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## The archive as a space

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Source ID aipersonalarchive:seeing-the-archive-as-a-space
Original https://www.henryw.me/#/aipersonalarchive#seeing-the-archive-as-a-space

The embedding map gives the archive a spatial form. Projects, research and personal writing appear together as a field of points. Their positions make patterns of similarity visible across material that lives on separate pages. UMAP, a dimensionality-reduction method, arranges these embeddings in two or three dimensions. Each dot represents a passage. Nearby dots tend to represent passages with similar meanings. A visitor can add a question to see where it falls within the material already here. 02 Ask