I’m sick of windows, but maybe I should just not risk messing with operating systems I don’t understand? (Also I really hope those screenshots don’t doxx me or something)

It’s a little learning curve, but don’t give up - I’m happy to see that you aren’t! Your understanding is already increasing step by step, and you’ll feel a lot of satisfaction because of this too 💪🚀

Check out xremap https://github.com/xremap/xremap

One big, sad problem in machine learning and AI is that many, hopefully not most, practitioners there are largely incompetent in statistics and probability. This is why they often incorrectly evaluate the performance before deployment.

Does it really? sad. I was reading the “invite” process and can’t say I fully understand it.

Papers can always be uploaded to https://libgen.is/scimag/librarian/ Many thanks to all the anonymous users who do.

Yes, though I think I also read it from other sources. But I want to read more and find out further news about those claims.

No, I stand corrected: the summary/snippet wasn’t showing some of the quoted search words, but the page had all of them. Well done SearXNG.

Trying it these past days and I’m impressed!

I didn’t know about this – that may explain the problem.

Nice initiative besides the search service! Thanks for sharing.

True about the good old-Google feeling! I want to find how much about of the shadiness claims about Startpage have been substantiated or denied.

Really funny about page 😂 Cool that they share the git code!

Admittedly it could be a temporary fluctuation of some kind.

I tried Kagi for a while, but it was giving me less useful results than DDG, so I simply left it. I think it depends a lot on what kinds of searches one does, and Kagi is more useful for other users.

I’ll give Qwant too a try, cheers! Testing SearXNG for a couple of days first.

Tried Startpage a while ago, but was put off but some alleged iffy dealings of the company behind it. Trying SearXNG now and I’m impressed!

I’ve been using SearXNG during the last day and I’m quite impressed too so far!

True what you say about the problems behind net search. It’s actually a very complex problem. In my opinion part of the problem is that there’s a lot (most?) of rubbish out there. It’s like a library with useful books of different genres all mixed together, and mixed with an even larger amount of nonsense books. Maybe a solution would be something completely different from indexing – but I have no idea what.

Thank you for the explanation about rankings, and the SearXNG suggestion. I’m trying it now and it looks promising!

Didn’t know about several of these, cheers!

It’s very likely to depend on the kinds of searches I do, indeed. Although I think it’s the same as in the previous years. Could also be just a subjective impression, so I’ll try to keep count of how often the “!g” really leads to better results.

I’m trying SearX today, after so many recommended it. It looks promising! Thank you for pointing out the multiple-engines setup.

One possible drawback: it seems I can’t do “verbatim” searches; or at least, quotation marks don’t seem to lead to verbatim searches – I’ll try with “+”. DDG was adamant with quotation marks, that’s something I liked a lot about it.