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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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Daniel Tunkelang: Web Science: How is it different?
This morning, I had the honor and pleasure to deliver a keynote address at the ACM Web Science 2014 Conference. I entitled it "Web Science: How is it different...
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Daniel Tunkelang: A Leap of Faith
My CEO Jeff Weiner likes to say that trust equals consistency over time. It’s a principle that applies as much to relationships with people as it does to machine...
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Daniel Tunkelang: Bringing Empathy into the Workplace
Recently I’ve participated in several intense conversations with workplace colleagues. It wouldn't be appropriate for me to discuss the content. But I want to share...
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Daniel Tunkelang: Search at LinkedIn: Brooklyn Edition
On Thursday, Asif Makhani and I had the pleasure of sharing the story of LinkedIn search with two audiences in my former hometown of Brooklyn. In fact, both talks...
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Daniel Tunkelang: Transformation of Self
One of LinkedIn's core cultural values is transformation of self. For many people, that means pursuing your dream job. For others, it means being able to learnBell's...
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Daniel Tunkelang: Interviewing Engineers is an Engineering Problem
There's a lot of advice out there about how to interview software engineers, much of it good. But what's been missing is a framing of interviewing engineers asmultiple...
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Daniel Tunkelang: Should Interviewers Require Take-Home Coding Assignments?
Earlier this week, my colleague Jakob Heuser published a post entitled "I'm Sorry, I Won't Do Your Take Home Coding Exercise". Here's a summary of his argumenthow...
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Daniel Tunkelang: Interviewing Engineers is a Team Sport
Let me start with a shout-out to Yishan Wong, who wrote the definitive essay on hiring engineers. Here’s how it begins: Hiring is number one. This means "make hiring...
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Daniel Tunkelang: Whose Data Is It Anyway?
Last week Paul Adams, who was part of the original Google+ team and then spent a couple of years at Facebook, published a great post on product lessons we can learn...
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Daniel Tunkelang: When to Disagree and Not Commit
Companies such as Intel and Amazon have popularized an approach to group decision making known as "disagree and commit". During the decision-making process, everyone's...
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Daniel Tunkelang: Is Engineering-Driven Culture Sexist?
Some topics are hot enough that most people in the tech industry simply avoid them. One is the sexism that prevails in tech company cultures. Another is the way...
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Daniel Tunkelang: Search as Communication
Last year, I gave a talk at Etsy on "Search as Communication" as part of their Code as Craft speaker series. I'm pleased to see that the video is now posted on...
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Daniel Tunkelang: Your Trade-Offs Define You
In her essay "On Self-Respect", Joan Didion tells us that "people with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes. They know the price of things." I read that...
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Daniel Tunkelang: Search Quality at LinkedIn
Yesterday evening, I had the pleasure to see my colleagues Abhimanyu Lad and Satya Kanduri talk to the Bay Area Search Meetup about "Search Quality at LinkedIn"...
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Daniel Tunkelang: Socializing Search. Professionally.
Attending the annual O'Reilly Strata Conference on big data has become an annual tradition. This year, my colleague Sriram Sankar and I talked about LinkedIn Search...
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Daniel Tunkelang: Hacking the Management Pyramid
The latest management buzzword is "holacracy", a corporate governance philosophy that replaces the traditional chain of command with employee self-government. Twitter...
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Daniel Tunkelang: The Changing Face of Exploratory Search
A key contribution from library science to search engine developers is the distinction between navigational search and exploratory search.Navigational search is...
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Daniel Tunkelang: Machine Learning as a Metaphor
Last week, I attended the QCon international software development conference in San Francisco, where I had the honor to chair a track on Applied Machine Learning...
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Daniel Tunkelang: Social Search in a Professional Context
Today, I had the honor of presenting a keynote at the Workshop on Data-driven User Behavioral Modeling and Mining from Social Media, taking place as part of the...
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