14 Feb 25

Welcome to the SearchClub Matrix space! SearchClub is a place for people who are interested in improving the state of search on the Internet to share their knowledge and ideas. This is all about putting search back in the hands of the searcher, and protecting searchers’ privacy and safety online.

by wheresalice 1 year ago

why I built a hyper-personalized search engine that isn’t very good

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12 Feb 25

One paper that caught my attention a bit ago was Selective attention in hypothesis-driven data analysis by Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher. In their study, students who were given specific hypotheses to test were much less likely to notice an obvious “gorilla in the data” compared to students who explored the data freely.

by wheresalice 1 year ago

02 Feb 25

Radicle is an open source, peer-to-peer code collaboration stack built on Git. Unlike centralized code hosting platforms, there is no single entity controlling the network. Repositories are replicated across peers in a decentralized manner, and users are in full control of their data and workflow.

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29 Jan 25

This is the bare minimum necessary to configure Firefox so that it behaves in a reasonable manner.

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28 Jan 25

In this video, a rascal runs afoul of an unthinking, uncaring corporation (again). What might have been a minor technical nuisance turns into an exploration of the expansive intersection between identity and technology!

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26 Jan 25


My goal is to create several voice models for use with the Piper text-to-speech software. I want there to be more voices available without restrictive licenses. Many of the widely available datasets and thus the voices created from them have “for research and learning purposes only”-style licenses.

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