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AnthonBerg 5 hours ago [-]
The idea is amazing, and… how to say it?; The results are horrible to read in the same way as AI writing when AI writing is bad.†
And I mean this in the best possible way. It's really interesting.
There's this feeling of an intrusive forcing of something. A feeling that things don't… breathe? Feels like one already sifts out this sort of semantic weight when reading and to me the highlighting adds strange janky emotional-processing noise to the text; Uncomfortable and somewhat… dissonant?
It's really, really interesting. I hate how disparaging to the project this comes out!! my apologies for that! I LOVE the project and what it reveals about text comprehension and perception of saliency and rhythm in written text!
(† footnote: feels like this to me)
RohanAdwankar 6 minutes ago [-]
Thanks this such a thoughtful comment!
This project was definitely more to explore the idea than to make it certain that this was the answer.
I think my goal was more so from the perspective of if text is streaming by very fast like it would be for an agent is there anything we can do to make it easier to read.
The answer may genuinely be no but I think if we can get to something where the program highlights things accurately then in theory the reader could skim faster. I remember debaters who have to speak/read very fast highlight and format the sources (https://youtu.be/0FPsEwWT6K0?t=121&is=7fFn3BjKUnJKPXu3) so in theory it may be helpful for high speed cases.
But I definitely agree with your point that it would be annoying if for example a book was formatted in this way haha
great_tankard 1 hours ago [-]
i completely agree with this. it's a very cool idea and also i hope nobody uses it in actual writing
frereubu 6 hours ago [-]
Not working in Firefox. I get this error:
Uncaught TypeError: The specifier “semfont/analyze” was a bare specifier, but was not remapped to anything. Relative module specifiers must start with “./”, “../” or “/”.
Works in Chrome though.
jstanley 5 hours ago [-]
Here was me thinking it just didn't do anything at all.
Seems to require Chrome? In Firefox it's just a text box, nothing happens. Was confused at first about what it was supposed to do, the rest of the page made it clear it was supposed to mess about with whatever text you write.
Trying it in Chrome and seeing the results I'm not sure that it is really that helpful. Has undertones of elementary school grammar lessons highlighting words in sentences.
tensegrist 5 hours ago [-]
i thought the computation was within the font itself
woah i didnt know this was a thing thanks for sharing!!
rob74 5 hours ago [-]
Cool, but I hope it doesn't catch on. Otherwise I can already hear managers complaining to people that they have too many red words and not enough green words in their emails/Slack messages/whatever...
amelius 2 hours ago [-]
Well, at least we're not yet at "a font that reports back to its vendor what you read".
hhh 2 hours ago [-]
great idea!
WillAdams 1 hours ago [-]
I've long thought that this would be an interesting way to apply syntax highlighting in PDFs typeset by (La)TeX.
prodmod 48 minutes ago [-]
Something about this irritated me so much that I even felt compelled to comment. If this ever became a mainstream idea, I would just stop using computers altogether. I am smart enough to mark my own emphasis internally, that is why I have a brain, and one of the advantages of using it.
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mkrecny 4 hours ago [-]
IMO this is a big idea - whether this particular implementation is good or not is not that important.
smugglerFlynn 1 hours ago [-]
This implementation is tune-able. One idea that comes to mind is setting up e.g. salience scores for different company-internal lingo and names of internal components and teams, enriching wiki / chats / tickets / logs this way for quicker and more accurate skimming.
newsy-combi 58 minutes ago [-]
NLP font is not real, it can't hurt you
NLP font:
yigalirani 3 hours ago [-]
That is a brilliant idea. like syntax highlighting for natural languages
wccrawford 6 hours ago [-]
This is a really neat idea. I'm not sure it's actually useful, but it's definitely neat.
And it made me think of the new kid in town: Jev. I wonder if Jev can do this well and quickly? Not that I'm willing to pay the tokens even to find out, but it's another neat thought.
bensyverson 2 hours ago [-]
I assume it works perfectly in Chrome, the only browser in the world
alexkkoo93 5 hours ago [-]
This is brilliant and would likely be the most helpful for notes my agent takes for me or my own recorded transcripts. Especially being able to tweak it. I think where I would not want this is when it's done on my writing that's public facing in case it imbues unintentional meaning. But for my own notes, it's a small cost
RohanAdwankar 2 days ago [-]
Not using an LLM, but rather just a plain set of heuristics which can run formatting quickly enough to render while the text is being streamed or edited. The aim is to try to see if I can make text more readable as it's being streamed in.
reddalo 3 hours ago [-]
Doesn't work on Firefox.
codingdave 6 hours ago [-]
Nifty idea, but the premise seems flawed. This won't help people read, it will help people avoid reading by focusing on which words to skim. It also seems like it would have a problem detecting sarcasm.
applfanboysbgon 2 hours ago [-]
Wonderful. When talking about how much of a mistake the proliferation of skittle highlighting in code is, one of my go-to points is that nobody is stupid enough to enskittle prose because identifying syntactic and semantic meaning from monochrome text is a skill we already train our entire lives. Great to see a living example of how this makes everything 10x harder to read!
shevy-java 4 hours ago [-]
A spyfont?
LoganDark 4 hours ago [-]
For everyone saying it must only support Chrome... it works fine for me in Safari.
philipwhiuk 4 hours ago [-]
A weird way to deal with the bloviated nature of AI generated text.
And I mean this in the best possible way. It's really interesting.
There's this feeling of an intrusive forcing of something. A feeling that things don't… breathe? Feels like one already sifts out this sort of semantic weight when reading and to me the highlighting adds strange janky emotional-processing noise to the text; Uncomfortable and somewhat… dissonant?
It's really, really interesting. I hate how disparaging to the project this comes out!! my apologies for that! I LOVE the project and what it reveals about text comprehension and perception of saliency and rhythm in written text!
(† footnote: feels like this to me)
Trying it in Chrome and seeing the results I'm not sure that it is really that helpful. Has undertones of elementary school grammar lessons highlighting words in sentences.
like
https://github.com/RoelN/SansBullshitSans https://typographica.org/typeface-reviews/chartwell/ https://github.com/trishume/numderline
which can be taken rather far
https://www.coderelay.io/fontemon.html
NLP font:
And it made me think of the new kid in town: Jev. I wonder if Jev can do this well and quickly? Not that I'm willing to pay the tokens even to find out, but it's another neat thought.