alphabetically along the Moon's orbit
and added every possible word-group
and then we tightened each word/group's orbit
according to how common it is
and linked groups to component words
with imaginary elastic bands
and freed each word/group to slide
within its own orbit
speculating that the elastic
would pull words into groups
approximating the Yahoo toplevel categories:
Arts&Humanities, Business&Economy, Computers&Internet,
Education, Entertainment, Government, Health, News&Media,
Recreation&Sports, Reference, Regional, Science,
Social Science, Society
arranged somehow around the disk of orbits
but mathematically
the elastics would really just
clump everything into a tarball
so a subtler metric is needed
like
take the frequencies of any two words
and calculate the expected average distance
between occurrences of these words
calculate the actual average distance
(smaller for related words,
longer for unrelated)
and make the elastic 'repel'
when the distance is longer
but even then
the repulsion can act
'clockwise' or 'counterclockwise'
and it's not obvious how or whether
the collective force would neatly
optimally
fill the circle/orbits
so i want to virtually 'jiggle'
the system, with elastics
so that it finds its minimal energy state
(but is this realistic?)
