Not really (I wasnāt using Google directly anyway), I think it fills a slightly different niche than search engines.
Itās good as a fuzzy search for the sum of public knowledge, since it can understand quite complex queries and point you in the right direction, then you can go to regular search engines to find more specific stuff.
Bing was fun to exploit, but I donāt really see why itās useful, it tends to always look up information which means it provides less of its own knowledge, I can do the searches myself better than an LM. Maybe it can provide more concise answers than all the SEO crap everywhere, but that can be avoided by searching on specific websites like reddit.
Itās about methodology more than research questions, although they are of course linked. Incorporating digital methods in your humanities project, like GIS, 3D modeling or ABM, will quickly land you in digital humanities. Remember though, humanities have a lot of theory and methodology you might be unfamiliar with as a CS student, so teaming up with someone who has those skills but lack in programming etc. will synergize in this field.
No, but recently iāve stopped using Google as well. Currently I mostly use Ecosia, I think their company philosophy is pretty cool and I like the results so far. I donāt think that ChatGPT works as a substitute for a search engine for my uses at least, as many of my searches require me to check multiple links and I donāt always type in the full natural language sentences necessary for ChatGPT.
Have a look at Neocities (a successor to Geocities). My website is here.
You can also have a look at the rest of the Fediverse. There are some cool accounts on Mastodon and PeerTube.
For that true āold webā thing, have you ever heard of gemini? Take a look. My capsule on gemini is here, but you will need a gemini browser in order to see it.
Ravenlok is dope. Itās easy, and button-mashy, but my god the visuals and music make up for all of it. It swept me away. I think it would be especially fantastic for kids, but definitely enjoyable for adults to.
Valheim is great in single-player, to my surprise.
I like Redfall. ducks But seriously, I do. I like the big open world, the over-the-top vampire thing, the feeling of finding the best way to sneak up on the enemy and take them down. The guns feel satisfying to me. I get excited every time I find a better one. Iām curious where the story is going. Some of the set pieces and environmental storytelling moments are really cool.
I havenāt encountered many bugs at all. One time some enemies appeared out of nowhere, but honestly that just fit in with the vibe of the game anyway.
The AI is dumb, butā¦ Iām finding I donāt care. Theyāre numerous and still manage to kill me sometimes. Iām ignoring it entirely the same way I ignore it in the original Deus Ex.
Itās not a Dishonored or a Prey, but itās not trying to be, either. Itās great if you just want to explore an interesting map and do some sneaking and shooting and looting.
Iām obviously the minority in this opinion, but also, itās on gamepass, so it doesnāt cost anything to try if you havenāt. I almost didnāt because of the reviews and Iām very glad I gave it a chance anyway.
I think there was a phone called the Cosmo Communicator or something from a UK company that had a physical keyboard and a touchscreen that seemed cool.
They also have a newer model Astro Slide, but itās significantly more expensive and has availability problems. Iāve had one since Christmas or so, though, and Iām happy with it. CC is fine as well, and indeed the sale seems quite good.
(I used to have their first phone as well, but truly AS would have been a much better first device to bring to the market, there really arenāt any fundamental flaws in it in my view.)
What do you think are the chances of them being around in 5 years time? I really want to get this as my next phone but for now Iām happy with my current phone (King Kong Mini 2)
I wouldnāt personally use chatGPT ,or any language model for that matter, if factual information is the goal.
DDG has been my go-to recently, but mostly because Iām jaded with current year data harvesting and such. The internet feels like such a hassle these days .-.
@natebluehooves@dl007, to find what I search I use mostly these search engines with AI without BigBrother company spyware, is in these where AI is usefull because "de-hazzle" the internet with direct answers based on reliable resources, ChatGPT can't do this, it has a knowledge base from 2021 and can't give reliable and up-to-date answers because of this.
None of the search engines is perfect, all of them have pros and flaws, because of this, if you need a deeper research it is inevitable to have several on hand.
āThe contentā on all Lemmy instances is the same. There is no account migration, but you can just sign up on lemmy.ml. If you already had an account there and you want it backā¦ I donāt know if itās possible for an admin there to restore it, you might have to get in touch with them.
This is really the core element people seem to be worried about. You build a community, you post a heap of content, you have charge of moderation and then suddenly your chosen instance dies, or you get banned.
I think there will eventually be a fix, but encourage everyone to remember that this, the biggest weakness of the platform is also its greatest strength. Personally I have created my communities on a different instance than the one I post on daily. Itās a larger instance and the only thing on that account are post submissions - I use lemmy.dbzer0 to browse and comment daily because I like its interface and local community the best.
It annoyed me at first, but Iāve learned to see the value in having separate yet interlinked spaces. I have also duplicated that community and some content on another instance. It has zero traffic, but I donāt trust anyone or anything these days.
Anyone else using Kagi.com for search? Iām using it as a paid user and itās fantastic, no ads and no tracking and results are great. I use ChatGPT for āideasā and Kagi for specifics.
Itās really weird. Thereās so few people here, but the conversations are really good. Everyone is friendly and the place is growing. Thatās a really great vibe.
Sadly i checked in on the Apollo sub and thereās a lot of hate on there for Lemmy. Not sure if people fully understand it or they are just fighting the inevitable change that is coming lol. But it def. reminds me of the digg meltdown and how people were hellbent that reddit sucked and wouldnāt last and was too difficult to useā¦ lol change is hard sometimes but itās life.
The complaints are all over the place so likely coming from people that either A.) havenāt actually used Lemmy. B.) Used it for .5 seconds got confused and gave up. C.) Are just afraid of change and just wanna stick their heads in the sandā¦
But most of them center around how difficult lemmy is to use and how ācommunities are way too overbearing with the rules.ā , that it uses the new.reddit UI, and that itās run by a bunch of ātankiesā
Whatās a tankie? My biggest concern is the fragmentation of communities due to multiple servers, so the numbers in any one server will always be smaller.
theyāre complaining about us lemmygrad users, but we arenāt even the biggest instance anymore + the 2 recommended instances block us anyways so itās a worthless complaint now
I have noticed that the quality of results on Google and DDG and others have been declining steadily over the last few years, and I think this is mostly a result of click farms generally getting better at gaming the system. Genuinely quality content is just being drowned out by crap.
ChatGPT doesnāt really address this. I also donāt see ChatGPT as a genuine replacement yet because 1) hallucination is still too big of a problem and 2) the value add of using natural language for queries doesnāt seem all that beneficial to me. Sorta like, how IF you are already used to a terminal, it will be faster or just as fast as a GUI for many things.
The only real value I have seen from ChatGPT, is for complex boilerplate generation that is very easy to verify. ChatGPT is fantastic for generating regex, for example. Or poems, if you prefer.
Iāve used ChatGPT for things like generating c linker scripts or writing a bochs configuration file. It would have taken me 30 minutes to research how to make a bochs config file but since I got ChatGPT to shit out something wrong but close to correct, I only had to fill in the incorrect stuff based on common sense and google a few things.
Natural language kind of stuff can be helpful if you donāt know the relvent terms for something though I havenāt had too much luck most of the time with ChatGPT on that kind of stuff. Worse is that ChatGPT is likely to lead to even more SEO spam :(
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