Archive a self-contained HTML copy of the design rationale artifact —
the interactive Signal & Noise analysis of Karpathy's pattern that
produced memex. Fully self-contained (inline CSS + JS, only external
dependency is Google Fonts), works offline, renders identically in any
modern browser.
Updated the README Credits section to link:
1. Live interactive version at eric-turner.com/memex/signal-and-noise.html
2. Original Claude artifact
3. Archived copy in this repo
4. Condensed written version in DESIGN-RATIONALE.md
The archived HTML means the analysis survives even if the live site or
the Claude artifact URL ever goes away.
Replace project self-references throughout README, SETUP, and the example
CLAUDE.md files. External artifact titles are preserved as-is since they
refer to the actual title of the Claude design artifact.
Also add a "Why 'memex'?" aside to the README that roots the project in
Vannevar Bush's 1945 "As We May Think" essay, where the term originates.
The compounding knowledge wiki is the LLM-era realization of Bush's
memex concept: the "associative trails" he imagined are the related:
frontmatter fields and wikilinks the agent maintains.
Kept lowercase where referring to the generic pattern (e.g. "an LLM wiki
persists its mistakes") since that refers to the class of system, not
this specific project.
A compounding LLM-maintained knowledge wiki.
Synthesis of Andrej Karpathy's persistent-wiki gist and milla-jovovich's
mempalace, with an automation layer on top for conversation mining, URL
harvesting, human-in-the-loop staging, staleness decay, and hygiene.
Includes:
- 11 pipeline scripts (extract, summarize, index, harvest, stage,
hygiene, maintain, sync, + shared library)
- Full docs: README, SETUP, ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN-RATIONALE, CUSTOMIZE
- Example CLAUDE.md files (wiki schema + global instructions) tuned for
the three-collection qmd setup
- 171-test pytest suite (cross-platform, runs in ~1.3s)
- MIT licensed
