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@@ -59,8 +59,78 @@ Likely implies <AGI>.
 = List of personal knowledge base software
 {parent=Personal knowledge base software}
 
+Lists:
+* https://www.bibsonomy.org/user/bshanks/education fantastic list, presumably by this guy: 
 * https://www.reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/comments/168cmca/which_note_taking_app_for_a_luhmann_zettlekasten/
 
+<Personal knowledge base> recommendation threads:
+* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23942342
+* https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/l37w0j/personal_knowledge_base/
+* https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/esso3u/personal_knowledgebase/
+* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRpHIa-2XCE
+  * Joplin, TODO
+
+TODO those more:
+* https://roamresearch.com/ no public graphs
+* https://nesslabs.com/roam-research-alternatives a bunch of open source alternatives to it
+  * <Trillium Notes>. Notable project! Pun unintended!
+  * Stroll https://giffmex.org/stroll/stroll.html[]. How to publish? How to see tree?
+  * tiddlyroam https://joekroese.github.io/tiddlyroam/ graph rather than text searchable ToC. Public instance? Multiuser?
+  * Athens https://github.com/athensresearch/athens rudimentary <WYSIWYG>
+  * Logseq https://github.com/logseq/logseq no web interface/centralized server?
+  * Zim https://zim-wiki.org/ Local only. <WYSIWYG>.
+* https://itsfoss.com/obsidian-markdown-editor[]. <Closed source>. They have an OK static website publication mechanism: https://publish.obsidian.md/ram-rachum-research/Public/Agents+aren't+objective+entities%2C+they're+a+model but leaf node view only for now, no cross source page render. They are committed to having plaintext source which is cool: https://twitter.com/kepano/status/1675626836821409792
+* <Notion (productivity software)>[].
+
+  But no upvotes/topics. Favorites could be used as upvotes, but it does not seem like you can favorite other people's work. It's just not their focus, will never be.
+
+  They have an education push: https://www.notion.so/product/notion-for-education but it's likely hopeless.
+Major downsides that most of those personal knowledge databases have:
+* very little/no focus on public publishing, which is the primary focus of OurBigBook.com
+* either limited or no multiuser features, e.g. edit protection and cross user topics
+* graph based instead of tree based. For books we need a single clear ordering of a tree. Graph should come as a secondary thing through tags.
+
+= Foam
+{c}
+{disambiguate=personal knowledge base}
+{parent=List of personal knowledge base software}
+
+https://github.com/foambubble/foam impressive.
+
+<Open source> <Roam Research> clone.
+
+Markdown based, <Visual Studio Code> based. Template project: https://github.com/foambubble/foam-template[]. Publishing possible but not mandatory focus, main focus is self notes. TODO possible or not? https://jackiexiao.github.io/foam/reference/publishing-pages/[] and if yes how. They seem to use graphs more than trees which will complicate publication. IDs seem to be correct, unscoped from files. IDs might be correctly implemented but need to confirm. A CLI tool at: https://github.com/foambubble/foam-cli[]
+
+= Forester
+{c}
+{parent=List of personal knowledge base software}
+
+https://www.jonmsterling.com/tfmt-0001.xml
+
+Intro/docs: https://www.jonmsterling.com/jms-005P.xml
+
+This is the project with the closest philosophy to <OurBigBook> that <Ciro Santilli> has ever found. It just tends to be even more idealistic than, <OurBigBook> in general, which is insane!
+
+Source code: https://sr.ht/~jonsterling/forester[]. Not on <GitHub>, too much idealism.
+
+Sample source file: https://git.sr.ht/~jonsterling/public-trees/tree/2356f52303c588fadc2136ffaa168e9e5fbe346c/item/jms-00WK.tree
+
+Author's main social media account seems to be: https://mathstodon.xyz/@jonmsterling e.g. https://mathstodon.xyz/@jonmsterling/111359099228291730
+
+They have `\Include` like <OurBigBook>, nice: https://www.jonmsterling.com/jms-007L.xml[], but OMG that name `\transclude{xxx-NNNN}`!!
+
+Headers have open/close:
+``
+\subtree[jms-00YG]{}
+``
+<OurBigBook> considered this, but went with `parent=` instead finally.
+
+Does not encourage human readable IDs, uses stuff like `jms-00YG`.
+
+The markup doesn't seem to have any insane constructs, you have to type out open paragraphs everywhere?! OMG, too idealistic, not enough pragmatism.
+
+Jon has some very good theory of <personal knowledge base>, rationalizing several points that <Ciro Santilli> had in his mind but hadn't fully put into words, which is quite cool.
+
 = Logseq
 {c}
 {parent=List of personal knowledge base software}
@@ -88,13 +158,26 @@ Bad:
   * https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-for-web/2049
 * https://help.obsidian.md/Getting+started/Sync+your+notes+across+devices they do have a device sync mechanism
 
+= Project Xanadu
+{c}
+{parent=List of personal knowledge base software}
+{wiki}
+
+Crazy overlaps with <Ciro Santilli>'s <OurBigBook Project>, Wikipedia states:
+\Q[Administrators of Project Xanadu have declared it superior to the World Wide Web, with the mission statement: "Today's popular software simulates paper. The World Wide Web (another imitation of paper) trivialises our original hypertext model with one-way ever-breaking links and no management of version or contents.]
+
+\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72M5kcnAL-4]
+{title=New Game in Town by TheTedNelson (2016)}
+
 = Protolyst
 {parent=List of personal knowledge base software}
 
 https://protolyst.org/
 
 <Closed source>, no local editing? <PDF> annotation focus.
 
+Seems like a "organize ideas for my private academic research" use case.
+
 Co-founded by this dude: https://x.com/iamdrbenmiles
 
 = Quartz
@@ -118,16 +201,12 @@ Everything is forcibly is scoped to files https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/features/wiki
 
 Global table of contents based of in-disk file structure: https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/features/explorer with customizable sorting/filtering.
 
-= Project Xanadu
+= Roam Research
 {c}
 {parent=List of personal knowledge base software}
-{wiki}
+{tag=Closed source software}
 
-Crazy overlaps with <Ciro Santilli>'s <OurBigBook Project>, Wikipedia states:
-\Q[Administrators of Project Xanadu have declared it superior to the World Wide Web, with the mission statement: "Today's popular software simulates paper. The World Wide Web (another imitation of paper) trivialises our original hypertext model with one-way ever-breaking links and no management of version or contents.]
-
-\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72M5kcnAL-4]
-{title=New Game in Town by TheTedNelson (2016)}
+https://roamresearch.com/
 
 = Zettlr
 {c}
diff --git a/ciro-santilli-s-hardware/bicycle.bigb b/ciro-santilli-s-hardware/bicycle.bigb
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Log:
 * https://www.trekbikes.com/gb/en_GB/equipment/cycling-components/bike-tyres/hybrid-bike-tyres/bontrager-h2-hard-case-ultimate-reflective-hybrid-tyre/p/31553 seems Schwalbe like, but will it fit?
 They had a Schwalbe Marathon Plus 700x35c (non-Tour, as that one  didn't fit as per previous experiment) on the shop and I went for it. They said 35c was the maximum recommended for that mudgard which is a bit of a shame, but good to know. Also getting one from Amazon to match on front as shop only had one.
 
-2024-04: micropuncture on front tube? Could not identify during ride, refilled and was OK to get homw. Almost no pressure in middle of ride. Passed through some deep water which may have made things worse? Had a small pice of glass-like material stuck in tyre, but didn't seem to penetrate? One day and a half later, was full empty again after full fill without riding, so confirming micropuncture theory. Buying 2x Conti Tube Cross 28 (700C) presta inner tubes.
+2024-04: micropuncture on front tube? Could not identify during ride, refilled and was OK to get home. Almost no pressure in middle of ride. Passed through some deep water which may have made things worse? Had a small pice of glass-like material stuck in tyre, but didn't seem to penetrate? One day and a half later, was full empty again after full fill without riding, so confirming micropuncture theory. Buying 2x Conti Tube Cross 28 (700C) presta inner tubes.
 
 Tried to put a spare Schwalbe Men's Marathon Plus Tour 700x40C on the bike to get better stability. It seemed to fit the wheel quite well, but unfortunately failed to go well in the fork because it was too tall and hit the mudgard. Without mudgard it might work. Measured height was 6cm for Schwalbe vs 5.3cm for the stock one.
 
diff --git a/cool-data-embedded-in-the-bitcoin-blockchain.bigb b/cool-data-embedded-in-the-bitcoin-blockchain.bigb
@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ There are a few dozen </ASCII arts> in the blockchain.
 
 Almost all of them are copy pastes of stuff present elsewhere, or boring high resolution ones auto-generated from images. But hey, it's still fun to see.
 
+* https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/blocks/btc/229417[block 229417] (2013-04-03) has a cute one liner sword <miner message> by <HHTT>:
+  ``
+  ./SockThing/HHTT/o()xxxx[{::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::>
+  ``
 * 5acc5293506c65d346d6ca171d8e8b73b39b3f99fb16a98cc7f3ce9dbe27a87c (https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/5acc5293506c65d346d6ca171d8e8b73b39b3f99fb16a98cc7f3ce9dbe27a87c[2014-03-10]) goes straight to the point:
   ``
   +----+
@@ -642,6 +646,26 @@ Almost all of them are copy pastes of stuff present elsewhere, or boring high re
 
   See also: <image Augustana College Old-Main.jpg>.
   }
+* https://github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/out/0516.txt#L331[tx 12fba831eb6de8eb944e80e42c78d29cf05a833831a335a5711a4b61cf90802e] (https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/12fba831eb6de8eb944e80e42c78d29cf05a833831a335a5711a4b61cf90802e[2018-04-06])
+  ``
+  Grishchuk Roman_____
+  Pavlovich___________
+  ________AND_________
+  Gres Anna Leonidovna
+  Married 01/04/2015__
+  ====================
+  =====++++==++++=====
+  ====++===++===++====
+  ===++====++====++===
+  ===++==========++===
+  ====++========++====
+  =====++======++=====
+  ======++====++======
+  =======++==++=======
+  ========++++========
+  =========++=========
+  ``
+  Found by <Messages from the mines>.
 * https://github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/out/0517.txt#L202[tx fd739c26276ea81fea8210939d527fccd7c9622f93aa17d18ee0bd5321387fde], block 517406 (https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/fd739c26276ea81fea8210939d527fccd7c9622f93aa17d18ee0bd5321387fde[2018-04-09]) contains the first line of an ad from American stockbroker company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TD_Ameritrade[TD Ameritrade]. It is encoded one line per transaction with <OP_RETURN>, but the ordering is completely scrambled. A link is given: https://TDAmeritrade.com/Blockchain[] but it is 404 as of January 2024 of course, companies can't keep their pages up for more than 3 seconds, but there is an archive which decodes the indented picture for us, including the corresponding tx hashes for each line https://web.archive.org/web/20180902001329/https://www.tdameritrade.com/landing-pages/offer/blockchain/index.html?cid=TVTDACDDRTVJ64[], here is a copy from the website because we were lazy to double check each line:
   ``
   .............See the full picture at TDAmeritrade.com/Blockchain................
@@ -3586,11 +3610,6 @@ Many of their messages also mention `SockThing`, which was part of their mining
 * http://hhtt.1209k.com/sockthing.php
 * https://github.com/fireduck64/SockThing
 
-https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/blocks/btc/229417[block 229417] (2013-04-03) has a cute sword <ASCII art>:
-``
-./SockThing/HHTT/o()xxxx[{::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::>
-``
-
 Starting from their very first ASCII transaction on https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/blocks/btc/197602[block 197602] (2012-09-07), there is what seems to be a poem spread across several transactions. Some of the lines are repeated, presumably because they didn't update the current line to a new line and so mined the same thing multiple times:
 \Q[
 I am a pretty princess\br
@@ -4111,6 +4130,15 @@ Some of the very first <ASCII art> present in the blockchain besides <BitLen> is
   ``
   Reproduced e.g. at: https://www.textartcopy.com/ascii-middle-finger.html
 * tx 0aab36554c2ac5ec23747e7f21f75dbe3f16739134cf44953ad7ac98927146d6 (https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/0aab36554c2ac5ec23747e7f21f75dbe3f16739134cf44953ad7ac98927146d6[2014-09-28]) via <cryptograffiti.info>: naked <woman> laying on her side showing her <vagina> from under her legs, signed `fsc`. TODO full author name?
+* https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/66826fccef3e3ebb34abce25bfeff8f9dcaaf88e4707a5576c494d8a1cf1681a[tx 66826fccef3e3ebb34abce25bfeff8f9dcaaf88e4707a5576c494d8a1cf1681a] (2015-12-16) has a one liner <penis> and <breasts>:
+  ``
+  jEW B====D ( . Y . )
+  ``
+  soon followed by more breasts at https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/37c1e90c6ce3e648c51bfa38cbb43e996cd46e038517596d4c90ca2a6425a701[37c1e90c6ce3e648c51bfa38cbb43e996cd46e038517596d4c90ca2a6425a701]:
+  ``
+  jEW ( . Y . )TIDDIES( . Y . )
+  ``
+  Found by <Messages from the mines>.
 
 = Mt. Gox' shutdown
 {parent=Themes}
@@ -4315,6 +4343,8 @@ Analysis of some of them follows.
 = Bibliography
 {parent=Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain}
 
+Other Bitcon analysis:
+
 Analyses in other blockchains:
 * <Ethereum>
   * https://reidjs.medium.com/top-6-weird-innovative-and-hilarious-findings-in-the-ethereum-blockchain-83dbbca461ca Top 6 Weird, Innovative, and Hilarious findings in the Ethereum Blockchain by Reid Sherman (2018)
@@ -4366,6 +4396,11 @@ Claims 1600 files found.
 
 Mentions some upload mechanisms, notably <AtomSea & EMBII> and <Satoshi uploader>.
 
+= Messages from the mines
+{parent=Bibliography}
+
+https://messagesfromthemines.brangerbriz.com
+
 = Other blockchains
 {parent=Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain}
 
diff --git a/music.bigb b/music.bigb
@@ -643,6 +643,20 @@ List:
 
 Ciro's 2020 perfect Friday evening: jazz fusion + study <quantum field theory> on an <Amazon Kindle>. Ahhhhhh.
 
+= Jazz fusion subgenre
+{parent=Jazz fusion}
+
+= Ethereal jazz
+{parent=Jazz fusion}
+
+Lot's of ECM ones!
+* Arbour Zena by Keith Jarrett (1976)
+* Timeless by John Abercrombie (1974)
+* Bright Size Life by Pat Metheny (1975)
+
+Non-ECM:
+* Blues Dream by Bill Brisell (2001)
+
 = Jazz fusion musician
 {parent=Jazz fusion}
 
diff --git a/ourbigbook-com.bigb b/ourbigbook-com.bigb
@@ -88,8 +88,6 @@ Conceptual:
 * <second brain>
 * <collective intelligence>
 
-Markup editors: <List of personal knowledge base software>{full}
-
 TODO:
 * https://pressbooks.directory/
 
@@ -314,39 +312,23 @@ Lecture note upload website:
 Exams uploads:
 * https://questions.tripos.org/part-ib/all/ <University of Cambridge> Mathematics past examinations
 
-<Personal knowledge base> recommendation threads:
-* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23942342
-* https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/l37w0j/personal_knowledge_base/
-* https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/esso3u/personal_knowledgebase/
-* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRpHIa-2XCE
-  * Joplin, TODO
-
-Personal knowledge bases:
-* Forester
-  * https://www.jonmsterling.com/tfmt-0001.xml
+= Personal knowledge base software
+{parent=Alternatives}
 
 = Knowledge graph editors
 {parent=Alternatives}
 
-TODO gotta research those more:
-* https://roamresearch.com/ no public graphs
-* https://nesslabs.com/roam-research-alternatives a bunch of open source alternatives to it
-  * <Trillium Notes>. Notable project! Pun unintended!
-  * Stroll https://giffmex.org/stroll/stroll.html[]. How to publish? How to see tree?
-  * tiddlyroam https://joekroese.github.io/tiddlyroam/ graph rather than text searchable ToC. Public instance? Multiuser?
-  * Athens https://github.com/athensresearch/athens rudimentary <WYSIWYG>
-  * Logseq https://github.com/logseq/logseq no web interface/centralized server?
-  * Zim https://zim-wiki.org/ Local only. <WYSIWYG>.
-* https://itsfoss.com/obsidian-markdown-editor[]. <Closed source>. They have an OK static website publication mechanism: https://publish.obsidian.md/ram-rachum-research/Public/Agents+aren't+objective+entities%2C+they're+a+model but leaf node view only for now, no cross source page render. They are committed to having plaintext source which is cool: https://twitter.com/kepano/status/1675626836821409792
-* <Notion (productivity software)>[].
-
-  But no upvotes/topics. Favorites could be used as upvotes, but it does not seem like you can favorite other people's work. It's just not their focus, will never be.
-
-  They have an education push: https://www.notion.so/product/notion-for-education but it's likely hopeless.
-Major downsides that most of those personal knowledge databases have:
-* very little/no focus on public publishing, which is the primary focus of OurBigBook.com
-* either limited or no multiuser features, e.g. edit protection and cross user topics
-* graph based instead of tree based. For books we need a single clear ordering of a tree. Graph should come as a secondary thing through tags.
+A list of reviews of such systems is maintained at:
+* <Personal knowledge base software>{full}
+* <Markdown editor>{full}
+
+This is the class of existing software the perhaps comes the closest to <OurBigBook>, in particular systems such as:
+* <Roam Research> and its <open source> clone <Foam (personal knowledge base)>
+* <Forester>
+
+While we believe that <OurBigBook> can hold its own against most of them as a <personal knowledge base>, there is one feature which we believe truly distinguishes OurBigBook from all others in a big way: trustless mind meld with the <OurBigBook topic feature>, which no other system seems to have.
+
+Many such systems are also no publishing focused enough, and are more focused only in maintaining people's private knowledge bases. Some of them don't even have publishing at all, or its complicated. While publishing is optional in OurBigBook, it is a crucial feature and extremely well supported.
 
 = Learning management systems
 {parent=Alternatives}
