This particular article is a discussion about a recommendation to a given standard, that of SPARQL 1.1. None of this has been implemented yet, and as such represents more or less the muiings of a writer, rather than established functionality. Read at your peril!

Lately, I've been spending some time on the Github…

I'm relatively old school, semantically speaking: my first encounters with RDF was in the early 2000s, not long after Tim Berners-Lee's now-famous article in Scientific American introducing the Semantic Web to the world. I remember working through the complexities of RDFS and OWL, spending a long afternoon with one of the editors of the SPARQL…

As the Pandemic wanes (more or less), the debate about going back to the office vs. continuing to work from home remains in full swing. Central to this debate is the question about whether it is, in fact, better for companies for people to work from an office than it is to work remotely. The answers to this can be wildly divergent, from those…

I missed Tau day, which was the 28th of June. However, I've been thinking about the intersection of Tau, complex numbers, code libraries and Javascript in analytics for a while now, and this seemed like a good chance to explore one of my favorite topics: Tauism. -- Kurt Cagle

One of the things that most young mathematicians…

In my previous post in which I discussed names, I also led in with the fact that I am a writer. Significantly, I did not really talk much about that particular assertion, because is in fact comes with its own…