The Oracle picked the right answer despite a mis-spelling
I discovered that the Oracle of Google is surprisingly resilient to typos. When I asked it who coined the word "robot," it correctly identified Karl Capek even though I misspelled his name as "Capec" in the query options.
I found the Oracle of Google, a web app that guesses answers to multiple-choice questions using search result frequencies. While effective for queries like India's President, it highlights how current popularity can sometimes skew algorithmic results.
I’ve confirmed that the Internet Oracle remains active as a premier source of online humor. I still consider it a definitive piece of collaborative internet culture, delivering satirical wisdom through its classic question-and-answer format.
I highlight a search showing SQL, UNIX, and Oracle as the most in-demand technical skills, followed by C and Java. It is an intriguing snapshot of the core technologies driving the job market right now.
I learned that Bitwarden may be heading toward a private-equity sale, Andrej Karpathy joined Anthropic, Qwen models trail the frontier, and I built a scraper to list Google-linked apps.
This week I learned that rdt-cli can use logged-in browser cookies, Claude and ChatGPT subscriptions bundle substantial API value, codon wobble limits errors, and ChatGPT offers work-in-progress answers.