Tootfinder

So to summarize this whole adventure:
1. A good 45 minutes was spent to get an answer that we probably could have gotten in 5 minutes in the 2010's, or in maybe 1-2 hours in the 1990's.
2. The time investment wasn't a total waste as we learned a lot along the way that we wouldn't have in the 2010's. Most relevant is the wide range of variation (e.g. a 2x factor depending on fiber intake!).
3. Most of the search engine results were confidently wrong answers that had no relation to reality. We were lucky to get one that had real citations we could start from (but that same article included the bogus 4.91 kcal/gram number). Next time I want to know a random factoid I might just start on Google scholar.
4. At least one page we chased citations through had a note at the top about being frozen due to NIH funding issues. The digital commons is under attack on multiple fronts.
All of this is yet another reason not to support the big LLM companies.
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