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ThenThreeMore
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are the highest quality search engines?English
22·2 years agoThe links to Wikipedia are actual citations to real sources
I read an interesting article a few years ago about the Wikipedia source problem. It did a dive into how sources that seem legitimate on Wikipedia can and up citing sources that are less so. They were able to trace back the citations to Wikipedia itself. So no, they’re not always real sources.
LLMs basically just generate something that looks like the link to a credible source which might support what it’s said. It doesn’t care if its “source” actually supports what it says.
Which is why you read the page it has linked for you as a source. Unless you’re trying to say it full on generates a page for you.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are the highest quality search engines?English
12·2 years agoWhat I mean is I use it to get the links to those sources. Like when you use Wikipedia as a jumping off point. I don’t think we’re at the point yet where we have the problem Wikipedia sometimes has that the sources used sometimes themselves just cite Wikipedia.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are the highest quality search engines?English
23·2 years agoI’ve found bing ai is quite good if you ask for the source after anything it spits out.
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[Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation@lemmy.world•A man in the street offers you the following choice:English
15·2 years agoI’ll take the £5. That way if I wanted I could get two lottery tickets and a scrarchcard.
Though in truth I’d forget about it because I only ever use card then a year later think why the hell do I have a fiver in my wallet.
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[Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation@lemmy.world•A man in the street offers you the following choice:English
1·2 years agoBut with the cash you’ve got options. You could still place a bet on something if you wanted if you wanted that moment of excitement. You’ve just now got the option to pick something that has better odds or something you think you have some knowledge about than a completely random lottery.
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Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL Star Trek’s (1966) theme song originally had lyrics written by Gene Roddenberry, who wrote them solely to usurp half of the royalties from composer Alexander Courage. The lyrics never aired.English
482·2 years agoIt really has been a long road getting from there to here
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•To those not in the IT industry, what do you think programming is like?English
22·2 years agoA cross between Latin and algebra.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are some items that really aren't worth paying the expensive version for?English
15·2 years agoThis is mainly true for cats.
Expensive toy = zero interest
The box the expensive toy came in = hours of fun.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are some items that really aren't worth paying the expensive version for?English
2·2 years agoThough Lidl value beans are no where near as good as their standard ones.
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RPGMemes @ttrpg.network•This is a law-respecting tavern.English
3·2 years agoLol yeah I should have proof read that.
Fixed now.
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RPGMemes @ttrpg.network•This is a law-respecting tavern.English
111·2 years agoNot really a good analogy, because the age at which you can drink is based on where you are, not in where you were born etc. An American 18 year old could go to Canada or well pretty much anywhere else in the world and they can get as drunk as they like.
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Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL Happy Holidays literally means Happy Holy DayEnglish
2·2 years agoMust be regional. Definitely not a thing in the southeast.
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Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL Happy Holidays literally means Happy Holy DayEnglish
3·2 years ago(The poms and their “happy Christmas” are weird though. Just sounds wrong.)
As a Brit I’ve never heard happy Christmas. It’s always merry Christmas. Then it’s happy new year.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's a word you've spent a long time not using right?English
31·2 years agoIt can be a more general term for sex offender. But yeah, primarily it’s a pedo.
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Programmer tries to explain binary search to the policeEnglish
251·2 years agoNa. If it’s British police it’s just an excuse. All they’re there for after all these years of Tory cuts is to give you a reference number so you can make an insurance claim.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Is it worth upgrading my e reader?English
11·2 years agoAny Kobo ereader
Much better for loading your own content than kindle as it supports more formats natively. You can also load alternative ereader applications to it via niclemenu opening it up further.
They also natively support borrowing books from your library through overdrive.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is a product that you won’t accept a generic alternative for?English
31·2 years agoWait until you try french butter.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•If LED bulbs are supposed to last for 10 years, why do I still need to replace them every 9 months?English
18·2 years agoI have no idea what you’re doing wrong. All the led bulbs I’ve got are coming up on ten years old and working fine.

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