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Re: Show HN: An extension to track your Wikipedia adventures

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Have you tried out a tangled-tree visualization? [1] I've found it to be super useful when visualizing these sorts of relationships in a compact way, and it naturally sorts the data topologically. [1] https://observablehq.com/@nitaku/tangled-tree-visualization-...

Is there a source code for the visualization?

Re: Show HN: An extension to track your Wikipedia adventures

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I'll mention that I made what could be described as a AI-generated Wikipedia alternative, where you can generate articles on anything with text links on terms that link to new articles that get generated considering the context of the the article path that got you there. I reckon Wiki-enthusiasts won't be disappointed: https://anylearn.ai

Awesome!

Re: Show HN: An extension to track your Wikipedia adventures

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I wrote a plugin just like this, and every day, I have it present me with a quiz based on a summaries of the first paragraph of the pages I read over the day. Basically, I was reading way too much Wikipedia and not actually storing much information, so I have the extension shame me if I don't remember what I read.

We absorb the words in front of our eyes even if we're not conscious of it. A topic that you glossed over may come up in another context and remind you of that wiki article.

It shapes who we are.

And sometimes knowledge of the existence of a topic is valuable.

Re: Show HN: An extension to track your Wikipedia adventures

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Have you tried out a tangled-tree visualization? [1] I've found it to be super useful when visualizing these sorts of relationships in a compact way, and it naturally sorts the data topologically. [1] https://observablehq.com/@nitaku/tangled-tree-visualization-...

Is there a source code for the visualization?

That's a live notebook! If you click on the cells, you can see the code that was used to create it, like a Jupyter notebook.

Re: Show HN: An extension to track your Wikipedia adventures

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I wrote a plugin just like this, and every day, I have it present me with a quiz based on a summaries of the first paragraph of the pages I read over the day. Basically, I was reading way too much Wikipedia and not actually storing much information, so I have the extension shame me if I don't remember what I read.

I would love to mess around with this if you've published it somewhere! Folks would love it as a Show HN I bet too!

Re: Show HN: An extension to track your Wikipedia adventures

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I wrote a plugin just like this, and every day, I have it present me with a quiz based on a summaries of the first paragraph of the pages I read over the day. Basically, I was reading way too much Wikipedia and not actually storing much information, so I have the extension shame me if I don't remember what I read.

We absorb the words in front of our eyes even if we're not conscious of it. A topic that you glossed over may come up in another context and remind you of that wiki article. It shapes who we are. And sometimes knowledge of the existence of a topic is valuable.

I remember seeing an article about it in HN.

Re: Show HN: An extension to track your Wikipedia adventures

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post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very cool! One small point of pedantry: > A tree with multiple inheritance (sometimes called tangled tree) cannot be represented by using a classic tree visualization. It is technically a directed acyclic graph (DAG) with one (or more) nodes identified as root. What is the difference between a DAG and a tangled tree? Isn't any DAG a tangled tree? I don't see immediately why a new definition is required.

I'm not entirely familiar with tangled trees, but it seems like one of the larger differences is that a tangled tree isn't necessarily acrylic. For this example, someone could navigate away from one page, but potentially be linked back to it later down the adventure.

> A tree with multiple inheritance (sometimes called tangled tree)

By the author's definition, multiple inheritance prohibits cycles. DAGs can be modeled as tree with back edges to non-ancestors. So I'm pretty sure tangled tree = DAG.

> For this example, someone could navigate away from one page, but potentially be linked back to it later down the adventure.

Good point, maybe "tangled tree with back edges to ancestors" is the really correct model for what the author wants. The key point of the visualization is to highlight the deviation from a standard DAG or tree.

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