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Metadata

Below each post title are a few pieces of metadata, each linking to a tree that groups all pages by the value. These are meant to help the reader and the author browse files to find something to read or correct.

These are:

Created

This is simply the time when the file was initially checked into Git. This is an immutable value.

Updated

The last time the file was committed into Git. Every time a change is made to the page, no matter how trivial, this field will be updated.

Status

Gwern applies the concept of Confidence Tags to each of the pages on his website. For a website like this, with its central idea of shifting and updating content, it's necessary to have some sort of notation to indicate the state of the page, so I decided to borrow this idea.

Like Gwern, I take the Kessleman List of Estimative Words but add two additional values - Complete and Draft.

Roughly:

Confidence                  Status Tag
-------------------------   ----------
100%                        complete
93% give or take about 6%   certain
75% give or take about 12%  likely
50% give or take about 10%  possible
30% give or take about 10%  unlikely
7% give or take about 5%    remote
0%                          draft

This will help give the reader some sort of idea of my confidence in what they are reviewing and also allow me to look for work to do when inspiration isn't necessarily abundant, but I want to shore up something that needs revisiting.

Interest

This is currently unimplemented

Gwern also assigns an "importance" value to each post of his - this is a good idea, as it will help distinguish between posts that are somewhat unimportant to me and those that are probably worth revisiting. While I don't like the idea of assigning importance to a subject to distinguish "between things which are trivial and those which are about more important topics which might change your life" 1, I do think it's important to make a distinction between those things I find very interesting, things I'm keeping track of, things I'm sketching out to find some sort of pattern, and topics I've invested time into.

This is broken up into deciles in the same way Gwern's is, using the same tool. As above, this will help when looking for topics to review, and for readers to find something that I'm personally invested in and may be a good read.