KJ method is HNSW

from Diary 2023-11-17

• The realization that KJ method is [HNSW

• Summary is an ambiguous concept.

• So instead of a vague "summary" They put it in a jar and mix it up..., I want to take it out and look at it concretely.

• That's where I was making concrete data unobtrusively.

• One of them was verbalized

  • Process for converting a two-page spread of a book into bulleted reading notes in Scrapbox
    • Various people have mentioned many times that itemization is more efficient than the de facto text format
      • outliner I guess you could say it's a bit of an "outliner".
  • Reading and compressing the contents of a book Leverage memo, reading notebook target

• Since experiments with actual books cannot be placed in a public forum, I chopped up About Descartes' Philosophy from the Aozora Bunko at random and gave it a try.

  • Then I put it all together in a chapter and did a second level of compression.

• I was trying to figure out what would happen from here, and the hypothesis that the KJ method is HNSW came to mind.

  • Proximity is just the end of the line.
  • Basically, it is "the process of drawing lines between elements
  • Closest ones form clusters, which are built hierarchically...
  • That's very HNSW-ish.

2023-11-18 Still just a messy analogy.

• I should read the paper Hierarchical Navigable Small World Graph myself.

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