03 / Live research log

The archive is a system, not a bookshelf.

Every note has links, provenance, revision history and a place in the larger graph. Ideas are expected to change. Old conclusions remain visible, but newer evidence can supersede them.

The goal is not to collect information. The goal is to reduce the cost of thinking about the same problem twice.

RESEARCH-INDEX / STATUSUTF-8 · ONLINE
dean@archive:~$ index --status

documents............. 284
linked references..... 1,942
paper citations........ 687
orphan notes........... 12
active experiments..... 4
reading queue.......... 17

dean@archive:~$ focus --current
→ agent-memory / context-engineering / inference-time-compute

dean@archive:~$ ingest --latest
[ok] N-0284 linked to 11 concepts
[ok] 4 paper references resolved
[ok] semantic index refreshed

dean@archive:~$ _