Abstract Wikipedia(abstract.wikipedia.org)

22 pointsby abbe989 hours ago6 comments

internet_points7 hours ago
> Let's follow one example: Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. In Abstract Wikipedia, this might be stored as: Z27243(Q1033, Q138758272, Q6256, Q15, Z27243K5)
Haha that's like John Wilkins' "Real Character, and a Philosophical Language"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Ricerca_della_Lingua_Perfet... is a great intro to the weird and wonderful world of abstract/universal/ideal/a priori languages.
- zozbot2345 hours ago
  It's not that different from how LLM tokens work, only in a tree structure as opposed to a plain sequence. Having a tree structure makes it easier to formally define rewrite rules (which is key for interpretability), as opposed to learning them from data as LLM do.
rustyhancock6 hours ago
One issue with projects like this just show me what it is on the front page.
Even the featured article section is empty!
- brettermeier6 hours ago
  Correct, what is this and why is this?
orbital-decay5 hours ago
Are they trying to reinvent Cyc?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc
zinekeller6 hours ago
For context, this was proposed way back in 2013 (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia), when machine translation is just plain bad (and LLMs are only known in academic circles). Surprised that AWiki is now active though.
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casey27 hours ago
So rather than machine translation... really primitive machine translation with extra steps?
- Hasslequest7 hours ago
  Would you rather use a compiler, or have an LLM generate assembly code based on source code?
  The purpose is to establish a new high-level lanugage