Support for combining your past writing with your current thinking

• Written on 2015-07-13, discussing how to help my writing in the past combine with my current thinking.
  • There is talk of Similar document search by word vector and a Wiki system that would later be called Scrapbox.

#warming up

• When I reread my past writings for some reason, I sometimes find myself thinking, "Oh, this is what I wrote, this can be applied to what I am thinking about now," and I wonder if this process can be enhanced by software or methodology.

• There is a similar but different "Oh, I think I've written about this before, but where?".

• We know it exists, we know where it exists, we know where it is.

• I can see that it might be relevant, I can see that it is relevant, I can see the content.

• Search engines will tell you where to find documents that may be relevant by searching for keywords that may be relevant.

• What do you do when you don't realize that "if you search, you'll find something that might be relevant?" What if you don't know the keywords? - Hideki Kondo It is convenient to always talk to people and they will associate themselves with it!

  • How does the person make the association? If we can find that out, a computer might be able to read everything and make the associations for us.

  • Tatsuo Yamashita Similar document search is good, isn't it?

    • To put it in detail, the documents are term-vectored in advance, and the similarity of all combinations is calculated. When a document is presented, several documents with high similarity to it are also presented.

  • In the "when I present a document, I present a document that is highly similar to it" approach, you need to input a new verbalization of "what I am thinking about" in order to realize that it is useful for what I am thinking about right now. I was thinking "chicken and egg if that verbalization is what you want to support..." but when I think about it, you could just raise a few keywords. Maybe that's the right approach....

  • Tatsuo Yamashita Yes, yes. As for input, just make your thoughts into word vectors (i.e., multiple keywords) instead of sentences!

    • If you are Mr. Nishio, why don't you say something along the lines of "intellectual production techniques by word2vec" or "idea support by word2vec" or something along those lines?

  • I thought about something like that, but I was bothered by the similarity between "Bag of Vectors" when the words are vectors...

  • Tatsuo Yamashita Why don't you just do it all?

    • There are some papers on word2vec to doc2vec, so I was wondering if there is a way to make it work. Well, maybe it will work in a wild way, such as averaging all the words in a document and making it the vector of the document.

  • Toshiyuki Masui Why not Wiki?

  • http://Gyazz.com/UIPedia

• How can we use the Wiki to enhance the "process of realizing that what we were thinking about in the past is useful for what we are thinking about now"?

• Toshiyuki Masui Gyazz, you will see pages that use the same keywords, which may remind you of old ideas.

• I see, same keywords. Are those keywords extracted by morphological analysis or something? Are they added by humans?

• Toshiyuki Masui A human being will put it on.

  • It's not so much the keywords as the page name. Since there is no distinction between page name and keywords.

• I see. What I was envisioning now was a blog post or a post to Facebook, but even now, porting it to a wiki might be effective in strengthening future recall.

• Toshiyuki Masui I have several thousand pages of my own, so I am warming to the idea.

• By the way, what is this graphical thing?

  • Kohei Okubo How about evernote's function to suggest past related articles?

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