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- 2023,https://hawaii.publicdomaincompany.com,Hawai'i Pub
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- 2022,http://braindb.com,BrainDB
+ 2022,https://braindb.com,BrainDB
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- 2023,https://hawaii.publicdomaincompany.com/,Hawai'i Pub
+ 2023,http://hawaii.publicdomaincompany.com,Hawai'i Pub
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+ 2022,http://braindb.com,BrainDB
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- 2021,https://simoji.treenotation.org,Simoji
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+ date 2025-4-15
+ tags All Science Thinking Scroll
+ title Experiments
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+ I believe learning through motion-through conducting physical experiments in the real world-is vastly superior to learning through reading.
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+ But the number of experiments one can do is vast, with some being far more informative than others, and time and resources are limited. Reading can point one to the motions-the experiments-that are most informative.
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+ Thus, the most valuable symbols are the ones that guide one to conduct the most useful experiments.
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+ Lately I've been figuring out how to put all of science into one file. I think the file would largely be experiment after experiment after experiment. Each one, the near minimum number of symbols to communicate the easiest experiment that can be done to cause learning the next most useful set of patterns about the world.
+ science.html put all of science into one file
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+ ****
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+ Pretext is all the words, all the definitions, all the patterns not in the text but that the text depends on. The texts that the author possesses and the reader requires.
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+ ***
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- Pretexts are all the words, all the definitions, all the patterns not in the text but that the text depends on. The texts that the author possesses and the reader requires.
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+ date 2025-4-14
+ tags All Scroll Thinking
+ title Pretext
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+ Texts are far smaller than their pretexts.
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+ The text `E=mc²` is short; the pretext long.
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+ Pretexts are all the words, all the definitions, all the patterns not in the text but that the text depends on. The texts that the author possesses and the reader requires.
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+ Texts are like the tip of the iceberg. But that's overselling texts, for the tip of the iceberg is 10% of the thing, whereas texts are far less a percentage of the text+pretext combination.
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+ Perhaps the better metaphor is that texts are like the tip of a new Hawai'ian island poking above the surface, built on an Everest-sized mountain underneath.
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+ ***
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+ # The Pretext Button
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+ We can build a machine, a function, that generates the pretext for a text.
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+ Generated pretext would help find logical mistakes and/or experimental holes.
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+ Pretexts would also give us measurable quantities. We could compare the true size of text A and text B by measuring both with their pretexts.
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+ ***
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+ What should be in the pretext?
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+ - Every word should be declared
+ - Every word should be grounded
+ - Every word should be defined
+ - And the same for multiword constructs
+ - The text should be fully parseable by the above
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+ ***
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+ I'm excited to work more on pretext. Should have some demos soon.
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+ ****