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
The most fundamental form of holistic content understanding is classification. Content classification maps a piece of content — that is, an entry in the searchtaxonomy...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | November 9, 2021 at 11:03 AM
There’s a lot of writing about search — especially about ranking and relevance. And recently there’s been an increased focus on the particular challenges of query...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | November 1, 2021 at 10:52 AM
Regular readers know that search is about much more than ranking. If you’re new here, you might want to read this post about ranking vs. relevance.But a topic I...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | October 25, 2021 at 09:01 AM
Search can be computationally intensive. Indeed, search has been the driving force behind many advances in computational efficiency, from MapReduce for distributed...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | October 13, 2021 at 12:54 PM
As a high-class consultant, I don’t just talk to companies about the technical aspects of search. I also help them them address organizational challenges.For example...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | September 20, 2021 at 09:02 AM
The first rule of the Free Advice Club is: you talk about the Free Advice Club! Not like that other club.But I’m getting ahead of myself. I’ve had an extremelyMedium...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 23, 2021 at 09:02 AM
Several weeks ago, I wrote a post advocating the use of AI for query understanding. I argued that holistic query understanding with embeddings and deep learning...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | July 1, 2021 at 01:52 PM
In 1668, John Wilkins published An Essay Towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language. In it, he proposed a universal language that would represent every...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | June 14, 2021 at 09:03 AM
Most folks who work on search worry about relevance. But it’s surprisingly difficult to find a useful definition of relevance.Defining RelevanceMerriam-Webster ...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | June 8, 2021 at 04:03 PM
For feeds and recommendations, ranking is critical. All the inputs are implicit, so machine-learned ranking is the only practical way to optimize engagement.Search...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | June 4, 2021 at 09:04 AM
In improv, there’s a fun game called “new choice”. At any point during the improvised scene, the host can call for a “new choice”. The player who last spoke has...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | June 1, 2021 at 07:03 AM
In the past decade, the incredible progress in word embeddings and deep learning has fueled an interest in neural information retrieval. An increasing number of...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | May 24, 2021 at 07:02 AM
This publication is a series of posts devoted to query understanding. Each post is self-contained, but there is a natural progression. If you’d like to read them...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | April 23, 2021 at 05:17 PM
Recall is a key measure of search quality that doesn’t always get the attention it deserves. But how does a search engine recognize when recall is a problem?Size...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | January 4, 2021 at 08:03 AM
In grade school, we were taught the three Rs: reading, writing, and ‘rithmetic. In search, we can be thankful that the three Rs actually start with the letter R...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | December 21, 2020 at 09:03 AM
Search developers tend to focus most of their efforts on the first page of results. As a result, they prioritize investment in ranking models, with the goal ofprecision...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | December 7, 2020 at 09:02 AM
Francis Fukuyama, Barak Richman, and Ashish Goel recently published a piece in Foreign Affairs, which they ambitiously titled “How to Save Democracy From Technology...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | November 29, 2020 at 06:31 PM
Faceted search is a fascinating topic. It’s a standard feature of site search, and one could write an entire book on the subject. In this post, I’ll focus on some...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | November 23, 2020 at 08:03 AM
A few years ago, I proposed a non-adversarial ad-supported model: an explore-exploit model, applicable to search engines and feeds, that aligns the interests of...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | November 12, 2020 at 05:29 PM
Wolf, thank you for these additional points. I agree that Peter Norvig’s post, while very educational, is a starting point to learn about spelling correction but...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | October 24, 2020 at 03:24 PM