Summary : In this blog post, I delve into the use of Perplexity.ai, a startup that combines search engine results with GPT-3 results like Bing’s new chatbot. But instead of letting it get results from all over the net, I test with a few examples what happens if you restrict…

One early commentary to the “threat” of large language model (LLM)tools like ChatGPT is that in general such tools currently make up references a lot. Already we see librarians reporting students asking to find fake references generated by ChatGPT. Of course, as I have noted this state of affairs…

I have been playing around and trying to learn by reading papers about Large Language Models (LLM) since 2020 when OpenAI’s GPT-3 was released. …

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

Years ago, as a final year undergraduate doing my undergraduate thesis, my supervisor at the time, introduced me to this popular way of summarizing related papers. You would create a table listing relevant and related papers in each row, with columns representing common characteristics of the paper for comparison. …

What is Research Rabbit? ResearchRabbit has been a tool that has been in beta for a while. Until recently, access to it was limited via an invite system, but this changed last week and anyone can now try it. But what is it? ResearchRabbit is in the class of products and services that I…

Update Aug 2021 : Since I wrote this, ResearchRabbit has gone public, see my review . ResearchRabbit occupies roughly the same space as Litmaps and is good enough in my opinion to be another one of my favourites to be worth trying out. Update Aug 2022 — Some of these…

In my last post, I talked about the state of retractions in the literature and how so much of the literature includes authors who probably unknowingly cites retracted works As journals (possibly even peer reviewers) are increasingly screening citations for retractions, it might be also a good idea to do…

Back in 2018, a Science magazine article using the Retraction Watch Database, found that Singapore had the third highest retractions rate in the world! This made me sit up and take notice and I started reading some of the abundance literature around retractions and it seems that alarmingly a fairly…