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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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I’ve done both.
I’ve done both. Much of the work I do involves helping teams with prioritization, evaluation, choosing among architectural or algorithmic options, hiring, etc....
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Living The Dream
A year ago, I decided to take a break from full-time employment and explore a mix of consulting, advising, writing, and speaking. Continue reading on Medium »
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Spelling Correction
Spelling correction is a must-have for any modern search engine. Continue reading on Query Understanding »
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Tokenization
Now that we can handle characters, let’s move on to words. Continue reading on Query Understanding »
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I feel strongly that we should have non-exclusive ownership of our raw behavioral data — that’s…
But I’m not convinced that we should have any inherent rights to inferences that companies make from observing our behavior. Especially if… Continue reading on...
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Privatizing Our Past
The essence of machine learning is learning from data. Since we can only learn from past data, machine learning uses our knowledge of the… Continue reading on ...
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Democratizing Reputation
I was an early adopter of LinkedIn. As one of the first 50K people to join the platform in 2003, I started blogging about it in 2008 and… Continue reading on ...
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Character Filtering
Search queries are made up of characters. It’s easy to take characters for granted; indeed, people who have never implemented a search… Continue reading on Query...
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Language Identification
Queries are the primary way that searchers communicate with search engines. But it’s difficult to get started with query understanding… Continue reading on Query...
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Overcoming Information Asymmetry
A couple of years ago, I wrote a post entitled “Information Asymmetry in the Workplace” that discussed compensation in the Alliance… Continue reading on »
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Introduction
Search engines are so core to our digital experience that we take them for granted. Most of us cannot remember the web without Google to… Continue reading on Query...
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IP addresses might only be accurate to the city level.
But that’s still useful, e.g., for determining that New York Pizza (http://www.nypizza.info/) Continue reading on »
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Data Recycling
One technique I’ve seen succeed again and again is data recycling. You may be doing it already. If not, you should add it to your toolbox. Continue reading on ...
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Great post!
http://thenoisychannel.com/2012/03/18/facing-prosopagnosia Continue reading on »
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The End of Intellectual Property?
Some people fear the singularity. I have a more mundane concern: are we approaching the end of intellectual property? Continue reading on »
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I’m not saying that all CTO roles wouldn’t have played to my strengths and passions, just that this…
I’m something of a hybrid between a chief scientist, engineering leader, and product leader. But I’m not particularly an IT and operations… Continue reading on...
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Thrilled to see Melinda Gates prioritizing her investments to focus on women in tech!
My suggestion isn’t particularly original, but I believe it bears repeating: we need to develop a more data-driven, rubric-based approach… Continue reading on ...
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