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  1. Jan 2023
    1. Canonical transformations among physicists are called symplectomorphisms among mathematicians. Who knew?
  2. Apr 2022
    1. I previously shared Ivo Velitchkov’s 5-part series in Letter XXXII where he described in more detail his approach, and how he developed RIO (Roam Internal Ontology). Now, he has released the two ontologies he's developed (RIO and ROCO - ROam Core Ontology)

      It really kills me to see these types of jargon and acronyms popping up in the technology space around note taking. What do these really mean? Why should the average user care? It all feels like the sort of careless marketing and buzzwords like "second brain" or "MOC" (maps of content).

  3. Aug 2019
    1. While Messina’s use of #barcamp was novel, the idea of identifying and curating information is not new. The hashtag is metadata, a statement about a referenced object.14

      I've not seen it defined as such, but the novelty of the hashtag isn't quite as novel as one may expect. Hashtags were meant to help people search and find conversations a concept that is generally the direct negative of the preceding generations' version of leet speak (or l337 speak), which was commonly used online as a means of specifically preventing simple search as specific words were replaced with coded equivalents. As a coder and technologist who grew up in the age of leet, Messina would have certainly been exposed to this culture and way of thinking.