I point people to ESR's "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way" [1], using a search engine (and libraries) is indeed an important skill that must be learned and ho

I point people to ESR's "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way" [1], using a search engine (and libraries) is indeed an important skill that must be learned and honed. I really enjoyed Fravia's [2] SearchLores [3] site on how to dig deep into the knowledge of the internet. Most people rarely cross the boundary of the SEO sludge into the really good stuff. There are a couple easy patterns, starting from a seed to iteratively widen and deepen the context. Wikipedia, Archive.org, site:edu, filetype:pdf, libgen, and now chat.openai.com I just asked chatgpt, 'What is a good home experiment to show the concept of "entropy"' and the answer was excellent. I then tried the same question on DDG but appended "site:edu" and found https://paradigms.oregonstate.edu/activity/325/ https://paradigms.oregonstate.edu/activity/325/ Now I am off to do the "Time Dilation Clock Skit" with my kid https://paradigms.oregonstate.edu/activity/548/ https://paradigms.oregonstate.edu/activity/548/ [1] https://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html https://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html (something wrong with his certs) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fravia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fravia [3] https://web.archive.org/web/20191201105758/http://search.lores.eu/indexo.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20191201105758/http://search.lor...