Tag: provenance

Population genetics has Mitochondrial Eve: the ancestor every living human's mitochondrial DNA traces back to. Fine print has an equivalent question. Legal text is almost never written fresh — it descends. This is a technical orientation on measuring that relatedness: content hashes for identity, winnowing fingerprints for inherited wording, on-prem SLM embeddings for kinship of meaning, and a dated derivation graph for descent — across 6,738 documents and 125,295 clauses. The search for the common ancestor turns up something real: the warranty disclaimer, carried by nearly every license measured.

pmem is the shared memory a fleet of autonomous agents writes as it works: files first, database second. Three days after the hivemind census the store holds 9,457 entries — and, more telling, 124 typed relationships drawn from a controlled vocabulary, and 37 records formally retired by better knowledge. This is how that memory is structured, cited, corrected, and governed.