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With #openalex being mature enough, I have finally completed #degoogling my website 🥳
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In which Sak Supple shares his experiments with using LLMs to transcribe 18th and 19th century playbills from the British Library - manicules, long 's' and all! 'blplaybills.org: better search results using LLMs' https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/blpl

blplaybills.org: better search results using LLMs
Search for, view and download 300 years of theatre posters from Great Britain and Ireland, 1600–1902.

Google has one enormous advantage over all other AI players in the industry. It can offer "AI-modus" to the billions of people already using Google Search. And yes, AI-modus can be bad, full of faults, but it improves and gets better. For many questions it is "good enough" probably. Also it is just one-click away for most people on a site they already visit regularly. This way Google will create another unhealthy market dominance i am afraid.

LaFleur to keep calling plays but must 'look inward' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46945762/packers-coach-matt-lafleur-not-giving-playcalling-duties-push-do-better

Search-based Hyperparameter Tuning for Python Unit Test Generation
Stephan Lukasczyk, Gordon Fraser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08716 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Search-based Hyperparameter Tuning for Python Unit Test Generation
Search-based test-generation algorithms have countless configuration options. Users rarely adjust these options and usually stick to the default values, which may not lead to the best possible results. Tuning an algorithm's hyperparameters is a method to find better hyperparameter values, but it typically comes with a high demand of resources. Meta-heuristic search algorithms -- that effectively solve the test-generation problem -- have been proposed as a solution to also efficiently tune param…

One of the most idiotic forced #ai #slop integrations I’ve seen. The whole point of a #Robokiller search is, with apologies to #Hedberg

Currently sitting in a little park near the auto shop I've been going to for the better part of a decade. Which, definitely still a Protip: search out the best indie shop you can find in your area. Stay away from the chains. My credit card balance might be about to eat a fat bill (thank fuck I have the option even tho I hate it lol) but it's worth the money for the piece of mind knowing a real pro did the work.
Was an exciting short trip over here from home 😀 Basically 5mph un…

I'm still using Chrome and Google's built in search widget on android 12. Anyone got better alternatives I can use?
I find the widget really helpful but "AI Mode" is annoying me haha. Using proton pass btw.
#android #degoogle

Essay trying to explain the rise of populism.
It's about an "appeal to common sense" instead of allowing for elitist analytical thinking and theorizing.
https://josephheath.substack.com/p/populism-fast-and-slow

Populism fast and slow
It is natural that a person who is both concerned by the rise of right-wing populism and possessed of a bookish disposition might turn to the academic political science literature in search of a better understanding of the phenomenon.

OpenAI launches a "company knowledge" ChatGPT update to let Business, Enterprise, and Education users search for data in connected apps like Slack and GitHub (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/806046/openai-chatgpt-company-knowled…

OpenAI made ChatGPT better at sifting through your work or school information
OpenAI has launched a new ChatGPT feature that makes it easier to search for workspace information without switching between apps.

Joseph documented our new Command Palette:
https://blog.xogot.com/xogots-new-command-palette/
Video, but I would turn down the volume - because we are not really music-compatible:

Xogot's New Command Palette
Inspired by macOS Spotlight and the Command Palette in VSCode, Xogot's new Command Palette offers a better way to navigate and search your projects and makes using Xogot faster, smoother, and more powerful than ever.

What is in the model? A Comparison of variable selection criteria and model search approaches
Shuangshuang Xu, Marco A. R. Ferreira, Allison N. Tegge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02628

What is in the model? A Comparison of variable selection criteria and model search approaches
For many scientific questions, understanding the underlying mechanism is the goal. To help investigators better understand the underlying mechanism, variable selection is a crucial step that permits the identification of the most associated regression variables of interest. A variable selection method consists of model evaluation using an information criterion and a search of the model space. Here, we provide a comprehensive comparison of variable selection methods using performance measures of…

Which Programming Language and Model Work Best With LLM-as-a-Judge For Code Retrieval?
Lucas Roberts, Denisa Roberts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00324 https://

Which Programming Language and Model Work Best With LLM-as-a-Judge For Code Retrieval?
Code search is an important information retrieval application. Benefits of better code search include faster new developer on-boarding, reduced software maintenance, and ease of understanding for large repositories. Despite improvements in search algorithms and search benchmarks, the domain of code search has lagged behind. One reason is the high cost of human annotation for code queries and answers. While humans may annotate search results in general text QA systems, code annotations require s…

Sometimes i have the feeling that AI results in Google Search are just a placeholder. Results are often awful and incomparable with using the paid version of Gemini 3 with the same query. Google is betting that models will improve and become cheaper so that they can offer a better experience in the future.
#AI #Search

You would think Google Drive app would have basic search that finds all document titles containing search words. You would be wrong. Actually Apple Files/iCloud search is much better. The more I work with Google apps, the more mediocre they seem. The main thing that stops me from getting folks to use iCloud web apps is the unnecessary 2 modal dialogs to open every doc.

I've decided I have always worked better without any structured notes. all messy, seemingly unorganised thoughts.
I give up the search for a note taking system that works for me.