From Schneier on Security
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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B. Schneier| February 29, 2024
I was one of Quora’s earliest users, earned Top Writer status for a few years, and topped the leaderboard as a 9-time Knowledge Prize Winner. One of my answerswhere...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | September 25, 2024 at 11:02 AM
The other day, I posted about the need for search applications to take searchers seriously, not literally. This need holds even when searchers practically ask to...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | September 18, 2024 at 12:42 PM
If you are a search application developer or some other kind of machine learning practitioner, you have probably encountered a cold start problem: launching a data...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | September 16, 2024 at 04:46 PM
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Search application developers manage numerous tradeoffs, foremost the tradeoff between precision and recall. Precision measures the fraction of search results that...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | September 4, 2024 at 02:47 PM
When I first heard about 3D printing, I imagined something like a Star Trek replicator that could synthesize arbitrary objects — or at least meals — on demand.generative...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 30, 2024 at 09:01 AM
The previous post addresses the challenge of selecting which facets a search application should present to searchers as query refinements. However, there is another...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 21, 2024 at 01:59 PM
This post dives into a particular challenge of faceted search, exploring the challenge of selecting which facets a search application should present to searchers...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 15, 2024 at 09:01 AM
Search and DiscoveryIf search has one job, it is to help searchers find what they are looking for. However, many search application developers feel that searchHippocratic...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 13, 2024 at 10:01 AM
The most common goal that my search clients express is a desire to improve their ranking. I always start by managing their expectations and helping them understand...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 6, 2024 at 03:53 PM
If you have thought about hiring a search consultant or working as one, you may have asked yourself what exactly search consultants do. This post offers an opinionated...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 2, 2024 at 09:02 AM
What is the job of a search application? A common answer is that it needs to return the best results for a query, sorted in relevance order. While this answer sounds...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | July 29, 2024 at 09:01 AM
Last year, the emergence of ChatGPT and its ability to generate volumes from short prompts led me to speculate about the compressibility of thought. In a related...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | July 17, 2024 at 01:10 PM
Some search problems have binary answers. We often frame these problems in terms of matching or equivalence. A simplistic formulation of relevance is that a canonicalized...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | June 24, 2024 at 09:02 AM
My writing on AI-powered search promotes the “bag-of-documents” model, which represents a search query as a distribution of vectors for relevant documents. When...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | June 10, 2024 at 02:27 PM
There is a duality between search queries and indexed documents: we can model a query as a bag of documents and a document as a bag of queries. This duality offers...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | May 28, 2024 at 04:11 PM
Is Targeted Advertising Ethical?Targeted advertising is a huge industry with a massive branding problem. On one hand, nearly all of the “free” digital productspromoted...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | May 7, 2024 at 02:46 PM
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A crucial distinction for search applications is the difference between ranking and relevance. In this post, I explain what happens when search applications fail...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | April 29, 2024 at 09:02 AM
The heart of the AI-powered search revolution is the move from sparse bag-of-words representations to dense embedding-based representations. But reducing everything...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | April 15, 2024 at 09:47 AM