The Simili Athena 1.5 "Meaning" Demo

Category: Simili Technologies

  • What is Simili?

    Simili is the movement to create the Internet Library for Humanity, Terra Cognos.

    The Blind Guy, Paul Wolborsky, is founder, original architect & developer for the infrastructure & essential technologies.

    The Internet is the greatest treasure Humankind ever owned, but its knowledge & data are all dissolute, incoherent, siloed, raw nuggets buried in mountains of content. Google built a trillion dollar industry around keyword search & ChatGPT/Gemini are a great step forward, but those are proprietary technologies & the model resembles some guy who goes into the back room to get a thing you ask for. We need an open framework that makes knowledge & wisdom available to everybody yet still generate wealth for those who build it.

    To create this great Library, Simili will create an array of technologies that will generate indexes, tables of contents, categories, hierarchical contexts, tags, data sets and browsing tools to help all humans gain knowledge & wisdom from the web.

    We start with a WordPress plugin, Simili Trees, which implements the first core concepts. Then, we create the Simili SearchSpace that will initially serve WordPress websites that install the plugin. Then, we will build more client-side applications for other websites, big & small.

    The Terra Cognos will consiste of one or more colonies with a hice & swarm based on blockchain and digital currency.

    The Terra Cognos will embrace Data Science, Content Mining, RDF knowlege and AI.

    The SearchSpace will be fertile grounds for a vast for-profit and non-profit ecosystem, with wealth, livelihoods and gig work available to anyone in the world with a Smart-phone.

    And generations from now, it will accompany our species as it expands into the Galaxy.

    And it all starts with trees made from tags.

    Simili is the movement to create the Internet Library for Humanity, Terra Cognos.

    The Internet is the greatest treasure Humankind ever owned, but its knowledge & data are all siloed, raw nuggests buried in mountains of content.

    In order to create this great Library, Simili will create an array of technologies that will generate indexes, tables of contents, categories, hierarchical contexts, tags, data sets and browsing tools to help all humans gain knowledge & wisdom from the web.

    We start with a WordPress plugin, Simili Trees, which implements the first core concepts. Then, we create the Simili SearchSpace that will initially serve WordPress websites that install the plugin. Then, we will build more client-side applications for other websites, big & small.

    The Terra Cognos will consiste of one or more colonies with a hice & swarm based on blockchain and digital currency.

    The Terra Cognos will embrace Data Science, Content Mining, RDF knowlege and AI.

    The SearchSpace will be fertile grounds for a vast for-profit and non-profit ecosystem, with wealth, livelihoods and gig work available to anyone in the world with a Smart-phone.

    And generations from now, it will accompany our species as it expands into the Galaxy.

    And it all starts with trees made from tags.

  • s23n – the Simili 23 Notation System

    S23N

    The Blind Guy created a new technology to ID Category links in tree branches, called the Simili 23 Notation. It converts a term’s ID number into binary & replace 1’s & 0’s with a pair of characters starting with 2’s & 3’s, the pair depending on the link’s place in the branch.

    Top concepts are assigned 2’s & 3’s, followed by 4’s & 5’s, 6’s & 7’s, 8’s & 9’s, then a’s & b’s to y’s & z’s, then capital A’s & B’s to capital Y’s & Z’s. That is enough to represent a branch, or chain, 30 links long.

    Why?

    We could just use the regular ID number to represent a tag, but s23n bakes information into the S23N characters. Iinherent meaning has inherent value.

    What’s baked into S23N?

    Quite a bit.

    • The ordinal value, or place in a branch or chain
    • Membership of a branch or chain of some sort
    • Membership of a site using Simili technology.
    • The term is Universal, part of the Simili SearchSpace.
    • The Term is registered in the Simili Registry
    • If a single S23N link is encountered, it can lead to other links if they are stored in a single repository such as Simili’s Registry.
    • If not already in a branch or chain, S23N tags can be assembled partially or completely, in the correct order.

    Wouldn’t it make more sense to just use words?

    We already do, using standard technology, in Category trees or breadcrumbs. But those are labels and labels can be changed, and 2 different things can have the same name, like people. The underlying ID are unique & unchanging, no matter the label.

    You can do real mischief with labels. If you have #apple and #orange, you can change #apple to #orange and end up with 2 #orange tags with completely different meanings, and you can change the original #orange to #apple, corrupting your site’s meaning entirely. How is this possible? Tags have unique ID number, so 2 #oranges have 2 different IDs. But would your readers know that? No.

    Also, words have lots of punctuations & weird characters that can wreak havoc with how a web page is rendered. You may have seen & instead of ‘&” on certain pages? And let’s not even get into encoding issues. Numbers do not have these problems.

    But I cannot make sense of numbers

    True, but S23N isn’t amde for humans.

    It’s made for AI.