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version History 2.0 “Ecosystem” – Coming November 2025

  • Possibly the greatest transformation Athena willl ever experience.
  • Athena goes from a single plugin to 4 different kinds for 4 different roles: Swarms – reader interface; Hives – Content Athenizer & delivery for Swarms; DATA – Business Entity/Domain operated mgmt for Hives & Sarms; SOAs – A Supreme Master & Purpose Authorities./li>
  • This is a well-designed, secure infrastructure that can host a million websites someday, processing Web content & being available to audiences.

version History 1.9 “Cute Baby” – October 2025

  • Plugin spawned into a new Website, same process as ITK #TrumpWorld, but now, ITC #Crypto. ITC is the “Cute Baby” which may grow to be a monster.
  • Fixed many bugs ITK server did not report, mostly due to blanks in the arrays & functions throwing fatal errors b/c they cannothandle blank arrays. I discovered my host used a very old version of PHP.

    • I fixed all those bugs anyway b/c it makes my code more trustworthy.

  • Fixed branchless trees issue, finally.

version History 1.8 “Evolutions” – September 2025

  • Organic Parents. I save branch tag link parent tags and use them in Corpus the next time we regenerate the data. This introduces a feedback loop, entering a new era for Athena trees, evolving.
  • Re-introduced a Freshness score for tags to let newcomers show up in trees & branches.

version History 1.7 “Features” – Agust 2025

  • 2 Newsletters, hosted onsite – Context, a full list by feature, Gist a condensed version.
  • Retired parent tag auto-tagging and much of my editorializing by category.
  • Encountered multiple Server time-out & memory errors, mitigated by cleaning minor bugs & optimizing code
  • Major cleanup of the Corpus process
  • Substantive coding change to Nexus.
  • Added logic to capture posts with 5-start relevance score w/host trees as “Features”
  • Added tracking for what trees posts are “Features” in, a potential basis for Aurelius trees to be developed in the future.
  • Cut out per concept and per cat loop in Nexus, saving time.

version History 1.6 “Crucible” – July 2025

  • Fixed auto-tagging bug where CIA matched words w/cia in them.
  • Previously only for auto-tags, gave native tags auto-tagging Parent & Canonical tag love too.
  • Replaced verbose notation for parent and canonical tags with terse symbols: *+ (auto-tagged), *+< (Parent tag added) *>> (Canonical tag replaced short tag.
  • Each Athena Tree now starts off w/selected “Featured” 5-star posts rather than every post in the tree, reducing how many posts we need to load.
  • Retired RSS Feed script with one that queries the Blue Sky API for Blue Sky Feed. We no longer need to get fetches daily.s
  • Very troubled move to a new host, but faster off-shore serber.
  • Encountered dreaded unexpected output errors (due to white-spaces before opening & closing php tags in several scripts.
  • Encountered endless loops due to “spiralling” code after Server timeouts, also added resources for processing the 2nd, Nexus regeneration script.
  • Encountered some auto-tagging of posts during fetches, though I disabled, then removed the code that does it. This is an unexplained mystery.

version 1.5 “Meaning” – March 2025

  • Context scoring – Tags scored, staticized & ranked by how many posts they appear in, different authors use them & how many branches they appear in. The last is context, therefore, “Meaning”.
  • Sensitivity keyed to how many posts are processed. The more granular the collection of posts, the more sensitive, the larger the collection, the more generalized.
  • Better trees, branches look more like narratives, memes better describe a category, branch, tree or site

version 1.4 “Honeybee”

  • RSS Feed2posts. Given a set of RSS feed URLs, provide a button on the Admin control panel to grab the latest feeds, convert them to posts to be given the Athena treatment. THis is not used in the Athena Demo but is used to feature Bsky posts about the Alt-Right & Trump.
  • Canonical Tags. A basic problem with tags is w/people names. My story features Nick, short for Nicholas-walk-like-the-wind. I would also like to link him to the Trumbull family. This app creates a new taxonomy with parents, meanig it is hierarchical. This allows me to manually add full names & link the short names to them. This works great for Acronyms. In Honeybee, I also use it to link people to Trump-appointed positions. My code then adds these parent tags to posts when necessary, so posts with “Nick”, “Nicholas Walk-like-the-wind” would appear together.
  • Consensus Scoring. My script score tags by how many posts in a collection they appear in, as well as how many authors use them. Taken together, each tag is given a meaningful weight, used when ordering clusters of tags in storylines. This means the first tag in a branch is first for a good reason, and is truly a top concept. This is a big innovation and so simple.
  • Tiling. Rather than a stack of bricks, excerpts will show up as columns of Portrait tiles. Very pretty, but also easier to make sense of. Excerpts look like pages in a book.
  • Knowledge. All the elements combine to create a meaningful quantum of knowledge, with Trees, Categories giving clear pathways into the content, with easy to grasp content tiles to speed up cognition of the content subject matter.

version 1.3 Athena13. No ETA

  • More code cleanup. Changing entity concepts like Flavor to Boughs, making code more semantically consistent
  • Introducing View skins, nice styling tiling for Apples
  • Introducing recommended trees using Meme Matching
  • Custom simili Feed or REST endpoint to store data/content ready for the MemeWeb Search engine to access when it comes crawling
  • MemeWeb 1.0 prototype
  • Adding Authorship, part of the greater plan

version 1.2 Athena12. December, 2024

  • Massive code clean-up & reorganizing. Trees built in 3 stages: Corpus for content. Nexus for trees. Lexus for Apples, relevance scores & rendered elements
  • streamlined generation process, creating Classic tree & Athena Trees in 2 stages rather than multiple, refining stages previously due to awkward transition from classic tree to Athena tree, simplifying code & improving performance
  • Found numerous, well-hidden bugs in the code, one-in-a-thousand rock bugs
  • The Athena12 tree, based on 2+ shared tags across all available posts in each sectioned portion of a website, using a Storyline context
  • Deprecating the concept of flavors. Athena is a style of tree, with multiple trees identified by their root concepts. Internally, I name these mini-trees Boughs
  • A streamlined ASSTRA tool, 2 rows instead of 3, with a Clean & detailed view mode available at the press of a button
  • stars renamed as Relevance scores, available in Detailed view.
  • Hits renamed as Relevant Bits, showing sentences containing matched tags. Available in all view modes
  • Tags available in detailed mode only, cleaning up default view
  • Memes used for Post relevance scoring & Relevant bits

    Athena 1.1 prototype, built on tag pairs occuring under each tag, presenting a stubby tree. August, 2024

  • Introducing the Advanced semantic Tree Retrieval Agent (ASTRA) in 3-rows: branding, settings & telemetry & the biewing/browsing area
    • Just a concept now, but this will become the glue for the internet later
  • Introducing hits & stars, assessing post relevance to the site, branch & categories. But hidden for now