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title: "About These Notes"
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Hi! I'm [Kris Yotam](https://krisyotam.com/home). Writer. Researcher. Builder. I am an internet [troll](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll) whose best work can be found at krisyotam.com, provided you somehow found this before that. This is my second brain.

The purposes of these notes are simple, and they are an integral part of my knowledge management system. For those familiar with the knowledge model formalized by John R. Anderson through ACT-R, knowledge can largely be sorted into that of 3 buckets. [Declarative Knowledge](declarative-knowledge.md), Procedural Knowledge, and Conditional Knowledge. These notes are the latter. They have a distinct focus on not just formalized definitions but their contextual applications.

Most importantly, these notes are written within the concepts of Encoding Specificity, and Retrieval Cues. You will likely not gain anywhere near the benefit that I do from these notes, as they are my own thought processes. However, do not let that stop you from encountering something interesting for the first time, exploring another's PKM for improving your own, or any of the other benefits one could receive from the inspection of another's notes.
The best I can offer you in the way of navigation is between directories, and indexes. I'd start here.

You will see a lot of topics here. Some of the more popular ones include topics around [AI Alignment](ai-alignment.md), [LLM Ethics](llm-ethics.md), [Aesthetics](aesthetics.md), [Pure Mathematics](pure-mathematics.md), [Classical Pedagogy](classical-pedagogy.md), and Theoretical Physics. You should also be oriented to properly receive the more arcane notes I take involving topics such as "Spatial Cognition and Problem-Solving in the Aye-Aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis)".

You have a few options for navigation: either utilizing the full-text search bar in the top left, expanding the grid view in the top right, or navigating via "Indexes," which I have set up to map out specified domains of study.

## Related

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- [One Idea Per Mini-Essay](one-idea-per-mini-essay.md)
- [Keep Mini-Essays Short](keep-mini-essays-short.md)
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- [Universities For Undergrad](universities-for-undergrad.md)
- [Post-Grad Research Institutes](post-grad-research-institutes.md)
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- [cheap intelligence enables retroactive idea mining](cheap-intelligence-enables-retroactive-idea-mining.md)
- [HackTheBox](hackthebox.md)
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