For anyone wanting the video explanation from the creator, watch: https://youtu.be/P_wt-2P-WBk
Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline
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#42>Knowledge That Never Goes Offline >What is Project N.O.M.A.D.? Node for Offline Media, Archives, and Data That's the first header, and the first sentence of the first paragraph, and I'm confused.
My guess is
>Knowledge That Never Goes Offline
Means
>Knowledge That Never becomes inaccessible to you
While the next offline means you can access it even if you don't have access to a wider network.
At least that's how I would read it.
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#43>Knowledge That Never Goes Offline >What is Project N.O.M.A.D.? Node for Offline Media, Archives, and Data That's the first header, and the first sentence of the first paragraph, and I'm confused.
Two different uses of "offline", I think. From my own understanding:
To "go offline" means for something to become inaccessible that was once accessible "online". ("Offline" is an adverb.)
Meanwhile, an "offline" thing is one which is usable even without ever being "online". ("Offline" is an adjective.)
So it becomes:
> "Knowledge That Never [Becomes Inaccessible]"
> "Node for [Accessible-Without-Connection] Media, Archives, and Data"
But definitely confusing to put them right next to each other like that. You'd think a copyeditor would flag it or something.
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#44I like the idea of an LLM that acts as a public knowledge base. But that doomsday framing on the site is pretty annoying.
I think there’s a difference between doomsday framing and preparedness. Offline access and local models aren’t about assuming collapse—they’re about treating knowledge as infrastructure instead of something implicitly guaranteed. That feels more like resilience than pessimism.
If current frontier online LLMs are made inaccessible due to a local or global cataclysmic event running models locally will be the least of your concerns.
This isn’t prepping for anything it’s cosplaying as a vault dweller.
P.S. Having TED talks as part of the “educational” curriculum of this project is probably the biggest circle jerk imaginable.
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#45I like the idea of an LLM that acts as a public knowledge base. But that doomsday framing on the site is pretty annoying.
Doomsday may not be the end of the world, but simply living in a country where you're being unjustifiably bombed by a foreign government lead by a delusional sociopath, and so access to information sources becomes limited.
You’ll be hanged from a construction crane if they’ll catch you with this project in Iran… :)
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#47So this thing is based on Kiwix, which is based on the ZIM file format. In the meanwhile, wikipedia ships wikidata, which uses RDF dumps (and probably 8x less compressed than it should be). https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_download There is room for a third option leveraging commercial columnar database research. https://adsharma.github.io/duckdb-wikidata-compression/
And for those who are only vaguely familiar, this ZIM file format is not the same as the https://zim-wiki.org one.
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#48Closing on 40 acres in Panama for an eco-resort.
I was planning to build my own offline repository, but will check out this repo.
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#50So this thing is based on Kiwix, which is based on the ZIM file format. In the meanwhile, wikipedia ships wikidata, which uses RDF dumps (and probably 8x less compressed than it should be). https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_download There is room for a third option leveraging commercial columnar database research. https://adsharma.github.io/duckdb-wikidata-compression/
And for those who are only vaguely familiar, this ZIM file format is not the same as the https://zim-wiki.org one.
I am actually only vaguely familiar and I was wondering about that every time I saw the format referenced but never bothered to check, your comment is informative!