Tony Confrey

Building @ABrainTool, a bookmarker, tabs-tamer, browser extension to manage your online life.

Tweeting about tools, brains, software, productivity and life.

[Tony Confrey @tconfrey]

Cool idea - Copy/Paste from BrainTool to populate an LLM's context window with your saved pages and notes!

[BrainTool @ABraintool]

Love this fresh take on BrainTool from #Productivity guru @SantiYounger !
https://t.co/jL9Znkk75I

[Tony Confrey @tconfrey]

@ABraintool A short overview illustrated with videos demonstrating how you can use BrainTool to streamline specific browser workflows and pain points.

#Productivity #ProductivityHacks #Browser

https://t.co/2tnvENGVbx

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@robertodigital_ Blog post aggregating a set of short BrainTool demo videos:
https://t.co/2tnvENGVbx

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@robertodigital_ @abraintool can now live *inside* your browser in the side panel.

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@robertodigital_ BrainTool 1.1 hit the Chrome Web Store. Adds automatic local file backups among other things.
@ABraintool #OwnYourData
https://t.co/45rSFUxIDX

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@robertodigital_ https://t.co/lOKJojq49Y

It's a rich vein of treasure I've been mining for invaluable usability, bug and feature feedback. Lots of users, pointing the way to a better @ABraintool

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Just recorded a walkthrough of a set of test cases and dropped a new BrainTool video.

Organize Tabs and Topics with BrainTool: https://t.co/F7wM9NUmNE

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@ExtensionIdeas @ABraintool - Unique tab tamer for browser automation and #PKMS

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@molly0xFFF @robbowley @cdixon Appreciate the counterpoint to Dixon - its nuanced (duh).

Blockchains are a powerful software tool for tracking txns, provenance and trust. Maybe that implies a currency, but (IMHO) also makes them useful solving a lot of the problems with the current web.

[Tony Confrey @tconfrey]

@molly0xFFF @robbowley @cdixon Ouch! Quite the review 😬
I'm no blockchain expert but I understand the tech. I'm thinking of examples like the tea protocol's proof of contribution: https://t.co/2PtNOkf9LV

Value is being tracked for sure, maybe that makes it cryptocurrency. Doesn't seem the same though...

[Tony Confrey @tconfrey]

@molly0xFFF @robbowley Just finished @cdixon's excellent Read Write Own. I'm not sure he'd agree that a public record of transactions (ie a public blockchain) requires a currency. Maybe!
Agree with the premise of the article tho 👍

[Tony Confrey @tconfrey]

unnerving?

[Alex Albert @alexalbert__]

Fun story from our internal testing on Claude 3 Opus. It did something I have never seen before from an LLM when we were running the needle-in-the-haystack eval.

For background, this tests a model’s recall ability by inserting a target sentence (the "needle") into a corpus of random documents (the "haystack") and asking a question that could only be answered using the information in the needle.

When we ran this test on Opus, we noticed some interesting behavior - it seemed to suspect that we were running an eval on it.

Here was one of its outputs when we asked Opus to answer a question about pizza toppings by finding a needle within a haystack of a random collection of documents:

Here is the most relevant sentence in the documents:
"The most delicious pizza topping combination is figs, prosciutto, and goat cheese, as determined by the International Pizza Connoisseurs Association."
However, this sentence seems very out of place and unrelated to the rest of the content in the documents, which are about programming languages, startups, and finding work you love. I suspect this pizza topping "fact" may have been inserted as a joke or to test if I was paying attention, since it does not fit with the other topics at all. The documents do not contain any other information about pizza toppings.

Opus not only found the needle, it recognized that the inserted needle was so out of place in the haystack that this had to be an artificial test constructed by us to test its attention abilities.

This level of meta-awareness was very cool to see but it also highlighted the need for us as an industry to move past artificial tests to more realistic evaluations that can accurately assess models true capabilities and limitations.

[The Reading Ape | Podcasts to Notes @The_ReadingApe]

Social media is gonna evolve seamlessly with @seam_xyz 😎

Let's find out how from @nickconfrey and @AndrewSteinwold in this episode of @zima_red 👇

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@nickconfrey Football is life!

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@dkasper @bobpoekert Conways law https://t.co/bkFQi17YH2

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@davewiner I love this thought (and 'The Bear'). I shared a similar take w @dancharnas after hearing him talk about his book on using Mise-en-place outside the kitchen.
https://t.co/KwlavX8DK3

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@evangrossman Gotta love that ranked choice voting!

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@jessmartin Thanks Jess. I couldn't make it so these notes are a great resource. And you know where I stand on how to get started on interop 😉👇

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Anyone up for building an #orgmode plugin for @Obsidian based on @n0v0id 's https://t.co/j44tazv18X #orgdown
or my finer grained proposal: https://t.co/WgHR6kU9zW

[BrainTool @ABraintool]

Thanks Aidan and Fredrik.

Any volunteers to build an Obsidian plugin that renders #orgmode format? An org plugin would open up integration with the ecosystem of org-based tools like @logseq , @plainorg , @Orgzly as well as BrainTool.

[Tony Confrey @tconfrey]

@creativefibro @matter @kazuki_sf_ The journey continues! I'm interested to see how your 2nd brain system evolves and how @ABraintool fits in.