KJ method is HNSW
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.
I should read the paper Hierarchical Navigable Small World Graph myself.
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