Ben Scofield

01 Mar 2024

If you’re not reading Cedric Chin’s Commoncog essays, you’re missing out. The most recent one (Tacit Expertise Extraction, Software …

18 Feb 2024

Another brick in the usefulness of the graph model of knowledge: back in the 80s, I played various Infocom games – essentially, interactive …

14 Feb 2024

Students struggle more in classes where they have less background knowledge of the subject. Research to expand an area of knowledge is …

19 Apr 2022

Some time ago, I was reading a book about the history of jazz in China, and something about it put me off. On reflection, I realized that my …

18 Nov 2018

I have a vision of a wonderful future. A future without arguments about camelCase and snake_case. A future without debates over tabs and …

15 May 2018

One of the reasons researchers focus on experts instead of expertise is that it seems easier to find the one than the other — you can look …

26 Apr 2018

Ragtag partners with Insightus to protect North Carolina voters

15 Mar 2018

One of the guiding principles of the Perl programming language is TMTOWTDI — there’s more than one way to do it (where “it” is “pretty much …