How I built memory that stops repeating itself: dedup at 0.85, conflicts flagged, nothing deleted

Description and use

<p>My desktop companion remembers things about me. That is the whole point of it — until it remembers the same thing twice, and then remembers the opposite of it, and then confidently asserts whichever one it read last.</p> <p>That is the failure mode I fixed in Ankita v2.7.5. The problem was not that the memory store lost facts. It was that it never questioned them. Every new fact went in as a new row, so "I use Postgres" and "Database is Postgres" sat side by side as two facts, and a later "I moved to SQLite" sat next to both of them, unchallenged. The companion would then answer from whiche

Problem

<p>My desktop companion remembers things about me. That is the whole point of it — until it remembers the same thing twice, and then remembers the opposite of it, and then confidently asserts whichever one it read last.</p> <p>That is the failure mode I fixed in Ankita v2.7.5. The problem was not that the memory store lost facts. It was that it never questioned them. Every new fact went in as a new row, so "I use Postgres" and "Database is Postgres" sat side by side as two facts, and a later "I moved to SQLite" sat next to both of them, unchallenged. The companion would then answer from whiche

Outcome

<p>My desktop companion remembers things about me. That is the whole point of it — until it remembers the same thing twice, and then remembers the opposite of it, and then confidently asserts whichever one it read last.</p> <p>That is the failure mode I fixed in Ankita v2.7.5. The problem was not that the memory store lost facts. It was that it never questioned them. Every new fact went in as a new row, so "I use Postgres" and "Database is Postgres" sat side by side as two facts, and a later "I moved to SQLite" sat next to both of them, unchallenged. The companion would then answer from whiche

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How I built memory that stops repeating itself: dedup at 0.85, conflicts flagged, nothing deleted

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