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I had an idea once to implement Borges's Library of Babel just like this: all the text is in the URL. With more sophisticated encoding, you can optimize English
by GMoromisato 3y ago
I had an idea once to implement Borges's Library of Babel just like this: all the text is in the URL. With more sophisticated encoding, you can optimize English words. Then hook it up to a "search system" so you can search for your own name, clips of text, etc.
Eventually you'd hit the URL size limit, of course, but maybe we add a layer on top for curators to bundle sets of URLs together to produce larger texts. Maybe add some LLM magic to generate the bundles.
You'd end up with a library that has, not just every book ever written, but every book that could ever be written.
[Just kidding, of course: I know this is like saying that Notepad already has every book in existence--you just have to type them in.]
- ossopite 3y agoThis reminds me rather of https://libraryofbabel.info/ https://libraryofbabel.info/
- GMoromisato 3y agoNice! That's exactly what I had in mind. As usual, no idea is unique--it's all about who executes first!
- tintedfireglass 3y agoNo idea is unique, because the library of babel has all of the ideas humans can ever think of ;)
- GMoromisato 3y agolol!
- mk12345 3y agoNice, I had a similar idea a while ago! I wanted to support other media types, such as images, audio and webpages. It was a really fun experiment! https://mkaandorp.github.io/hdd-of-babel/ https://mkaandorp.github.io/hdd-of-babel/
- GMoromisato 3y agoVery cool!