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
You already see it on Amazon. Do a search for “matrix”: not only do you only see Keanu Reeves movie results on the first page, but the left rail focuses on movies...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | October 16, 2019 at 12:52 PM
When I enter a physical store, my intent is “I want to buy X” or “I’m looking for something in order to do X.” It’s not “Show me the products that satisfy characteristics...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | October 14, 2019 at 09:01 AM
Decision making, especially at technology companies, is supposed to be data-driven. Unfortunately, even in this wondrous age of science, decisions often depends...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | September 4, 2019 at 11:23 AM
Martin, thanks for the kind words. The TunkRank that Jason Adams implemented has been down for a while. I’m not aware of any other implementation that is available...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 17, 2019 at 10:04 PM
I’m hardly an expert on legal IR. But here are a few pointers:
Passage retrieval in legal texts
[PDF] Passage Retrieval Starting from Patent Claims A Clef-Ip 2013...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 11, 2019 at 10:44 PM
I can only offer high-level guidance in a comment thread. But it sounds like you might benefit from collecting trigrams as well as bigrams. If mug tree stands are...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 8, 2019 at 11:37 AM
I discuss it a bit in this post: https://queryunderstanding.com/query-expansion-2d68d47cf9c8Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | July 9, 2019 at 10:45 AM
A typical approach for processing search queries is to retrieve a set of matching documents and then rank them with a relevance scoring function. This simple approach...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | July 8, 2019 at 11:03 AM
A lesson that we software engineers learn early in our careers is that “premature optimization is the root of all evil.” This gem of advice from the inimitableDonald...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | June 24, 2019 at 09:01 AM
Much of the innovation in information retrieval and recommender systems focuses on better targeting in order to improve relevance. Those of us who develop suchin...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | April 22, 2019 at 09:01 AM
Thanks Tony! And you’re right thatI’m oversimplifying. My excuse is that it was already a 2,000-word post. :-)Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | March 26, 2019 at 02:01 PM
Query understanding and relevance are key aspects of search, but they don’t tell the whole story. A holistic framework for search calls for a broader perspective...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | March 25, 2019 at 09:01 AM
At first glance, the design and development of search engines appear to be concerned mainly with computer science — particularly information retrieval, machine,...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | March 11, 2019 at 09:01 AM
One of my earliest blog posts was “A Twitter Analog to PageRank”, in which I proposed a simple measure for Twitter influence.As the title indicates, the measure...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | February 19, 2019 at 09:01 AM
I recommend the links at the bottom of Peter Norvig’s post: https://norvig.com/spell-correct.htmlDaniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | December 8, 2018 at 02:50 PM
Mike, I appreciate your detailed response. And I agree that there are worse possible worlds than our present one — specifically, that replacing disclosed advertising...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | December 3, 2018 at 04:46 PM
Long-time readers know that I’m not a fan of ads. Specifically, I’m not a fan of ad-supported business models. But is that just a matter of personal taste? Or does...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | November 26, 2018 at 10:01 AM
I don’t always attend conferences. But when I do, I prefer conferences full of search practitioners focused on solving real-world problems.I just came back from...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | October 19, 2018 at 12:39 PM
Thanks for the kind words. As for how to get your team to approach query understanding, it’s hard to give generic advice. But if you can find a way to categorize...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | October 2, 2018 at 11:07 PM
Julius Caesar started his famous text on the Gallic wars with the sentence “Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres.”Like Gaul, query understanding is, as a whole...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | October 2, 2018 at 12:34 PM