Let me start by saying that Matabele's explanation is a good expansion of what I was starting to express. I believe this is a relatively large topic that may be "slippery" to grasp, but I have found it to be worth the struggle.
With respect to the reference to "vectors", it may be easier to consider the individual sequences of tags to "dimensions", each increment of which is named (or represented) is an arbitrary character. In Matabele's example: 32 weeks, 5 days, ... I have simple recognized that ... * There are 26 letters in our alphabet x 2 ( assuming case sensitivity) = 52 distinct symbols A-z. I use these to "name" the weeks. To ensure that I have unique names for each week, I simply pick a unicode range that has a different set of code points of these apparently similar 52 symbols. Then, its very easy to create a field of these 52 symbols that cycleTags lets be increment to move items from one week to the next. Obviously another field can have these symbols in reverse order, to decrement the values via cycleTags. * In a hierarchical context (for "zoom" purposes), I often use a set of symbols for different levels of encapsulation. ** e.g. Millennium, Century, Decade, Year, Quarter, Month, Fortnight, Week, Day, Hour *** In this case I find it easiest to make use of the Chinese characters fpr Day Week (telegraphy) Month, (astronomical) Year since they are easily recognized, single characters that can even be used as leading or trailing sigils, in either the tiddler name or the tag value. I have worked at this long enough and explained it to to enough groups that I know thus can be a bit hard to grasp. Since it seems to come up frequently throughout my activities, I'll try to put together a minimal explanation in a TwFive file. Unfortunately, that won't happen quickly since I am fully pre-occupied building a new house, in a new city and disposing of the current home until late spring. I should, however, have time to participate in further in these discussions. On Sunday, January 31, 2016 at 5:35:06 AM UTC-5, Tobias Beer wrote: > > Hi Matabele, Mat, Hans, > > I think I'm getting there, in how this helps encode things to short and > sweet identifiers, and can actually be understood as a, dunno, > pseudo-vector. I'm not sure I would call each radixed chunk a vector > though... since they hardly have meaning other than representing buckets to > encode ...well, symbols ...based on a predefined table / list(s), I presume. > > I'm also not sure on the practicality of using this... for emojis. What > would be the benefit over a simple enumeration? Or, perhaps asked > differently, what do those "vectors" represent in your view? > > Best wishes, > > Tobias. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/e80c13fc-a028-4c3e-a30f-062edb3d95c4%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
