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Some ideas here in the halfbakery have been going for ages, and some ideas attract quite verbose quantities of annotations. For ideas that fall into both those sets, how about a form of gradual compression that assists the future reader also?
Basically, each annotation that is more than a simple
one-liner is subjected to a gentle iterative and progressive re-wording. This might change the odd phrase here and there to make it slightly more succinct whilst still retaining exactly the same meaning - or close enough.
The next iteration, some time later, might further compress the expression, whilst still retaining some degree of fidelity to the original proposition.
After a while, and when viewed from a distance of some years, annotations that might once have been quite lengthy might now be represented by a single word that sums up that annotation. The ideal here is that you could sum up the entire annotation by the closest fit single word.
A further stage might see the idea itself collapse in a similar way, and an even further stage might see the sum of all annotations be given a single word summing up that represents the current state of play.
Makes life easier, doesn't it?
Automatic Summarizer
http://search.iiit....ummarizer/index.cgi
[hippo, Aug 18 2006]
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[theircompetitor, Aug 19 2006]
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[Damn this slow connection - hippo beat me to it.] |
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If you ask the Automatic Summarizer to compress the idea text into 1 sentence, you get:
"For ideas that fall into both those sets, how about a form of gradual compression that assists the future reader also?"
(I'm pretty sure there are better summarisers out there but they're all Java or ActiveX which I can't see at work...) |
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Why do we need this? Can't we just slap people around by extending the usual pedantism to cover anti-verbosity too? |
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By the way, has anyone asked [Vernon] what he thinks aboutt his idea? |
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This is a fairly long body post for a simple idea, dontchathink? |
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Maybe the logical conclusion of this suggestion would be for large groups of ideas on a similar theme to be summarised by just one word, perhaps like "business", "car", "computer",... ...erm, oh wait a minute... |
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Perhaps go even more abstract and replace or augment those annotations with a simple tally of positive and negative reactions. Or if that is too complicated, abstract the difference between those positive and negative reactions on a logrithmatic scale that can be represented graphically in say no more than five elements. And to make it even simpler, make the first four of those elements the left and right halfs of a common object. |
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Would vote for a link to large annotations --- voting against this one... |
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I practice reading long passages using these wads of flimsy stuff that have got lots of text printed all over them. It's quite a useful skill to have. |
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//annotations that might once have been quite lengthy might now be represented by a single word //
Or a single symbol like, say, a fishbone or croissant? |
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/Perhaps go even more abstract and replace or augment those annotations with a simple tally of positive and negative reactions. Or if that is too complicated, abstract the difference between those positive and negative reactions on a logrithmatic scale that can be represented graphically in say no more than five elements. And to make it even simpler, make the first four of those elements the left and right halfs of a common object.// |
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/Or a single symbol like, say, a fishbone or croissant?// |
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//a fishbone or croissant?//
//Thus, baked.// |
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And in the case of fish, automated! |
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