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I don't mind how anyone choose to use HN, I detailed how I do it. > Also, "knowledge assimilation stack"? Surely there is a less pretentious name for this. Th

I don't mind how anyone choose to use HN, I detailed how I do it. > Also, "knowledge assimilation stack"? Surely there is a less pretentious name for this. These are my reasoning behind the title, If you have better suggestions let me know. Knowledge: Since there is difference between comments which have information vs comments which have knowledge from experience. Since I wish to save and recall the latter it's knowledge. Assimilation: an act, process, or instance of assimilating, Assimilate: to learn (something) so that it is fully understood and can be used[1]. Stack: A common term (loosely based on data structures) used to define combination of software technologies used in an architecture to solve a problem. [1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/assimilate#h1 https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/assimilate#h1

dymk 5y ago
Linking to the dictionary definitions of each constituent word is somehow even more pretentious than the original title! We just call this “note taking” in college
- meribold 5y ago
  He only linked to one. It's also not obvious what words may come off as pretentious for someone less experienced with English (I don't know OP or his background, but personally certainly didn't share your visceral negative reaction to the article title).
- Abishek_Muthian 5y ago
  > We just call this “note taking” in college Note-taking is just one aspect of the entire process, I even have a sub-heading for that. Calling the entire process just that doesn't do justice to it.
  - dymk 5y ago
    It basically does do it justice. It's not _just_ note taking (there's a bookmarking equivalent in there too), but it's basically just that. As for the title of the post... As Kevin Malone famously put it, "Me think, why waste time say lot word, when few word do trick".
    - 1123581321 5y ago
      You may be confusing note-taking with rewriting notes as part of study. Most wouldn't use note-taking for both of those activities, whether in or out of college, and what the article author is doing is more like note rewriting, except he's using a system of tags and links to do a sort of emergent restatement of ideas. The scene from The Office was ironic. ;)
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orzig 5y ago
I, for one, find it inspiring that Abishek_Muthian takes this seriously enough to think hard about the name, rather than going with something bland. Just the length conveys the depth of his though, and now we get to know exactly what he meant by it as well.

dymk 5y ago

Linking to the dictionary definitions of each constituent word is somehow even more pretentious than the original title! We just call this “note taking” in college

meribold 5y ago
He only linked to one. It's also not obvious what words may come off as pretentious for someone less experienced with English (I don't know OP or his background, but personally certainly didn't share your visceral negative reaction to the article title).
Abishek_Muthian 5y ago
> We just call this “note taking” in college Note-taking is just one aspect of the entire process, I even have a sub-heading for that. Calling the entire process just that doesn't do justice to it.
- dymk 5y ago
  It basically does do it justice. It's not _just_ note taking (there's a bookmarking equivalent in there too), but it's basically just that. As for the title of the post... As Kevin Malone famously put it, "Me think, why waste time say lot word, when few word do trick".
  - 1123581321 5y ago
    You may be confusing note-taking with rewriting notes as part of study. Most wouldn't use note-taking for both of those activities, whether in or out of college, and what the article author is doing is more like note rewriting, except he's using a system of tags and links to do a sort of emergent restatement of ideas. The scene from The Office was ironic. ;)
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orzig 5y ago

I, for one, find it inspiring that Abishek_Muthian takes this seriously enough to think hard about the name, rather than going with something bland. Just the length conveys the depth of his though, and now we get to know exactly what he meant by it as well.