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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). Gri...

\@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...

\@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...

Screenshot of Ayhan Fuat Çelik's "The Fall of Stack Overflow" on Observable omitted. The graph in question has since been updated. \@natfriedman via Twitter on Jul 26, 2023 Why the precipitous sudden...

\@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 showin...

\@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...

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...

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 i...

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 learnin...

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 visitin...

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

@swiftonsecurity warning about googling phone numbers.

@simonw sharing about finding misleading claims from Claude 2

Various results for asking about the HTML character entity reference for an apostrophe.

Musings on elaboration, structure, memory, expectation, redundancy, and search.

TIL how to setup my terminal to open a file in VS Code with `code`.

An example of searching with OpenAI's GPT models on my local Lunr.js instance.

Exploring "Question answering using embeddings-based search" in OpenAI's cookbook.