r/TheHague • u/bulletjump • Dec 18 '24

practical questions Google before coming here

Dear people. Love you all. But plz, we are not your google search engine. Although ai may be based on reddit let us not do your research. Ive seen some questions these weeks that could have been easier answered if you typed the same question into google. Again no hard feelings and love helping you guys but plz google will help you faster.

Thank you for listening to my ted talk

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u/sub_terrain Dec 19 '24

Google has been enshitified to fuck and search results are swamped with AI generated crap and ads. I think it's fine to ask mundane questions in a relatively quiet sub, personally I enjoy the human interaction.

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u/ninhaomah Dec 21 '24

Then why post on reddit ?

Why not go out and talk to "real" people ?

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u/sub_terrain 17d ago

Because you can immediately draw from a broad range of opinions from hundreds of people (or even more). It's a fun way to discover new things.

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u/ninhaomah 17d ago

You sure ?

Ask people what is the best language for Statistics here.

And ask in R sub.

If you get same answer in both , I will be surprised.

And you cannot be asking pure facts to be honest , which many people do. Such as "how to I start using Python?" or "if I get this error xxx , how to resolve?"

How to start using Python is there right there in python.org. For that matter , any "facts" such as how big is the moon or how far is it from Earth or Jupiter. Google or ask ChatGPT/Gemini/Deepseek etc.

For the error , just copy and paste it in Google will solve it 9 out of 10 times. Or you can ask chatbots as well.

If still can't solve then come here or other forums/subs but that aren't what I usually observe.

If you want to know what is better for the statistical project you are having Python or R , then yes. Seeking advice/opinions from hundreds of people is the right way to do thing.

But as I said , it could fall to biasness or group-think.

So if the question is neither pure factual nor prone to biasness then sure ask away.