2025-11-24 / 1 Comment on Epistemic Honesty: An Unusual Commodity for Large Language Models
I asked 290 LLMs to summarize a paper that has never existed. 62% of them confidently did. Recently Hiroko Konishi posted on X and wrote a report “Structural Inducements for Hallucination in LargeLanguage Models: An Output-Only Case Study and the Discovery of the False-Correction Loop” that has garnered significant attention. For me, it was like […]
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2025-11-24 / Leave a comment
I’ve been exploring using various AI coding agents over the past year. They generally work by using an API key, which charges per million tokens. That might sound like a lot, but keep in mind that the way LLMs function is by appending messages to all that’s gone before, so the length increases as the […]
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2025-04-18
I never imagined that the first blog post in a long time wouldn’t be about my research but about recent events that are serving as an impediment to me completing what’s been a very long development cycle. In all of the discussions of AI with which I’m bombarded daily, I haven’t seen anyone talk about […]
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2023-06-10
During January through April 2023 I taught CPSC 416 at UBC. It was the first time I had taught this course and it would not have been possible without the assistance I received from others, notably Ada Gavrilovska and Ivan Bestchastnikh both of whom allowed me to use their materials in creating my own course. […]
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2022-11-06
The past month has included both a very interesting talk from someone at a major storage vendor and an in-depth discussion about my work and how it might be applicable to an issue that confronts the Metaverse community. I haven’t been at the keyboard much (at least not for my research) but I have been […]
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2022-10-06
Despite the fact most file systems support the same basic set of metadata, they don't even agree on how this is done. When one digs deeper it becomes apparent that trying to use that metadata in a cross-silo way is challenging. Continue reading →
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2022-02-16
A key aspect of the work I am doing for Indaleko is to “capture system activity” so that it can be used to form “activity contexts” that can then be used to inform the process of finding relevant information. As part of that, I have been working through the work of Daniela Vianna. While I […]
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2022-01-13
I recently described the idea of “activity context” and suggested that providing this new type of information about data (meta-data) to applications would permit improve important tasks such as finding. My examining committee challenged me to think about what I would do if my proposed service – Indaleko – already existed today. This is the […]
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2022-01-12 / 2 Comments on Using Focus, Relationship, Breadcrumbs, and Trails for Success in Finding
As I mentioned in my last post, I am considering how to add activity context as a system service that can be useful in improving findings. Last month (December 2021) my examination committee asked me to consider a useful question: “If this service already existed what would you build using it?” The challenge in answering […]
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2022-01-11
Last month I presented my thesis proposal to my PhD committee. My proposal doesn’t mean that I am done, rather it means that I have more clearly identified what I intend to make the focus of my final research. It has certainly taken longer to get to this point than I had anticipated. Part of […]
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