later I will dig around on safaribooks oreilly to see if I can locate any wave mathematics in .py and if not poke around in signal processing | info theory to at least refresh my remaining brain cell on dealing with noise

I'm slowly working through this "Decentralized Infrastructure for (Neuro)Science" article. I'm intrigued both by the ideas and the interface/presentation of the article. https://jon-e.net/infrastructure/ I wonder how much of what this paper calls for could be supported by Dendron? (That's my question as I'm reading. I'm not asking anyone to provide answer right now! 😁) > This paper is an argument that decentralized digital infrastructure is the best means of alleviating the harms of infrastructural deficits and building a digital landscape that supports, rather than extracts from science. I will draw from several disciplines and knowledge communities, across and outside academia to articulate a vision of an infrastructure in three parts: shared data, shared tools, and shared knowledge.

Oh sorry I wasn’t clearer, “hook” was with reference to a macOS app of that name 🙂

i use hook as well 🙂

@kevins8 Hi Kevin - what do you say to Winkler's criticism of Bush's vision? "Hartmut Winkler: A follow-up remark: Only relatively recently have we become accustomed to seeing the computer not as a tool for thinking, but as a medium. And here Bush has a real surprise in store. Actually, his text is based on a communication problem. The individual researcher, that was the initial argument, finds it increasingly difficult to make the results of his colleagues fruitful for his own work; the amount of relevant material increases exponentially, the proportion of what is read becomes relatively smaller and smaller. The consequence is that his exchange with others, and above all his exchange with the pool of knowledge as a whole, falls into crisis.

A classic communication problem. And Bush responds by developing a machine that initially only affects the individual's desk. The Memex makes work faster, easier and more efficient, and it also explicitly provided for the transfer of materials. But would one really have the confidence that the researcher could now keep up with the growth of the mountains of material? My thesis is that while the Memex supports exchange with individual colleagues, it leaves the real problem - communication with the pool of knowledge as a whole - virtually untouched. The initial problem of information overload and the technical answer, Memex, are strangely divergent. And it is all the more astonishing that computer development has gone exactly the same way again. After giving us stand-alone machines for a long time, first the mainframes and then the desktop computers, it is only now, with networking, that access to external data is possible. So access - 'our ineptitude in getting at the record' - seems to be reasonably well regulated. But the real problem, Bush had said, lies in the crowd itself. And this will not be solved even with mechanical selection and associative storage." (Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20210514232850/http://homepages.uni-paderborn.de/winkler/bush_d.html)

My reading of the criticism: Bush's vision of the memex is all about how individuals can manage information that they come across. Today, there's far more information that individuals never come across and that's the real problem. To this, my thoughts are the following: as individuals, we don't have the means of managing the information we come across. There's no good way to even tacke the rest of knowledge if we can't find ground with what we have. I would also argue that managing the information we come across is actually the problem with more real life consequence. Because of google and social media, you will probably come across most of the information you need without much hassle. This serves as a 80/20 and a good enough starting point. The problem is not with finding knowledge but absorbing it into one's own world view - hence memx.

my bad; I only looked at the books not their associated software

@kevins8 I can only agree with you here. Dendron is a gamechanger here Also, what you write is according to. German philosopher Robert Spaemann the definition of philosophy Philosophy is self-thinking. The self that thinks is determined by a history of thought. Only when it succeeds in integrating what is thought by the other into this history, in thinking it anew for me, is this influence a philosophical one" (Spaemann, 1994, p. 126).

Currently I am reading: Daniel Levitin, The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload -

> You remember best the things you have explained while under constructive emotional stress: it fixes in the brain the content of what is explained. One snippet from a professor’s reflection about priorities, teaching and leaning. This largely holds true for me, and can be triggered by something as small as a 3 person book club, or the prospect of publishing a note that started as private https://stearnslab.yale.edu/designs-learning

Thoughtful interview with a creator and user of another hypertext authoring tool. Helped me clarify why it’s important for a tool like dendron to - let you try out different structures cheaply without making it too expensive to undo them (contrasting software engineering to traditional writing) - the bottom-up (rather than top down) gathering stage essential to research or writing about any topic w/ multiple degrees of uncertainty https://theinformed.life/2022/10/23/episode-99-mark-bernstein/ Also has a turn of phrase that fits well with dendron garden imagery 🙂 > In one of your papers, you used the phrase “information farming.” The image of farming, in my mind, is powerful in that it does talk about something that is growing over time, and then it literally yields fruit, right? I was hoping you would unpack that for us. What did you mean by information farming?

just grabbed this from overdrive: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17357767W/Algorithms_to_Live_By

This is a good book. The stopping rule works in many scenarios.

in most cases I try to put a value on the information / reduction of uncertainty (also bounded by time). Do you have a rated library anywhere?

I do not have one myself. The ones I found useful are from sivers and Nat Eliason.

https://www.nateliason.com/notes and https://sive.rs/book

nice; I have seen the Sivers list before but not the Eliason one.

how is it? i've had it on my potential reading list for a while now?

I read it a year ago and enjoyed it enough that I’m rereading it now. In some ways, you can tell it’s a first novel from an author, but I think Annalee did a nice job. Very interesting and unique story IMO.

I've also hit the trough of disillusionment wrt a personal knowledge graph. Seems more and more people are getting there recently.

searching for some update as to why they boned up the code coloring ex:

asciidoc
.used to blue'
`long since cyan'
[not even red]
also not red::

Hmm. When I can plug the large graph from my own pkm into an assistant like chatgpt, may it surprises me with its tailored answers?

That's true. In seeing GPT3 capabilities, ChatGPT, and GPT4 on the horizon, the support for being able to throw a large graph of your own PKM vaults like that (which would also be easier to work with in that there is a shared, standardized format like Markdown of the data to be ingested), you'd be able to really experiment and enhance the way you interact with and interrogate your own data. Would be cool to see something like this in action.

I am reading broken thoughts over curated break beats in search of the pandemic-nerfed ability to communicate that I want to not only save but improve the businesses I depend on for music if not life. And if that inertia persists I will sadly be reading more framework specs as I will need to replace them

Yet what was partially evident in-person is now lost in a distributed haze of denial, FOMO, and rectangle (wrecked angle) screens like 100,000 years of face-to-face communication vs ~30 of screen based fails turned most into babbling Grogus.

Like I am not filled with panic, I have both a crap towel and a shower towel, yet everything seems like not enough and I have pushed way too far