I was recently having a discussion with Gemini and I gave it the following prompt:
“There was a software package, and perhaps a research paper from the 1990’s that involved organizing data in the nodes of a graph. The software was, I believe, for taking notes and organizing related information in closely connected nodes. Any chance you know what this was?”
This was a long time ago and I couldn’t quite remember what I had seen. This led me to a software package that I was shocked to find out is still available nearly thirty years later… “The Brain”. I asked if there was a current opensource alternative and that led to a few possibilities including Logseq. Some more narrowing with Gemini and I decided Logseq was the one to try. It was only later that I found out that much of Logseq is, or was, implemented in Clojure which was an additional bit of serendipity.
I’ve been in the software world since the late '70s. I’m mostly retired and having a blast using AI to learn at an advanced pace. Can’t imagine what I would have done had I had access to AI when I was very young. Using an AI assistant I’m relearning basic electronics, including Arduinos and Raspberry pi, coding using my old friend Emacs and modernizing by learning Clojure and vibe coding with Aidermacs. I use a combination of Grok, Gemini, and ChatGpt. I dabble with StableDiffusion.
Anyway, am very enthusiastic about journaling this journey in something akin to that software I saw 30 years ago.