LLM abstraction levels inspired by fish eye lens
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LLM abstraction levels inspired by fish eye lens
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#2My cursor got schooled.
Intriguing example with the shoemaker story, but initially confusing. After playing with it, okay, but still perhaps more confusing than the concept which is clear.
The trick with the cursor suggests: what if the context was ambient, like a graph of concept bubbles around whatever paragraph has focus? Or, a step further, as if the paragraph was a card in an array of cards swiped across a desk in "is this your card?" style, with fisheye focus on paragraph text, past and future paragraphs as cards to left and right of this one, with summarized concepts bracketing those from above and below?
In any case, this is onto something, and worth experimenting with various UIs.
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#3Another article with a similar concept, around AI, but not LLMs: https://blog.jtoy.net/choosing-the-appropriate-abstraction-l...
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#4I think the process of learning is in fact making larger pictures into smaller quotes and this does not help learning in the way that it’s trying to. The process of diluting context is something that fundamentally must happen inside a person and trying to replace that with Ai is contrary to the point.
I do find significant use for this in something like review and considering the legibility of my own note taking, that is one handsome solution.
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#5This sounds uncannily similar to Barbara Minto's "Pyramid Principle"…
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#6I think this is a great way to explain the idea of a knowledge graph. There's probably a whole field of ux research opening up to interact with knowledge graphs and using llms to create them, parse them and display them to users
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#7A term I've heard since the ...2000's?...is "focus+context" [1], often used in visualisation. I'm looking for a very similar UI construct right now, for balancing simple high-level terms for non-technical people but digging in for people who want more detail, or who want a definition. My thinking is to have a sidebar with more info, but a closable popup might work better for mobile. Don't like popups but it's e.g. how iOS does "look up" when focusing on a word.
[1] And article hints at it with the lines "A fish eye lens doesn’t ask us to choose between focus and context" and "This concept isn’t new—it’s foundational to fields like data visualization."
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#8I have no idea who the author is but that was the most beautiful blog
Post I’ve ever come across. I would be perturbed if didn’t know ai was used to help make the fish but I’m not trying to detract from my praise. Good post op
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#9What is this voodoo?? This is the among the loveliest sites I've read in a long time! Beautifully designed, executed and presented. With just enough tension to pull the reader in...
I had to look up the author (who I was not familiar with, tbh) and her other work. Good job!
Beautifully done. 12/10, would read again!
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#10Great explanation!
It's actually a kind of version of "TL;DR," which stands for "Too long, don't read."
One of AI's benefits is personalization, which means that you can jump between abstraction levels, or in other words, information density levels.