Category: weblinks

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George Nurijanian asks which Claude/Codex skills help when a decision looks straightforward at first and isn't.

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Mark Ajzenstadt claims there is no verified example of fully autonomous agents building working complex software over an extended period.

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dax asks where the source of truth lives for how software is supposed to work.

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François Chollet asks whether progress outside math and code remains bottlenecked by human-generated data.

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Kaiyue Wen asks whether LLMs can generate novel research ideas.

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Our insight: social sycophancy happens partly because models overly focus on the user.

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it's easy to fall into the trap of micromanaging your agents instead of correcting the environment that shapes its behavior.

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{% include weblinks.html url="https://heal workshop.github.io/" center=true %}

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Social media request asking if anyone is developing a comparative benchmark between major search and AI platforms.

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{% include weblinks.html url="https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1751841193506550112" center=true %}

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{% include weblinks.html url="https://twitter.com/jiayq/status/1750242829769801793" center=true %}

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Link to Bruce Yu's user-driven evaluation of generative web search tools using 5 simple test questions.

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{% include weblinks.html url="https://twitter.com/ryan landay/status/1734953278813724722" center=true %}

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{% include weblinks.html url="https://www.answer.ai/posts/2023 12 12 launch" center=true %}

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Commentary on competitive pressure for LLMs to have live web access rather than static knowledge cutoffs.

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Weblink marking Perplexity AI's first anniversary with founder reflections in thread format.

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Brief weblink noting Bing's internal codename for Deep Search was 'Search Harder.'

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Weblink polling preference between Perplexity AI and X Grok for live accurate information.

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{% include weblinks.html url="https://herbsleb.org/" center=true %} I've been thinking about these sorts of questions a lot in relation to our current disruption in web search. See some of my musings in [Towards “benchmarking” democratization of good search](/2023/12/04/towards benchmarking democ…

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{% include weblinks.html url="https://nlnet.nl/news/2023/20231016 marginalia" center=true %} See: [search.marginalia.nu/](https://search.marginalia.nu/) HT \@FloweeTheHub via [Twitter/X](https://twitter.com/FloweeTheHub/status/1730563488081215780) on Dec 01, 2023: [“I love it when single devs can…

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{% include weblinks.html url="https://twitter.com/blennon /status/1658501876512587777" center=true %} Note: The URL is now [ollie.ai](https://ollie.ai/)

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{% include weblinks.html url="https://twitter.com/FloweeTheHub/status/1730563488081215780" center=true %} See: [search.marginalia.nu/](https://search.marginalia.nu/)

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{% include weblinks.html url="https://twitter.com/AravSrinivas/status/1730647482999378052" center=true %}

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A tweet from Ori Zilbershtein.

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Weblink to Data & Society's 'Trust Issues' event exploring perspectives on community, technology, and trust.

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Weblink post sharing Mitchell Hashimoto's tweet about eliminating Google products from personal life, connecting to themes of technology refusal.

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Re confirmation-biased queries.

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Tweets from Perplexity.

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A tweet from Aravind Srinivas.

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A social search request from Shawn Wang.

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A post from Filip Piekniewski.

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A post from Teknium.

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A robots.txt parser from Will Critchlow.

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Weblink post sharing Twitter announcements about November 16, 2023 updates to Google's Search Quality Rater Guidelines.

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A post from Aravind Srinivas

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Sharing a Request for Proposals from Open Philanthropy.

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A thread from Google's Search Liaison.

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A post from Anton Bacaj.

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A post from Geoffrey Litt.

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A post from Jordi Ribas.

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A social-search-request example.

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A social-search-request from Timothy B. Lee.

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A screenshot from Friday AI.

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“explore practices for discovering, maintaining, and adding to the many internets blossoming beneath app hedges and large platforms:”

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A post from Rob Haisfield.

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A post from Nick Dobos.

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A post from François Chollet.

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Tweet from Clement Delangue.

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Weblink post sharing Stanford's Intervenr platform for sociotechnical audits.

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Is this a query for which “only general search engines return links to websites with information you might be looking for”?

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A search quality complaint from journalist Louise Matsakis.

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A social-search-request from Paula Goldman.

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A social-search-request from Chenoe Hart.

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Tweet from Lily Ray.

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An excerpt from Davey Alba's article, "Even Google Insiders Are Questioning Bard AI Chatbot’s Usefulness".

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An excerpt from Will Knight's article, "Chatbot Hallucinations Are Poisoning Web Search".

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Weblinks post announcing the public beta of Collective Cognition, a project for sharing ChatGPT conversations.

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a tweet from Ian Arawjo

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"How You Can Help Fix Peer Review"

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/@simonw: Anyone seen any interesting examples of...

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Weblinks post linking to a Twitter thread discussing the meaning of the 'f' in printf format specifiers.

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"I’m looking for the quickest and simplest way to call a language model from Python"

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A weblink.

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Faithfulness, Context Relevancy, Context Recall, Answer Relevancy, Aspect Critiques

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Overview of searchsmart.org's approach to testing academic search systems using metamorphic testing from the user perspective.

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- Dave Guarino (Jan 16th, 2020)

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Weblink to a Twitter thread arguing that physical automation shouldn't be dismissed as just another passing tech trend like crypto or metaverse.

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"...essential to realizing the promise of AI to benefit people and society while mitigating risks"

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Weblink to a Twitter post about questioning whether knowledge comes from AI tools or the underlying material being queried.

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Weblink to a Twitter post about the confusing state of AI discourse, where people claim both that AI is overhyped and that it poses existential risk.

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...which stereotypes are moderated and under-moderated in search engine autocompletion?

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Weblink to a Twitter post about Quivr, an open-source local search project.

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To evaluate the performance of LLMs we have to extend our observations & analysis well-beyond the raw outputs.

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A tweet from @zacharylipton: Prompts are not Lipschitz. There are no “small” changes to prompts...

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{% include weblinks.html url="https://twitter.com/vectara/status/1669254503487401984" %}

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Here is the 'OWASP Top 10 for Large Language Model Applications'. [Overreliance](https://llmtop10.com/llm09/) is relevant to my research. (I’ve generally used the term “automation bias”, though perhaps a more direct term like overreliance is better.) You can see my discussion in the “Extending se…

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This is partially about prompt engineering and partially about what a good essay or search does. More than answer a question, perhaps? (this is engaged with in the essay, though not to my liking). Grimm The linked essay includes a sentiment connected with a common theme that I think is unfounded:…

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\@aravsrinivas via Twitter on Jul 24, 2023 The ultimate question is what is the question. Asking the right question is hard. Even framing a question is hard. Hence why at perplexity, we don’t just let you have a chat UI. But actually try to minimize the level of thought needed to ask fresh or fol…

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\@aidangomezzz via Twitter on Jul 25, 2023 We're excited to start putting Coral in the hands of users! Coral is "retrieval first" in the sense it will reference and cite its sources when generating an answer. Coral can pull from an ecosystem of knowledge sources including Google Workspace, Office…

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Screenshot of [Ayhan Fuat Çelik's "The Fall of Stack Overflow" on Observable](https://observablehq.com/@ayhanfuat/the fall of stack overflow) omitted. The graph in question has since been updated. \@natfriedman via Twitter on Jul 26, 2023 Why the precipitous sudden decline in early 2022? That fir…

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\@jeremyphoward via Twitter on Jul 25, 2023 Be careful of concluding that "GPT 4 can't do " on the basis you tried it once and it didn't work for you. See the thread below for two recent papers showing how badly this line of thinking can go wrong, and an interesting example.

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\@pchandrasekar via Twitter on Jul 27, 2023 Today we officially launch the next stage of community and AI here at \@StackOverflow: OverflowAI! Just shared the exciting news on the \@WeAreDevs keynote stage. If you missed it, watch highlights of our announcements and visit [https://stackoverflow.c…

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Good Boys (2019), via Yarn We're sorry. We just wanted to learn how to kiss. [ . . . ] Just go online and type in "how to kiss." That's what everyone does. HT: a random clip, containing the above, [on TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@movie4kkk/video/7250474768573435162).

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via answeroverflow.com on Jul 28, 2023 Bringing your Discord channels to Google Answer Overflow is an open source project designed to bring discord channels to your favorite search engine. Set it up in minutes and bring discovery to your hidden content. HT: browsing from [\@rhyssullivan's tweet o…

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via cs.berkeley.edu on Jul 28, 2023 🦍 Gorilla: Large Language Model Connected with Massive APIs Gorilla is a LLM that can provide appropriate API calls. It is trained on three massive machine learning hub datasets: Torch Hub, TensorFlow Hub and HuggingFace. We are rapidly adding new domains, inc…

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via r/NoStupidQuestions on Jul 13, 2023 What does it mean when people from Canada and US say chamungus in meetings? I am from slovenia and this week we have 5 people from US and toronto office visiting us for trainings. On monday when we were first shaking hands and getting to know each other bef…

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Weblink to Marie Haynes' post on Google’s Search Quality Raters

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@simonw sharing about finding misleading claims from Claude 2

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@swiftonsecurity warning about googling phone numbers.

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Claude 2 fails my Claude Shannon hallucination test, producing a summary of a non-existent publication.

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\@nadaawg via Threads on Jul 6, 2023 But what about that feature where you tap the Search button twice and it pops open the keyboard? [\@spotify](https://www.threads.net/@spotify) way ahead of the curve Single tap. Screenshot taken manually on iOS at roughly: 2023 07 10 09:40 Double tap. Screensh…

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\@gergelyorosz What are good (and efficient) alternatives to ChatGPT \ for writing code\ or coding related topics? So not asking about Copilot alternatives. But GenAI "chat windows" that have been trained on enough code to be useful in e.g. scaffolding, explaining coding concepts etc. On Twitter …

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\@mati faure Thanks for the recommendation, it's actually great for searching! I wish I could ask it to narrow search results to a given time period though (cc [\@perplexity ai](https://twitter.com/perplexity ai)) On Twitter Jul 7, 2023 It will be very interesting to see how these newer search to…

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[https://blog.kagi.com/](https://blog.kagi.com/): Kagi is building a novel ad free, paid search engine and a powerful web browser as a part of our mission to humanize the web. Kagi: Kagi's approach to AI in search Kagi Search is pleased to announce the introduction of three AI features into our p…

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This tweet is a reply—from the same author—to the tweet in: [very few worthwhile tasks? (weblink)](/weblinks/2023/06/29/very few worthwhile tasks). [ highlighting added] \@benedictevans In other words, I think the text prompt is a poor UI , quite separate to the capability of the model itself. On…

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Downloaded. You’re all set Once embeddings are finished being generated, you can specify Cody’s context and start asking questions in the Cody Chat. Current status: "Generating repositories embeddings" \@steve yegge [https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/all you need is cody](https://about.sourcegra…

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Follow up: [very few 2 3 sentence descriptions connect (weblog)](/2023/06/30/very few 2 3 sentence descriptions). What is a "worthwhile task"? [ highlighting added] \@benedictevans The more I look at chatGPT, the more I think that the fact NLP didn’t work very well until recently blinded us to th…

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the definition(s) and use(s) of "prompt engineering" will continue to evolve, shapeshift, fragment and become even more multiple and context dependent. But still a useful handle? [ highlighting added] \@yoavgo i didnt look in details yet but this is roughly what i'd imagine a chaining tool api to…

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\@generativist via Twitter on Jun 26, 2023 i imagine there’s no alpha left in adding the word “open” to various names anymore, right? My first thought in response to this was that someone should write a speculative design on a transformation of old Google to "OpenGoogle".

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Follow up: [\[I want to buy a new SUV which brand is best?\]](/2023/06/28/i want to buy a new suv which brand is best). I don't think ads[1] are necessarily wrong to have in search results (despite the misgivings in @brin1998anatomy), but people are definitely not happy with how the dominant sear…