Always clever Google

Tuckahoe! I wanted information on how RAG and Live Intenet Search work with LLMs.  I chose Gemini 2.5 Pro Reasoning, Math & Code for the task.  The final example included as a follow up to expand on real time search included my physical location, which is freely...

Comparing LLM responses

LLM Responses compared I thought a nice exercise would be to take a relatively simple prompt and assess how the Closed and Open models currently available compare.  This is the prompt that I used: <PROMPT> I’m taking my daughter to an oral surgeon today to...

Perplexed-ity?

Perplexed-ity? I came across this blog post from Cloudfare: Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives I’ve read and heard a lot of positive things about Perplexity’s Comet browser.  I want to like them and I want...

AI Action plan, and stuff

AI Action plan Here ya go folks – this is the current administration’s AI Action Plan:  https://www.ai.gov/action-plan Here are some words from the current administration about preventing “woke AI” in the federal government...

Subscribed to One Useful Thing

One Useful Thing is the name of Ethan Mollick’s substack newsletter.  Ethan is the Co-Director of the Wharton Generative AI Labs. Wharton Generative AI Labs has lots of good information including a prompt library: https://gail.wharton.upenn.edu/prompt-library/...