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 am proud to share the slides for “Semantic Equivalence of e-Commerce Queries”, which my eBay colleague Aritra Mandal presented this morning at the KDD 2023 Workshop...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 7, 2023 at 12:49 PM
I hope that everyone has been enjoying the summer. I took a sabbatical from teaching, but I’m looking forward to new students this fall.Are you excited to learn...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 3, 2023 at 05:49 PM
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Let me start with the disclaimer that this post describes an embryonic idea, not an approach that I have validated through analysis or experimentation. With that...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | July 10, 2023 at 09:02 AM
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In 1998, Jaime Carbonell and Jade Goldstein proposed maximal marginal relevance (MMR) as way to balance the concerns of relevance and diversity. This measure is...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | May 3, 2023 at 09:01 AM
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Thanks to this post by Behdad Esfahbod, I’ve been reminiscing about an interview problem I used to use at Google and LinkedIn. Google just announced that Bard can...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | April 21, 2023 at 05:26 PM
Most of us who work on search focus on its engineering or product aspects. But I feel it’s valuable to also look at search philosophically. I’m no expert on philosophy...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | April 19, 2023 at 11:13 AM
Search evaluation requires a variety of strategies.Evaluating search experiments, such as A/B tests, should focus on the size and direction of their impact.Alerting...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | April 17, 2023 at 06:01 AM