commutative-algebra VS FactGraph

A book on commutative algebra https://github.com/andreaferretti/commutative-algebra/ Currently, I am writing the second volume.

It's not that I don't care about the outcome. I really hope it will be useful to many students, and I mean to publish it. But I am writing it primarily for me, as a way to keep being involved in mathematics even if I am not doing actual math research anymore

I used to have a project like this. I was going to call it FactGraph: https://github.com/FactGraph/FactGraph/wiki

My idea was to build up a big community-maintained database containing facts and evidence, where everything is linked into a huge network. Everything would have a weight (sometimes automatically calculated from parent nodes), and the software would calculate probabilities for some big questions. Every user could also build their own personalized graph to explore their own worldview, and maybe even uncover some cognitive dissonance that they weren't aware of. Or you could use it to compare and contrast different philosophies, religions. Could even calculate a "coherence score" for each religion and denomination after crunching all of the available evidence.

Then I discovered RootClaim: https://www.rootclaim.com

They're doing something very similar, with a more targeted approach where they focus on some specific questions. e.g. COVID-19: https://www.rootclaim.com/analysis/what-is-the-source-of-cov...

RootClaim really seems to be nailing it so far, and hopefully they can continue to grow and become something like the project I was imagining.