awesome work! I've wanted to explore the same idea - glad to see it getting worked on. The chat interface into language models clearly works but it frequently feels like an inefficient way to explore the latent knowledge space of the model. Hypertext (the www) has also been shown to be a great way to explore a massive knowledge space. What this is doing is applying something like a hypertext layer as a way to navigate the model's latent space. Very cool. It could become something of a dynamically generated personalized wikipedia. I'm curious what the prompts look like that you are using to generate subsequent "pages". It could be as simple as "write a wikipedia style summary of " but I think there is a lot of potential in including the context of my current "rabbit hole": "explain in the context of with a learning goal of ", etc. Another idea: grounding this kind of hypertext exploration with rag on a specific dataset, e.g., wikipedia or hn.
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#62If "delve" was meant to be an in-joke, I just wanted you to know: I got it. I also have a Custom GPT "AutoExpert (Chat)" [0] that several reviewers have called "the perfect Rabbit Hole GPT" due to the way it leads users through learning a topic. You might dig it, especially since free tier users have access to these now. [0]: https://chatgpt.com/g/g-LQHhJCXhW-autoexpert-chat
what's the joke?
ChatGPT overuses the word "delve" in its writing. Search your email for "delve," and look at how common it starts becoming (esp. in marketing emails) around the time ChatGPT takes off.
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#63Are you paying for the API calls yourself here?
I have a lot of OpenAI API credits to use by end of the month, so I’m using 4o. I’ll probably switch to a more sustainable model afterwards, consider this a request for API credits, all! Email’s on website :)
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
They have the underline usually associated with hotlinks
It's a light grey dotted line under a black bold text, it's not impossible to miss.
Funny, I was just thinking yesterday about how back in '90s, ALL links were blue with an underline (or purple if you've visited it).
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#65This could replace the hours I spend on Wikipedia. Hope it's not too expensive to run.
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#66How to combine the learning efficiency of this with the structure of a textbook?
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#67this UI feels right.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
oh -- it wasn't really obvious they were links. i think i assumed that because i'm used to the chatGPT ui.
They have the underline usually associated with hotlinks
The dotted underline is usually reserved for indicating alt text or hover content, actually. In this case, I think it's fine to be dotted, since it's not a true hyperlink, but combining that with it being the same text color is just bad from a semantic POV. It's made worse by the fact that the author apparently decided to make visited links blue. (Edit: apparently it's "active" panes, not visited, but semantically similar)
@maxkrieger if you're reading this, please consider making unvisited links blue, to conform to the universal semantics everywhere else on the web, and make visited links either purple, or black if you really want. (edit: or some different color for active panes. Green?)
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#69I dig this. Reminds me of column mode in MacOS's finder, which is similarly helpful in "rewinding" an exploration of a file system. Would be interesting to rabbit other rabbit hole resources like Wikipedia or IMDB in this way too.
> column mode in MacOS's finder
FWIW these are known as "Miller columns" if anyone wants to research the topic further: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_columns
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
what's the joke?
ChatGPT overuses the word "delve" in its writing. Search your email for "delve," and look at how common it starts becoming (esp. in marketing emails) around the time ChatGPT takes off.