Thought Map · Forked Lab

Sample data. These 207 thoughts belong to "Sam", a made-up person, so you can poke around freely. A few real ones of mine are hidden in here too. Click around and see if you can find them. ← back to the write-up

thought_map.exe

inspector.txt

Click a thought to see what it sits next to.

legend.txt

how_this_works.hlp

Embed: each thought becomes a 384-number vector (). Similar meanings point in similar directions.

Topics: UMAP squashes the vectors to 5 dimensions, then HDBSCAN finds dense groups on its own and leaves loners as "unsorted". Names are each group's most distinctive words (c-TF-IDF).

Layout: a second UMAP squashes to 2D. It keeps local neighbourhoods but bends big distances, so the inspector's "nearest" list uses the full vectors, not the picture.

Try this: switch to with context and watch thoughts from one voice note snap together, even when they're about different things. That's why the map defaults to title only.