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Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing

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Re: Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing

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Everybody is talking about the existential risk posed by AI but this guys release this tool in the wild without any rail guards... concerning, really. A bit more seriously, it can be really useful to have a graph of ArXiv tabs instead of a linear range of tabs, this can be very handy when doing a dive in scientific literature.

How does this related to "AI"?

Re: Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing

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post #26

Everybody is talking about the existential risk posed by AI but this guys release this tool in the wild without any rail guards... concerning, really. A bit more seriously, it can be really useful to have a graph of ArXiv tabs instead of a linear range of tabs, this can be very handy when doing a dive in scientific literature.

Graph approach can be extended to entire web browsing. From page A, you open page B, but you also open page B, from page C. Tree-style browsing will result in opening/seeing page B twice and also not (easily) seeing that came to B from both A and C.

Re: Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing

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I made something like this over 20 years ago. It also had full text searching of the contents of the page and also worked as a browser history. I used it for a few years. The real solution I saw in a roomful of butcher paper tucked in cabinets in the basement of a really dedicated guy who had a learning disability. He went through textbooks and had to come up with his own special syntax in order to comprehend the tex…

I am intrigued. Please can you link to more about your project and its inspiration. Or write on it, do you have a blog or social to follow ?

Sounds great, please so more - and tell others.

Re: Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing

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This is brilliant. I currently do this in org mode, pasting bookmarks in long indented trees of research.

This is that but next level, many thanks for sharing your work.

Following rabbit holes, if the trail is preserved, turns my ADHD from inconvenient distraction into a research superpower.

Re: Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing

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post #37

I made something like this over 20 years ago. It also had full text searching of the contents of the page and also worked as a browser history. I used it for a few years. The real solution I saw in a roomful of butcher paper tucked in cabinets in the basement of a really dedicated guy who had a learning disability. He went through textbooks and had to come up with his own special syntax in order to comprehend the tex…

I am intrigued. Please can you link to more about your project and its inspiration. Or write on it, do you have a blog or social to follow ? Sounds great, please so more - and tell others.

I've gotten quite a bit of positive feedback when I describe it. My previous solution was some heuristic system based on regexs with weights as super-parameters and the Wikipedia corpus. It was not amazing.

I think some kind of automated OWL system using all the modern magic that huggingface has to offer will produce better than trash results and is the way to go.

We're really just tokenizing and lexing here and it's just a matter of putting in the hours and getting people on board.

Some of my general problem is I don't care about money. I'm in this field to build a better future, not so I could personally live extravagantly. Benevolence, however, is not how society is organized.

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