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All notes in the garden, from fresh seeds to evergreen ideas.

Back to the bench

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On mixed emotions and being the second mouse.

Aug 21

Why I bake

Working

I bake to develop myself ... and eat delicious things

Aug 21

Co-location proofs

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How do we verify if internet nodes run in the same data center?

Aug 21

Don't overfill

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Aug 21

Dukkha

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On feeling out of step

Aug 21

Evaluating agentic RAG -- journey or destination?

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Is it really about the journey -- or just the destination?

Aug 21

FlexHEGs and the location gap

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Orienting myself in the AI governance conversation on an LHR → DEN flight

Aug 21

Freedom and belonging

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Freedom isn't having choices — it's choosing

Aug 21

Geopositional encoding

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Could a trick from natural language processing improve geographic accuracy of LLM responses?

Aug 21

No summit

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Process over outcome

Aug 21

Notes on Location Proofs

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Proof-of-location systems: technical implementations, privacy implications, and potential applications.

Aug 21

Observations on Infrastructure Location Proofs (1)

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How can we make the geography of decentralized networks legible?

Aug 21

Shouting on Trains

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Reflections on location-based governance in the Age of Intelligence.

Aug 21

Spatial Demurrage

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What can be built with location-based smart contracts?

Aug 21

State of Provenance Verification for Remote Sensing Imagery

Working

How can we trust our eyes in the sky?

Aug 21

Web3 is a set of design principles

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A reframing that helps me make sense of a confusing place

Aug 21

What I'm doing here

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Motivations and all that

Aug 21

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Stable

My feeble form of resistance to AI cultural domination

Aug 21

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