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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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NIPS 2018 Post
Today was my first day at a NIPS conference. Advertising note, before my thoughts on the experience:Tomorrow I'll be stationed at a poster 10:45 AM -- 12:45 PM...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Rajasthan State’s New Email Project Brings Millions of Hindi Speakers Online
Internet adoption in India, one of the world's fastest growing economies, reached a key milestone earlier this year with 500 million Internet users – more thanRajasthan...
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Mike, I appreciate your detailed response.
Mike, I appreciate your detailed response. And I agree that there are worse possible worlds than our present one — specifically, that replacing disclosed advertising...
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Are Ads Really That Bad?
Long-time readers know that I’m not a fan of ads. Specifically, I’m not a fan of ad-supported business models. But is that just a matter of personal taste? Or does...
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Rabin Postdoctoral Fellowship Advertising Post
Michael O. Rabin Postdoctoral Fellowship in Theoretical Computer ScienceDeadline for full consideration: December 3, 2018. Applications can be submitted here:https...
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Activate 2018: Search in Practice
I don’t always attend conferences. But when I do, I prefer conferences full of search practitioners focused on solving real-world problems.I just came back from...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Enterprise Benefits of Internationalized Domain Names
By Dr. Ajay Data, Founder and CEO, XgenPlus Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) enable people around the world to use domain names in local languages and scripts...
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Thanks for the kind words.
Thanks for the kind words. As for how to get your team to approach query understanding, it’s hard to give generic advice. But if you can find a way to categorize...
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Query Understanding, Divided into Three Parts
Julius Caesar started his famous text on the Gallic wars with the sentence “Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres.”Like Gaul, query understanding is, as a whole...
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Thanks for the shout-out!
Thanks for the shout-out! I also recommend Giovanni Fernandez-Kincade’s posts on the subject, which you can find at https://medium.com/related-works-inc.
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Lenore Blum interview
I've just read this, and do not have any specific comments, but I thought this interview with Lenore Blum on her recently announced resignation from CMU would be...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Progress with Email Address Internationalisation
By Don Hollander The Universal Acceptance Steering Group is focused on getting all applications to accept all domain names and all email addresses. We’re doingProgress...
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Thanks Vibhu.
Thanks Vibhu. There are a lot of published case studies about A/B testing in general, but I’m not sure what’s published specifically about A/B testing for search...
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Thoughts about Managing Search Teams
There are lots of articles out there telling you how to be a good manager. This isn’t one of them. This post is specifically directed at people who manage search...
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Real Talk About Synonyms and Search
When I talk to software engineers and product managers about improving their search engines, the conversation often leads to query expansion, and specifically synonyms...
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I can’t share those details, but I can say that geography certainly impact latency when you’re…
I can’t share those details, but I can say that geography certainly impact latency when you’re serving from the cloud, especially when you are doing query processing...
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Search: Should You Build, Buy, or Borrow?
Search: Should You Build, Buy, Or Borrow?A challenge that many companies face is deciding whether to build, buy, or borrow their core search technology. As with...
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Thanks Shawn!
Thanks Shawn! I think that Amazon was the first place that I saw this flow, and it certainly inspired my team’s work at LinkedIn. Amazon’s price sort can still...
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I agree that the search engine can only do so much to make up for poorly structured data.
I agree that the search engine can only do so much to make up for poorly structured data. If you look at one my “shopping is hard” post, you’ll see that my top...
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