To Know is to Stage

memory access boundary : the control surface where decisions are made about what to retrieve, when , and how . This boundary is where architecture meets context. It’s where resource constraints collide with decision needs. It’s where relevance gets filtered through availability and cost.

In computing, this is managed through layers of memory hierarc... See more

This essay argues that intelligence is not defined by what a system stores or how it computes, but by what it can access and stage into use under constraints of cost, availability, and time . Storage is cheap. Computation is cheaper still. The real bottleneck—the hard part—is memory access. And where the cost is, intelligence is.