Post AtbC6VU4aLUBX7ZcIK by yafa@poa.st
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(DIR) Post #Atazm2Oxnvvm5temTg by deprecated_ii@poa.st
2025-04-29T16:30:25.274504Z
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IT'S BADthe part where you have to really think about it and clarify your thoughts is where all the understanding and insight happens!
(DIR) Post #AtbC1mEgsI5O2Z7h8i by sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party
2025-04-29T23:47:24.681960Z
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@deprecated_ii this is the midwit who asks a gps where to go and forgets road layouts
(DIR) Post #AtbC6Sff2nyMoByKRM by mischievoustomato@tsundere.love
2025-04-29T16:34:10.144808Z
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@deprecated_ii i like to use ai as an encyclopedia that can be asked stuff the same way you'd ask another person. Can it hallucinate? yeah, but i can notice those things since they don't make sense.
(DIR) Post #AtbC6TSE8EoxEoh78i by deprecated_ii@poa.st
2025-04-29T16:40:12.413572Z
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@mischievoustomato you should learn how to do research yourself. it is a distinct skill and one that most people clearly do not haveyou were talking earlier about having an offline coding AI. why? all you should need is offline docsif the docs for a dependency suck and you can't work directly from them, maybe that's a sign you shouldn't use the dependency
(DIR) Post #AtbC6UOMe5KE97tXl2 by yafa@poa.st
2025-04-29T17:32:57.675895Z
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@deprecated_ii @mischievoustomato It is remarkably difficult to do research on the modern internet with how badly they destroyed search engines. AI is worse than google 10 years ago but vastly better than modern google.
(DIR) Post #AtbC6UysSKX3yMyhfc by deprecated_ii@poa.st
2025-04-29T17:37:15.549050Z
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@yafa @mischievoustomato your choices are not only "google" and "AI chatbot"
(DIR) Post #AtbC6VU4aLUBX7ZcIK by yafa@poa.st
2025-04-29T17:40:09.815901Z
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@deprecated_ii @mischievoustomato Then feel free to enlighten me with better options. Not sure how to find books on a topic without resorting to either or both.
(DIR) Post #AtbC6VzGiMRJ5sAWv2 by deprecated_ii@poa.st
2025-04-29T18:06:29.100208Z
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@yafa @mischievoustomato use specialized search engines, not googleyou want to find a book use a search engine that looks for books. go on annas-archive or zlibrary and use the filtersacademic papers? there are loads of search engines focused on that. if you're in university you likely have access to loads of paywalled stuff. your student account will have some interface with the library to let you search for papersfollow chains of references. when someone mentions a book or paper in something you're reading, look it up. when you find an author you like, look up their other stuff. if they're really good find their personal blog if it exists and read everything they ever wrotewatch technical talks on youtube and take note of any books, articles, or other talks they mention. then look those up toogo to manufacturer websites in the relevant industry and read their literature. many will have training materials or white papers. same with industrial suppliersgo on topic-focused subreddits or forums and search for resource recommendations there. reddit is gay, doesn't mean every recommendation there is badgo to an actual library in person and just look at the books on the shelves. most fields do not advance so quickly that a 30 year old book is useless, and many out of print books are not available online at all
(DIR) Post #AtbC7x65PDm7Sn2jOy by sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party
2025-04-29T23:48:11.015762Z
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@deprecated_ii @yafa @mischievoustomato also usenet boards, for sure.
(DIR) Post #AtbP9qxUUzV8PMG9Eu by adiz@mtl.jinxian.casa
2025-04-29T16:43:13.827651Z
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@deprecated_ii For me, I learn from example and from doing, not just by reading. So, I appreciate having an AI work with me to put together a code snippet or config or something like that and then explain what it is we're doing and answer my questions therein about what's happening and why. That's how I learn. @mischievoustomato