Interesting post on Kurt Cagle’s Substack “The Ontologist” open.substack.com/pub/ontologi.... Gives equivalent of our “AI sandwich” (osf.io/8v5bd) for how people now use LLMs with knowledge graphs - LLM translates human’s English question for KG, then translates KG's answer into English for human.

Other talks by-
✅Andy Neale “Open Legislative Data Services”, from NZ Parliamentary Counsel's Office
✅Sarah Sutherland, with interesting take on limits of #RulesAsCode
✅AustLII on their experiments in using RAG on their huge body of legal data
✅Lexum & CanLII, incl on AI-assisted search on CanLII

Just spotted that that link was to the map of a simpler version of the “farmer must feed an animal”, which doesn't have the condition that the farmer is not exempt. If you want to try a map with that negative condition added in as an extra twist, go to jl4.legalese.com?id=8831700c-...

Setting off to London tomorrow for the Statute Law Society's conference on the Renton report's 50th anniversary - www.statutelawsociety.co.uk/conference
Meanwhile here is our note on Renton's specially prescient comment about computing (before PCs, WWW, AI) open.substack.com/pub/digitall...

Hello BlueSky - now that there are plenty of lawyers (including plenty not from USA) and legal tech folk here, we will be using this account instead of our old one on X.
We offer a legislative drafting take on "Rules as Code"
crlp-jerseyldo.github.io
digitallegislation.substack.com