Show HN: 10K English words traced to 4 foundations(Space, Time, Energy, Pattern)

  • Posted 43 minutes ago by sauronsrv
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Think of each concept as sitting in a cloud of related words and ideas. The atlas keeps only the load-bearing connections — the simpler ideas you'd need to understand it first. Follow those edges down and every concept lands on one of four foundations: Space, Time, Energy, Pattern. The depth of that chain gives you a rough sense of where the concept sits in the emergent hierarchy.

Search here : https://emergencemachine.com/atlas/search

You can also compare two concept's graph, see what they have in common- https://emergencemachine.com/atlas/distance

Each Concept can also be discussed and debated with site's AI- Prometheus.

Tool: Python (asyncpg + custom DAG traversal) walked the "concepts" prerequisite graph down to its four foundation roots, then Graphviz (dot engine) rendered the SVG. PostgreSQL backs the live atlas; the chain image is built deterministically.

Read more: https://emergencemachine.com/language-emergent-tool/

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