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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 may have been burned, but I’m not willing to let this experience make me that cynical.
I still basically trust people, and I’d like to keep it that way. But now I understand more than before why other people are less trusting. Continue reading on...
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Melinda, you’re right: it should not have taken an experience like this to teach me to be more…
careful. That said, I met the company through someone I trust, and I did spend some time with the team before becoming an advisor.Continue reading on »
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Lesson Learned
This morning, I woke up to find out that a job-matching company I’d been advising, WrkRiot (formerly known as 1for.one and apparently also…Continue reading on...
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Searching for Goldilocks
Many search queries don’t have a single right answer or even an objective best answer. For example, if you’re looking for mailboxes or…Continue reading on »
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Enterprise Intelligence: Putting the Pieces Together
Today I had the honor to keynote the Workshop on Enterprise Intelligence, held in conjunction with the 22nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on…Continue reading on Medium...
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FizzBuzz Recipe
For a while I’ve been determined to make a cocktail called a FizzBuzz. Beyond being tasty, it needed to have enough fizz and buzz to merit…Continue reading on Medium...
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Punch Hard
If you’ve read my posts on reducing scope and incremental product development, you may have concluded that I’m conservative about the…Continue reading on Medium...
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Gireesh, thanks for the response.
Given the interest in this post, I’ll try to follow it up with further thoughts about scoping and prioritization.Continue reading on Medium »
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Reduce Scope
When I left the cocoon of academia nearly two decades ago to become a software engineer, I quickly learned two lessons.Continue reading on Medium »
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Query Understanding: A Manifesto
Query understanding has been my obsession for years. But my recent work at Etsy and Pinterest has sharpened my thinking on the topic.Continue reading on Medium...
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MSFT Acquires LNKD: Raw Thoughts
Like everyone else in Silicon Valley, I woke up this morning to the news that Microsoft is acquiring LinkedIn, my former employer, for $26B…Continue reading on...
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Mark, I did try migrating The Noisy Channel to Medium as a publication following these instructions…
I didn’t mind creating a publication — in fact, I saw that as a plus, since much my Noisy Channel material is a bit different from the…Continue reading on Medium...
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False positives suck, of course.
If you ignore the bigrams, then most of your results are irrelevant. Boost bigram matches a little bit? Then you still have a lot of…Continue reading on Medium...
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Let Bigrams be Bigrams
I’ve spent most of my career advocating for the use of query understanding to improve search relevance. It’s not that I don’t value search…Continue reading on Medium...
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Thinking about a Career in AI?
A few years ago, hardly anyone in the computer science profession would admit to working on “artificial intelligence”. Not unless they had…Continue reading on Medium...
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Where should you put your data scientists?
Today I had the honor of delivering the keynote address at Hilary Mason’s Fast Forward Labs Data Leadership Conference in New York. It was…Continue reading on Medium...
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Hari Seldon, Data Scientist
Like many people who grew up reading science fiction, I idolized Hari Seldon. For those unfamiliar with Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series…Continue reading on Medium...
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Human or Vulcan: Should Data Scientists Rely on Intuition?
Intuition in data science is a funny thing.Continue reading on Medium »
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Hand-coded rules won’t scale.
But a bit of QA would go a long way. And we should all know better than to set an unsupervised bot free on Twitter.Continue reading on Medium »
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