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
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
Michael O. Rabin Postdoctoral Fellowship in Theoretical Computer ScienceDeadline for full consideration: December 3, 2018. Applications can be submitted here:https...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | October 25, 2018 at 03:43 PM
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
By Dr. Ajay Data, Founder and CEO, XgenPlus Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) enable people around the world to use domain names in local languages and scripts...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | October 16, 2018 at 04:06 AM
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
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
I've just read this, and do not have any specific comments, but I thought this interview with Lenore Blum on her recently announced resignation from CMU would be...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | September 10, 2018 at 02:53 PM
By Don Hollander The Universal Acceptance Steering Group is focused on getting all applications to accept all domain names and all email addresses. We’re doingProgress...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | September 6, 2018 at 03:11 AM
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
A reminder that the deadline for SOSA 2019 is August 16. The submission server is live and running (and we already have some submissions!). The easychair link...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | July 23, 2018 at 08:14 AM