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That looks like a fun project. I like the idea of looking toward an improbable future goal for the sake of better understanding simple problems facing us today
by delluminatus 11y ago
That looks like a fun project. I like the idea of looking toward an improbable future goal for the sake of better understanding simple problems facing us today (like how to represent and compute semantics).
I think the really difficult problems for that project will probably be importing data into the model (i.e. semantic analysis of content) and scaling the model to a great enough extent for the real benefits of using a semantic structure to appear. The problem of defining a networked object model is arguably already solved, but I don't think there are any solutions that could scale to the extreme number of concepts and connections that such a system would require.
I also have to say, that site really made me want to use Smalltalk as a PIM for some reason.
- lcall 11y agoThanks. I'm hoping we can see concrete progress, or learn well, by being able to efficiently put our own notes in a system that lets those notes naturally become an object model, then share it with others and collaborate in the data. So at least that much data is computable, or structured enough to grow well together. I'm hoping the network effect can get us going enough to take us to the next level or learn how to move forward from there. I.e., if several people start putting our notes in a structured, computable model, and we collaborate, then we have all our notes in a possibly single place. That could become a community of practice. That's a step toward having all useful info on that topic, in a single, extremely useful model. Etc. (At a minimum, I get to use it. :) If there are other effective Free systems for this, I've missed them but am interested.