Ron Itelman

Hi John, if you're ever interested in discussing modeling superposition of communication under uncertainty, let me know! Working on this now for finance, would love to extend it to other domains

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Decision traces are about modeling a user's understanding in decision making...

Exploring concepts of confidence, conviction, and trust from a product design perspective...

Working on context graphs and organizational intelligence? I've got tools, methodology, and experience to help, please reach out!

LOL!

There's a lot of buzz around context graphs and I want to introduce the idea of intent maps.

Intent Maps are real time and inherently feedback loops of the user defined meaning for diff operations against ontologies and system rules.

I've opened sourced core libraries, please reach out!

Awesome I would love to check it out, and if I see anything that helps will cite! :)

Cool thanks. Basically tensor logic lets me model the change of tensor states as a way to model context. Different than Shannon: number of bits change isn't equivalent to change in meaning and understanding of observer.

I think I can get there, just doing my homework;)

Reading Pedro Domingo's paper on Tensor Logic - really compelling neurosymbolic paradigm: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12269

Context modeling: represent knowledge delta in convos with AI over time.

Building open source parser for AST to show him. Didn't come across a math def for context that fit my model

@brandonrohrer.com have you seen any formal definitions of context for graph operations, especially using tensors you could recommend?

A few thoughts on the need to define context a bit more formally: I wanted a way to compute relative shifts of observer knowledge that is compatible with tensor logic as I research neurosymbolic AI.

Still working through understanding the math, but here's the simple principle...

What problem were you solving, and how does your app do it? I like the latency explanation... ;)

What are your concurrency needs?

Isn't DuckDB columnar? Have you tried it and if it isn't meeting your needs, why?

Can you give use case examples / more details?

My belief is that the intent management layer is missing from most companies attempts to build reliable AI solutions.

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They finally got their wish.

Released trustquery language (open source) for real-time metadata standards to minimize uncertainty in conversations about data.

trustquery.com

I think Claude Code has achieved AGI

GenAI for finance has serious flaws that without guardrails make it irresponsible for companies to adopt. Latest research I worked on showed ambiguity in a query for ONE word would swing answers by millions, and the AI model's ability to manage the risk was zero. Guardrails BEFORE hitting submit!

For the first time ever, I had to make a payment in crypto.

I can now confidently say that crypto payments combine the speed of a dial up modem and the ease of updating the drivers on a 1998 HP Laserjet printer.

Here's how trustquery.com works for tabular data (like a .CSV):
1. As you type (or paste) your data into the chat, ambiguous columns are detected.
2. It notifies the user and asks a clarifying question
3. Any user feedback is added as metadata directly into the column name.

Open source (MIT).

Looks like trustquery.com cloudflare issues are resolved! @arun-niranjan.bsky.social Happy to hop on a video call to walk you through it and also hear your feedback.

hah, yes, I yes I should have probably waited until CloudFlare was working ;)

Released open source library to turn any phrase into an interactive element: menus, api calls, guardrails, etc.

I'll be releasing more open source libraries on TrustQuery.com focused on pre-processing info for higher accuracy AI experiences.

Please reach out if you'd like to discuss!

Ron

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That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”

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Extreme Valuations for the S&P 500

Plotting the Warren Buffett indicator (US stock market cap to GDP) versus the Shiller cyclically adjusted P/E ratio shows that the S&P 500 today is at a historically extreme valuation.

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This lack of reliability is I believe the real reason most companies haven't seen massive productivity gains with agents.

Just because a system *can* get it right, doesn't mean it *will*. And in LLM agent loops, errors earn compound interest.