Diagnosis

The method of examining a neighborhood meter by meter to identify healthy and damaged places as the basis for ongoing repair.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

thinker

Yodan Rose
studies
Alexander's PhD student who empirically studied the objectivity of neighborhood diagnosis in North Beach, San Francisco.

concept

Structure-Preserving Transformations
implements
Chapter 2 of Volume 2 of The Nature of Order, introducing structure-preserving transformations as the mechanism by which living structure arises naturally through unfolding wholeness.
Wholeness
implements
Alexander's core concept rejecting the idea that a whole consists of parts; instead, a whole makes its parts (called 'centers').
Ongoing Computerized Neighborhood Diagnosis
extends
Alexander's proposal that every neighborhood maintain an updated computer-based diagnosis to guide all future capital expenditure.

hypothesis

2-hop · via this method's ideas

Where ideas in this method connect to the rest of the corpus — the same concept, an analogy, or a restatement elsewhere.

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

Diagnostic Probingmethod0.808
Earlier interpretability method applying classifiers to DNN hidden representations; shares complexity-accuracy dilemma with causal abstraction
Feelingconcept0.795
The experiential measure of life; a living process is congruent with and governed by feeling, and the feeling a place presents is the measure of its life.
Discoveryconcept0.779
Contrastconcept0.776
The property that living structures contain intense contrast—far more than one imagines helpful; true opposites which annihilate each other when superimposed, creating differentiation that gives birth to something; contrast unifies rather than separates when used correctly
differentiationconcept0.772
Subtle variation and detail, as in pots of flowers, that brings life to a place.
Imageconcept0.771
A functional type representing a mapping from 2D locations to colors (or other values), used for resolution-independent image synthesis.
Clinical Taxonomyconcept0.769
The grounding schema comprising abnormality, age, sex, and medication used to interpret SAE features
studiesconcept0.769