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
Thanks for the shout-out! I also recommend Giovanni Fernandez-Kincade’s posts on the subject, which you can find at https://medium.com/related-works-inc.Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | September 13, 2018 at 06:00 PM
Thanks Vibhu. There are a lot of published case studies about A/B testing in general, but I’m not sure what’s published specifically about A/B testing for search...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | September 4, 2018 at 11:05 AM
There are lots of articles out there telling you how to be a good manager. This isn’t one of them. This post is specifically directed at people who manage search...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 30, 2018 at 10:02 AM
When I talk to software engineers and product managers about improving their search engines, the conversation often leads to query expansion, and specifically synonyms...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 20, 2018 at 10:01 AM
I can’t share those details, but I can say that geography certainly impact latency when you’re serving from the cloud, especially when you are doing query processing...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 17, 2018 at 11:06 AM
Search: Should You Build, Buy, Or Borrow?A challenge that many companies face is deciding whether to build, buy, or borrow their core search technology. As with...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 17, 2018 at 10:01 AM
Thanks Shawn! I think that Amazon was the first place that I saw this flow, and it certainly inspired my team’s work at LinkedIn. Amazon’s price sort can still...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 7, 2018 at 11:55 PM
I agree that the search engine can only do so much to make up for poorly structured data. If you look at one my “shopping is hard” post, you’ll see that my top...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 6, 2018 at 06:05 PM
A common use case for online shopping is searching for products — say, coffee makers — and then sorting the results by price, from low to high, in order to find...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 6, 2018 at 10:01 AM
Product development work should be data-driven — or, to be more precise, data-informed. We live in an age of science, which means that we should use data to resolve...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | July 30, 2018 at 10:01 AM
In 1992, Mattel released the infamous Teen Talk Barbie, most known — and rightfully mocked — for saying “Math is hard, let’s go shopping!” Actually, that’s a paraphrase...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | July 23, 2018 at 11:01 AM
I’d hope that a job description would align with these kinds of questions. It’s one of the reasons to publish questions — the interviewing process shouldn’t be...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | July 19, 2018 at 02:17 PM
Technical interviewing is hard, and it’s a subject I’m very passionate about personally.But this post isn’t about technical interviewing in general. It’s specifically...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | July 19, 2018 at 11:48 AM
A/B testing is a critical tool for improving search products. While A/B testing has limitations and shouldn’t be the only analytical method you use, it’s the single...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | July 12, 2018 at 03:39 PM
You’re welcome, Dima!The best technique I know for encouraging users to enter natural language searches is to promote them through autocomplete. For example, on...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | July 9, 2018 at 12:44 PM
In this series, I’ve focused on the context of traditional search applications, which are the main beneficiaries of better query understanding. But given the rapid...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | June 14, 2018 at 01:23 PM
On the surface, using a voice interface for search doesn’t seem that different from typing text into a search box.Converting speech to text and vice versa is aAmazon...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | May 29, 2018 at 10:01 AM
Indeed, there are lots of challenges with faceted search in practice.With regard to the three problems you raise:1) I agree that faceted search has a way of unlocking...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | May 11, 2018 at 05:17 PM
When we talk about search, we have traditionally thought in terms of search results being documents or products. Searchers, however, increasingly think of search...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | May 1, 2018 at 10:01 AM
Search queries that express broad intent often return intractably large result sets. We’ve already discussed faceted search as a way to help users narrow theirScatter...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | April 16, 2018 at 09:01 AM