Bob DuCharme
Senior Technical Writer at Ontotext (opinions mine, not theirs). Wrote O'Reilly's "Learning SPARQL." Likes working with semi-structured data and metadata.
Senior Technical Writer at Ontotext (opinions mine, not theirs). Wrote O'Reilly's "Learning SPARQL." Likes working with semi-structured data and metadata.
I love how the NY Times just said "President Biden announced on Twitter on Sunday that he will no longer seek re-election" without any of that "X formerly known as Twitter" crap.
New blog entry: SPARQLing anything — MS Office files, XML, markdown, plain text, and more. https://www.bobdc.com/blog/sparqlanything/
New blog entry tomorrow: SPARQLing anything — MS Office files, XML, markdown, plain text, and more.
"To Save Life on Earth, Bring Back Taxonomy" in today's New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/07/opinion/to-save-life-on-earth-bring-back-taxonomy.html
Sometimes I think it would be cool to re-colonize MySpace–so unhip that it’s hip again, etc. But, it’s so broken at this point that it’s really unusable. From its Wikipedia page: “Currently, Myspace has been placed in a read-only mode of sorts, as no new articles have been published since early 2022, media uploads are disabled, most images on the site seem to be broken, and existing songs cannot be played.”
Early mainframe computers with CRT monitors could display a question, show some numbered potential responses, and then you’d enter a number to pick one. The next question-answer combination might depend on what you picked.
As of 2024, I am really, really tired of chatbots doing the same thing and pretending to be some sort of AI.
New blog entry: Querying for audio on Wikidata — music and more. #wikimedia https://www.bobdc.com/blog/wikidataaudio/
The cobwebs in the upper-left of this basement window, as enclosed by the screen frames, remind me of one of the 20th century’s most important artworks. Who knows which?
New blog entry: Use SPARQL to query for movies, then watch them — on YouTube and more. https://www.bobdc.com/blog/querywatchmovies/
New blog entry tomorrow: Use SPARQL to query for movies, then watch them — on YouTube and more.
AI and inferencing: Today I mentioned the Velvet Underground’s “Venus in Furs” while making a note on the my phone and the speech-to-text thought I said “Venus Infers”.
Now on SoundCloud (part 3 of 3 this week): initial demo of Tempo Primo (my assignment to myself to write a major key sonata form thing) played by the The Cavalier Symphony Orchestra String Quartet. https://soundcloud.com/bobducharme/tempo-primo-demo
