---
title: "Scaling Compute on Context"
category: "talks"
date: "2026-06-30"
time: "11:40am-12:00pm"
track: "Memory & Continual Learning"
room: "Track 3"
speakers: ["Jack Morris"]
sourceLabels: ["Official conference schedule", "Public YouTube metadata"]
scheduleTrack: "Memory & Continual Learning"
scheduleRoom: "Track 3"
scheduleLabels: ["Memory & Continual Learning", "Track 3", "session", "confirmed"]
---
# Scaling Compute on Context

## Conference Context
- Date/time: 2026-06-30 · 11:40am-12:00pm
- Track/room: Memory & Continual Learning · Track 3
- Speaker(s): Jack Morris
- Session type/status: session · confirmed

- Track: Memory & Continual Learning
- Room: Track 3
- Session type: session
- Status: confirmed

## Session Description
A case for when context is enough, and when updating weights may be the real memory mechanism.

## Media Evidence
[Jack Morris: Stuffing Context is not Memory, Updating Weights is](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jty4s9-Jb78) (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions).

- Source video: `youtube-Jty4s9-Jb78`
- Slide deck: [[youtube-Jty4s9-Jb78-dense-slides|Dense Slides: Jack Morris: Stuffing Context is not Memory, Updating Weights is]] — 3 visible slide image(s); 3 HTML recreation(s).
![[assets/dense-slides/Jty4s9-Jb78/slide-001.jpg]]
![[assets/dense-slides/Jty4s9-Jb78/slide-002.jpg]]
![[assets/dense-slides/Jty4s9-Jb78/slide-003.jpg]]
- Additional slide evidence: [[youtube-Jty4s9-Jb78-slides|Slides: Jack Morris: Stuffing Context is not Memory, Updating Weights is]], [[youtube-Jty4s9-Jb78-reconstructed-slides|Reconstructed Slides: Jack Morris: Stuffing Context is not Memory, Updating Weights is]]
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-Jty4s9-Jb78`: fixed, capacity, probably.

## Evidence Graph
This evidence graph is generated from currently linked source material: official schedule text, related video pages, cached transcripts, visible slide text, dense/reconstructed slide pages, and AI slide-classification audits.

### Media Signals
- `youtube-Jty4s9-Jb78` — 2 slide-derived text signals
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-Jty4s9-Jb78`: fixed, capacity, probably.
- Evidence links for `youtube-Jty4s9-Jb78`: [[youtube-Jty4s9-Jb78]], [[youtube-Jty4s9-Jb78-slides]], [[youtube-Jty4s9-Jb78-dense-slides]], [[youtube-Jty4s9-Jb78-reconstructed-slides]]

### Agent Reading Notes
Use these signals to refine the synopsis, topic links, people/company context, and method notes. If a source is a related external video rather than an exact official recording, keep it framed as supporting evidence.

## Transcript Status
Related video transcript availability: English auto-captions. Treat this as supporting context, not a recording of this exact scheduled session unless later confirmed. Not fetched yet.

## People
- [[jack-morris]]

## Supporting Slides
- [[youtube-Jty4s9-Jb78-slides]] — extracted from the related public AI Engineer video.

## Slide Evidence
- Slide-only cropped deck: [[youtube-Jty4s9-Jb78-dense-slides]] (3 viable slide images).
- Related slide/OCR pages:
- [[youtube-Jty4s9-Jb78-dense-slides]]
- [[youtube-Jty4s9-Jb78-reconstructed-slides]]
- [[youtube-Jty4s9-Jb78-slides]]
- Slide-derived terms: `context`, `full`, `weights`, `tokens`, `text`, `document`, `card`, `output`, `vector`, `databases`, `mage`, `april`, `kentucky`, `embeddings`, `things`, `knowledge`, `amazon`, `figma`

## Synthesis
### Synthesized Breakdown
# Scaling Compute on Context ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-06-30 · 11:40am-12:00pm - Track/room: Memory & Continual Learning · Track 3 - Speaker(s): Jack Morris - Session type/status: session · confirmed - Track: Memory & Continual Learning - Room: Track 3 - Session type: session - Status: confirmed ## Session Description A case for when context is enough, and when updating weights may be the real memory mechanism. ## Media Evidence [Jack Morris: Stuffing Context is not Memory, Updating Weights is](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jty4s9-Jb78) (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions). - Source video: `youtube-Jty4s9-Jb78` - Slide deck: [[youtube-Jty4s9-Jb78-dense-slides|Dense Slides: Jack Morris: Stuffing Context is not Memory, Updating Weights is]] — 3 visible slide image(s); 3 HTML recreation(s). ![[assets/dense-slides/Jty4s9-Jb78/slide-001.jpg]] ![[assets/dense-slides/Jty4s9-Jb78/slide-002.jpg]] ![[assets/dense-slides/Jty4s9-Jb78/slide-003.jpg]] - Additional slide evidence: [[youtube-Jty4s9-Jb78-slides|Slides: Jack Morris: Stuffing Context is not Memory, Updating Weights is]], [[youtube-Jty4s9-Jb78-reconstructed-slides|Reconstructed Slides: Jack Morris: Stuffing Context is not Memory, Updating Weights is]] - Slide-derived themes for `youtube-Jty4s9-Jb78`: fixed, capacity, probably.

### Speaker And Company Context
- [[jack-morris|Jack Morris]] — Cofounder at [[engram|Engram]].

### Topics Covered
- Topic links are pending transcript-backed classification.

### Derived Links And Source Material
- [[youtube-Jty4s9-Jb78]] — related YouTube source page.
- [[youtube-Jty4s9-Jb78-slides]] — slide evidence.
- [[youtube-Jty4s9-Jb78-reconstructed-slides]] — slide evidence.
- [[youtube-Jty4s9-Jb78-dense-slides]] — slide evidence.

### Novel Concepts / Clever Methods
- No highlighted novel concept has been detected yet.

### Evidence Boundary
This synthesis is based on the official schedule and linked source pages. It should be revisited when exact session recordings or transcript-backed secondary sources are available.