experiments
Book recommender: library integration
Design for integrating the book recommender with the garden library, making it the single source of truth for all book data.
Tagged: knowledge-management
10 entries
field-notes
Book recommender
A personal book recommender that matches candidates against my library and garden interests. No AI, just logic and situational vibe chips.
experiments
Book recommender: library audit
Audit of 40 unread and in-progress books with status labels, reading patterns, and calibration data for the recommender.
experiments
Book recommender: scoring algorithm
Design for the logic-based scoring algorithm that powers the book recommender. Five dimensions, no AI.
experiments
Book recommender: user research
Interview about book selection habits, reading patterns, and what makes a book work or fail. Input for the book recommender scoring algorithm.
seeds
Dutch-aware quantization
Standard quantization damages non-English languages disproportionately. A Dutch-first approach to model compression shows there's a better way.
seeds
Embeddings for knowledge gardens: a research gap
Academic research on embeddings hasn't caught up with how PKM tools actually use them. There might be something worth writing here.
seeds
Knowledge gardens and serendipity
Should a digital garden be searchable and useful, or is there beauty in letting people explore?
library
Organising knowledge
Covers the theory and practice of knowledge organisation, including classification systems, indexing, thesauri, and the structures underlying information retrieval
library
The accidental Taxonomist
A thorough guide to building and managing taxonomies and controlled vocabularies, aimed at information professionals who find themselves responsible for classification systems