garden/beyond knowledge graphs.md

• a talk
  • augment minds 2021
  • by paul bricman
  • designing semantic spacetimes in five mechanics
  • push semantic embeddings
    • a set of coordinates in space that can be assigned to a piece of content.
    • semantic difference -> geometric distance
    • conceptual parallels -> geometrics parallels
  • some mechanics
    • location-based addressing vs content-based addressing
    • if you have an error in your location-based address, that's usually a hard error
    • content based addressing is very search-engine-like
  • what if we didn't even add titles to our notes (blocks)? perhaps the content itself is the best addressing mechanism
    • embed each document semantically, then work within a radius
      • (very agora like!)
  • static linking vs dynamic linking (perhaps a bit of a stretch)
    • static linking: you use wikilinks in a tool like roam to link out to particular notes
    • dynamic linking: you select a fragment of a note and make it into a link
      • the results of the retrieval process depend on an evolving corpus
  • time as a first class citizen
    • no timestamp involved in at least obsidian vaults
    • there might be many situations where storing the timestamp of a document could be very useful
    • take the ML space: transformer happened and it took over a chunk of the space.
    • you get a dimension of understanding when adding the time dimension to your analysis of a space
  • mutable entries vs immutable entries
    • if you keep editing mutable entries you need to first search/retrieve/manage changes
    • instead you could just add immutable items
    • this is very much like the motivation for push in the agora, or at least goes very well with it
  • contextual retrieval

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