from Diary 2023-11-17

  • The realization that KJ method is [HNSW

  • Summary is an ambiguous concept.

  • So instead of a vague “summary” They put it in a jar and mix it up…, I want to take it out and look at it concretely.

  • That’s where I was making concrete data unobtrusively.

  • One of them was verbalized

    • Process for converting a two-page spread of a book into bulleted reading notes in Scrapbox
      • Various people have mentioned many times that itemization is more efficient than the de facto text format
        • outliner I guess you could say it’s a bit of an “outliner”.
    • Reading and compressing the contents of a book Leverage memo, reading notebook target
  • Since experiments with actual books cannot be placed in a public forum, I chopped up About Descartes’ Philosophy from the Aozora Bunko at random and gave it a try.

    • Then I put it all together in a chapter and did a second level of compression.
  • I was trying to figure out what would happen from here, and the hypothesis that the KJ method is HNSW came to mind.

    • Proximity is just the end of the line.
    • Basically, it is “the process of drawing lines between elements
    • Closest ones form clusters, which are built hierarchically…
    • That’s very HNSW-ish.

2023-11-18 Still just a messy analogy.


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