AI assisted search-based research actually works now. Simon Willison:

"I’ve been throwing all kinds of questions at ChatGPT (in o3 or o4-mini mode) and getting back genuinely useful answers grounded in search results. I haven’t spotted a hallucination yet, and unlike prior systems I rarely find myself shouting “no, don’t search for that!" at the screen when I see what they’re doing."

🔗 A swan won't prevent a hurricane

"In today's example of how Google's AI overviews are the worst form of AI-assisted search (previously, hallucinating Encanto 2), it turns out you can type in any made-up phrase you like and tag "meaning" on the end and Google will provide you with an entirely made-up justification for the phrase."

OpenAI 4.o (mini) disappointed me too yesterday, when performing a search on legal matters. Completely made up a regulation, creating even fake sources.

🔗 Diane, I wrote a lecture by talking about it

"Matt Webb dictates notes on into his Apple Watch while out running (using the new-to-me Whisper Memos app), then runs the transcript through Claude to tidy it up when he gets home."

I need to look into this.

🔗 Backfill your blog

"Fun fact: there's no rule that says you can't create a new blog today and backfill (and backdate) it with your writing from other platforms or sources, even going back many years.

I'd love to see more people do this!"

I’ve done this every time I migrated my blog from Squarespace to Wordpress to Micro.blog. Rename it, “refound” it and backlog it with old posts. I didn’t know it was a thing.

#atom : a constituent particle of matter, or a molecule supposed to be made up of subordinate particles

- French: un atome

- German: das Atom

- Italian: atomo

- Portuguese: átomo

- Spanish: átomo

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Tag X vor 30 Jahren: Wo wir waren, als der erste Castor nach Gorleben rollte

Die Redakteure Detlef Boick, Rouven Groß und Daniela Muchow blicken auf den 25. April 1995 – einer beruflich, die anderen aus der Perspektive ihrer Jugend

https://www.ejz.de/lokales/waren-erste-castor-gorleben-rollte-id426071.html

#Gorleben #Atom #Atommüll #Atomwirtschaft #Demonstration #Geschichte #Polizei

`Unlike any other clock, this quantum watch does not utilize a counter and is fully quantum mechanical in its nature. The quantum watch has the potential to become an invaluable tool in pump-probe spectroscopy due to its simplicity, assurance of accuracy, and ability to provide an absolute timestamp, i.e., there is no need to find time zero.`

https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.043041

#physics #time #measurement #clock #quantumMechanics #Rydberg #RydbergState #atomic #atom #electron #interference

WKRP: Venus Explains the Atom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khD8fvpqKYI

#WKRP #Venus #Atom #Science #School