• 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.)

2022-10-16

• [[node club]]

  • [[Communicative capitalism]]
    • [[Communicative Capitalism and Class Struggle]]
  • [[Digital Tech Deal]]
    • [[Digital Ecosocialism: Breaking the power of Big Tech]]

• [[Connecting Zotero to koreader]]