Search engines have been dropping in quality significantly within the past decade, and especially within this past year. The noise to signal ratio has been frankly painful.
Can you please share some resources you use when trying to find answers to technical questions?
For example, STEM, academia, engineering, programming, etc.
most University Libraries have “guides”. Simply google " guide". eg Stanford Library engineering guide. Result like: [(https://guides.library.stanford.edu/aa)] From there use any free local library access you might have to get the details.
Thank you so much!
Thank you all for your answers!
I wanted to add one resource I found that has helped me find even more relevant search results:
A Lemmy Search Engine https://www.search-lemmy.com/
Oh, awesome! Thanks
For all of those topics, I use domain specific sites. So for research I’ll look at arxiv or one of the sites that make research freely available. For programming, I’ll search language mailing lists, documentation, and examples. Searching GitHub also isn’t a bad idea, but watch out for license issues.
Be wary of using tools like got to summarize articles or outright answer questions. There’s no guarantee it will be correct, and if you don’t know the answer you won’t know it’s wrong.
For code I use chagpt for first pass questions. Then I try compiling it and see if gpt is telling the truth
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