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Re:Show HN: Discover the World of Mathematics by breck on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @05:03PM (#22303402)
> What if you could easily answer the question "what is everything currently known in mathematics."

I love this. I work on this problem a lot. More generally of the form "what is everything currently known in X"?

I would love to be able to make statements like "I am familiar with X/Y/Z% of the nodes in Computer Science/Medicine/Arrested Development Season 2". I would love it if the abstract idea of the "dent" (http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/) a researcher makes could actually be concretely measured as nodes added/updated/subtracted from some corpus of knowledge.

Have you thought about moving the content to a git repo and allowing people to contribute via a pull request?

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Re:Show HN: Discover the World of Mathematics by CatsAreCool on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @10:15PM (#22315046)
Yes, the goal is to help people know what is known in an area. I will update the docs to make this more clear.

I am open to supporting pull requests, but my thoughts were that the custom user interface Mathpendium has allows for an easier contribution process.

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