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HN Search Is Misleading

1 pointsby GirishSharma643about 2 months ago
When I search USMLE, it gives me list of topics, but none is related to USMLE, rather it gives topics whose title have &quot;useless&quot; word in it.<p>Am I missing something?

3 comments

Ukvabout 2 months ago
Works fine for me. As you scroll down&#x2F;go through the pages you&#x27;ll get looser matches, but the first topic results I get for &quot;USMLE&quot; all seem exact:<p>1. <i>&quot;ChatGPT Has Passed the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE)&quot;</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34483030">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34483030</a><p>2. <i>&quot;Show HN: Medical LLM API on par with Google Med-PaLM 2. 92% USMLE accuracy&quot;</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37038021">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37038021</a><p>3. <i>&quot;Med-PaLM 2 reaches a score of 86.5% on MEDQA (USMLE)&quot;</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35971465">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35971465</a><p>And for comments:<p>1. <i>&quot;[...] akin to passing the bar or USMLE could go a long way to solving this problem [...]&quot;</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43315182">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43315182</a><p>2. <i>&quot;[...] very clear that there will be significant disparities by race in USMLE boards in pretty much exactly the same pattern [...]&quot;</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43234441">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43234441</a><p>3. <i>&quot;[...] Suggests MEDIAN USMLE step 1 scores for White, Asian, Hispanic&#x2F;Latino, and [...]&quot;</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43226207">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43226207</a><p>Generally find HN search works very well, being fast and comprehensive.
mtmailabout 2 months ago
I see USMLE related results: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;e2JrsQC" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;e2JrsQC</a> But when limiting to the shorter timeframe like &#x27;last month&#x27; the titles containing &#x27;useless&#x27; are returned more. Seems to be the usual too-helpful search engine behavior trying to return possible typos rather than no results.
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gus_massaabout 2 months ago
I get good resultr, but in the configuration section there is an option &quot;typo tolerance&quot;, you may try disabling it.