No, it’s not Hogwarts… P/C Dan… the architecture IS fantastical–full of remarkable towers, arched entryways, stone carvings, stained glass, and what looks to be medieval cathedrals all around. Here are a couple other images that I …
I’m at a famous university today… P/C Dan… and I’m fascinated by the architecture I see all around me. I went on a short run yesterday and was brought up short so many times by the completely remarkable views that I need to know mo…
The LLMs aren’t non compos mentis… P/C Dall-E… they don’t even have a mentis to be unsound! For example, if I ask Bard what languages it speaks (a question you might think would be pretty straightforward), you get this response:&nbs…
When you ask an LLM a silly question… Ouroboros from an alchemical tract of 1478. P/C Wikimedia…. you have to expect a silly answer. A key skill of great searchers is knowing what it is they’re asking. To do decent SearchResea…
Words are my life… P/C Dall-E. Prompt: [cottagecore ocean sunrise Cape Cod Andrew Wyeth]In many ways, that’s really true. I write more or less constantly, think about words in the context of search queries, and I carefully consider t…
Rivers ultimately flow to the sea.. … except when they don’t. As the pair of pictures above show, the thing about these places is that they are often closed off from free flow between the mountains and the sea. Sometimes a big p…
If you wander along coastlines as I do, you’ll eventually see this… … the place where a river runs to the sea. It’s always a dramatic place–fresh water meets salt water, and wildlife often congregates due to the fish that hang out …
Symbol recognition… P/C Dan…. usually happens unconsciously, or at least very rapidly. Our world is full of symbols that we see, yet might not really understand. Here are a few such symbols… what are they? What d…
We think of ourselves as literate… P/C Dan…. and as we’ve discussed before, “literacy” means many things to different people. But a common aspect of literacy is understanding the meaning of the different signs that we see in our eve…
As you know, P/C Christina Morillo (Pexels)… I don’t often recommend articles about how to do research. That’s not because I don’t read a lot of them–I do–I just mostly find them not especially helpful.But today I read a great arti…
We’ve talked about this before… An actual waterfall (not synthetic). P/C Pexels. Whenever you search for something, you need to understand what you’re searching for! I know that seems obvious, but this is a very …
Suddenly, I couldn’t do this… It was fairly distressing. Why could I NOT fly through 3D landscapes using Google Maps? As you probably know, IF you’re in Google Maps with Satellite view turned on (that is, you can see the ground,…
I’m fascinated by all things aquatic… An actual waterfall (not synthetic). P/C Pexels. … so it’s not a huge surprise that I would search for the world’s largest waterfall, wondering if I could visit it sometime. But…
Getting to the right keywords…. … sometimes takes some time and a willingness to look at the search problem differently. Let me tell you my story of searching for this thing. Our original Challenge was: 1. What does one call t…
I was in Rome, Italy the other day… … (it’s a long story, trust me)… … but while there, I saw this thing hanging from the ceiling of a party tent. The strange thing was that at this location there were 3 more inside the te…