*Anti-Musk: The social media site picking up a lot of X refugees in Australia
Speaking of truth, what is a true kindness? In Jewish religion it is burying a person who has passed away, because dead cannot repay any favor. Especially a dead who has no friends and family. The death is always unexpected, but must be buried same day.
Scientists reveal which creature will RULE Earth should all humans die Daily Mail
I’m a neuroscientist who taught rats to drive − their joy suggests how anticipating fun can enrich human life The Conversation
The truth is stranger (and funnier) than fiction as The Onion buys InfoWars
What’s most useful about Perplexity
Wonder Tools – Jeremy Caplan – “Perplexity is this year’s best new search tool. It uses AI to answer your questions based on online sources. You get concise, relevant summaries with specific citations. These source links allow you to verify information and dig deeper. Read on for examples, limitations, and alternatives.
What’s most useful about Perplexity
- Citations Perplexity provides links to its sources, so you can follow-up on anything you want to learn more about.
- Brevity Instead of long articles or lists of links, get straight-to-the-point answers that save time.
- Tip: quick searches are fine when you’re just looking for a simple fact (e.g. when did Jordan retire). Pro searches are best for more intricate queries like the ones below. Toggle Pro search on or off in the search box.
- Multi-Step Reasoning Perplexity breaks down complex queries into steps. It shows you the phrases it uses to conduct your search.
- Tip: write detailed queries with specifics about what you’re looking for. You’ll get a better result than if you just use keywords.
- Focusing Refine your search by specifying preferred sources or domains for more targeted results. You can narrow your search to focus just on videos, academic publications, or social sources like Reddit.
- Tip: Use a domain limiter to narrow your search to a particular site. Type domain:.gov to focus only on government sites. Or just use natural language to limit Perplexity to certain kinds of sites.
- Follow-ups Ask follow-up questions to dive deeper into a topic, just like a conversation. For visual topics, Perplexity can surface relevant images and videos.
- Collections Group related searches into collections for easy reference and organization. I created one for Atlantabefore a recent trip. You can keep a collection private, invite others to edit it, or share a public link.
- Pages Share search results by creating public pages you can customize. Watch a 1-minute video demo. Example: Beginners Guide to Drumming.
Our World in Data
“Poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality: The world faces many great and terrifying problems. It is these large problems that our work at Our World in Data focuses on. Thanks to the work of thousands of researchers around the world who dedicate their lives to it, we often have a good understanding of how it is possible to make progress against the large problems we are facing.
The world has the resources to do much better and reduce the suffering in the world. We believe that a key reason why we fail to achieve the progress we are capable of is that we do not make enough use of this existing research and data: the important knowledge is often stored in inaccessible databases, locked away behind paywalls and buried under jargon in academic papers.
The goal of our work is to make the knowledge on the big problems accessible and understandable. As we say on our homepage, Our World in Data’s mission is to publish the “research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems”.
- 13,222 charts across 119 topics. All free: open access and open source.
