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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 …
From My Biased Coin
Sublinear Algorithms Workshop
I was asked to post to announce the workshop/bootcamp on Sublinear Algorithms, June 10-13 at MIT. I plan to be there and possibly talk about some new work. From...
From My Biased Coin
An Ad-Hoc Committee on Sexual Harassment and Related Issues
The following is from Yuval Rabani, regarding a joint initiative we are moving forward with to establish policies, procedures, and institutions to deal with harassment...
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Swedish Summer School
I was asked to post the following notice for the upcoming Swedish Summer School for (theoretical) computer scientists. I gave some lectures for it a couple ofhttp...
From The Noisy Channel
Search Result Snippets
Search result snippets, also known as query-biased summaries, are the additional context included with each result on the search results page. They are an essential...
From My Biased Coin
Optimizing Learned Bloom Filters
For the small-ish subset of people out there who care about "learned Bloom filters" (the subject of my last post), I have a small-ish update. I guess the datafixed...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Report to the ICANN & UASG Community on Recent Activities
Download PDF Core messages at ICANN61 The UASG has several core messages that we’re working on during ICANN61: The first is working through our workshop agendas...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Microsoft announcement of EAI in India
Today, International Mother Language Day, we announced support for EAI in Office 365 and Outlook.com. We are focusing on Outlook and webmail for now, though we...
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...
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...
From The Noisy Channel
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.
From The Noisy Channel
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...
From The Noisy Channel
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...
From My Biased Coin
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...
From The Noisy Channel
Thanks Randy!
Thanks Randy! And I promise I’ll discuss some of the issues of mobile and voice interfaces in future posts.
From The Noisy Channel
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...
From The Noisy Channel
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...
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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...
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...
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)...
From The Noisy Channel