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LLM abstraction levels inspired by fish eye lens

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Re: LLM abstraction levels inspired by fish eye lens

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Post by TeMPOraL »

casey2 wrote: post #19

Unless someone starts paying people to read a system like this will probably be inevitable in our information saturated age were nobody has the time to read anymore. Pulling in decades or centuries worth of context and motivation for the passage you are reading is definitely a worthwhile goal. I really like the layout of the reimagined wikipedia it has the feeling that there is an entire group of people and subjects…

Part of me wants to say, this is waste of space. The "Reimagined Wikipedia" is basically just taking all the links and rendering them as tiny thumbnails orbiting the article. This adds no new information, no new connections, to what was already present in the article.

And yet, it somehow feels different. It's really as you say, "it has the feeling that there is an entire group of people and subjects the care about and rely on the central topic"; those thumbnails beckon, invite you to explore in a way that regular hyperlinks don't.

(That, or maybe after years of getting stuck on Wikipedia, recursively reading linked pages for hours on end, I eventually grew desensitized to regular links.)

Re: LLM abstraction levels inspired by fish eye lens

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Post by TeMPOraL »

georgestrakhov wrote: post #26

https://www.telescopictext.org/

Yes, like that, but less interactive. Clicking to expand every part individually is tedious, especially with no up-front idea of how many levels of detail are there. TFA's example operates on lager blocks of text, too, which seems to work out better.

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Post by BoxOfRain »

aanet wrote: post #9

What 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!

I love the way the fish move around! It's a very pretty webpage in my opinion.

Re: LLM abstraction levels inspired by fish eye lens

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Post by nyanpasu64 »

Haystack Editor uses a UI of inter-function control flow graphs, but lacks the ability to "summarize" surrounding code. (In my usage I found it was buggy, and useful for tracing a specific level of knotty code, but had issues relative to traditional IDE tabs/panes for both small files and flipping between multiple "aspects" of a system.)

Re: LLM abstraction levels inspired by fish eye lens

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Post by tubs »

The example is incorrect. On the paragraph where the elves (dwarves??) get the clothes, it is specified no cut pieces are left out for work, but the subsequent summary is the elves settle to work?

I don't think this is a particularly good showcase.

Re: LLM abstraction levels inspired by fish eye lens

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Post by kaid »

The idea is innovative and quite interesting, but once I'm interacting with the demos and imagining I'm interacting with text this way, I find it quite distracting and hard to navigate between text content, since almost every piece of text is constantly changing while I'm switching focus.
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