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If you had a bunch of collections of

2026-08-18 01:35:02.534272+02 by Dan Lyke 1 comments

If you had a bunch of collections of information, perhaps envisioned by folders full of PDFs and web links, how might you lay out clusters of that?

I can use semantic embeddings, but the two largest eigenvalues doesn't seem like enough info.

Also, what's the right granularity for those embeddings? More than folder name, I'd guess.

Maybe something involving distances in that space between each of the collections? What's the right algorithm for reducing that to 2D?

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#Comment Re: made: 2026-08-18 05:51:03.38352+02 by: spc476

I don't know.

Each entry on my blog has a series of keywords associated with it. The keywords themselves aren't publicly visible, but I still add them by hand for each entry (and you can see them in the HTML as comments). At last count, I have twice the number of unique keywords than I do posts. And there are times when I still can't locate an entry via keyword.

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