I had a great idea for a domain name, but I was 67 days too late.

Charles Babbage, inventor of the first mechanical computer: "On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_in,_garbage_out)

New blog entry: Converting RDFS schemas to SHACL constraints — with SPARQL, of course. https://www.bobdc.com/blog/rdfs2shacl/

New blog entry tomorrow: Converting RDFS schemas to SHACL constraints — with SPARQL, of course.

Out of curiosity I let gmail's "AI" rewrite something I wrote and it replaced the word "features" with "functionality." I guess I'll wait a few years before I try that again. https://www.bobdc.com/blog/writing-about-software-bad-wor/

Using ChatGPT every few weeks has changed the way I do regular Google searches. Now I think of them as prompts where my incorporation of more context terms will get better answers, and that actually helps.

Causal AI is a promising field (see upcoming Graphwise webinar at https://lnkd.in/erXtR726) and a fun side effect of the interest is all the discussions of it out there that include “casual AI” as a typo.

New blog entry: Filtering foreign literals out of SPARQL query results — and only the foreign literals. https://www.bobdc.com/blog/filterforeignliterals/

New blog entry tomorrow: Filtering foreign literals out of SPARQL query results — and only the foreign literals.

I was looking for a Linux command line date math utility and it turns out that the Linux date command already does what I want, e.g.

$ date --date "+ 30 days"
Thu Feb 13 12:49:45 PM EST 2025

I wish Amazon and Yelp reviews had a checkbox where we could filter out the ones where people talk about themselves too much. It wouldn’t even need AI. It could just count what % of words were "me", "I", "my", or "mine".

New W3C SHACL Working Group: https://www.w3.org/2024/12/data-shapes.html

Account creation form: "password must include a special character"

Me: "zt34,L9m"

Account creation form: “OMG ARE YOU INSANE A COMMA IS BEYOND MY UNIVERSE"