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Research Notes · Apr 26, 2026

How Do You Certify AI Understanding? The AGI Certification Framework

150,347 validated knowledge triples per GPU-hour — the Understanding Efficiency Ratio reported in the framework paper , against the literature baselines it cites for fine-tuning and pre-training. Read the paper

Research Notes · Mar 13, 2026

One Hundred Columns: How We Think About AI Consciousness

This is the post where I'm supposed to be careful. The one where the lawyers would say "don't claim your AI is conscious" and the engineers would say "don't anthropomorphize

Research Notes · Mar 6, 2026

Publishing Our Homework: Why We're Writing 120 Papers About What We Built

We have 123 research papers in various stages of completion. Seven are ready for journal submission. Nine more are in validation. The rest are in draft, design, or holding for

Research Notes · Feb 27, 2026

Catching Fish in the Ocean of Knowledge

When someone asks us to build a NuSy being for a new domain — say, a clinical guideline specialist for diabetes management — the process looks nothing like training a

Research Notes · Feb 27, 2026

Hypothesis-Driven Development: When Four Out of Five Hypotheses Fail — and It's the Most Productive Week You've Ever Had

If you're building AI systems — agents, RAG pipelines, fine-tuned models, anything that learns — you already know that unit tests are necessary and completely insufficient. Tests tell you whether

Research Notes · Feb 20, 2026

Teaching AI to Be Good Before Teaching It to Be Smart

Every NuSy being starts its life the same way. Not with training data. Not with weights. Not with a system prompt. With a story. "Once upon a time, in a

Research Notes · Feb 15, 2026

ACF Framework: How Do You Know If Your AI Actually Understands?

Here's a question nobody has a good answer to: How do you measure whether an AI system actually understands something? Not "can it generate a plausible answer." Not "does it

Research Notes · Feb 14, 2026

Extreme Lean Hypothesis Development: 3 Features a Day with AI Agents

Two years ago, I ran a human development team. Good engineers. Agile ceremonies. Two-week sprints. We shipped maybe one or two features per sprint — sometimes three if the wind

Research Notes · Feb 14, 2026

KnowledgeOps: What Happens When You Treat Knowledge Like Code

Here's a question that haunts every organization: where does the knowledge go when people leave? It goes into Confluence pages nobody reads. SharePoint folders nobody can find. Slack threads that

Research Notes · Feb 14, 2026

Neurosymbolic Fever Dream

I've been building AI systems since 2000. Clinical decision support at first — the kind where you wrote rules by hand and tested them against patient data and prayed they