frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

Open in hackernews

Ask HN: How to visualize all human thought

1•poorcedural•4h ago
One of you AI researchers with almost all data and cheap compute has already thought of this. What would it look like to visualize all human knowledge?

1. Tag all content with a date (probably almost done). In long passages, estimate a date based on published + written rate. 2. Once every sentence or phrase has a date, create a few blockchains. One for short thoughts (128 tokens), and more chains for longer thoughts (3072+ tokens). 3. Run an LLM embeddings cosine similarity or some better metric for each tokenized idea with a threshold of say 75%, tokenized by natural punctuation if not found. 4. Only NEWish content gets stored in the block, chained if novel. Again, short and long thoughts recorded. Coordinates from the vectors. 5a. I remember reading once that working through a PhD was like pricking the inside of a balloon, I love that visualization. Every novel idea pricks the inside of a growing sphere of knowledge over time. 5b. Has anyone ever tried to map human knowledge in three dimensions? 5c. Alternatively, a tree or root system growing over time. Branching from the vectors.

Comments

MountainMan1312•3h ago
This seems to relate to my quest as a metamage "to identify and assemble the Epistemological Primes into the Knowledgecore and use it to defeat the Omnarch". I'm taking a somewhat opposite approach to a PhD, embracing what I've seen someone else refer to as "high-leverage generalism" but at the metaphorical doctorate level.

All this stuff about tokens and vectors is quite different from my approach. I'm always interested to see how other metamages approach this issue.

I think a hypergraph structure is the only thing capable of properly representing knowledge. Knowledge is not just a bunch of nodes with 1:1 connections; there's complex structure in the nodes.

sunscream89•1h ago
I’m pretty sure human thought is nothing like you describe.

1) human knowledge is “holographic” not like a block chain. There are no dates, and the ability to compare and relate is much different than block chain serialization.

2) much of what we know is WRONG! Even if only a little. Things like “big bang” and “states of mind” and “dark matter” and so much more are cloudy imaginations that blur into so called science, yet you would include them as “knowledge” when they are fantasy suturing our ignorance and confusion.

3) you have more than three dimensions to work with. Any vector attribute is a dimensionality when graphing so color, size, line thicknesses, solidity, etc may be useful considerations while “graphing”. The mind is more like this, a hyperdimensional holographic interrelationships.

4) in your idea you would have one representation, in the human mind there are many representations even those contradicting each other. Think about those who both believe in God and Science, or humans and peaceful coexistence (we are natural competitors who covet what we do not have), or even reconcile how words and deeds do not align.

Much of our “knowledge” is artificial and prescribed, still more is usefulness not necessarily accuracy, still more relative to those who accept whatever it is as a principle of something else unrelated.

Not even science can cut through the ambiguity and contradiction that is human thought or “knowledge”.

Have fun with it though!

sunscream89•1h ago
I thought of something, what you (OP) describe may be an over-the-top ambition.

Consider if you did a “knowledge graph” of one single sentence, or on a paragraph, or short story, or whole story.

That would be something, one (or more) graph representations of a starting point.

That way you could compare and contrast two or more such graphs to see differences in the composition of expressed ideas.

That would be something!

The expert became the patient? (prosthetic osseointegration)

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/aug/02/artificial-limbs-expert-patient-prosthetics
1•lonelyasacloud•2m ago•1 comments

Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong

https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/
1•Akronymus•4m ago•0 comments

How female entrepreneurs can overcome self-doubt

https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/amj.2022.1104.summary
1•rustoo•4m ago•0 comments

Zomato founder prepares to deliver jet engines

https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/corporate/story/zomato-prepares-to-deliver-jet-engines-487292-2025-07-31
1•rustoo•9m ago•0 comments

14-hour+ global blackout at Ingram Micro halts customer orders

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/04/ingram_micro_technical_difficulties/
1•chrisjj•13m ago•1 comments

Escaping AI Slop: A Design System Approach to Claude Code

https://raduan.xyz/blog/claude-code-for-landing
1•raduan•14m ago•0 comments

The Kevin Mitnick Files: Declassified FBI Documents

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZ666HCL
2•ada1981•15m ago•0 comments

List of Megaprojects

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_megaprojects
1•george_srs•17m ago•1 comments

Decman – Declarative package and configuration manager for Arch Linux

https://github.com/kiviktnm/decman
1•ssernikk•17m ago•0 comments

What'll happen if we spend nearly $3T on data centres no one needs?

https://www.ft.com/content/7052c560-4f31-4f45-bed0-cbc84453b3ce
1•rwmj•19m ago•1 comments

Computer Interviews Chris Curry

https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/your-computer-interviewed-chris-curry
2•klelatti•22m ago•0 comments

CVgen – Generate Resumes from JSON Using Markdown Templates

https://github.com/jobpare/cvgen
1•vahida9i•25m ago•1 comments

Artificial sweeteners in wastewater treatment plants

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304389425015602
1•PaulHoule•26m ago•0 comments

Bitter fight over 2020 Microsoft quantum paper both resolved and unresolved

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/31/microsoft_quantum_paper_science/
3•sampo•29m ago•0 comments

TLP – Optimize Linux Laptop Battery Life

https://linrunner.de/tlp/index.html
1•ssernikk•29m ago•0 comments

Ivermectin could help control malaria transmission by killing the mosquitoes

https://www.ndm.ox.ac.uk/news/new-research-supports-ivermectin-as-an-effective-strategy-to-control-malaria-transmission
2•rguiscard•31m ago•0 comments

CISA roasts unnamed critical national infrastructure body for shoddy security

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/02/cisa_coast_guard_cni/
1•rntn•32m ago•0 comments

How our century of supersized farm machines will end

https://christopherkrapu.com/blog/2025/highly-capitalized-farm-operations/
1•ckrapu•33m ago•0 comments

TinyBits: Smaller, faster serialization for Ruby apps and beyond

https://oldmoe.blog/2025/05/05/smaller-faster-serialization-for-ruby-apps-and-beyond/
1•fanf2•34m ago•0 comments

The myth of work–life balance is dead, and employers aren't afraid to say it

https://financialpost.com/fp-work/howard-levitt-work-life-balance-dead-employers
3•andy99•34m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Visually explore recommended/trending sci-fi books (and other genres)

1•bwb•36m ago•0 comments

Shunsaku Tamiya, Who Brought Perfection to Plastic Models, Dies at 90

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/world/asia/shunsaku-tamiya-plastic-models-dies.html
1•bookofjoe•37m ago•1 comments

The Psychology of Fun: What Makes a Ttrpg Engaging and Enjoyable?

https://therpggazette.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/the-psychology-of-fun-what-makes-a-ttrpg-engaging-and-enjoyable/
1•BerislavLopac•37m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Lifelike one shot gesture animation by Claude

https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/12ef9f4d-ed0e-494b-97c4-edfecc11d9a2
1•logicallee•37m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?

4•paulwilsonn•39m ago•0 comments

A.I. Researchers Are Negotiating $250M Pay Packages

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/technology/ai-researchers-nba-stars.html&ved=2ahUKEwid9PrYg-yOAxW6i68BHZ5DJDUQxfQBKAB6BAgIEAE&usg=AOvVaw3TIWf02i_O62uVAXT2FTEp
15•jrwan•41m ago•2 comments

Phi-Ground: Advancing Perception in GUI Grounding

https://zhangmiaosen2000.github.io/Phi-Ground/
2•diwank•45m ago•0 comments

Goo.gl – Archiveteam

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Goo.gl
2•gslin•47m ago•1 comments

Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie

https://alexharri.com/blog/icelandic-name-declension-trie
20•alexharri•48m ago•0 comments

How to take down Big Tech

https://fairyland.substack.com/p/how-to-take-down-big-tech
2•ponypavilion•49m ago•0 comments