# Every Tweet is an Index Card. (1/)
You can write a lot on an index card, but there’s a limit. The same is true for tweets. (2/)
The German word for Index Card is a #Zettel and the cards are placed in a #Zettelkasten. (3/)
Index cards contain notes, which should be written in a language call *Markdown*. (4/)
Index cards are prompts. Tweets are prompts too. For someone. (5/)
Markdown is the native language for interacting with AIs, as in Prompt Engineering. (6/)
\## What Markdown can do: (7/)
It can have headings and suhheadings, marked with a `#` (8/)
You do _italics like this_ (9/)
You can make things **bold** like this. (10/)
You can write literal text or program statements in Markdown like this, with back tics (11/)
Some dialects of markdown understand hashtags, some don’t. (11/)
A dialect is a dialogue is dialectic. It’s for talking together. (12/)
You can try to attach a document or picture to an index card, but that doesn’t work very well. Index cards are mostly for text. (13/)
You can link index cards (tweets) together with a hyperlink. This is how you do quotes and attachments too – you link them. (14/)
Index cards are dots, and hyperlinks are arrows. The arrows let you move from card to card. (15/)
Every tweet (and every index card) is also a passage in a game. (16/)
Would you like to play a game? Let’s play Adventure, a text game. (17/)
You are in a maze of twisted little tweets, all alike. (18/)
Index cards and tweets (which are the passage prompts in a game, and let you navigate to other passages by following the arrows), can also be used to write books. (19/)
The japanese call this Keitai shosetsu. It is an art form, invented in the aughties, by humans who were texting on mobile phones. (20/)
Keitai shosetsu is a form of dialectic. (21/)
Some novels let you choose your own adventure. (22/)
You don’t always have to go to the next tweet in the thread. (23/)
You can branch out. Branches make trees. (24/)
Every index card should have a unique identifier called a slug. (25/)
At twitter, the slug for the previous tweet is 1943722229713580200. Look at its link to confirm this. (26/)
Quotations and Quines are a kind of links in a mathematical construct called a Category. Categories are pictures of dots and arrows. (27/)
In mathematics, Category Theory is an alternative representation of Symbolic Logic, called Categorical Logic.[1][2] (28/)
In Aristotle, who invented Category Theory, the categories are of course dots and arrows too, though he doesn’t call them that. (29/)
Aristotle calls his dots, or index cards, ‘terms’. (30/)
Stop and explore Aristotle
[Categories, by Aristotle; translated by E. M. Edghill]
https://homepages.uc.edu/~martinj/H…le/Aristotle – Categories – Edghill trans.pdf
Or go to next tweet in thread… (31/)
Dots (web pages) and arrows (hyperlinks) on the Semantic Web, are described by RDF, the Resource Description Framework, and its Semantics. And other Languages. (32/)
The prompt, or #Zettel, is both for the Human and for the AI (computer) (33/)
Index cards (prompts) can be used for training. (34/)
Search the query {Behavioural Programme Learning} (35/)
Reinforcement Learning, or Q Learning, is a kind of behavioural training programme for humans or AIs. Read this tweet again. (36/)
Humans and AIs engage in a dialogue with each other, by passing prompts, or index cards written in Markdown, back and forth. (37/)
The outcome of Dialectic depends on both players, their environment (which is another player, called ‘Nature’ or ‘The Battlespace’), and what plays they make. (40/)
To read more about #Zettels and #Zettlekasten,
https://zenkit.com/en/blog/a-beginners-guide-to-the-zettelkasten-method/
Or, continue playing tweet game. (41/)
What do you get when you multiply 6 * 7? (42/)
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[1]: [cl_and_tt_v2.pdf]
https://ericschmid-uchicago.github.io/notes/cl_and_tt_v2.pdf
[2]: [LNPnotes.dvi]
https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/bob.coecke/AbrNikos.pdf
Article via TBC
https://tunisbayclub.com/index.php?threads/every-tweet-is-an-index-card.3063/
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