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A sporadic diary by Jason Morris of Lexpedite Legal Technology Ltd.

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Dec 20, 2021

Rules as Code Diary 2020–2021 in Review

It’s traditional at the end of the year to look back and see where you started, and how…

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Dec 16, 2021

Explainable OpenFisca

Following up on the plan I wrote about a few days ago… By exposing all of the intermediate conclusions, and by adding separate variables that represent whether the primary variables are “known,” I’ve managed to create an encoding in OpenFisca that is capable of doing some cool stuff over…

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Dec 8, 2021

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Using OpenFisca as an Expert System Engine

At Service Canada we are working on a new tool to help Canadians to plan for…

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Dec 7, 2021

“Rules as Code” Doesn’t Need Factions

Responding to Catala Paper’s Criticisms of Logic Programming

Last December, Denis Merigoux and Liane Huttner presented a paper at the Algorithmic Law Symposium hosted at HEC Paris, on “Catala…

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Dec 1, 2021

Isolating the Legal Logic

Just had a great conversation with a colleague that helped me understand a challenges involved in implementing Rules as Code that hadn’t occured to me before.

The objective in Rules as Code is to write an encoding of the legislation that is as re-usable as…

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Nov 30, 2021

OpenFisca in Google Colab

I blogged recently about the opportunity to use s(CASP) inside SWISH, the web-based development environment for…

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Nov 19, 2021

talk.RulesAsCode.com — A Community Forum

Rules as Code is a movement in public administration that suggests that the digitization…

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Nov 1, 2021

s(CASP) + SWI-Prolog = 🔥

It was back in December of 2020 that I first learned about a tool called s(CASP). Since then I have written about…

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Nov 17, 2021

What One Section of Law Tells us about what Rules as Code Needs

I’m currently working within Service Canada’s Benefits Delivery Modernization Program, and I’m working with a team that is looking to automate calculations under the Old Age Security Act.

Jason Morris in Rules as Code Diary

Nov 18, 2021

Scoping for Defeasibility in Flora-2

In yesterday’s post, I talked a little about how it would be nice if there was a way to use legislative scope to refer to sections of law, particularly to implement, in a structurally-isomorphic way, defeasibility statements like “subject to this act and the…