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https://bsky.app/profile/aarontay.bsky.social/post/3mxthsymgb22t

Published: October 14, 2026 11:43

Thinking more about this. Its possible they are using semantic scholar global counts but might be doing some hybrid type thing when doing things like Consensus citation search. 3 possibilities [contains quote post or other embedded content]

https://bsky.app/profile/aarontay.bsky.social/post/3mxqvxmpia22l

Published: October 13, 2026 11:18

We are told Consensus combines sources from Openalex, semantic scholar & web crawlers. Elicit.com we are told gets from Openalex, semantic scholar & pubmed. Undermind as far as we know only gets from Semantic Scholar. Yet when I random sample 10 papers I…

https://bsky.app/profile/aarontay.bsky.social/post/3mxpvuza56s2z

Published: October 13, 2026 01:44

[Blogged] When AI Search Makes Up the Query Input, and Why That Isn’t Necessarily a Problem- When AI Search Makes Up the Query Input, and Why That Isn’t Necessarily a Problem https://share.google/n2wZEpqz9XccrahfO

https://bsky.app/profile/aarontay.bsky.social/post/3mxmanritkc2h

Published: October 11, 2026 14:47

So how well does this work? I burnt a truckload of tokens trying to improve it using Luna-high effort over 20 test cases (run x3). The depressing thing is its very hard to show a real improvement. You can improve recall but your NNR explode Its crazy how…

https://bsky.app/profile/aarontay.bsky.social/post/3mxldpc7u4k23

Published: October 11, 2026 06:08

Having fun testing and tuning a codex/claude skill that takes a research question, constructs and pilots search strategies live in Pubmed and presents its best search strategy. This is like my 2nd serious attempt.…

https://bsky.app/profile/aarontay.bsky.social/post/3mxc5n7d7fc2t

Published: October 7, 2026 14:26

You might be surprised to know this but I'm uncomfortable with the idea of the library spending money on buying books that are ai generated. It's particularly bad if all you get is some corporate author...and not named individual authors /1