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+type: idea
+title: core idea extraction system
+tags: [ai, research, abstraction, software]
+status: raw
+first_captured: 2026-03-28
+updated: 2026-04-10
+sources:
+ - sources/ideaflow/2026-03-28_systematized-way-to-simplify-and-extract-the-core.md
+---
+
+# core idea extraction system
+
+a systematized way to simplify and extract core ideas, generalized across: latent vectorization of words/sketches/EEG, symbolic regression (learning the rule), extracting ideas from transcripts, extracting principles from examples, taking EEG and extracting essential features, generalized interpretable ICA/PCA, history/english argument formulation from sources, and running research experiments.
+
+this is a meta-tool for abstraction itself. connects to the [[writing-tools|writing tools]] for the language side and to the [[agents-md-research|AGENTS.md research]] for the prompt optimization application.
+
+---
+
+## timeline
+
+- [2026-03-28] captured — generalized abstraction across modalities