Simple questions… P/C Sevenstorm (from Pexels.com)… can begin from humble circumstances and can lead to deep insights. In this Challenge, I saw the stump of a tree wondered if the number of growth rings near the top …
While walking through a forest… P/C Sevenstorm (from Pexels.com)… of very tall trees, I was wondering how old the trees were. Luckily, just around the next bend in the trail there was the stump of a tree. I counted the rings …
As you probably know, … I’m writing a book. That means every day I’m looking things up, checking into the backstory so I can be sure that what I’m writing is accurate, up-to-the-minute, and full of the zesty and intriguing insider in…
So, in summary… Last week we asked an important question: How can we use LLMs (and AI tools in general) to help summarize things that we’d like to read? As I said, I find that I spend roughly half of my research time just bro…
It’s been busy here at the SRS rancho… Search interlude. P/C DallE-3. … and so today is an interlude with a few stories you’ll want to read. 1. First up, a story by Latif Nasser of RadioLab (the brilliant podcast) a…
We’ve got AI tools all over the place… … now, how can we use them effectively? An important piece of SearchResearch (or more generally, sensemaking) is finding relevant documents, reading them, and extracting the pieces of knowledge you need …
Perhaps… … I was a little hasty in getting this week’s SRS post out. Not long after I posted it, a few Regular SRS Readers wrote in with their methods of using LLMs. Regular Reader Unknown wrote in the comments that: …
So…. P/C Dalle3. [an evocative picture of data, data tables, line charts, histograms]It looks like many of us are using LLMs (Bard, ChatGPT, etc.) to ask SRS-style questions, especially ones that are a little more difficult to shape into a simpl…
It’s a New Year! P/C Dalle3. [an evocative picture of data, data tables, line charts, histograms]Let’s reflect on what SearchResearch is all about… I started this blog back in January, 2010 with About this blog–Why SearchReSearc…
If fondue isn’t a national dish, I’m fond of fondue. … what is it? Well, it IS a national dish, but as I mentioned last week, fondue was popularized as a Swiss national food by the Swiss Cheese Union (Schwe…
When in Switzerland, I’m fond of fondue. … you have to have fondue. Something I learned today…. Apparently, fondue has been around for a while, at least since 1875, when the first fondue recipe was published as a …
Curiouser and curiouser … A knight striding with flag, bear, and sword. (Bern, Switzerland)I’m officially a faculty member at the University of Zürich, and as such, you’d think I’d understand lots about Swiss culture. But I’m a newbi…
As I wander over hill and through dale, through alpine passes and mountain streams… A knight striding with flag, bear, and sword. (Bern, Switzerland)… I’m seeing a kind of exterior artwork on the outside walls of many Swiss buildings.&nb…
We all make assumptions… … it’s a normal thing to do. But when we’re doing online research, it’s good to check yourself. This week’s Challenge is a little story about why… My assumption was that these common kitch…
The most common error… … in online research is probably that of not checking your assumptions. We tend to see the world without questioning, and we often bake those assumptions into our research behaviors. Here we see three co…