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》After only two weeks, my knowledge graph was utterly unintelligible and distressing. It's called combinatorial explosion. I've built a few node design tools a
by ffhhj 4y ago
》After only two weeks, my knowledge graph was utterly unintelligible and distressing. It's called combinatorial explosion.
I've built a few node design tools and this is one of the main problems I've had to deal with, how to keep users from building this forest of wires that won't let them see the trees, I mean, nodes. The only way around is limiting the "depth" of nodes the user can work on, requiring them to organize those in "scenes" and hide everything else that is distracting. Then we get from "graphs are beautiful, behold their complexity" to "graphs are useful".
I'm currently building a concept web for a new search engine, and I want users to explore it without getting lost in the forest. The problem is there once again.