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How Q&A systems based on large language models (eg GPT4) will change things if they become the norm

9 implications for libraries

25 min readMar 28, 2023

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How Q&A systems based on large language models (eg GPT4) will change things if they become the norm

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Academic librarians and open access

The next generation discovery citation indexes — a review of the landscape a 2020 (I)

Everyone knows of the big 3 citation indexes — Web of Science Scopus & Google Scholar, but how do they compare to the new ones?

30 min readOct 7, 2020

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The next generation discovery citation indexes — a review of the landscape a 2020 (I)

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Boolean vs Keyword/Lexical search vs Semantic — keeping things straight

As a librarian I received a minimal amount of education in information retrieval and most of my knowledge is purely practical.

34 min readNov 26, 2023

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Boolean vs Keyword/Lexical search vs Semantic — keeping things straight

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4+1 Different Ways Large Language Models like GPT4 are helping to improve information retrieval

A easy to understand guide to how large language models are used to support search. Include academic search engine examples as well.

14 min readJun 7, 2023

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4+1 Different Ways Large Language Models like GPT4 are helping to improve information retrieval

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Aaron Tay

Large Language Models — More developments and thoughts

In my last long blog post, How Q&A systems based on large language models (eg GPT4) will change things if they become the dominant search…

10 min readApr 5, 2023

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Large Language Models — More developments and thoughts

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Academic librarians and open access

Using Large language models like GPT to do Q&A over papers (II) — using Perplexity.ai

I delve into the use of Perplexity.ai, a startup that combines search engine results with GPT-3 to query papers directly for answers

16 min readFeb 28, 2023

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Using Large language models like GPT to do Q&A over papers (II) — using Perplexity.ai

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Aaron Tay
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Academic librarians and open access

Using the latest Large language models like GPT to do Q&A over webpages or papers (I)

One early commentary to the “threat” of large language model (LLM)tools like ChatGPT is that in general such tools currently make up…

11 min readFeb 27, 2023

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Using the latest Large language models like GPT to do Q&A over webpages or papers (I)

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Aaron Tay
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Academic librarians and open access

Large Language Models (e.g., GPT-3) and the problem of plagiarism — one academic librarian’s musing

18 min readDec 22, 2022

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Large Language Models (e.g., GPT-3) and the problem of plagiarism — one academic librarian’s musing

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Academic librarians and open access

Are we undervaluing Open Access by not correctly evaluating the potentially huge impacts of…

Synopsis : I have recently adjusted my view to the position that the benefits of Machine learning techniques are more likely to be real…

14 min readDec 6, 2022

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Are we undervaluing Open Access by not correctly evaluating the potentially huge impacts of…

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Aaron Tay

3+1 Tools that can help you create a Literature review — Research Matrix of papers — Scholarcy…

Years ago, as a final year undergraduate doing my undergraduate thesis, my supervisor at the time, introduced me to this popular way of…

10 min readMar 20, 2022

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Aaron Tay

Aaron Tay

A Librarian from Singapore Management University. Into social media, bibliometrics, library technology and above all libraries.

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