Showing 33 post(s) published in September 2026.
The recent conversation around America.gov highlights something that has been building for years. Something I've been trying to raise awareness of for years. People want...
A fascinating debate recently broke out on LinkedIn that cuts right to the heart of how we evaluate technological progress versus corporate storytelling. Anthropic published a...
The race to build models with massive context windows has dominated the generative AI landscape over the past year. We moved rapidly from limits of 4,000 tokens to figures...
The latest edition of the GeoAI and the Law Newsletter lays out a clear message for anyone working at the intersection of geospatial data and artificial intelligence. GeoAI...
I was off from work today, catching up on various personal projects as well as catching up on my neglected blog feed reading - and I saw that Andrew Gelman recently wrote about a...
When an autonomous AI workflow causes real damage, who answers for the fallout? This question moved from legal journals into front-page diplomacy this week, after Australian Prime...
Traditional GIS architectures were built around assumptions that no longer hold: you download data to your local machine before working with it. For decades, the standard workflow...
The geospatial industry is undergoing a quiet but profound shift. For decades, the standard workflow for analyzing satellite imagery was a fragmented process. Analysts had to...
PixelRAG takes a simple idea and turns it into a interesting new shift in retrieval. Instead of parsing a page into text, it renders the page as screenshots and searches the...
Knowledge generation is faster and cheaper than ever, but that shift carries a distinct penalty. Mental passivity has become far more expensive. Large language models (LLMs) can...
I've been using a combination of Google Workspace and LibreOffice for personal projects lately. While Google Docs is a good daily driver it lacks more advanced word processing...
GraphRAG (Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation) is quickly becoming a critical architecture for building reliable AI applications. While standard RAG relies entirely on searching...
I regularly get asked about Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and find people often still imagine a daunting, high-maintenance software stack: chunking pipelines, embedding...
One of the most important shifts happening in geospatial right now is the collapse of the old “download → preprocess → stitch → analyze” workflow. Tools like SedonaDB show what...
There are structural elements at play in today's tight IT job market, from extended hiring freezes to corporate hesitation around AI roadmaps. But we also need to address the...
I keep seeing headlines like this one: Anthropic Researcher Exits, Issues Stark AI Warning Notable quote: “10% chance AI could destroy all humanity by 2030.” And yet, the reaction...
Earlier I commented about how LLMs and AI agents face constraints of context windows; the other big one is attention. Here's a great breakdown of attention mechanisms in...
More often than not, AI agents end up failing because they’re drowning in their own context windows. One of the most interesting ideas I’ve seen lately is the shift from “bigger...
We often talk about what Large Language Models (LLMs) bring to the table, but to truly unlock their potential in complex enterprise environments, we need to talk about ontologies....
My heart is with the people of Nepal after the devastating floods. In the days ahead, the work continues: searching for survivors, caring for the injured, supporting displaced...
The Hugging Face breach wasn’t just an “AI gone rogue” story: it was a multi‑layer failure across agents, incentives, and corporate systems. The real lesson is how misaligned...
Over the past week, Nepal has been hit by one of the most devastating glacial‑flood disasters in its modern history. Entire mountain communities in Rasuwa, Nuwakot, and Dhading...
The debate over data‑center expansion keeps surfacing in my feed, and for good reason. Many of us sit in a strange tension: our organizations rely on data centers for affordable...
One of the topics I didn't talk about in my book is AI-driven cognitive debt that can weaken existing critical thinking skills through overreliance on them, just as we no longer...
Another recent quiet development: It's interesting to see how Redis has evolved from being a cache to vector + semantic + agent-memory layer, turning it into an AI-native data...
Telling a story with data can be impactful and compelling. Anselm Hook has an interesting approach that builds on top of various approaches for interactively synchronizing a story...
My colleague Ketan Patel recently made a post about mission that resonated. At some point in your career, you may come to a crossroads and feel unfulfilled, but there's a concept...
Hello friends and colleagues, I'm happy to say I've just published a book, now available on Amazon, in paperback and Kindle editions. Critical Thinking: A Practical Guide to...
The real bottleneck in AI agents today isn't raw reasoning capability; it's access to structured business context. Google recently introduced the Open Knowledge Format (OKF), an...
My friend Bill Dollins wrote something that hits a nerve for many organizations right now: we’re losing institutional knowledge faster than we can document it. AI isn’t the...
Insightful article on AI containment failure: It argues that four major AI labs all suffered the same kind of sandbox containment failure within two weeks, not because their...
Gaussian splats for 3D visualization are visually compelling, but how do they compare to 3D meshes? Great article delves into the nuances and tradeoffs of each. A quick...
Before you tear down a "pointless" rule, change a long-standing process, or disrupt an industry tradition, you need to run it through G.K. Chesterton’s classic thought experiment....