The Simili Athena 1.5 "Meaning" Demo

Tag: Universal

  • Why Trees?

    If trees are so great, then why aren’t they being used now?

    Because in order to make a tree-based search possible, somebody has to create a tree of everything. This is impossible.

    Even if we create a big tree with millions of entries, such a tree is impossible to work with.

    Enter Simili and Tag Trees

    Simili’s founder, the Blind Guy, figured it out. Build Trees from a site’s tags. This way, trees are auto-generated and only show what things are present in that website.

    Since tags are names and are partially or completely universal, tags from many websites can be processed to create multiple trees.

    The Blind Guy wrote code that analyzes a site’s content, counting how many documents contain tagged words. His code compares tags that are covered by a WordPress classic tree, different content type & per category. Each yielding trees and essences. Trees are built off that level’s essences, or narratives, giving each tree its own flavor.

    We will build a Registry for branches, nodes, links & essences. When it gets big enough, trees start becoming Dynamic & Responsive. Since trees are built on top & deep levels, you can start searching with one tree & depending on how your search turns, , new trees will appear while your old one collapses beneath. You would only see small pieces of a much, much larger tree.

  • Why Tags?

    Simili, and the Terra Cognos use tags as the atomic structure of all knowledge.

    Since tags are names, they identify things. And to archive things is to archive the entire Internet.

    Tags are what builds Tag Trees & Essences. They provide context by themselves and when combined with other tags.

    By rule, tags are consistently applied by independent authors, AI & computer models. Red is red the world around. An apple is an apple. We will always have Paris.

    A Wikipedia article may describe a scene from a Humphrey Bogart movie where he gets off a Cablecar one night in San Francisco, and Streetcar.org has an article about that Streetcar, in San Francisco, now named after Humphrey Bogart. The tags “San Francisco”, “Humphrey Bogart” and “Cablecar” connects both.

    Tags are not flat, multiple tags have different content in common. Within a set of tags is a rich set of relationships between concepts, in myriad hierarchical contexts. In early experiments using this website, 40 posts with 60 tags results in more than 1,000 distinct combinations.

  • 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.