garden/journal/2022-10-16.md

• Had fondue last night with friends
• Earlier we had great coffee as well, l was around. I miss her!
• We then went to Basel with b and an today, it was beautiful.
  • bishopric of basel
    • has switzerland's oldest university
  • Read Pedagogy of the Oppressed on the way there.
  • Met friedrich from living stones association next to Basel Minster, he was very nice and informed us a lot about the cathedral.
  • On the way back, going through comments to agora doc by the pkg book editors.
  • an
    • spin dictators
• ladee
  • Special weekend!
• #push agora
  • #push agora writing
    • agora doc
      • great top level comment by ivo
  • #push agora development
    • set up local dev environment in the train
      • I like poetry.
    • better search?
      • what's a quantum of better search? it's pretty bad right now; e.g. poetry install would not bring up install poetry
        • would re-adding fuzzy matching fix this?
        • should I implement a simple search algorithm myself for the purpose of understanding how to solve this?
          • tokenization -> compute combinations is trivial but expensive
          • -> bag of words is cheap
            • this actually requires defining what is the source of truth for equivalence class and for proximity between nodes
            • I've always wanted to think of Agora search as as an exploration within a certain radius of an inferred center of gravity; maybe this is distance in some embedding?
              • -> edit distance
                • seems like an interesting approach to explore next
      • auto pull wikipedia sort of also tackles this in a totally different direction, in particular if we extend it to wikidata integration: if wikidata surfaces an entity for us, volunteer its type; if the entity is far from the current node in an interesting way, maybe auto pull it as well after some time.
      • if I'm adding auto pull maybe it's time to make settings clearer, in particular have an easy toggle for auto pull to trigger or not (leads to agora autopilot maybe, which I've always thought could be very fun.)