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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
From Schneier on Security Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration … B. Schneier | February 29, 2024
Search Results Presentation
From The Noisy Channel

Search Results Presentation

Until now, we’ve mostly focused on query processing — which is to be expected, given that this series is about query understanding. But given that searchers are... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | February 20, 2018 at 11:57 PM
Some Notes on "Learned Bloom Filters"
From My Biased Coin

Some Notes on "Learned Bloom Filters"

About a month ago, a draft paper was put out on arxiv called The Case for Learned Indexed Structures by the people at Google Brain.  The paper has received some... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | January 25, 2018 at 09:15 AM
Great post, and thanks for the shout-out! Excited to read the rest of the series.
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Great post, and thanks for the shout-out! Excited to read the rest of the series.

Great post, and thanks for the shout-out! Excited to read the rest of the series. Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | January 24, 2018 at 05:23 PM
Faceted Search
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Faceted Search

Faceted search is a topic broad enough to deserve its own book. It has become a standard feature of all modern search engines, including open-source platforms like... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | January 24, 2018 at 03:12 PM
I didn’t say it’s illegal for search engines, hiQ, or anyone else to attempt to attempt to index…
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I didn’t say it’s illegal for search engines, hiQ, or anyone else to attempt to attempt to index…

I didn’t say it’s illegal for search engines, hiQ, or anyone else to attempt to attempt to index the LinkedIn public profiles. Quite the opposite.Here’s what I said... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | January 18, 2018 at 05:41 PM
Double-blind, ALENEX
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Double-blind, ALENEX

I wanted to point people to a pair of blog posts (Part 1, Part 2) by Suresh Venkatasubramanian at the geomblog discussing the experience of having the ALENEX conference... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | January 9, 2018 at 09:27 PM
Thanks Randy!
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Thanks Randy!

Thanks Randy! And I promise I’ll discuss some of the issues of mobile and voice interfaces in future posts. Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | January 8, 2018 at 02:07 PM
Relevance Feedback
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Relevance Feedback

The idea of modeling search as a conversation has been around for decades. One of the oldest ideas in information retrieval is relevance feedback, which dates back... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | January 3, 2018 at 12:51 PM
I see that you object to my sentence that “When users opt to make their profiles “public”, they do…
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I see that you object to my sentence that “When users opt to make their profiles “public”, they do…

I see that you object to my sentence that “When users opt to make their profiles “public”, they do so with the expectation that their public profile will appear... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | December 22, 2017 at 01:13 AM
Thank you for the kind words.
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Thank you for the kind words.

Thank you for the kind words. As for your second point, Nick Bostrom defines “superintelligence” as “an intellect that is much smarter than the best human brains... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | December 21, 2017 at 04:42 PM
An interesting topic! I have seen sites with functionality along these lines:
From The Noisy Channel

An interesting topic! I have seen sites with functionality along these lines:

An interesting topic! I have seen sites with functionality along these lines: Travel sites that inform you whether you can get better prices if your dates are flexible... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | December 21, 2017 at 10:49 AM
2017 in Review: UASG Continues Its Mission
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group

2017 in Review: UASG Continues Its Mission

By Don Hollander, Secretary General of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) 2017 was an important year for the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG)... Don Hollander
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | December 21, 2017 at 03:51 AM
Clarification Dialogues
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Clarification Dialogues

As we saw in the previous post, modeling search as a conversation makes it possible to overcome breakdowns in communication between the searcher and the searchspelling... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | December 13, 2017 at 11:49 AM
Search as a Conversation
From The Noisy Channel

Search as a Conversation

Most search applications assume a query-response paradigm: the searcher submits a search query, and the search engine responds with results. The query-responseprecision... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | November 27, 2017 at 09:01 AM
Thanks. If you’re interested in this area, I suggest you read the series of posts I’ve been writing…
From The Noisy Channel

Thanks. If you’re interested in this area, I suggest you read the series of posts I’ve been writing…

Thanks. If you’re interested in this area, I suggest you read the series of posts I’ve been writing at queryunderstanding.com. Those do include more references,... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | November 22, 2017 at 12:24 PM
Harvard CS Concentrators Jump Again
From My Biased Coin

Harvard CS Concentrators Jump Again

During my time as Area Dean for computer science, the number of computer science majors at Harvard more than doubled.  Growth has continued, and according to the... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | November 16, 2017 at 09:02 AM
Better Search through Better Queries
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Better Search through Better Queries

I spend a lot of time helping companies improve their search engines. Much of my work involves returning better results for their users’ search queries. But there... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | November 10, 2017 at 01:07 PM
BARC, Copenhagen
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BARC, Copenhagen

A few summers ago, I had an opportunity to visit Copenhagen, and work with Rasmus Pagh for a month.   I (and the family) liked it so much we went back the nextAarhus... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | November 9, 2017 at 08:02 AM
Personalization
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Personalization

In 1964, information science pioneer William Goffman said:Relevance is defined as a measure of information conveyed by a document relative to a query…[but] thecontext... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | November 6, 2017 at 08:01 AM
Thanks Andrei. Indeed, there’s a lot more to seasonality than I covered in this post.
From The Noisy Channel

Thanks Andrei. Indeed, there’s a lot more to seasonality than I covered in this post.

Thanks Andrei. Indeed, there’s a lot more to seasonality than I covered in this post. Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | October 30, 2017 at 11:09 PM
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