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> "Nice, but somehow it feels like I've heard these songs before. Could that be possible?" According to the paper[0] "We found that only a tiny fraction of examples was memoriz…

> I'm surprised culturing is reduced to a single throwaway line Yes, as a (lapsed) amateur butter maker, I'd say this is the main difference between European butter and US butter, not t…

> "Dam’s company ... had filed for a US design copyright back in 1961. And in 1965, it took action in court against a company that it claimed was infringing on its trolls without proper licen…

There are a couple of challenges with the word vectorization + cosine distance approach: 1. The current embedding models are for relatively small amounts of content rather than whole web pages. For ex…

I clicked on the article hoping to find information on potential new cognitive skills humans will need to learn to differentiate Large Language Model (LLM) hallucinated facts from real facts, but unfo…

I always try to maximise postal information rather than minimise, to reduce chance of error, given in my case I have many opportunities for people to make mistakes, e.g.: - I have someone with the sam…

It was a fast moving corporate production line with a very long queue behind, not a bespoke photo session (I'm not high enough up for that) - less like an agricultural show, more like an abattoir…

Just did one of these last week. First issue was that I am quite tall and the photographer was quite short, but he didn't have a step (presumably for health and safety reasons), so to get the ang…

In answer to the question "Do you know the location of the Sequoia (Redwood) tree?" there are two - see details and photos at http://www.redwoodworld.co.uk/picturepages/…

> It feels like the Internet is a more hostile place than ever for small-time websites. You get squeezed from below by wily criminals, and crushed from above by careless megacorps who want to filt…

See also /now pages[0] (a federated version of your gist points 1 and 2, i.e. creating and updating a post about what you are doing now)? [0] https://nownownow.com/about …

> "Haven't they all signed the Giving Pledge?" While choosing to give most of your money to various charities, generally of your choosing and while you are still alive to see the b…

> "In 100 years the descendants of Bezos won't be the ruling class in the same way the Vanderbilts, Astors, Rockefellers, Carnegies and Morgans aren't." Andrew Carnegie believ…

Random trivia I learned from a visit to a fruit farm a few weeks back: Fruit farmers much prefer bumble bees to honey bees because they're much better fruit tree pollinators - bumble bees start m…

Focus on the things that you can control and change, and don't fret about the things you can't.

> "Maps is how I usually search for e.g. plumbers." I used to search for tradespeople in this way, but then I realised there's a big industry of while-labelled SEO-friendly compani…

All the AI algorithms at the moment need to be trained with human input, e.g. Copilot works on largely human written code, GPT-3 is 60% Common Crawl[0], DALL-E uses 400 million images scraped from the…

I know there's a whole genre (steampunk) dedicated to "what if the Difference Engine had actually been built in Babbage's lifetime and started a steam based computer revolution a centur…

The general purpose search engines search the whole internet, and as a result claim that you can search for anything on the whole internet, even going beyond that to answer questions which aren't…

Thanks V. I'm seeing a similar number of problem search requests (although nowhere near as many real search requests:-), so it is probably the same "SEO practitioners" running the same …

Thanks for wiby.me. I have seen QHub coming up in the scraping footprints, but my assumption has been that the footprint query is looking for Question and Answers sites powered by QHub containing thei…

Actually seirdy.one added searchmysite.net to his excellent list[0] way back in March 2021[1]. [0] https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexe... [1] …

Hi, "this guy" here:-) If people come to a site but don't come back then it is reasonable to conclude that "it's a bad website", but as the blog entry put it "withou…

Thanks for your feedback. It is just the home page which is moderated before indexing (and reviewed annually). When https://personalsit.es/ was listed it looked legitimate, but agreed…

Thanks for your feedback. The idea was for people to submit sites they like, and search sites other people have liked. I've submitted Astral Codex Ten, and that site is now indexed for the benefi…

Thanks for your feedback. If you can drop me a note I'll remove those sites - it is against the Terms of Use at https://searchmysite.net/pages/terms/ (not that spammers…

This isn't indexing by search engine spiders, which are usually fairly benign and easy to identify with user agent etc. This is searches for "scraping footprints" executed en mass by &q…