associative device

2019-02-20 - Concepts in Nodal Point of Thought2019-02-18.

• The RECOMMENDATION engine for similar entries is “long text to long text”

  • search (e.g. for someone using a search engine) is “keywords → long text”

• The Scrapbox link display is

  • Page → keywords contained on that page → pages containing those keywords.”
  • In other words, it can be interpreted as a combination of “long text → keywords” and “keywords → long text”.
  • 2-hop link did it twice more

• Scrapbox is stock of associations, given the idea that this process is suggestion.

• This associative connection is a virtual directed graph

• A few steps of exploration of this graph will generally result in a very wide distribution

• So the approach of “presenting a few randomly selected items that have been explored for a few steps” doesn’t really produce anything very useful.

  • As I thought of in Nodal Point of Thought2019-02-18, we can treat this association to connect as distance, and it might be useful in that usage

• Maybe we should take some time to re-think this discussion.

  • I feel we are one step closer to the realization of the Knowledge Weaving Program.

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