Nodal Point of Thought 2023-04-04

Vector search.

Differences between books and Scrapbox

Scrapbox is excellent for pointing to information because it comes with human-readable permalinks and redirects to connect even if renamed.

Scrapbox-like if ebooks had the ability to select portions of text and create permalinks

Scrapbox

No attributes on the link itself

Instead, contextual information is made an attribute of the link by bracketing its occurrence in the sentence.

A method for extracting meaning from the occurrence of surrounding words

word2vec is used to represent the type of relationship as a continuous vector rather than a discrete classification

A: Knowledge is the accumulation of facts and ideas; wisdom is the application of knowledge to make decisions in real-world situations.

Knowledge may come from books, but wisdom must come from experience.

A better form of knowledge representation may be "a form that is easy to apply".

Then the next question becomes, "What is the application of knowledge?" becomes

Knowledge transfer without verbalization by sharing the work process.

A better form of knowledge expression may not be words.

Well, LLM's weight is not in words.

We use language as an interface for human beings and communication.

Knowing" is better than "not knowing. However, there is not much difference in knowledge that can be easily acquired through search, because those who realize they "don't know" can easily change to "know". Those who "think they know" and believe in false knowledge are worse off than those who "don't know" because they don't have the opportunity to search for and acquire correct knowledge.

The value of "knowledge that can be easily acquired through search" is low.

Connect minimal knowledge to give concept X

But this requires knowing in advance what the user knows

What if not? Breadth-first search and the first one found is the shortest path

If knowledge areas are covered, then there is no knowledge exchange.

In other words, in order to create a system that works for me, I can't just let people read my Scrapbox, I need to let them read what I don't know and find the quickest way to connect it to what I already know.

Should I have them read the classics they haven't read yet?

Decline in the correlation between "storing useful knowledge" and "being able to generate useful knowledge"

Usefulness of applying "knowledge accumulated in the past" to a new environment/compared to "acquiring knowledge quickly from a new environment

When the time came to start thinking about "better forms of knowledge representation," it was "how to store knowledge."

But maybe it's not about "storing" but about "creating" and "acquiring."

"Generating" may be a prelude to "applying" by "finding a relationship."

What was useful is more likely to be useful again later.

When Scrapbox links connect to the past, odds are it will also be useful

This is a pretty relevant story.

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