Posted in Semantic Web on Apr 18th, 2008 4 Comments »
In determining the meaning of tokens used in communication there are two widely used approaches to disambiguate that I’ll charactise as ‘namespacing’ and ‘context’.
When humans communicate amongst themselves they use the context of the communication to narrow down the range of possible meanings of terms used in the exchange, and human language doesn’t employ namespaces […]
Posted in Semantic Web on Apr 11th, 2008 5 Comments »
I like listening to the talis podcasts because they motivate me to think about semantic-web issues. Unfortunately I usually spend the entire session muttering to myself because I disagree with so much that is said.
The issue for me is that speakers often paint a rosy view of a merged data world where ‘if only’ people […]
Posted in programming, factor, compiler on Apr 8th, 2008 2 Comments »
I wrote this post partly as an advocacy piece and partly to put down a bunch of things I’ve learnt about the factor compiler over the last few weeks. I should point out that I’m no expert in this area and so there are probably inaccuracies and omissions - hopefully Slava or one of the […]
