MOST ANIMALS HAVE A LEFT- AND A RIGHT-SIDE... P/C. OpenAI ... nose... that is, we're (mostly) bilaterally symmetric, even to the level of the nasal passages. I have two kidneys, tw...
https://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2024/04/answer-consider-alternative.html
"STRANGE." I THOUGHT... P/C. OpenAI ... early this morning, I noticed that my left nostril was slightly congested. Now, a couple of hours later, I noticed that my right nostril is s...
https://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2024/04/searchresearch-challenge-41724-consider.html
ASKING AN LLM FOR FACTS ISN'T GREAT... P/C Midjourney. Prompt: Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Chopin sitting at a coffee table with a musical score in the background. Remember our Challen...
https://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2024/04/gemini-has-serious-hallucinations-at.html
THE ECLIPSE OF APRIL 8, 2024... ... was seen by millions. And if you were lucky enough to see it, you almost certainly know the answers to this week's Challenge. The shadows we s...
https://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2024/04/answer-solar-eclipses-and-shadows.html
I'M SURE YOU'VE NOTICED... ... that when you're walking through a group of trees, they cast shadows on the ground, dappling the surface with a lovely pattern of light and shadow. Wh...
https://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2024/04/searchresearch-challenge-4324-solar.html
ONE OF THE BIGGEST SRS ISSUES... P/C Midjourney ... is how to convert your vague thoughts, considerations, ruminations, and ideas into something that can be researched. You know wh...
https://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2024/03/answer-when-youre-looking-for-term-or.html
THERE ARE LOTS OF CONCEPTS... P/C Midjourney ... in the world that I notice, but can't quite articulate. For instance, a while ago we searched for the concept of "wall paintings o...
https://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2024/03/searchresearch-challenge-32024-when.html
MUSSELS ARE REMARKABLE... California mussel (Mytilus californianus) ... I hope I've convinced you of that. We've learned about the amazing mimicry behavior of mussels--they us...
https://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2024/03/part-4-31424-how-do-animals-fake-each.html
NOW WE KNOW A COUPLE OF THINGS... California mussel (Mytilus californianus) ... including that some freshwater mussels, such as Lampsilis reeveiana, release a huge cloud of muss...
https://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2024/03/part-3-31124-how-do-animals-fake-each.html
MUSSELS ARE MORE THAN YOU MIGHT THINK... ... in Wednesday's Challenge I asked: 1. GIVEN THAT MUSSELS ARE FAIRLY QUIET AND SESSILE CREATURES, DO THEY EVER TRY TO DO SOME KIN...
https://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2024/03/part-2-3824-how-do-animals-fake-each.html
WHILE STROLLING ON A NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BEACH ONE DAY... ... I spied a large colony of mussels. (See above.) The mussels in the top pic are around 1 inch across (2.5 cm), but they va...
https://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2024/03/searchresearch-challenge-3624-how-do.html
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 wonder...
https://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2024/02/answer-are-tree-rings-nested-cones-or.html
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 the...
https://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2024/02/searchresearch-challenge-21424-are-tree.html
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-minu...
https://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2024/02/psa-do-not-believe-citations-created-by.html
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...
https://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2024/02/answer-how-can-i-get-ai-to-summarize.html
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 ...
https://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2024/02/interlude-two-srs-style-stories-and.html
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 document...
https://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2024/01/searchresearch-challenge-11724-how-can.html
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...
https://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2024/01/special-how-do-you-use-llms-in-your.html
SO.... P/C Dalle3. 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 simple Googl...
https://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2024/01/answer-how-do-you-use-llms-in-your.html
IT'S A NEW YEAR! P/C Dalle3. Let's reflect on what SearchResearch is all about... I started this blog back in January, 2010 with About this blog--Why SearchReSearch? That was ...
https://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2024/01/searchresearch-challenge-11024-whats.html
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 fo...
https://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2023/12/answer-what-makes-national-dish.html
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 ...
https://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2023/12/searchresearch-challenge-121323-what.html
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 ...
https://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2023/12/answer-what-type-of-paintings-are-these.html
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...
https://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2023/11/searchresearch-challenge-112923-what.html
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...
https://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2023/11/answer-how-does-it-work-checking-your.html