garden/metasj.md

Metasj

• #pull samuel klein
  • a friend.
  • I'd like to introduce him to:
    • benedict lau
    • vera
    • lorand
    • guo
    • paul frazee

2022

• It's amazing knowing sj!

2021-07-01

• cascading searches
  • ahs search prefix
  • https://oadoi.org
    • non API version that just works: see telegram
    • API seems good though
  • it should take any version of a DOI indicator, either in URL form or not
  • you want it to return the URL of a world readable PDF
• sociofesto
• space
  • weather
  • debris
  • helios group is its own data collective, US based
• how to assemble good collective ontologies
• interlay vs interlace
  • interlay: the universe of what's available around a topic. how to deal with reputation, visibility, governance.
    • has the feel of a search engine. search engines were the first interlays :)
    • fast feedback loop, discoverability
    • we have stopped at the second rung of a high ladder
    • q if there is a governance layer, is it in the interlay? I believe so
      • all layers could have governance components
  • example: an underlay that is a star catalogue
    • a single collaborative dataset
    • social aspects
    • needs coordination, e.g. how to do timestamps; how to sequence observations; how to handle a variety of sensors. these all yield rules that could be interpreted as governance.
  • interlace is a multiverse; a superset. doesn't have governance.
    • negative space for interlay
      • as you develop reputations, governance, integration approaches for an interlay you may run across things where a decision isn't clear and it feels restrictive (once made) -- you know that one way to address it is to fork
      • pun on interlays
  • have you thought about exchange formats / interop standards
    • interlay: a collection of statements with some default schema
    • a standard schema could be: naming a source and describing its properties
      • aside: catalogue like
    • unsure now because people that care about granular knowledge and compile huge datasets get easily distracted about format questions
      • better to define it in terms of a namespace perhaps
      • it has at least a human readable name, perhaps an autogen machine readable name
      • describes which formats are available
        • structured data
        • human readable text

2021-05-22

• ahoy!
• wikidata hackathon used big blue button
• push ahs
  • metasj dedicating more time to it going forward
  • new pitch: trying to simplify
  • a locus of focus
  • a legal, summarized and annotated repository of knowledge
  • a distributed knowledge graph
• interlay
  • hypha
    • distributed press
• commons

2021-05-05

• an intent for cooperation
• codex
• a node for every doi
• gen studio
• a canonical entity plus a conversation
• from go/meet notes You have two webcams.

The government takes one webcam and gives it to your neighbor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_have_two_cows

https://anagora.org/metasj for previous notes

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[ hub ]

[ legal ]

[ perserverant ]

[ comprehensive ]

[ summarized and annotated ]:

a space for synthesis

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Modularity:

• Underlay of sources + pipelines;

• Interlay of aggregations and catalogs;

• Overlays for search, reading, annotation

Interlay:

1. Namespace for (articles, concepts, authors)

• To start: 1M entities, write on read?

[identify 100 disciplines; top X historical + current articles, their authors + cites]

Bootstrap:

• get the 1m entities from somewhere

• get X users to show contribution methods by example.  Good candidates:

• reading groups paper/book clubs

• grad students surveying their discipline

• informal/out of system students

• citizen scientists

Units of contribution:

1. choose a discipline, build the "list of 100 historical articles / topics" in it, find sources for it [sync w fatcat]

2. mark papers as state of the art

3. assemble papers into a dependency graph

4. run or join a reading club focusing on an area, a book or a set of papers.

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synthesis

hypha coop

IL: A healthy subspace for prosocial entities to outperform walled gardens --> here that maximizes your utility and connection.

Deustche Bank famously noted how Elsev is benefitting from a distorted market. (The same applies today to app stores...): https://notes.knowledgefutures.org/pub/supertanker/release/3

https://www.connectedpapers.com/

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obsd --> github --> agora

(obsidiangit)

2021-04-30

• importance
• focus
  • for the focus to be sharper, X needs to happen
• context
• push ahs
  • instead of trying to figure out how to solve tangential complexity, a platform to focus on what's the focus of our disciplines
  • a platform for scholarship
  • what do we need?
    • names for its components
    • a mapping from a goal to all known resources that are known to contribute to the goal, or the other way around
      • this feels like a network plus a flow problem
    • scripts that iterate over the data set and take actions
      • reminds me of intent based automation and declarative paradigm