Isn't is strange that sometimes you breathe through your left nostril, and sometimes through the right? Is this a real thing, or am I hallucinating? What other alternating behaviors are there? Explore with us this week in #SearchResearch #TheJoyOfSearch searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2024/04/search…

Answers to the SRS Challenge about what ELSE you should have watched for during Monday's eclipse. Did you figure it out? #TheJoyofSearch #SearchResearch
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Why are the dappled shadows under a tree round? Can you figure this out (and why this is so interesting DURING the eclipse)? What else should I be noticing during the eclipse? Join the search... #TheJoyOfSearch #SearchResearch searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2024/04/search…

Getting from vague notion about something to search for TO something you can actually do research on can be tricky. This week we talk about how you can do it too. #TheJoyOfSearch #SearchResearch searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2024/03/answer…

How to search for difficult-to-articulate concepts? Here's a Challenge that addresses this dilemma asking about famous composer fan clubs. What?? How DO you do this? #The JoyOfSearch #SearchResearch searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2024/03/search…

The final post about mussels and their amazing mimicry. If you hadn't seen it, the level of fakery would be hard to believe. Join the discussion! #TheJoyOfSearch #SearchResearch searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2024/03/part-4…

Now we know that mussels wave attractive-looking fish to fake out fish predators, squirting mussel larvae into their gills. But there's more BEYOND just fake minnows... Join the hunt to find out. #TheJoyOfSearch #SearchResearch searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2024/03/part-3…

SearchResearch Challenge #1. Turns out the best way to search for the answer to part #1 is by using the right term. Read the surprising answer below, and prep for Challenge #2, which asks about even more amazing mimicry searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2024/03/part-2… #TheJoyOfSearch #SearchResearch

Do mussels use devious fakery in their life? Think about it--they're bivalves, live entirely in one spot forever. So why would they need to do that? Can you find the answer? #TheJoyOfSearch #SearchResearch searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2024/03/search…

Are tree rings constant from bottom to top? How could you find out? Answers in this week's #SearchResearch #theJoyofSearch . searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2024/02/answer… (Bonus section: Why LLMs still get things really wrong.)

A fun #SearchResearch Challenge this week, something to make you think about how the heartwood of a tree grows over time. Is it a set of stacking cones, or nesting cylinders? Know how to find the answer? #TheJoyOfSearch searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2024/02/search…

Upcoming workshop on Sensemaking (in all of its forms, including LLM-assisted Sensemaking) coming up at #CHI2024 conference in Hawai'i. Join us workshop 'Sensemaking: What is it today?' in Hawaii by 2/22/24.
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Using an LLM for scholarly work? Be very, very careful. Gemini just makes up citations and gives links to really off-topic papers. To its credit, ChatGPT just hedges. searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2024/02/psa-do…

A summary answer to last week's #SearchResearch Challenge about using LLMs to create summaries of long texts. TLDR--it depends! YMMV. But creating a good summary is a hard challenge. Here's how to do it now with LLMs. #TheJoyOfSearch searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2024/02/answer…

Can an AI make a decent summary of a long document? Would you trust / believe the summary? What do you think? What's a summary of Frankenstein?? Join us in the Challenge. #theJoyOfSearch #SearchResearch searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2024/01/search…

Version 0.03 is out of google.digitaldigging.org. The tool gives you now way more search suggestions, looks deeper into bureaucratic, scientific, educational and technocratic texts and combines them with Google Dorks. Or in normal English: it will spit out complicated formulas to

A couple of thoughts about using LLMs to do online research in the #SearchResearch style. Bottom line: they're often good for summaries, but FACTCHECK everything, even the things that seem right. searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2024/01/answer… #TheJoyOfSearch

Join us at our #CHI2024 workshop on sensemaking (including LLM-assisted sensemaking) Consider submitting a position paper before February 22, 2024. Check out the details here:
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w/ Michael Xieyang Liu dmrussell Tesh (Nitesh) Goyal Niki Kittur Pengyi Zhang
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Starting off 2024 with #SearchResearch asking you... How have you used LLMs to get your online research done? Tell us! We'll summarize the answers next week. Let everyone know your best LLM research methods. #theJoyofSearch searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2024/01/search…

What do fondue, ramen, and KFC have in common? They're well-known national dishes that got that way because of great marketing. Question for you: How can you find other such foods? Find out how: searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2023/12/answer… #theJoyofSearch #SearchResearch