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Kirk Laughead

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#data science Open access Oct 2026

Latent Value Query: The Cutoff Grade of Data

Organizations keep far more data than they use, and most of it is a cost. The field that set out to find value in data named itself after mining, and then noted that the name did not say what was being mined. This paper takes the comparison at its word. Mining has a precise answer to the question of what is worth recov...

Kirk Laughead · 2 citations
#generative ai Open access Oct 2026

The Rectification Train: Recovering Meaning from Everyday Typing Errors Without Altering the Record

People type faster than they type accurately, and a growing share of the record, from chat logs and working sessions with AI systems to field notes and first drafts, is captured exactly as typed. Uncorrected text is often unreadable to search: the words are there, but no query can find them. This paper describes the re...

Kirk Laughead · 2 citations
#generative ai Open access Oct 2026

A Data Commodity Exchange: A Plan for Grading, Certifying, and Trading Recovered Records

Two trends are converging. Households and businesses pay to destroy or store paper and digital records they cannot use, and the volume is about to rise as a generation’s homes change hands. At the same time, developers of AI systems and other buyers are paying substantial sums for human-made material they cannot obtain...

Kirk Laughead · 2 citations

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