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encyclopedia evaluation: four categories: coverage, accuracy, clarity, and recency -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica#Print_encyclopaedias

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_economy

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Ayurveda also names three elemental substances, the doshas (called Vata, Pitta and Kapha), and states that a balance of the doshas results in health, while imbalance results in disease." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurveda#Tridosha_system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurveda#/media/File:Ayurveda_humors.svg

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" dredmorbius 13 hours ago

So, a question back at you. Let's suppose an ontology of technological mechanisms. That is, describing technologies by how they operate. I've kicked some ideas around and come up with:

1. Process-knowledge. Arts and practical stuff, say, agriculture, construction, boatbuilding, sailing, etc.

2. Fuels & combustion, generally. Wood, plant and animal oils, charcoal, coal, petroleum, steam, otto, deisel, turbine engines.

3. Materials. Functions dependent on specific properties, and abundance of materials they're based on.

4. Power and transmission.

5. Sensing, perception, symbolic representation & manipulation.

6. Systematic knowledge. Science, geography, history.

7. Governance, management, business, & institutions.

8. Scaling and network technologies. Cities, transport, communications, computers.

9. Sinks & unintended consequences. Pollution, effluvia, systems disruption, and their management.

"Thought technology" probably falls into scientific knowledge (models) or symbolic processing.

Thoughts?

More: https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/klsjjjzzl9plqxz-ms8nww

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classes of linux man pages:

https://drawings.jvns.ca/man/

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https://www.triz.co.uk/files/triz_40_inventive_principles_with_examplesfeb15.pdf

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hierarchies:

http://www.friesian.com/rank.htm

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Laughter, Curiosity, Zeal, Reflection and Compassion) in Konensis Mysticism [2]

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small integer scales of magnitude:

for clarity, i'll express these as if they are scales of goodness, for example like movie ratings, even though they correspond more generally to magnitudes of any quality, not just of goodness.

3 point scales:

5 point scales:

7 point scales: -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3: terrible, bad, poor, neutral, okay, good, great

9 point scales: (-1, 0, 1) x (-1, 0, 1) (= (-1, 0, 1)^2): very bad, bad, sorta bad, poor, neutral, okay, sorta good, good, very good

11 point scales: (-1,0,1)^2 + -2 + 2

14 point scales: (-3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3) x (low confidence, high confidence) (-1, 0, 1)^2 + unsure + dont_care/cant_afford_to_answer + incoherent_question + silence + other/error/nil

15 point scales: (-2, -1, 0, 1, 2) x (-1, 0, 1)

16 point scales: (-2, -1, 0, 1, 2) x (-1, 0, 1) + other/error/nil (-3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3) x (low confidence, high confidence) + unsure + other/error/nil

25 point scales: (-2, -1, 0, 1, 2) x (-2, -1, 0, 1, 2) (= (-2, -1, 0, 1, 2) ^ 2)

probably unrelated, but it seems that synapses have about 26 strength states (sizes) (about 4.7 bits): https://www.salk.edu/news-release/memory-capacity-of-brain-is-10-times-more-than-previously-thought/

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https://zapier.cachefly.net/storage/photos/f12a0eb758912456d69b5b1b59daca7d.png shows an example of a person's electronic notebook, with sections: quick notes, goals, projects, career, personal finance, health, recipies, creativity, entertainment, travel, journal

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"

As a loyal OneNote? user (since circa 2004), my notebooks have morphed over time. Currently, I have notebooks for:

    Home and Family: with sections for emergency info (contacts, locations of documents, insurance information), home reference, computer reference, personal finance, travel logs, and a section for each family member. This is shared with my husband and password-protected.
    Zapier Work Notebook: with a section group for articles plus sections for meeting notes, marketing projects, HR stuff, and work-related travel
    Freelance Clients: One notebook for each client with sections for administrative stuff (invoices and contracts), article ideas, article drafts and research, and an archive of completed articles
    Side Projects: with sections on personal projects and bucket list things I'd like to accomplish (someday), such as learning French and writing a children's book

Jacobs says she has too many notebooks to list, but her main ones include:

    Two shared notebooks on OneDrive that are accessible from anywhere containing: sections on family history, pieces written, income tax notes, monthly budgets, Christmas lists conference notes, presentation materials, and so much more
    Travel packing and to-do lists for trips
    Moving notebook that contains everything imaginable, from what goes in the car to what goes on the truck to what gets sold to when we plan to stop where and who we are connecting with
    Two recipes notebooks. One is the recipes Jacob and her husband use to teach their outdoor cooking class. This contains the notes for the classes and the recipes they have posted online. The other is a shared recipe notebook that the couple gave to our goddaughter when she graduated high school.
    Shared notebooks used with her co-author to write their book about OneNote. "We set it up to share content with each other and to make sure we had everything covered that was in the outline. It made it much easier to develop examples—all we had to do was take screenshots of the features as we used them to develop the book."

" [3]

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" Here are my top-level categories today:

1. Arts and Entertainment 2. Diet and Health 3. Household 4. Restaurant and Bars 5. Petronius.me (my household LAN) 6. Subscriptions 7. People and Me 8. Travel 9. Commonplace Book (quotes, links, and reading I've saved) "

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichotomy_(philosophy)

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http://www.openculture.com/2020/08/37-possible-stories.html

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https://humanparts.medium.com/the-mtg-color-wheel-c9700a7cf36d

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transformers cartoon https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Functionist_Council " One-of-Twelve: Convener Two-of-Twelve: Auditor Three-of-Twelve: Authenticator Four-of-Twelve: Moderator Five-of-Twelve: Enumerator Six-of-Twelve: Enactor Seven-of-Twelve: Curator Eight-of-Twelve: Disseminator Nine-of-Twelve: Inquisitor Ten-of-Twelve: Evaluator Eleven-of-Twelve: Mediator Twelve-of-Twelve: Castigator "

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" ..the six areas of life balance

    Spouse
    Family
    Community
    Physical
    Personal
    Business

" -- [4]

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"five basic life areas (family, social, work, education, or leisure" -- [5]

my note: these 5 categories from a fictional source strike me as very useful, but rather than 5 basic life areas, they seem to be five basic (types of) social circles (domains from which interpersonal relationships arise) that contemporary (that is, in my lifetime, not in the far future scenario from Orion's Arm) individuals tend to have.

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Kill Six Billion Demons (a fictional comic)'s 7 words of royalty:

"The Glory, The Tower, The Flame, The Diamond, The Blade, The Mind, The Beast" -- https://killsixbilliondemons.fandom.com/wiki/Royalty

In the mythology of the comic, these appear to represent virtues/areas of personal development, and they are given more meaning:

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creativity helpful people career spiritual growth health money fame love/marriage

(the above seems to line up with the King Wen "Later Heaven", going clockwise from top to bottom, with fame (li) at the top of the map (second to last on the above list), and creativity (dui) on the right of the map (first on the above list), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagua#King_Wen_%22Later_Heaven%22 arrangement)

Not sure how you get the ordering to follow; mb see also https://www.thespruce.com/apply-the-western-or-btb-feng-shui-bagua-1275227 ):

Zhen: Family & New Beginnings Xun: Wealth & Abundance Tai Qi: The Center & Health Qian: Helpful People & Travel Dui: Children & Completion Gen: Knowledge & Self-Cultivation Li: Fame & Reputation Kan: Career & Path in Life Kun: Love & Partnerships

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagua

乾 Qián ☰ 111 兌 Duì ☱ 110 離 Lí ☲ 101 震 Zhèn ☳ 100 巽 Xùn ☴ 011 坎 Kǎn ☵ 010 艮 Gèn ☶ 001 坤 Kūn ☷ 000

Nature Heaven/Firmament 天 Tiān Lake/Marsh 澤 Zé Heart of Fire 火 Huǒ Thunder 雷 Léi Wind 風 Fēng Water 水 Shuǐ Mountain 山 Shān Ground 地 Dì

Element and planet Metallic / Neptune Metallic / Venus Fiery / Mars Wooden / Jupiter Wooden / Pluto Watery / Mercury Earthy / Uranus Earthy / Saturn Ba Xian Han Xiang Zi Zhongli Quan Lü Dongbin Cao Guojiu He Xiangu Li Tieguai Zhang Guolao Lan Caihe

Personality Philosophy Holy Merrymaker Sovereignty Emperor (General) Tao Yin (Wise) Pilgrim Warrior Hero Feeling Virtue and Sin Faith – Heresy Abnegation – Envy Chastity – Lust Humility – Vanity Dedication – Sloth Temperance – Greed Patience – Wrath Charity – Materialist

111 qián the Creative, (natural) force heaven, sky 天 head strong, persisting creative horse 110 duì the Joyous, open (reflection) lake, marsh 澤 mouth pleasure tranquil (complete devotion) sheep, goat 101 lí the Clinging, radiance fire, glow 火 eye light-giving, humane "dependence" clinging, clarity, adaptable pheasant 100 zhèn the Arousing, shake thunder 雷 foot inciting movement initiative dragon 011 xùn the Gentle, ground wind, air 風 thigh penetrating gentle entrance fowl 010 kǎn the Abysmal, gorge water 水 ear dangerous in-motion pig 001 gèn Keeping Still, bound mountain 山 hand resting, stand-still completion wolf, dog 000 kūn the Receptive, field ground, earth 地 belly devoted, yielding receptive cow

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another wuxing correspondance from a martial art (presumably there are many other correspondences in other martial arts):

" Xingyiquan uses the five elements metaphorically to represent five different states of combat.

Movement Fist Chinese Pinyin Description Metal Splitting 劈 Pī To split like an axe chopping up and over Water Drilling 鑽 / 钻 Zuān Drilling forward horizontally like a geyser Wood Crushing 崩 Bēng To collapse, as a building collapsing in on itself Fire Pounding 炮 Pào Exploding outward like a cannon while blocking Earth Crossing 橫 / 横 Héng Crossing across the line of attack while turning over " -- [7]

" The Five Elements of Xing Yi Quan Chinese Pinyin Chopping 劈 Pī Metal Like an axe chopping down and over. Drilling 鑽 Zuān Water Drilling forward diagonally. Like two waves crashing into each other. Crushing 崩 Bēng Wood Like an arrow shot directly forward. Exploding 炮 Pào Fire Exploding outward like a cannonball, while covering at the same time. Crossing 橫 Héng Earth Crossing across the line of attack while turning over. " -- [8]

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https://philpapers.org/ has a categorization of areas of philosophy research

https://images.webofknowledge.com/images/help/WOS/hp_research_areas_easca.html about that link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.20967 and http://www.eigenfactor.org/projects/journalRank/journalsearch.php speak of ISI subject categories. I assume ISI refers to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Scientific_Information , a company that was ultimately acquired/spun out/is now part of Clarivate. Googling https://www.google.com/search?q=ISI+subject+categories also turns up references to Web of Science subject categories , https://images.webofknowledge.com/images/help/WOS/hp_research_areas_easca.html , at https://webofknowledge.com/, which redirects to a Clarivate site called "Web of Science". https://images.webofknowledge.com/images/help/WOS/hp_research_areas_easca.html shows the categories, as presumably does https://images.webofknowledge.com/WOKRS512B4.1/help/WOS/hp_subject_category_terms_tasca.html and https://incites.help.clarivate.com/Content/Research-Areas/wos-research-areas.htm , although only the first of those three organizes them into a hierarchy.

https://images.webofknowledge.com/images/help/WOS/hp_research_areas_easca.html

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square dance levels:

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https://konmari.com/marie-kondo-rules-of-tidying-follow-order/

clothes, books, papers, komono, sentimental items

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https://lastingorder.net/tip-tuesday-color-coded-files/

"We use burgundy for our accounting/tax related files, purple for forms, red for residential clients, blue for business clients and manila for everything else. If we’re looking for a residential client file, our eyes can quickly move to the red files and then scan through them alphabetically."

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my personal experience is that when actually categorizing stuff for retrieval (eg. books, lists of bookmarks, notes, todo items, paperwork, emails), it's better to focus on your frequent use-cases/workflows in the context that you will be retreiving that stuff, rather than to focus on a context-neutral/universal taxonomy of topics -- me

related, sometimes when using a hierarchical organization system (such as bookmark in bookmark folders) it is good to put a frequently-used subcategory (or distant descendant category) next to its parent/ancestor, rather than nested within it, because the goal is to enable efficient use of the system, not merely to mirror the ontological hierarchy of the domain.

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some common dimensions useful for categorizing stuff, with examples from bookmarks and todo items:

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did i mention the dewey decimal system anywhere?

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https://www.debonogroup.com/services/core-programs/six-thinking-hats/

" You and your team members can learn how to separate thinking into six clear functions and roles. Each thinking role is identified with a colored symbolic “thinking hat.” By mentally wearing and switching “hats,” you can easily focus or redirect thoughts, the conversation, or the meeting. white hat The White Hat calls for information known or needed. “The facts, just the facts.” yellow hat The Yellow Hat symbolizes brightness and optimism. Under this hat you explore the positives and probe for value and benefit. black hat Risks, difficulties, Problems – The risk management Hat, probably the most powerful Hat; a problem however if overused; spot difficulties where things might go wrong, why something may not work, inherently an action hat with the intent to point out issues of risk with intent to overcome them. red hat The Red Hat signifies feelings, hunches and intuition. When using this hat you can express emotions and feelings and share fears, likes, dislikes, loves, and hates. green hat The Green Hat focuses on creativity; the possibilities, alternatives, and new ideas. It’s an opportunity to express new concepts and new perceptions. blue hat The Blue Hat is used to manage the thinking process. It’s the control mechanism that ensures the Six Thinking Hats® guidelines are observed. "

-- [9]

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kakeibo 4 budgeting categories

" General: These are your regular household expenditures like housing, food, transportation, medical care, internet and phone connections, animal care, and childcare. These are your necessities, or as Harvey calls it in her book, your essentials. Leisure: These are all those things like Netflix, shopping, online shopping, parties, and gifts, etc. Think of these as the things you enjoy, but don't necessarily need. These are considered non-essentials. Culture: Capture those things that enrich your life here. Maybe it's a subscription to a newspaper or magazine, perhaps it's your regular haircut or nail appointment. These too are considered to be non-essentials. Unexpected Costs: This is the stuff that comes up unexpectedly that we all need to pay for. In general, these are necessities. " -- [10]

" Needs – the essentials such as your mortgage or rent, food, transportation and ensuring you are safe and secure every day. Wants – Items you enjoy and bring happiness but not essential to living. This can be takeaway lunches at work, the latest gadgets etc. Culture – developing your character with visits to art galleries, theatre, traveling etc Unexpected – medical emergencies, transportation fixes etc where the cost has been not planned for but needed to be made. " -- [11]

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Leon AI personal assistant skills domains (as of September 2022):

business_finance food_drink games health_fitness knowledge_education leon movies_tv music_audio news productivity shopping smart_home social_communication sport travel_transportation unknown utilities weather

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expense categories on some checks: auto/travel business charities clothing dependent care education entertainment food home insurance medical/dental savings taxes utilities other

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toplevel categories in https://ooh.directory/ (as of Nov 2022):

    Arts and media (336)
    Computers, internet, tech (134)
    Countries, states, towns, etc. (68)
    Economics and business (43)
    Education (5)
    Government, politics and law (24)
    Humanities (63)
    Personal blogs (136)
    Recreation (59)
    Science (51)
    Society (20)
    Uncategorizable (15)

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Blind job groups

 Software EngineeringHardware Engineering Data Science & Analytics Information Technology Security Product Management Design Sales Marketing Communications Business Development Operations Supply Chain Customer Service Human Resources Legal Admin Corporate Finance Management Consulting Investment Banking & Sell Side Private Equity & Buy Side

industries

Tech Hardware & Semiconductor E-Commerce & Retail Gaming Media & Entertainment Telecom Finance Health Auto Aviation

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the Rational Virtues (Laughter, Curiosity, Zeal, Reflection and Compassion) in Konensis Mysticism (fictional; from https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45e39044ea5ae )

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"product, design, engineering, research, legal, BD, trust & safety, marketing, PR" -- https://twitter.com/esthercrawford/status/1684291048682684416

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https://theconceptwardrobe.com/kibbe-body-types/an-introduction-to-the-kibbe-body-types

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