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Sean Bergman

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Dive into the LibTrails galaxy — 121,000+ topics from 100 classic books, clustered by the Leiden algorithm and projected into 3D space. Each star is a semantic cluster. Each trail is a connection waiting to be discovered.

What you're looking at

  • 100 books from Project Gutenberg spanning 3,000 years of literature
  • 121,000+ topics extracted via a two-pass LLM pipeline (Gemma 27B + 4B)
  • 2,400 clusters organized by the Leiden community detection algorithm
  • 26 semantic domains with colors derived from PCA positioning
  • Hybrid search combining BM25 full-text + vector similarity via Reciprocal Rank Fusion