Wikipedia defines Mind uploading as a synonym for whole brain emulation. This sounds really weird, as "mind uploading" suggests much more simply brain dumping, or perhaps reuploading a brain dump to a brain.
Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom (2014) section "Whole brain emulation" provides a reasonable setup: post mortem, take a brain, freeze it, then cut it into fine slices with a Microtome, and then inspect slices with an electron microscope after some kind of staining to determine all the synapses.
Likely implies AGI.
Lists:
- www.bibsonomy.org/user/bshanks/education fantastic list, presumably by this guy:
- www.reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/comments/168cmca/which_note_taking_app_for_a_luhmann_zettlekasten/
- www.reddit.com/r/productivity/comments/18vvavl/best_free_notetaking_app_switching_from_evernote/
- github.com/topics/note-taking has a billion projects. Oops.
- github.com/MaggieAppleton/digital-gardeners
- www.noteapps.ca/
Personal knowledge base software recommendation threads:
TODO look into those more:
- roamresearch.com/ no public graphs
- nesslabs.com/roam-research-alternatives a bunch of open source alternatives to it
- Trillium Notes. Notable project! Pun unintended!
- Stroll giffmex.org/stroll/stroll.html. How to publish? How to see tree?
- tiddlyroam joekroese.github.io/tiddlyroam/ graph rather than text searchable ToC. Public instance? Multiuser?
- Athens github.com/athensresearch/athens rudimentary WYSIWYG
- Logseq github.com/logseq/logseq no web interface/centralized server?
- itsfoss.com/obsidian-markdown-editor. Closed source. They have an OK static website publication mechanism: publish.obsidian.md/ram-rachum-research/Public/Agents+aren't+objective+entities%2C+they're+a+model but leaf node view only for now, no cross source page render. They are committed to having plaintext source which is cool: twitter.com/kepano/status/1675626836821409792
- CherryTree github.com/giuspen/cherrytree written in C++, GTK, WYSIWYG
- github.com/dullage/flatnotes: Python
- github.com/usememos/memos: Go
- github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan: Go
- github.com/vnotex/vnote: C++
- github.com/Laverna/laverna: JavaScript
- github.com/taniarascia/takenote
- github.com/silverbulletmd/silverbullet: TypeScript, Markdown, web-based WYSIWYG, focus on querying
Major downsides that most of those personal knowledge databases have:
- very little/no focus on public publishing, which is the primary focus of OurBigBook.com
- either limited or no multiuser features, e.g. edit protection and cross user topics
- graph based instead of tree based. For books we need a single clear ordering of a tree. Graph should come as a secondary thing through tags.
Closed source dump:
- www.toodledo.com
- Simplenote: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplenote, by WordPress.com operator company Automattic
Good:
- WYSIWYG
- Extended-Markdown-based
- help.obsidian.md/Getting+started/Sync+your+notes+across+devices they do have a device sync mechanism
- it watches the filesystem and if you change anything it gets automatically updated on UI
- help.obsidian.md/links#Link+to+a+block+in+a+note you can set (forcibly scoped) IDs to blocks. But it's not exposed on WYSIWYG?
Bad:
- forced ID scoping on the tree as usual
- no browser-only editor, it's just a local app apparently:
- obsidian.md/publish they have a publish function, but you can't see the generated websites with JavaScript turned off. And they charge you 8 dollars / month for that shit. Lol.
- block elements like images and tables cannot have captions?
- they kind of have synonyms: help.obsidian.md/aliases but does it work on source code?
Crazy overlaps with Ciro Santilli's OurBigBook Project, Wikipedia states:
Administrators of Project Xanadu have declared it superior to the World Wide Web, with the mission statement: "Today's popular software simulates paper. The World Wide Web (another imitation of paper) trivialises our original hypertext model with one-way ever-breaking links and no management of version or contents.
14 million images with more than 20k categories, typically denoting prominent objects in the image, either common daily objects, or a wild range of animals. About 1 million of them also have bounding boxes for the objects. The images have different sizes, they are not all standardized to a single size like MNIST[ref].
Each image appears to have a single label associated to it. Care must have been taken somehow with categories, since some images contain severl possible objects, e.g. a person and some object.
Official project page: www.image-net.org/
The data license is restrictive and forbids commercial usage: www.image-net.org/download.php. Also as a result you have to login to download the dataset. Super annoying.
How to visualize: datascience.stackexchange.com/questions/111756/where-can-i-view-the-imagenet-classes-as-a-hierarchy-on-wordnet
KCNK2, also known as K2P2.1 or TREK-1, is a gene that encodes for a member of the two-pore domain potassium channel family. This channel plays a significant role in regulating the electrical activity of neurons and other cells by allowing potassium ions to flow across the cell membrane, which is crucial for maintaining the resting membrane potential and contributing to the repolarization phase of action potentials.
The Ainu creation myth is part of the indigenous Ainu culture of Japan, particularly associated with the northern regions such as Hokkaido. The Ainu have a rich oral tradition, and their mythological stories illustrate their understanding of the world, nature, and their relationship with the divine. In Ainu creation myths, the world is often described as being formed from the sea. One notable myth starts with the god of the sea, who created the first land.
The Aircraft Reactor Experiment (ARE) was a project developed by the United States in the late 1950s to explore the feasibility of using nuclear power for aircraft propulsion. Conducted by the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Atomic Energy Commission, the primary objective of the experiment was to determine if a nuclear reactor could be designed for use in an aircraft engine and if it could provide sufficient thrust and power for sustained flight.
An intransitive game is a type of game or sport where the relationship between the players or strategies does not follow a simple transitive order. In a transitive game, if Player A defeats Player B and Player B defeats Player C, then Player A is expected to defeat Player C. However, in an intransitive game, this pattern does not hold; the outcomes can be cyclical or non-linear.
Gelenbevi Ismail Efendi, also known as Gelenbevi Ismail or simply Ismail Efendi, was a prominent figure in the late Ottoman Empire, particularly noted for his contributions to the field of education, especially in relation to modernizing and reforming the educational system in Turkey. He is particularly associated with the title of "Gelenbevi," which refers to his origins in the town of Gelenbe in present-day Turkey.
The Atiyah conjecture on configurations is a mathematical statement concerning the representation theory of algebraic structures, specifically related to bundles of vector spaces over topological spaces. It is named after the British mathematician Michael Atiyah, who has made significant contributions to several areas of mathematics, including topology, geometry, and mathematical physics.
Pinned article: Introduction to the OurBigBook Project
Welcome to the OurBigBook Project! Our goal is to create the perfect publishing platform for STEM subjects, and get university-level students to write the best free STEM tutorials ever.
Everyone is welcome to create an account and play with the site: ourbigbook.com/go/register. We belive that students themselves can write amazing tutorials, but teachers are welcome too. You can write about anything you want, it doesn't have to be STEM or even educational. Silly test content is very welcome and you won't be penalized in any way. Just keep it legal!
Intro to OurBigBook
. Source. We have two killer features:
- topics: topics group articles by different users with the same title, e.g. here is the topic for the "Fundamental Theorem of Calculus" ourbigbook.com/go/topic/fundamental-theorem-of-calculusArticles of different users are sorted by upvote within each article page. This feature is a bit like:
- a Wikipedia where each user can have their own version of each article
- a Q&A website like Stack Overflow, where multiple people can give their views on a given topic, and the best ones are sorted by upvote. Except you don't need to wait for someone to ask first, and any topic goes, no matter how narrow or broad
This feature makes it possible for readers to find better explanations of any topic created by other writers. And it allows writers to create an explanation in a place that readers might actually find it.Figure 1. Screenshot of the "Derivative" topic page. View it live at: ourbigbook.com/go/topic/derivativeVideo 2. OurBigBook Web topics demo. Source. - local editing: you can store all your personal knowledge base content locally in a plaintext markup format that can be edited locally and published either:This way you can be sure that even if OurBigBook.com were to go down one day (which we have no plans to do as it is quite cheap to host!), your content will still be perfectly readable as a static site.
- to OurBigBook.com to get awesome multi-user features like topics and likes
- as HTML files to a static website, which you can host yourself for free on many external providers like GitHub Pages, and remain in full control
Figure 3. Visual Studio Code extension installation.Figure 4. Visual Studio Code extension tree navigation.Figure 5. Web editor. You can also edit articles on the Web editor without installing anything locally.Video 3. Edit locally and publish demo. Source. This shows editing OurBigBook Markup and publishing it using the Visual Studio Code extension.Video 4. OurBigBook Visual Studio Code extension editing and navigation demo. Source. - Infinitely deep tables of contents:
All our software is open source and hosted at: github.com/ourbigbook/ourbigbook
Further documentation can be found at: docs.ourbigbook.com
Feel free to reach our to us for any help or suggestions: docs.ourbigbook.com/#contact






