Kurt Cagle Explores the Cognitive Web
For the next three hundred years, π would reign supreme in mathematics as perhaps the single most well known constant ever. However, for several years, Euler debated whether to use π to indicate the circumference of a circle divided by the diameter (a ratio of about 3.1415927…) or to indicate the circumference divided by the ratio (a ratio of 6.2831854…). His decision, ultimately, to go with the former may have complicated mathematics far more than he’d planned.
Editor’s Note: This piece was first published in 2021, but has been revised. Okay, you’ve just finished filling up the…
Ontologists, especially neophyte data modelers, often get caught up in the definition of classes, wanting to treat everything as a class. However, there are two types of things that don’t actually fit cleanly into traditional distinctions of class: roles and categorizations. I’m not going to keep the focus of this article on roles, preferring to treat categorizations separately, though they have a lot of overlap.
There’s a fair amount of overlaps between programmers and mathematicians. Both tend to be very logical thinkers. Both like manipulating…
The world of education is changing dramatically as online self-education courses, remote classrooms, rapidly evolving curricula, and the increasing digitization…
File systems have been around for a long time. Even before the advent of computers, most organizations stored their paper…
I’ve remarked before that the life cycle of social media platforms shares more than a passing resemblance to the evolution…
Logistics is the process of getting the right things to the right places at the right times. It has become…
The insurance industry provides a good example of contingency contracts – if a given event happens, contracts outlining specific actions…
The Life Sciences domain is extensive, but in almost all cases, the need to manage complex genomic and proteomic data…
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