AI & sources
What to check before you give an AI tool your notes
Whether it's safe to put your notes into an AI tool depends on two things: what's in the notes, and what the tool does with them. Here's how to check both.
4 min read
AI & sources
How AI answers work, where they go wrong, and how to check them.
AI & sources
What an AI citation tells you, and what it doesn't
A citation next to an AI answer tells you where to look. It doesn't tell you the answer is right. Here's what the research found, and a one-minute way to check.
4 min read
AI & sources
Keyword search vs asking your notes: what's the difference?
Keyword search finds the words you typed. Semantic search looks for what you meant. Each one misses things the other catches, so it helps to know which to reach for.
4 min read
AI & sources
What is RAG? Retrieval-augmented generation, explained simply
RAG means an AI looks up relevant passages first and answers from them. Here's how that works, step by step, with a notes example, and where it still goes wrong.
4 min read
AI & sources
How to use AI for studying without skipping the learning
An AI tool can make studying faster and learning weaker at the same time. The difference is whether you try first and ask second.
4 min read
AI & sources
Why AI answers make things up, and how sources help you check them
AI tools sometimes give fluent, confident answers that are wrong. Knowing why it happens tells you how to check them.
3 min read
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