# kirchner.io

> Michael Kirchner's public site about systems, intelligence, judgment, knowledge infrastructure, technical practice, art, and memory.

## Primary pages

- [About Michael Kirchner](https://kirchner.io/about): Public profile, current focus, and working principles.
- [Selected systems work](https://kirchner.io/work): Representative technical and organizational work.
- [Essays](https://kirchner.io/blog): Long-form writing about AI systems, technology, books, and alignment.
- [Compendium](https://kirchner.io/compendium): A public research atlas of interconnected technical and cultural topics.
- [Knowledge graph visualization](https://kirchner.io/compendium/graphs): Architecture, provenance, layout tradeoffs, and the site's live 3D knowledge graph.
- [AI inference optimization](https://kirchner.io/blog/inference): Latency, throughput, utilization, and cost under real deployment constraints.
- [Gallery](https://kirchner.io/art): Published photographs and visual studies.

## Discovery

- [XML sitemap](https://kirchner.io/sitemap.xml): Canonical indexable URLs.
- [Robots policy](https://kirchner.io/robots.txt): Crawler directives.

## Policies

- [Privacy policy](https://kirchner.io/legal/privacy)
- [Terms of service](https://kirchner.io/legal/terms)
- [Acceptable use policy](https://kirchner.io/legal/acceptable-use)