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  1. Sep 2022
    1. People can be linked to projects they have worked on, which in turn can be linked to particular machines, programming languages, etc.

      Identification of skill sets. Sort of like a digital resume.

    2. Data analysis

      At a time where magnitude of data was relatively much smaller, it is interesting that very modern notions of data analytics and modeling was considered in a practical setting

    3. In this way, documents on similar topics are indirectly linked, through their key concepts

      Feels a lot like topic modeling in unsupervised learning

    4. demands a fair amount of their time and that of others before they have any idea of what goes on

      I believe onboarding people to a new project or a company is still a work in progress even after so many years

    1. Thusitbecomesnecessary to applysomekindoffilter,saying,"WhatlinkscomeinfromSpain?Fromlastweek?FromlastyearinMarienbad?"--andseethenumberofsuchlinksatonce

      'Relevance' in links returned comes into play here as the number of connections become too large. It is pretty amazing that he envisioned this scenario long before we encountered such a thing.

    2. These out-links are under control of its owner,whereas its in-links are not.~

      The relevance of this today in the age of link farming and gaming SEO rankings, is quite significant. It shows how complete this work is and how deeply he thought about the subject.

    3. itcanhelpyouintercomparethemindetail--unlessitcanshowyou,wordforword, whatpartsoftwoversions arethesame.

      The use case for this in the tech industry is paramount. Modern code review systems utilize this extensively to keep track of changes.

    4. There is no predicting the usef uture people will make of what iswritten

      I wonder what he would think about current systems in place and 'us' being the future readers of his work.

    5. Whatthe thingis-- itsnaturalstructure to theuser--iswhat heshould seeandworkon:nothingless,nothingmore,nothingelse

      I believe what is being hinted at here is in the realm of having a natural user experience/interface in the representation of the material (possibly talking about documents in word processing systems). It is quite amazing that he was thinking about the UI/UX of the system even before concrete implementations of his ideas existed

    1. thelabor involved in constructing it, before the days of massproduction, exceeded the labor to be saved by its use, sinceall it could accomplish could be duplicated by sufficient useof pencil and paper.

      I feel like this is a pretty important point to consider in the pursuit of innovation. Specially in the field of Deep Learning and AI, we often see innovations that don't particularly solve anything yet. For instance, GANs are one of the hottest topics in the field, but there is very little real world use case for it at the moment. Yet we notice a large amount of research efforts being directed towards it.