Durable memory, transient prototypes
An HDC experiment that separates stored examples from temporary class summaries, and compares rebuilding with caching.
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Find the case that fits now
The most similar past incident may not be the most useful. What if search could take today's equipment, conditions, and resources into account?
How context can change a retrieval ranking
Why shared bipolar binding preserves a ranking, how weighted similarity can change it, and what remains to be tested for useful retrieval.
Semantic compression inside wide hypervectors
How a compact abstraction can use thousands of coordinates, and what the extra width buys an HDC system.
When AI remembers what happened after the answer
A warehouse robot's detour shows how connected evidence and HDC memory could help AI reuse experience while checking what is valid now.
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