Journal 2025-06-16

Idea Generation from Imagined Acronym Expansions

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Claude is funny. I'm putting together a knowledgebase navigation system based on an ontology, ZPT for use in Semem (not semen). I've go the under-the-hood pieces mostly in place, right now Claude & I are looking at Model Control Protocol (not male chauvinist pig) access.

ZPT is Zoom, Pan, Tilt, using a camera metaphor for looking at knowledge. Claude doesn't like that acronym expansion. When I've had it write docs it prefers "Zero-point traversal" which sounds like a thing, maybe from around graph theory, or quantum, but as far as I can tell, isn't. Just now Claude gave me another : "Zero-Prompt Templates". Again it sounds like a thing, like zero-shot prompting is, but, nah. Claude made it up.

Now I must to know what these things are.