Aaron Tay

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Academic Librarian, Singapore. Blogger at musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com and now aarontay.substack.com
Bloghttps://musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com/
ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0159-013X
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works atsmu.edu.sg
Aaron TayJan 31

[Blogged] Why It's Harder Than Ever to Know What to Type Into an AI Search Bar. https://open.substack.com/pub/aarontay/p/the-blank-box-problem-why-its-harder

Edit: An earlier version of this included a NotebookLM generated image with 2 text sections with minor issues. I've fixed it.

Sorry about that. This is a good reminder to check properly even for low-stakes situations.

Aaron TayJan 11
[Blogged]Model Context Servers - Wiley AI Gateway & PubMed - How Claude can now pilot test search strategies using PubMed https://aarontay.substack.com/p/mcp-servers-and-academic-search-the
Aaron TayJan 10
[Last blog post of 2025] "AI-powered search" hides at least 4 different things—post-retrieval features, semantic search, LLM ranking, and synthesis. Your concerns about one may not apply to another. New post unpacking what's actually under the hood. https://aarontay.substack.com/p/what-do-we-actually-mean-by-ai-powered
Aaron TayAug 28, 2024
Why Blindly Applying Prompt Engineering Techniques to RAG Systems as a user is a bad idea
https://aarontay.medium.com/why-blindly-applying-prompt-engineering-techniques-to-rag-systems-a-bad-idea-9ca7f893f6f3
Why Blindly Applying Prompt Engineering Techniques to RAG Systems as a user is a bad idea

Note: This is a GPT4 summarised and edited by me version of a much longer and specific post — Prompt engineering with Retrieval Augmented Generation systems — tread with caution! (Read this if you…

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Show threadAaron TayMay 10, 2024
@joelchan86 is our first online speaker on "AI-enhanced literature search and synthesis: Conceptual reflections and practical examples from a researcher's point of view", 28 May 2024, 915 SGT. Register at https://smusg.asia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_abN2Hbzx2aZDIP4
AI for Research Week 2024 Registration

AI for Research Week 2024 Registration - SMU Libraries

Aaron TayMay 10, 2024
28-30 May online free event "AI for researcher" week that brings together expert researchers, publishers, vendors & librarians to discuss issues on use of AI across the research workflow from discovery to analysis, writing to peer review assessment
https://library.smu.edu.sg/AI4ResearchWeek
AI For Research Week | Singapore Management University (SMU)

Singapore Management University (SMU)
Aaron TayOct 28, 2023
Taking a personal trip for once
Show threadAaron TayOct 11, 2023
Pictures from my trip last month to Lithuania, Vilnius for EIFLGA23. Again thinks to my job in Libraianship that allowed my keynote
Aaron TayOct 10, 2023
Sunrise at Angkor Wat. Thankful that my professional career as a librarian has allowed me to travel to all sorts of amazing places I otherwise would never have a chance to go