The Simili Athena 1.5 "Meaning" Demo

Tag: WordPress

  • What is Context? Keep it short & simple please.

    Merriam Webster defines Context this way:

    : the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning

    Vague. Fuzzy. They didn’t really know what Context is. Because Context was a Rabbit Hole. But the Blind Guy figured it out.

    I started this project because a client, and friend who created the Streetcar.org website had a complaint. “This site is a treasure trove of history, but nobody knows it.”. So I ventured to build a simple WordPress plugin to build trees showing readers all the stories lying within nearly 1,0000 posts. It seemed straightforward until I dived into the Rabbit Hole of Context.

    If a Tag is an atom, Context is a creature out of Quantum Mechanics. In fact, it’s a cat.

    Schrodinger’s Cat. Seriously.

    In the thought experiment, a cat is locked in a box with a hamme poised over a vial of cyanide, connected to another vial with a radioactive substance. If the substance decays, the hammer crashes on the vial of cyanide, killing the cat. But inside, unseen, in the box, the Cat is both dead and alive. When the box is opened & we can take measurements, then, the cat is either dead or alive. Quantum Scientist call this a colllapse of a Hilbert Field superposition to one outcome.

    Given that context, context is the thing that collapses many potential meanings of a thing into one authoritative meaning. So, a better definition of Context is

    Context is 1+ things that collapses many potential meaning of a piece of content to 1 meaning agreeable to consensus or statistically significant to automated processes.

    Context can be seen as a formula, Context + Content = Meaning.

    A Context is some form of agreement, explicit like an agenda or circumstance, implicit like environment,, authoritative like verification or corroboration, and/or quantitative as in a correlation.

    My algorithms use multiple types of context:

    • Multiple tags that appear in more than one post, a correlation.
    • Measuring how often tag clusters occur together, Statistical
    • Under which scope, tree-wise, branch-wise, node-wise, content type wise, circumstantial.
    • in what type of tree and in what flavor, environmental

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • My Skills

    Languages: PHP, Python. CMS: WordPress, Drupal. Frameworks: Zurb Foundation. WordPress: Custom post types. Custom Taxonomy & Tag bases. Shortcodes. Action Hooks & Filters. Themes. Plugins. SEO. Image Mgmt. Hosting: Domains, hosting, emails.

  • Buzzwords

    Work Flow – in addition to what you see on a web page, I set up & write code to handle the manual labor it takes to run the website. I have to analyze business process, availability of staff, the work it takes to close a transaction w/clients, security, life-cycle, data mgmt.

    Migration – I migrate websites & data. I migrated www.Streetcar.org’s website from another service in 2014 to WordPress-host WPEngine.com

  • My most recent project

    I revamped www.streetcar.org Cable car & Street car fleet & individual car pages. Full & scaled images based on Featured images. I crated shortcodes, moving away from template pages. I made it so editors can add a car & see it immediately appear in a Fleet category & next/previous links.

    The Next/Prev links are custom, based on stored data that is updated when an Editor clicks on a particular category. It’s fast, efficient & automatic.

    I worked with WordPress, database, custom post types, taxonomy & tag, shortcode, action hooks, filters, image scaling, automation.

  • Web Developer since 2003

    I write  in PHP. I coded WordPress, Drupal, Zurb Foundation. I also do Python. My specialties are: Workflow (back-office, back-end & front-end). Data Migration. Taxonomy, light-weight Statistics & Analytics using Standard Deviation. My current project is a novel expansion of Taxonomy & Tag paradigms based on Ontology. I am building it on a copy of a mature Streetcar website, WWW.STREETCAR.ORG.