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From Blog@Ubiquity

How to Deal with Post-truthism

The very definition of post-truth implies rejecting fact-based logic. Too few possess the skill of distinguishing between self-serving claims, and reliable, well... Philip Yaffe
From Blog@Ubiquity | May 10, 2017 at 12:02 PM

From My Biased Coin

Super-Important Things to Do Right Now for STOC 2017

STOC 2017 is just around the corner, which means that several deadlines are just around the corner.The student travel support request deadline is this Thursday,... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | May 10, 2017 at 09:38 AM

From The Noisy Channel

Thanks Bart. I haven’t read it, but I’ll take a look. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks Bart. I haven’t read it, but I’ll take a look. Thanks for sharing. Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | April 29, 2017 at 04:27 PM

From The Noisy Channel

Query Segmentation

The previous two posts focused on using query rewriting to increase recall. We can also use query rewriting to increase precision — that is, to reduce the number... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | April 28, 2017 at 02:51 PM

From Blog@Ubiquity

Insider Attacks Are A Bigger and Harder Threat?

There is a new trend apparently emerging to defend against data loss and data damage as a result of external hacking. Some organizations have been removing their... James B. Morris
From Blog@Ubiquity | April 27, 2017 at 10:23 AM

From My Biased Coin

STOC Theory Fest Announcements

There's a lot of new information up at the STOC web page http://acm-stoc.org/stoc2017/ about the amazing theory fest June 19-23 in Montreal. In particular, most... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | April 18, 2017 at 10:05 AM

From The Noisy Channel

A Non-Adversarial Ad-Supported Model

If you’ve followed me for a while, you know that I’m not a big fan of ad-supported business models. It’s not just that I find ads annoying; I also see them as economically... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | April 15, 2017 at 07:23 PM

From Blog@Ubiquity

The end of ICE is near – or not?

The internal combustion engine (ICE) has reigned supreme for over 100 years, but prognosticators are predicting its demise over the next few decades – or NOT, depending... Ted Lewis
From Blog@Ubiquity | April 12, 2017 at 01:06 PM

From The Noisy Channel

Thanks for the kind words!

Thanks for the kind words!Stack Overflow and Quora certainly have reputation systems, and I love both sites. But I don’t feel either of them is focusing on being... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | April 6, 2017 at 02:32 PM

From The Noisy Channel

How could LinkedIn be disrupted?

When I worked at LinkedIn, I focused on its mission of “connecting talent to opportunity at a massive scale”. Or, as I preferred to describe it, helping people... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | April 5, 2017 at 06:59 PM

From The Noisy Channel

Thanks for the kind words and for the heads up on the broken link, which I’ve now fixed.

Thanks for the kind words and for the heads up on the broken link, which I’ve now fixed. And good point about polo — a good reminder generally that all language... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | March 31, 2017 at 12:15 PM

From The Noisy Channel

Query Relaxation

In the previous post, we discussed query expansion as a way to increase recall. In this post we’ll discuss the other major technique for increasing recall: query... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | March 28, 2017 at 03:31 PM

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I recognize that my participation in the gig economy is hardly representative of most people’s…

I recognize that my participation in the gig economy is hardly representative of most people’s experience. Indeed, I wrote a post about “The Hook-Up Economy” (https... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | March 19, 2017 at 02:45 PM

From The Noisy Channel

Query Expansion

A key application of query rewriting is increasing recall — that is, matching a larger set of relevant results. In extreme cases… Continue reading on Query Understanding... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | March 13, 2017 at 09:38 AM

From My Biased Coin

SIGACT Distinguished Service Prize Call, 2017

Call for Nominations2017 SIGACT Distinguished Service Prize The Theory community benefits in many ways from the dedicated service, above and beyond the call of... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | February 23, 2017 at 03:12 PM

From The Noisy Channel

Martin, I don’t envy you the challenge of trying to improve search for clients who value search…

Continue reading on Medium » Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | February 21, 2017 at 04:40 PM

From The Noisy Channel

How To Improve Your Search Experience

As a high-class consultant, I spend a lot of time helping companies improve their search experiences. Every company has a unique set of… Continue reading on Medium... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | February 21, 2017 at 08:32 AM

From The Noisy Channel

Query Rewriting: An Overview

Thus far, we’ve focused on query understanding at the character and token level. It’s time move up the stack, on to entities and the query… Continue reading on... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | February 16, 2017 at 10:25 AM

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Lots of good stuff in there.

Of course, the most annoying thing is an unexpected, unsolicited phone call. Once I’ve determined that it’s a legitimate aggressive sales… Continue reading on ... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | February 10, 2017 at 02:32 PM

From The Noisy Channel

Stemming and Lemmatization

Different forms of a word often communicate essentially the same meaning. For example, there’s probably no difference in intent between a… Continue reading on ... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | February 6, 2017 at 09:02 AM