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Six Commitments for AI in Legislative Drafting
Over the past few months, I’ve written about government’s responsibilities in the age of AI and about how AI is eroding the rigor of legislative drafting. It’s only fair that…
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Rethinking Legislative Drafting for the Age of AI
Recently there have been a few articles on how AI slop is creating problems for legislative drafting, including this one. I’ve been giving this problem a lot of thought. Although…
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Government’s Responsibility in the Age of AI
I’ve recently seen several articles on how AI is affecting government. It’s something I’ve been thinking about for a while, and my involvement in Bússola Tech events has pulled me…
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Report on the Bússola Tech AI Conference in Brasília, Brazil
This past week I attended a conference in the Brazilian capital of Brasilia, hosted by the Brazilian Senate and organized by Bússola Tech and the Organization of American States (OAS).…
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Changing the way the world legislates. Together.
I got my start, like my father before me, as a draftsman. I worked for the Cleveland Switchboard Company drawing power distribution switchboards and panel boards while earning my engineering…
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Transparent legislation should be easy to read — part II
Over a decade ago, I wrote a blog questioning why federal bills are written the way they are. For someone experienced with state legislation, federal legislation is quite cryptic and…
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Building an Agile Team
We’ve recently built our first true Agile development team. It’s been quite a learning experience, but now we’re seeing the results. At Xcential, we have lots of waterfall process experience.…
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GitHub Copilot — Is it the future?
Several months ago, I got admitted to the GitHub Copilot preview. For those of you who don’t know what Copilot is, it’s a AI-based plugin to Visual Studio Code that…
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Comparing DOCX to Akoma Ntoso for Legislation
After describing what makes for good legislative XML, I feel I should bring up a favorite topic of mine — why word processors don’t make for good legislative drafting tools.…
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What is Good Legislative XML?
I’m often asked what make on XML model better than another when it comes to representing laws and regulations. Just because a document is modeled in XML does not mean…
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Twenty Years in Legal Informatics!
Today marks my twentieth year in the field of legal informatics. It was January 4th, 2002 that we officially started Xcential. The following week, Brad and I flew up to…
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Moving on Up to Document Synthesis
In my last blog, I discussed the DIKW pyramid and how the CAD world has advanced through the layers while the legal profession was going much slower. I mentioned that…
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The Knowledge Pyramid
At the very start of my career at the Boeing Company, my boss Jerry introduced the Knowledge Pyramid the DIKW Pyramid to me one evening. I had an insatiable thirst…
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I’m Back!!!
After a long hiatus away from my blog, I decided to reinstate it and get back to regular blogging. There are going to be a few changes. While the subject…
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Escaping a Technology Eddy
Do you need to escape a technology eddy? In fluid dynamics, an eddy is the swirling of a fluid that causes a reverse current against a downstream flow. It often…
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The many lives of JavaScript
I recently worked out that I’ve learned, on average, a new programming language every two to three years. These many languages have been part of my toolbox for somewhere between…
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The (Supposed) Limitations of XML
It’s been a while since I updated my blog – a whole year in fact. The reason is that I’ve been hard at work finishing our web-based XML editor, LegisPro,…
