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’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
Just a reminder that next week is the 50th STOC in Los Angeles! You can still come and register on site, so please come -- the program is STOC-full of good stuff...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 22, 2018 at 03:26 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
Jeremy Fineman and I are co-chairing the 2019 Symposium on Simplicity in Algorithms, the second year of this new endeavor. It's nicely co-located with SODA, and...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | May 29, 2018 at 08:34 AM
Just a reminder that the early registration for STOC 2018 is June 1. Besides wanting that early registration discount price, you really want to also make your...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | May 29, 2018 at 08:26 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
Some SIGACT related-stuff of import:First, there's an election going on!!! If you're an ACM/SIGACT member, you've probably gotten an e-mail about this, and it's...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | May 7, 2018 at 02:40 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
By Don Hollander, Secretary General of the UASG The issue of Universal Acceptance of all domain names and all email addresses is well understood by members of the...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | April 25, 2018 at 11:17 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
Several years ago, I worked on a project where the goal was to try to come up with an "equitable" version of a measure of dependence; the idea was you could take...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | April 15, 2018 at 12:23 PM
I was asked to post to announce the workshop/bootcamp on Sublinear Algorithms, June 10-13 at MIT. I plan to be there and possibly talk about some new work. From...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | April 11, 2018 at 03:28 PM
The following is from Yuval Rabani, regarding a joint initiative we are moving forward with to establish policies, procedures, and institutions to deal with harassment...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | March 26, 2018 at 12:33 PM
I was asked to post the following notice for the upcoming Swedish Summer School for (theoretical) computer scientists. I gave some lectures for it a couple ofhttp...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | March 22, 2018 at 09:58 AM
Search result snippets, also known as query-biased summaries, are the additional context included with each result on the search results page. They are an essential...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | March 12, 2018 at 11:24 AM
For the small-ish subset of people out there who care about "learned Bloom filters" (the subject of my last post), I have a small-ish update. I guess the datafixed...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | March 6, 2018 at 03:21 PM