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This tweet is a reply—from the same author—to the tweet in: very few worthwhile tasks? (weblink). [ highlighting added] \@benedictevans In other words, I think the text prompt is a poor UI , quite sep...

status: unread (2023-06-30 17:06:56) Why Johnny Can’t Prompt: How Non-AI Experts Try (and Fail) to Design LLM Prompts bibtex @inproceedings{zamfirescu-pereira2023johnny, author = {Zamfirescu-Pereira,...

Learned how to use git status --short and create git aliases to filter out _site directory changes from Jekyll builds. Includes search tool comparisons using You.com, Perplexity AI, and Phind.

Responds to Benedict Evans' tweet about ChatGPT tasks, arguing the challenge isn't describing tasks briefly but finding the right prompts that connect searchers to their goals. Draws on dissertation research about how data engineers grow queries from code and conversation seeds.

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 embe...

Follow-up: very few 2-3 sentence descriptions connect (weblog). What is a "worthwhile task"? [ highlighting added] \@benedictevans The more I look at chatGPT, the more I think that the fact NLP didn’t...

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]...

Comparative screenshot collection showing initial search results from seven generative search tools for the query about which SUV brand is best.

\@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...

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 th...

Flagging two excerpts from a recent Google Research blogpost

The hard problems remain, how to use a tool to do something you or someone else wants.

What does 'consumer search' mean?

Can Google Lens be more than a party trick?

still searching for gorillas (or not?)

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Search automation bias is one term for the production of epistemic automaticity in the Google Web Search paradigm.

Here is text of my prospectus for applying to the 2021 Information Operations Fellowship with Twitter’s Trust & Safety Team.

What do the communities on Mastodon think about full text search?