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		wrs on Sept 25, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Antinets (a.k.a. analog Zettelkästen) and the powe... As a software developer it’s very confusing to read an article where a tree metaphor has been chosen because in the author’s view trees aren’t hierarchical! It’s a good exercise in cognitive dissonance.

chrisdinn on Sept 25, 2021 [–]

He’s describing a graph data structure using a tree metaphor but definitely not describing the “tree” subset of graph data structures.

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