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Some of you probably remember WAIS. An Internet search engine from the Gopher era (more specific: a search protocol). TIL: Thinking Machines (those with the massive red blinkenlights servers) were the main driver and developer of WAIS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_area_information…

When duckduckgo really comes through for you and your deeply unreliable memory...

I present to you two flags: one with a smaller, centered image of Rudolf Rocker, and another where he appears a bit larger.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Rocker

Google Search translates with AI the Wikipedia summaries in the sidebar from English into Bulgarian, which results in misgendering, weird direct translations, and straight up nonsense. For instance, according to this AI slop translation, Glennon Doyle is male. 1/2

Deliberative Searcher: Improving LLM Reliability via Reinforcement Learning with constraints
Zhenyun Yin, Shujie Wang, Xuhong Wang, Xingjun Ma, Yinchun Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16727

Deliberative Searcher: Improving LLM Reliability via Reinforcement Learning with constraints
Improving the reliability of large language models (LLMs) is critical for deploying them in real-world scenarios. In this paper, we propose \textbf{Deliberative Searcher}, the first framework to integrate certainty calibration with retrieval-based search for open-domain question answering. The agent performs multi-step reflection and verification over Wikipedia data and is trained with a reinforcement learning algorithm that optimizes for accuracy under a soft reliability constraint. Empirical …