Output Dimensions

2018-05-02

• Methods of representation in two dimensions embed higher-order information in the brain into lower dimensions

  • word2vec, for example, embeds the meaning of a word in a vector of several hundred dimensions.
  • It would be in that higher state of the brain.

• It is fragmented and output by using the writing out method.

• In the KJ method,

  • First lay out what you wrote down.
    • This is to force information to be embedded in a two-dimensional form that is easy for humans to observe and manipulate
  • Next, we change the position so that the distance is well preserved in the higher dimensional space in the brain
    • This is the group formation.
    • Since it is moved while keeping the constraint that it is placed on a two-dimensional space, it remains two-dimensional.
  • Bundle cards to have multiple different "detail level" ref. KJ method is pseudo-3D. - In the era when the KJ method was created, there was no way to have multiple details and store or distribute them. - Multiple levels of detail at different

• Written expression is embedded in one dimension - One-dimensional text

• When people say that bullet points are two-dimensional, I feel that they are talking about something less dimensional. Bullet points are not two-dimensional.

• Bullet points are more flexible in structure than spoken utterances

  • but it is the same kind of comparison between a one-dimensional array and a tree
  • No denial of a more expressive structure.
    • Same as [Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
    • Human thought is influenced by the expressive power of language as the tool he uses.
    • Example in a programming language: ...
      • People who have no experience with languages with higher-order functions have difficulty coming up with abstractions that pass functions as arguments.

2018-05-02

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