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My (unorthodox and somewhat rickety) note-taking gizmo uses Poisson's equation to classify (continuously) entries.

Basically the note-taking gizmo is a graph. Nodes are given conceptual masses either through pagerank or betweenness centrality (i.e. either through how many random walks or how many shortest paths cross a node). Then we calculate a potential energy (gravity potential) if we by inverting the graph laplacian (a few methods are available). Special attention is given to nodes that "float the most.

E: forgot to link to it! https://github.com/asemic-horizon/sursis/




I guess I don't have the background to see how useful this can be, but something tells me it can be very useful. Would you mind doing an ELI5?


That looks really cool -- I presume it has some way to enter more than a single word/phrase in a node? Not sure linking individual words is useful for me :-) I should just try it, of course...




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