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

Shouting on Trains

Fragment

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

Jun 3

Evaluating agentic RAG -- journey or destination?

Fragment

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

Jun 3

Back to the bench

Fragment

On mixed emotions and being the second mouse.

May 8

Geopositional encoding

Fragment

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

May 8

Web3 is a set of design principles

Fragment

A reframing that helps me make sense of a confusing place

May 8

Why I bake

Working

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

Apr 17

Co-location proofs

Fragment

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

Apr 17

Don't overfill

Fragment

Apr 17

Dukkha

Fragment

On feeling out of step

Apr 17

Freedom and belonging

Fragment

Freedom isn't having choices — it's choosing

Apr 17

No summit

Fragment

Process over outcome

Apr 17

Notes on Location Proofs

Fragment

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

Apr 17

Observations on Infrastructure Location Proofs (1)

Fragment

How can we make the geography of decentralized networks legible?

Apr 17

Spatial Demurrage

Fragment

What can be built with location-based smart contracts?

Apr 17

State of Provenance Verification for Remote Sensing Imagery

Working

How can we trust our eyes in the sky?

Apr 17

What I'm doing here

Fragment

Motivations and all that

Apr 17

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Stable

My feeble form of resistance to AI cultural domination

Apr 17

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