Using Ruby to build a modern Memex!

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A personal digital Memex is built end to end in Ruby: importers and scrapers ingest browser history, phone GPS, YouTube views, GitHub stars, Slack and email, plus manual logs; data lives as a graph on Postgres node/relationship tables rather than a specialized graph DB; voice queries use the Web Speech API and an Alexa front end. The demo works live — searchable timelines, location heat maps, correlation charts (coffee vs productivity, message volume vs mood) and recoveries like a quote found while eating a burrito. Open source release is planned.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:59Fannie Bush
3. 3:49The Problem
4. 5:05Gathering Data
5. 5:40Demo
6. 13:06Delta Epsilon Proof
7. 14:57Memex History
8. 15:11Form Factor
9. 15:56Other Reasons
10. 16:16Technology
11. 17:17How was published
12. 18:09Side projects
13. 18:51Side projects are important
14. 19:04Memex demo
15. 21:28Wheres this all going
16. 22:04Questions

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