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

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Post by phailhaus » Fri, May 03, 2024, 7:10 PM UTC

throwaway444441 wrote: post #70

S33V wrote: post #52

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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 ancestor…

The author already says that:

> It is technically a directed acyclic graph (DAG)

But DAG's don't have 'roots', they just have nodes. The concept of roots makes it a tangled tree.

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

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Post by wiseowise » Sat, May 04, 2024, 8:09 AM UTC

phailhaus wrote: post #67

wiseowise wrote: post #61

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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.

Ah, thanks! Wasn't that obvious on mobile.

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

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Post by joshuahutt » Wed, May 08, 2024, 1:14 PM UTC

sslayer wrote: post #60

joshuahutt wrote: post #59

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It's like...if "less is more," then "more is less." Reminds me of a floating point number. The bigger or smaller they get, the less accurate they become. If you're chunking on a ton of data and tasks, you're getting less out of it. At a certain point, none of it even seems to enter your brain at all.

Basically, this is what college should be teaching you - how to research. What good does are useless facts? I don't want to walk around cluttered with a dictionary - I want to know where to look in that dictionary. Obviously in the sciences there are facts that you should know, but even with math, its more about how to derive the formula, than actually memorizing it. I mean, their called "Research Papers" right?

Totally agree. I remember the phrase “learning how to think” being thrown around.

I also remember not being explicitly taught that.

It sort of seems like trying to find enlightenment by chopping wood and carrying water at a monastery.

If critical thinking is something that spontaneously emerges in a learning environment, maybe we shouldn’t sell it as a benefit. “Some students experience deep insight into the nature of the mind. Results not typical.”