Honoring our past while moving forward. August 6, 2026 By Edward von der Schmidt The Datum Research Logo (August 6, 2026) Hi, it's Eddie. I wanted to talk about the new Datum Research logo. The original was made by a brilliant designer who I was lucky enough to have help me and to be exposed to. And updating it has been super intimidating, but I wanted to try to do it myself. It's been also bittersweet. The logo is one of the company's first assets. It brought its own ethos a

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Defying out-of-consensus calls for a surprise rate increase at its July 28-29 FOMC meeting, the Federal Reserve chose to hold off on moving for now. However, three dissents in favor of lifting policy rates (Hammack, Kashkari, and Logan) offered evidence of a "good family fight". That there was "nothing inertial" about the Fed's discussions, policy, or strategy may signal momentum toward a possible September rate hike (or even balance sheet tightening), notwithstanding Chair W

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Kevin Warsh's first Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting as Chair brought an expected policy hold, tough inflation rhetoric, little forward guidance, and a pledge to revisit the Fed's lens and operations.

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We are sharing this framework for transparency (and science).

Tweaking the behavior of a token machine with a structured approach.

How do we know an AI model running DRAP is actually following instructions? Logs!

Like a student rushing a single draft of a paper before it is due, generative AI models write once and neglect to check their work. By creating a system prompt to instruct the model how to write, review, and revise on its own, we can mitigate error propagation and improve the caliber of responses. In the methodology for recursive analysis though procedural semantic programming and its template, the Datum Research Analytical Process (DRAP) v1.0, we use natural language to teac

How will you know "DRAP" is working? The proof is in the prompting.

Introducing our first, open-source semantic program for people and AI.