2024-09-03~04
This X was initially launched on a service named [Scrapbox
- So I called it “Scrapbox by Yasukazu Nishio” without thinking much about X.
Unexpectedly, however, Scrapbox changed its name to Cosense.
- 2024-05-21 Scrapbox→Cosense name change
- Domain name remains Scrapbox as of 2024-09-04
- It’s been suggested that this could change someday, but we don’t know when that will be.
I have delicate feelings about continuing to call X “Yasukazu Nishio’s Scrapbox” in this situation.
- but I have more subtle feelings about changing it to “Yasukazu Nishio’s Cosense”.
- Because essentially X has not changed.
The choice between “Yasukazu Nishio’s Scrapbox” or “Yasukazu Nishio’s Cosense” is choosing the wrong two options and there should be [The Third Option
I came up with the idea that “Yasukazu Nishio’s external brain” might be an appropriate name for this X.
- At this point, most of you are probably looking at what is hosted at
https://scrapbox.io. - But this is not the essence, we think.
- (The first one I wrote)
- The data behind the scenes is the essence of Yasukazu Nishio’s external brain at the moment, and Scrapbox happens to be the service that was being used for a time because it was suitable for that input/output.
- It’s just a view.
- It’s not the essence.
- Models and Views
- The data behind the scenes is the essence of Yasukazu Nishio’s external brain at the moment, and Scrapbox happens to be the service that was being used for a time because it was suitable for that input/output.
- (Self-Refutation: A brain is not just a collection of data)
- There is an essential X behind the scenes, and Scrapbox/Cosense is just the view
- Scrapbox was a very well developed service and contributed very much to the development of Nishio’s external brain.
- The result was an external brain in the form of a closed source and proprietary view called Cosense and a model in a database on Helpfeel’s server
- This closed model is not directly accessible to the average consumer.
- Therefore, “exportable JSON data” can only be regarded as an incomplete projection of the model onto the real world.
- The real brain cannot directly externalize its contents either, so it can only be an incomplete projection.
- Texts written in the diary of the same day before writing this page:.
- Think of Cosense as an IDE for creating JSON in a certain format.
- This IDE is difficult to operate from the AI.
- Think of Cosense as an IDE for creating JSON in a certain format.
Future Policies
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Archive the current “external brain of Nishio as data” on GitHub.
- Do you want to do CC0 as well?
- Related: I want all my works to be CC-0.
- Switch mental models to think of the main body as on GitHub, not Helpfeel’s database
- Do you want to do CC0 as well?
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The brain is not just a collection of data.
- Ensure that programs designed and implemented by Nishio himself use that data for intellectual production
- This “combination of program and data” creates the true “external brain of Yasukazu Nishio.
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Specifically.
- The attempt to create your own view was done by mem.nhiro.org.
- I didn’t continue to use it myself because it’s not particularly better than the Scrapbox view.
- You wanted to control the details of the view, I know you did.
- As for programs that do intellectual production based on data, I’ve been doing machine translation into English and hosting it.
- /nishio-en
- Oh, something’s stopped.
- I recently had a credit card renewal, but this was using the DeepL API, and I don’t remember changing the settings, so maybe that’s why.
- /nishio-en
- Based on the Talk to the City experience, some things are emerging that we want to try.
- Simply visualizing them as clusters would be interesting.
- Maybe we need to be able to drill down hierarchically.
- Fractal Summary] is also relevant as a hierarchical summary.
- Maybe we need to be able to drill down hierarchically.
- It is interesting to extract purposeful data through LLM
- Smart Filters
- Language conversion is also possible
- Intellectual production activities that transcend language barriers are coming to fruition.
- It may be useful to use doodles as a hub for the creation of nonverbal symbols, such as Doodles by Yasukazu Nishio.
- Intellectual production activities that transcend language barriers are coming to fruition.
- Simply visualizing them as clusters would be interesting.
- I didn’t continue to use it myself because it’s not particularly better than the Scrapbox view.
- The attempt to create your own view was done by mem.nhiro.org.
2024-09-04 22:08 I totally forgot about it, but I’ll change the project title later today anyway.
- done✅
- End of [Scrapbox period
- Beginning of [external cerebral period
2024-09-06 TODO: - What is this? (~2024-09-08), rewrite “This is Yasukazu Nishio’s personal Scrapbox”, “What is Scrapbox?” , “A guide for those new to Scrapbox” in [What is this?
- That’s almost all of it…
2024-09-08
[What is this? (copy)]written by.- When you are done, add “~2024-09-08” to the old one.
- ✅ What is this?
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