straycat
david

epileptologist and freedom tech maxi
Co-Founder @ NosFabrica
🍇 Grapevine, 🧠⚡️Brainstorm, Tapestry

Public Key

npub1u5njm6g5h5cpw4wy8xugu62e5s7f6fnysv0sj0z3a8rengt2zqhsxrldq3

NIP-05 Address

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsw2feday2t6vqh2hzrnwywd9v6g0yayejgx8cf83g7n3ue594pqtcpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0ds9d69cw

Publishing to

relay.damus.io

nos.lol

Author Public Key

npub1u5njm6g5h5cpw4wy8xugu62e5s7f6fnysv0sj0z3a8rengt2zqhsxrldq3

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2026-05-24 20:17:23 UTC

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Same. I had been building on top of IPFS. Traded it for nostr soon after learning about it.

2026-05-16 23:16:50 UTC

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What you currently see at brainstorm.world is the best profile keyword search on nostr. But it’s powered (mostly) by our R & D codebase which we are in the process of rebuilding for production. It’s all just a matter of time.

2026-05-16 21:04:56 UTC

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It only takes one follow by a non-spammy account to get a new user visible on Brainstorm, once scores are recalculated. Our default filter sets the cutoff at rank=2 (out of 100), and even with settings that low it does a remarkably good job of screening out the spam without punishing new users.
https://brainstorm.world

2026-05-15 17:20:53 UTC

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We don’t use NIP-05 in Brainstorm. But it would be very straightforward to do so. Do users want it? How useful is it, and how gameable is it? There are clearly lots of bots and inauthentic nostr accounts who are NIP-05 verified.

2026-05-13 16:27:01 UTC

@npub1hea…vp8p @npub1gcx…nj5z @npub1hqa…t56s @npub1t8p…gkvf
#nevent1q…6erg

2026-05-13 16:24:41 UTC

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I love it! 🧠 💜

2026-05-09 16:59:43 UTC

Is anyone doing a project like this?
Title: The Open Timestamps Historical Preservation Initiative
Problem: AI deep fakes are being weaponized for politically motivated propaganda, 1984-style.
Example: a deep fake video of Reagan-era economist Art Laffer making statements and testimonials that rewrite history.
Solution: use #opentimestamps to notarize videos and documents of historically important figures such as Art.
Example: pair a hacker expert in OTS with a historian like Brian D of the Laffer Center
Urgency: very urgent, given the pace of technological advancement.
This is a project that would deserve LTS from @npub10pe…n34f, @npub17xv…c9as, or similar organization.
cc: @npub1atn…h4x3 @npub1qny…95gx

2026-05-06 04:46:12 UTC

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And I see you added an item to the list of Meshtadelians. One of the features we are working on is Brainstorm Communities.
Suppose you could go to communities.brainstorm.world/create and start a community of Meshtadelians. You’d give it a name and a description, select some options, click a button and you’d have a relay with read/write access restricted by default to members of the Meshtadelian community. (You could edit these permissions, as the relay owner.) Once you handpick a few members, membership would then be determined dynamically by the community via social proof (users claim membership, others endorse or veto those claim). Members could run community “mirror” relays as backup in case yours go down; and here’s the cool thing: as long as at least one member is running a relay, the Community can’t be rug-pulled, like what just happened on Twitter / X.
Sound interesting?

2026-05-06 04:24:12 UTC

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Haha I see in my own screenshot you did create a list!

2026-05-06 04:22:59 UTC

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You don’t see a New DList button like this one?
https://i.nostr.build/Z5HbLAIgIgHqreL0.jpg

2026-05-05 00:29:58 UTC

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btw here is an older implementation of DLists. (The one at brainstorm.world is more cluttered with other features-in-progress but may be better in some other ways.)
https://brainstorm-knowledge-graph.vercel.app/#/simpleLists/viewLists

2026-05-04 17:34:10 UTC

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The DList NIP can be used to maintain collaborative lists of anything. Big lists, small lists, whatever you want. Here is a demo of using it to maintain a collaborative list of Snow White’s Dwarves, the implication being you can use it for proof of personhood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA1ktgYqEyE

2026-05-04 16:59:55 UTC

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Yes! Decentralized Lists custom NIP. I think @npub1hqa…t56s was just telling you about it. We have a client that you can use to manage DLists — functional but it’s a prototype and needs cleaning up. Maybe we could have a call, you can tell us what you want to do and we’ll see if we can meet your needs.
cc: @npub19ma…axkl
https://brainstorm.world/tapestry/lists
https://nostrhub.io/naddr1qvzqqqrcvypzpef89h53f0fsza2ugwdc3e54nfpun5nxfqclpy79r6w8nxsk5yp0qythwumn8ghj7erpwe5kgtnwdaehgu339e3k7mf0qqfkgetrv4h8gunpd35h5ety94kxjum5wv4px7v6

2026-04-23 13:02:33 UTC

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Final #wotathon presentations start in just two hours!! Last week’s presentations were incredible. Can’t wait to see what today has in store!!
🔥 💜 🫂
#nevent1q…kdka

2026-04-21 16:42:12 UTC

Final #wotathon pitches just two days away!! 🔥
#nevent1q…v22r

2026-04-16 14:43:33 UTC

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Starting in15 minutes!! 😃
#nevent1q…kdka

2026-04-16 03:50:49 UTC

Final pitches (part one of 2) less than 12 hours away!
#nevent1q…2qhz

2026-04-11 14:33:22 UTC

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That’s right! And the magic happens when, for any given list, I have the power to select who manages the list:
- I do (how NIP-51 works)
- my follows
- my extended trust network (rank > cutoff)
- some other list
I can chain them together. Example: I manage my follows, my follows manage a list of nostr devs, the list of nostr devs manages a list of NIPs.
Which is how Decentralized Lists works.
Here’s how to use DLists for proof of personhood:
https://youtu.be/SA1ktgYqEyE

2026-04-11 00:28:59 UTC

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Yup, for now. On our roadmap is to incorporate more signals.

2026-04-10 16:42:30 UTC

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Correction: if fakes/spammers/bots/bad actors follow you, they don’t drag your score down; they have no effect whatsoever. Their follows are simply ignored.

2026-04-09 20:44:29 UTC

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To integrate this into coracle or flotilla or any client, see https://brainstorm.world/developers. You'll be querying a relay with the search string and observer pubkey using NIP-50, not an api endpoint.
New users will by default be shown the "global" point of view (called the "House PoV"), which in this case means the PoV of NosFabrica. From a practical perspective, the global view will work perfectly well the vast majority of the time for the vast majority of users.
It's open source so you can run your own instance and define House (global) as hodlbod or flotilla or coracle or whatever pubkey you want.
To personalize scores, right now it's a one-time setup of 20-30 minutes but we're working on getting that down by at least an order of magnitude. And once it's set up, its' faster and more performant than whatever alternative you may be thinking about.

2026-04-09 20:08:16 UTC

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Are you trying to decide between personalized WoT scores (coracle was one of the first to implement these) versus global PageRank via Vertex? What about personalized PageRank? I know (if I am not mistaken) that Vertex offers personal and global PR although who is going to pay for it in the long run is to me an unanswered question.

2026-04-09 06:01:47 UTC

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Last I checked (last year, on nostr.band) there were ~ 45 million pubkeys. But I don’t have 45 million trusted assertions. I only keep as many TAs as I want, no more, which for now is on the order of 100k. One (of multiple) advantages is speed. For any user who doesn’t have a TA from my personal PoV, if I need a score, I calculate it after I know I need it. Alternatively, I pull the TA from the PoV of someone I trust, if the option exists; and it will be relatively easy to find one if so. This is the kind of solution that will be highly effective at reducing the number of TAs by many orders of magnitude.

2026-04-08 20:26:24 UTC

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Exactly. Using TAs doesn’t mean publishing TAs for every npub in the universe. There are millions of junk npubs. Brainstorm publishes TAs for only a small subset of them.

2026-04-08 19:52:54 UTC

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When a billion users are on nostr, we’re not going to have one billion X one billion TAs. There are lots of practices we can implement that will make that unnecessary. In a nutshell: you will store TAs for the members of the communities that you care about and that you suspect you might be accessing frequently and with high enough probability to justify taking up the space in your memory. For everyone else, calculate scores when you need them, not before.

2026-04-08 19:27:35 UTC

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There are lots of strategies to address scaling that will be good enough. Pretty good ones, in fact.
My initial reaction to bitcoin was that it can’t scale. Every transaction in the world gets stored on everyone’s computer??!? Ridiculous!!!
Turns out bitcoin scaling is a challenge, but it’s not fatal to the entire endeavor and it’s a challenge we simply need to face. Same thing with precalculation and publication of WoT scores.

2026-04-08 19:17:19 UTC

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Precompute scores, publish as TAs, and you get personalized + cheap + fast.

2026-04-08 19:13:53 UTC

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The root of trust is you. That’s how GrapeRank works. It’s personalized by design. Everyone npub has a score of 0 by default, except for you; your score is pinned at 1 (or 100 %), meaning you’re 100 confident you’re not a bot or a bad actor. If you follow an npub, that score gets off zero. If that npub follows another npub, that score gets off zero, with the bump in proportion to the follow author’s score. Mutes and reports push the score down. If some random bot follows a bad actor, it’s ignored bc the bot has a score of zero by default.

2026-04-08 19:00:01 UTC

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What are you going to do hodlbod when the state comes to you and tells you that @npub1kpt…nhmz is not on their list of approved WoT score providers and you need to exclude the vertex endpoint from your client? With NIP-85, the state won’t ask you to do that bc you can’t. It doesn’t work that way.

2026-04-08 18:53:03 UTC

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PageRank doesn’t filter nearly as well as GrapeRank. Compare this prototype to PageRank:
https://nous-clawds4.tapestry.ninja/kg/brainstorm-search

2026-04-08 18:49:29 UTC

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Eventually we will be supporting the kind 0 solution in appendix 1 of nip-85. For now, the short list includes
Brainstorm.nosfabrica.com and others including @nprofile…zvyu — I’ll invite other SPs from the WoTathon chat group to advertise themselves in this thread.

2026-03-31 16:01:08 UTC

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These are still processed manually, and I’ve been remiss in keeping up with it so haven’t triggered your scores yet.
But I’ll DM you the link to the new brainstorm version which triggers automatically. (Tell me if you get the DM, since DMs have really been hit or miss for a while)

2026-03-28 20:11:57 UTC

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I hope so! 😂
I created an issue to add this as a new feature on our brainstorm server. Feel free to add comments or suggestions.
https://github.com/NosFabrica/brainstorm_server/issues/8

2026-03-28 18:21:03 UTC

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I think there’s a good chance we’re going to do it — we just haven’t yet bc we’ve been more focused on making sure the main product is stable.
Has anyone else implemented appendix 1 yet, enough for you to have something to play with?

2026-03-28 14:28:35 UTC

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Every Brainstorm user gets a personalized pubkey, like your own personalized Brainstorm Assistant, which publishes scores on your behalf. That’s the pubkey that’s in your 10040 personal preferences event.
We don’t currently publish a kind 0 profile for this pubkey but it’s on our roadmap. Probably as an opt-in feature. NIP-85 was recently updated to support WoT service provider discoverability guidance — see Appendix 1 of the merged NIP.
Suppose you don’t have a WoT SP and don’t know which ones are good. Following the recent NIP-85 update, you will be able to look through your follows, find who has a 10040 event, pull the WoT assistant pubkey for the “rank” metric (or perhaps for all available metrics), pull that pubkey’s kind 0, and extract the WoT SP website. You’d get a report that says something like “Looking for a WoT SP? N1 of your follows use WoT SP A at www.wot-sp-a.com, N2 use SP B, etc.”

2026-03-26 14:12:47 UTC

Less than an hour away!
#nevent1q…24p0

2026-03-24 04:45:13 UTC

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Could do what @nprofile…54jr is doing: pull the whitelist of 100k+ pubkeys from Brainstorm and use that not only to delete old events but also to filter new events. I’d be curious to know how many GB of data that would prune away. Might want to use some more permissive settings to prune less aggressively.

2026-03-21 01:35:44 UTC

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I had previously signed up at brainstorm.nosfabrica.com to have WoT scores calculated. Nostria was able to communicate with the brainstorm server directly and trigger recalculation.

2026-03-20 23:54:05 UTC

I just triggered recalculation of my personalized web of trust directly from the nostria.app/settings WoT page 🤯
And I can see the same scores in @npub16x7…a44x that I see in @npub142g…xrj0. Which means my WoT is not only personalized … it’s PORTABLE. 🤯🤯🤯
👏🏻@npub1zl3…jajh 👏🏻

2026-03-19 18:06:12 UTC

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At @nprofile…59ml we are working on a tool that will be useful in exactly this scenario. Which, as we all know, is going to be a recurring problem!
Currently, the compromised account has a high WoT score using any of the currently-available WoT scoring algos. But GrapeRank has a remedy: NIP-56 reports. The GrapeRank score is currently visible to anyone who uses Brainstorm (still in alpha) on @nprofile…3a29 , @nprofile…hnuv , and any client that uses NIP-85 Trusted Assertions. A sufficient number of NIP-56 reports from trusted accounts will drive his GrapeRank score from 100 to 0.
We are currently tweaking the default GrapeRank parameters that determine how many NIP-56 reports it will take to counteract the almost 2k trusted follows. If you would like to assist us in this process, then issue a NIP-56 report (report type can be other, something bespoke like “compromised”, or whatever you think is appropriate) of the compromised account, which is this one: @nprofile…h8le
#WoT FTW!
🍇 🧠 ⚡️

2026-03-19 14:52:01 UTC

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Correction: 11 am eastern, 3 pm UTC!!! (I forgot to take the recent time change into account)!

2026-03-19 14:21:42 UTC

Weekly #wotathon community call is less than an hour away! 😃
#nevent1q…yld4

2026-03-17 12:34:53 UTC

Reminder that our 18th #wotathon weekly call is 2 days away on Thursday, March 19, at the usual time: 4 PM UTC, 11 AM Eastern. We look forward to hearing updates on the progress each team is making!
Any specific topics you'd like to add to the docket? Reply below!
https://nosfabrica.com/wotathon

2026-03-12 13:27:07 UTC

#wotathon call starts in an hour and a half! Come one, come all! 💜 🫂
#nevent1q…ldlf

2026-03-11 15:20:54 UTC

One day away!
#nevent1q…er22

2026-03-11 06:27:38 UTC

@npub1gxd…5zfk - here (below) were my thoughts typed up immediately after you presented at last week’s #wotathon community call. Very important problem you’re focused on. I posted this to our WoT signal chat but then learned you’re not on it!
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
Sounds like nostr needs you to build a WoT Service Provider, but instead of publishing personalized scores of trusted pubkeys, you’ll publish personalized lists of trusted relays. As a user I want to sign up and have my relay lists managed by my community so I don’t have to have a PhD in relay management. Here’s the challenge: how do these lists of trusted relays get communicated from your service to nostr clients in a way so that clients can and will use them? NIP-85 Trusted Assertions would be one possible solution. Or maybe Trusted Lists, so you can publish lists of relays for me. As a user I won’t even need to know how many relays lists there are, if I don’t want to. But for this to work, you’ll need clients to integrate your trusted relay lists. To me, that is your first challenge.

2026-03-07 06:06:59 UTC

copyleft ded?
#nevent1q…xfpp

2026-03-05 21:30:04 UTC

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I’m using p tags on my brainstorm concept graph prototype (I’ve gotten a year’s worth of work done on it in the past week) but we’re not using p tags yet on @npub1hea…vp8p Brainstorm. Eventually probably yes but not yet.
Mleku you should listen to the recording of today’s WoTathon community call once it’s posted at https://nosfabrica.com/wotathon. @npub10mt…27hf gave us a detailed overview of the neo4j data model of his Banyan nostr relay which uses tag nodes similarly to Orly.

2026-03-05 19:00:49 UTC

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In my mind, it’s Orwellian when some centralized entity (the CCP, some big tech company, whatever) is telling us what to pay attention to under a system where we 1) don’t know how they decide what to feed us (or can only guess, at best) and 2) can’t get out from under their thumb. For whatever reason.
Consider that fact that even after we filter out the really obvious spam, there’s still a lot of content in the world that is non-spammy but nevertheless uninteresting to me. How do I find the stuff that’s interesting to me? There’s too much for me to comb through all of it by myself.
So that’s what WoT is for: not just to get rid of the spammy stuff, but also to help me find the specific stuff that I want. If I travel to some city on the opposite side of the world and want a list of local chiropractors, I want my extended trusted community to give me that list — not Yelp, not Google, not Grok, not the CCP. And if it’s far enough away, my follows probably don’t have the info I’m looking for. Their follows probably don’t either. But go enough hops away, in a way so I can filter out the bots and bad actors, there will be people who can answer the question I want to be answered.
If my only options are centralized entities using algos that are opaque to me (the status quo) then that’s Orwellian. If my trusted community can help me focus my attention where I want in a way that allows me to route around any of these big centralized entities, where I have ultimate control over how the routing works (I can route by hand or I can delegating the routing process to members of my trusted community), then it’s decentralized WoT, which is the opposite of Orwellian.

2026-03-05 16:00:31 UTC

We’re live!
#nevent1q…2wzm

2026-03-05 14:59:19 UTC

We start in one hour! 😃
#nevent1q…2wzm

2026-03-05 06:47:30 UTC

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It’s going well and we’re having fun! Lots of very cool projects and teams still have over a month of building left 😄

2026-03-04 17:32:08 UTC

Less than a day away!
#nevent1q…3xcr

2026-02-26 16:04:08 UTC

We’re live!
#nevent1q…y75d

2026-02-26 15:29:33 UTC

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Your scores are all calculated using updated follows/mutes/reports and published as TAs. You should be able to see scores on amethyst and nostria. Let me know if it works!

2026-02-26 15:15:04 UTC

45 minutes!
#nevent1q…y75d

2026-02-26 03:30:09 UTC

Tomorrow!!
#nevent1q…hz2r

2026-02-24 19:32:30 UTC

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Methods like this can be useful, if they are sufficiently user-friendly that people actually use them. The main question that always comes to my mind: what’s the remedy if / when the passphrase itself becomes compromised?

2026-02-24 00:18:33 UTC

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It is still on manual — I’ll resync the database and see if I can get it to work for you. (May take a day or two! Gotta run a script that i haven’t run in a while so gotta make sure it’s not broken)

2026-02-23 19:14:59 UTC

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Who would want to harass people off nostr, and why? for the lulz?

2026-02-21 21:33:37 UTC

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@nprofile…nfq6 can you see your GrapeRank trust scores on Amethyst and/or Nostria? You have a little over 121k TAs that should be showing up.

2026-02-21 00:49:45 UTC

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Ah I didn’t know it was merged. Looks good.
Will we be the first Service Provider to publish kind 0 events for our personalized SP npubs? Or will someone beat us to it?
We really do need different names for Service Provider (Brainstorm) versus service provider (Vitor’s Brainstormer).

2026-02-20 23:35:06 UTC

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@npub1gcx…nj5z we were discussing this recently

2026-02-20 23:17:18 UTC

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@npub137w…ked7

2026-02-20 22:08:10 UTC

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It’s a good question.
Right now the answer is no. We have considered giving the pubkey a persona, like “Alice’s Brainstorm Personal Assistant,” which would include creation of a kind 0 event. Probably would follow the user (Alice) and maybe the “official” Brainstorm npub. We’d use this account to DM Alice updates, like:
- your Grapevine has been calculated
- subscription fees are due
- a new client just integrated TAs so you can see your scores there
- new services added by Brainstorm
- alert that the nsec of a highly trusted account just got NIP-56 reported as compromised (in which case we’d publish an urgent update to that account’s TA)
Potentially, we could establish the convention that we should put the service provider’s url in the kind 0 event, and that would serve as an advertisement of sorts. Then the URL could have more info, like service provider name, thumbnail, etc. Of course, this would be optional: the user might choose to hide this information. In fact, I’ve been wondering whether the tags of 10040 events should be encrypted in the content, and maybe that should even be default behaviour. But if you want to share this info, then do it.
What do you think of this solution?

2026-02-20 16:13:02 UTC

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As of right now, the answer is no. Although maybe I’m not sure what you mean by map. The 10040 itself provides a map, does it not? Because inside Alice’s10040 you find pk_service_provider

2026-02-20 02:09:59 UTC

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I got it this time! 📨💪🏻😂

2026-02-20 01:25:06 UTC

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I don’t see it!
Confirmed, DMs broken. 😑

2026-02-20 00:34:38 UTC

If anyone has DMd me in the last few weeks and I’m not responding, i think there’s a good chance I’m not getting your DMs.

2026-02-19 15:19:00 UTC

Community call in less than an hour!
#nevent1q…xr6n

2026-02-18 14:02:30 UTC

#wotathon weekly call is tomorrow!!
#nevent1q…6fc8

2026-02-17 23:35:10 UTC

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@nprofile…x6kf has made some great strides on the NIP-85 front recently

2026-02-15 04:19:35 UTC

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The bots are going to discover they need their own WoT.

2026-02-13 03:51:34 UTC

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I suppose we could assert that wherever a cycle is discovered, A subset of B subset of C subset of A, then all nodes in the cycle should be merged into a single node. Then we have a DAG. Any cycle that’s not so reduced would be breaking the rules, and the graph db would be not fully “normalized” (not sure if that’s the best word here).
The reason for deviating from that and allowing cycles is UX. Suppose I develop the concept for cities. I want to arrange them by continent, and also by their official languages. And I want to visualize the tree of Sets in the page. On the left I arrange them by continent — cities in N America, cities in Europe, etc — and on the right I arrange them by language: cities that list English as an official language, cities that list French as an official language, etc. Any given city will be an element of more than one Set node.
So at the top I’d have the Superset of all cities, then underneath two subsets: Cities that have an official language and Cities that are on a continent. Those two set nodes are each subsets of the other. (In theory they don’t have to be — there could be a city that’s not on any continent — but in reality, to the best of my knowledge, they are.) But we still keep them as separate nodes because it’s just better UX.

2026-02-13 03:26:48 UTC

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My guess (or at least my hope) is that you and I are coming at the same problem from two different angles. Like a theory of physics, where one person (me) starts with simple observations / physical assumptions, the other person (you) builds some abstract mathematical tools; at first these seem like totally unrelated ideas, and only later do they discover that the mathematical tools are needed to use (or even to state) the theory to its fullest extent.
I still haven’t connected the dots. What do elliptic curves have to do with class threads? Should we expect a class thread to be points on an EC through embedding space? Or something like that?

2026-02-13 03:06:12 UTC

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I just realized what I said is untrue: tapestry theory does not require the sets and subsets within a concept to be acyclic.
The class_thread_propagation relationship type (one of the 3 main relationship types that define a class thread — the other two types being class_thread_initiation and class_thread_termination) can be interpreted as the statement that node A is a superset of node B (or conversely, node B is a subset of node A). And there is no rule that A and B cannot be subsets of each other, in which case they are equivalent (any element of one is an element of the other).
I could say, for example, that the superset of all dogs (in my database) has subsets A and B, that A is a subset of B, and B is a subset of A.
So I shouldn’t refer to it as a DAG. It’s directed, and a graph, and is probably acyclic in many cases, but definitely not always.

2026-02-13 01:19:48 UTC

My 30-min talk at the first-ever @npub1the…4dha Nostr Nights on Feb 2 about @npub1hea…vp8p and our mission to bring decentralized reputation and web of trust to humanity is now available!
https://bitcoinpark.com/nostr-nights/david-strayhorn-weaving-the-fabric-of-nostr.html

2026-02-13 00:25:22 UTC

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So “if this is true” — if time is quantized rather than continuous — then we don’t need to worry about our bitcoins being looted by the first person with a sufficiently powerful quantum computer … because why exactly?
I am singularly unconvinced by this line of reasoning. It actually makes me worry that the smartest of us might have shifted gear from unraveling the delusions of the fiat narrative in favor of building new delusions of our own.

2026-02-13 00:08:54 UTC

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btw I messaged you in chat with some examples of basic cypher queries that we’ll want to use for the knowledge graph. That, and it would be useful for Orly to support bolt+s (I suppose I should add this as a feature request to the repo)

2026-02-13 00:04:06 UTC

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Reading you document …
Part 4: Concept Lattice
Seems closely related to the notion of a Concept, as defined by class threads in tapestry theory: a concept is the set of all nodes and edges traversed by the set of all class threads that emanate from a single node. So if the node is Widget, then an example of a class thread emanating from that node would be:. A second class thread might exist that starts and ends at the same nodes but traverses different subsets, eg: widget—>widgets—>round widgets—>my widget
So class threads create a DAG that organizes things into sets and subsets. Which I think a lattice does too, right?
The most important aspect of class threads is that the class header node (widget) and the superset node (widgets) must be distinct. The temptation is to merge them together into one node for the sake of simplicity, but that would be a mistake; you have to keep them separate if you want to integrate concepts the way that tapestry theory allows you to do. Seems like a mundane detail, but it’s important.

2026-02-12 16:01:43 UTC

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2026-02-12 15:59:09 UTC

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I don’t know the difference between a type and a category, or type theory and category theory, but I want to learn.
Here’s a concept for you. Right now, in Orly, any single neo4j node probably has lots of information stored in multiple properties. Basically an entire nostr event, for the Event nodes. I have an idea that any given node can be “exploded”, or unpacked, or whatever we call it, which means we take the information in the node and put it into the graph. Which means it doesn’t need to be in the node anymore. Example: instead of each Event node having a tags property, we have Tag nodes (this is all stuff you’ve already built, of course). But here’s the question: how far can we take this process? Can we end up with a graph that is nodes and edges with *no data* inside any given node or edge? Other than — perhaps — a uuid? Or maybe instead of a uuid, a locally unique id?
Suppose we call this state a “fully normalized” graph db. Will there be heuristics for when we desire full normalization and when we’ll want to break normalization, from a practical perspective? Like it’s more performant to retrieve tags when they’re packed as a property into an Event node than if we have to do a lot of cypher path queries?

2026-02-12 15:01:10 UTC

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2026-02-12 14:59:51 UTC

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The prototype brainstorm (which is klunky but we’re rebuilding it) calculates number of verified followers, muters, and reporters, where “verified” means rank score is above some cutoff. Right now nostria is showing just the rank score, but probably in the future nostria will ingest verified reporter count, which we could easily break down into report type, and show that number, and/or a red flag if it’s above some cutoff.
And these are all personalized scores, not global.

2026-02-11 21:49:54 UTC

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In the tapestry model, new knowledge usually takes the form of new nodes and/or edges, so I think we’re all 3 aligned on that. Sometimes there can be deletions, updates and/or reorganizations, but additions would be the main method.
The core insight of tapestry model is that the vast majority of new knowledge comes from my trusted peers. The need to arrive at consensus / develop conventions with my peers over seemingly mundane but nevertheless vital details of semantics and ontology — like what’s the word we use to describe this writing instrument in my hand, or do we use created_at or createdAt for the timestamp in nostr events — is what dictates the architecture of the tapestry model.
The rules that govern the knowledge graph (class thread principle and maybe one or two other constraints) need to be as few and as frugal as possible. Isaac Newton didn’t come up with 10 thousand or 100 thousand or a million laws of motion, he came up with three. (Hamilton later replaced these 3 laws with a single unifying principle — an improvement, getting from 3 all the way down to 1.)
The tapestry method of arriving at social consensus only works if all peers adopt the same initial set of rules as a starting point, and that doesn’t happen if the set of rules are more complicated (or greater in number) than they have to be.
The class thread principle is a simple starting point. Only a handful of “canonical” node types (~ five) and “canonical” relationship types (also ~ five) are needed to get if off the ground. Once off the ground, an unlimited number of node types and relationship types can be added — usually learned from trusted peers. And the class thread principle allows concepts to be integrated vertically and horizontally. (So it’s not like you end up with a huge number of mostly disconnected sql tables. Class threads support multiple meaningful ways to weave disparate concepts together, even without adding any new node types or relationship types.)

2026-02-11 20:27:56 UTC

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We’re gonna have to build the solution sooner rather than later.
And there’s still so much basic theory to work out. @npub1fjq…leku

2026-02-11 18:10:26 UTC

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2026-02-11 18:07:49 UTC

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@nprofile…2dhd — I think your AI agent just volunteered you to lead a very interesting discussion topic on tomorrow’s #WoTathon call! 👍🏻

2026-02-11 17:55:06 UTC

interesting
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2026-02-11 17:13:30 UTC

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I’m thinking the class thread rule for LLMs could be something like the Einstein equation for 4-manifolds. In both cases, we have a continuous space, the shape of which is constrained by an equation.
An untrained LLM doesn’t follow the class thread rule, but a well trained one does.
So tapestry theory would have several uses:
1. How to read the graphical (compressed) representation of the embedding space directly
2. How to detect when training is incomplete: measure the extent to which the class thread rule is or is not fulfilled.
3. Corollary to 2: how to guide LLM training to those areas where the class thread rule is being poorly followed.

2026-02-11 16:59:27 UTC

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I’ll be there — Czech lager it is 🍻
In the meantime I’ll work on answering your questions about the query algos we’ll be using so you can build them into Orly.
For starters, here’s the cypher query to return all class threads in the database:
MATCH classPath = (listHeader)-[:IS_THE_CONCEPT_FOR]->(superset:Superset)-[:IS_A_SUPERSET_OF *0..5]->(subset:Set)-[:HAS_ELEMENT]->(element)
RETURN classPath
If we want the list of all widgets, we’d add:
WHERE listHeader.uuid = (the list header for the list of widgets, which is an event id or a-tag) and use RETURN element
If we want all widgets made by Acme Corporation, we’d need to have previously organized the list of widgets into sets and subsets, one of which would have to be “the set of widgets made by acme corporation” and we’d add something like WHERE subset.uuid = (the node that represents the set of widgets made by acme corporation)
btw an alternative naming system for the three relationship types you see above are:
CLASS_THREAD_INITIATION =
IS_THE_CONCEPT_FOR
CLASS_THREAD_CONTINUATION =
IS_A_SUPERSET_OF
CLASS_THREAD_TERMINATION =
HAS_ELEMENT
Every class thread has one initiation and one termination edge, and any number (0 or above) continuation edges.
The class thread rule specifies, in effect, that you can’t make a Widget an item on the list of, say, Cats. And you can write algos to detect such category errors by looking at data formats. Widgets have a property called “brand”, Cats don’t. So if I have an item in my database on the list of Cats and a record it was made by Acme Corporation, the code throws a flag that the class thread rule has been broken and the error should be addressed.

2026-02-11 16:26:09 UTC

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One way functions.
Always makes me think of diodes. One way valves for electric charges, made possible by the magic of quantum tunneling.
I don’t know where exactly to go next with this line of thinking, but this is how we connect cryptography to quantum mechanics. There’s no universe where this doesn’t work, one way or another.

2026-02-11 16:11:40 UTC

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I’ve known about category theory and elliptic curves but I’ve never studied either one in depth. Or known they were connected. And I’ve never heard of the discrete log problem. I will need to do a deep dive.
But check this out:
https://prettygoodproject.substack.com/p/for-web-of-trust-to-succeed-it-must
For web of trust to succeed, it must first be paired with the universal language of mathematics

2026-02-11 16:03:23 UTC

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I have long observed that many people in society are either unable or maybe simply unwilling to indulge in concepts that do not have names. If it doesn’t have a name — one that has been approved by the tribe, of course — then it’s not a “real” thing. Or so the thinking goes.

2026-02-11 15:54:19 UTC

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We’re gonna have a lot to talk about!!

2026-02-11 15:47:59 UTC

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Hypothesis: class threads (or something like them) are an emergent property of well-trained LLMs.
I have no idea what (if anything) this hypothesis has to do with elliptic curves. But maybe … an embedding space that is fully infused and governed by class threads will have some sort of global topological features that we can derive and detect empirically?

2026-02-11 15:39:21 UTC

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I think I’m the same way as you Mleku - often I’ll have concepts that are well defined in my head but I don’t have the nomenclature for them. This can facilitate creative thinking but can inhibit communication with other people, for obvious reasons.
A relevant example: only recently did the nomenclature crystallize in my mind the distinction between connectionist AI (LLMs, neural networks, machine learning, etc) versus symbolic AI, aka GOFAI (good old fashioned AI). These two distinct concepts formed in my head as an undergrad in electrical engineering forever ago but didn’t have a name or resurface in my mind until mid or late 2025 when a friend asked me if I had ever heard of “symbolic AI.”
I don’t understand the math of connectionist AI, or the math of what you’re doing, well enough to connect what you and asyncmind are talking about to what I’m doing with the knowledge graph. But some of what y’all are discussing definitely catches my attention. I’m wondering whether continuous versus discrete (quantized) is the organizing principle. Connectionist AI deals with continuous spaces where we use tools like gradient descent to arrive at local minima. GOFAI, symbolic AI, and graphs are discrete. Could it be that the basic rules and features of the knowledge graph (most notably: class threads) are an emergent property of well-trained LLMs? I conjecture the answer is yes, as evidenced by things like the proximity of hypernyms (animal type) and hyponyms (dog, cat) in embedding space.
Suppose we want to take an embedding and compress it into a smaller file size. Could it be that a graph is the ideal way to represent the compressed file? If so, can we read straight from the graph without the need to decompress the graph and rebuild the embedding space? If so, then we have to know how to query the graph, which means we have to know the rules that organize and give structure to the graph, and the class threads rule seems like a great contender for the first (maybe the only) such rule.

2026-02-11 14:27:41 UTC

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This is a very interesting discussion that I’m going to have to digest. I’m going to ponder whether what you’re doing with ECAI and what I’m doing with tapestry theory are complementary. Our Brainstorm product has two parts: the Grapevine, the prototype of which is what we’re currently building with you Mleku, and the knowledge graph (or sometimes I call it concept graph). The knowledge graph encodes not just mundane content, facts and information, but also ontologies, semantics, etc that we can in principle build individually but prefer to build collaboratively — which is what the grapevine is for. The knowledge graph supports queries like: give me the list of all widgets in my local graph database with characteristics A, B, and C. These are well defined, generalizable and extensible path queries that can be written using cypher. It requires the uuid for the node that represents the concept of widgets; if we don’t have that uuid, we can find it using the same cypher query.
Mleku are those the kinds of queries you’re talking about when you say you can optimize for them?

2026-02-10 22:14:28 UTC

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It used to be that you had to go to settings and select one of 3 or 4 hardcoded relays but looks now like that’s been updated … ?

2026-02-09 21:46:20 UTC

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Reasoning from first principles is always a good thing. But we have to recognize our cognitive limitations as individuals. I’d love to review every line of open source code that I’ll ever use but that’s never going to happen. The vast vast majority of what I know about the world is stuff that I’ve learned from other people. Topics like bitcoin I reason from first principles to the best of my ability, but I’ll never stop relying on trusted people to guide my thinking.
I don’t have a strong opinion on core vs knots. And LukeJr can be kinda crazy. But he’ll always have my respect based on a few of the positions he’s taken in the past. Among them: the March 2013 unintentional chain split. Read the bitcoin-dev channel, he knew pretty much instantly what happened and what needed to be done, faster than most (including Gavin).