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
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Search is unquestionably my hammer, so it’s easy for me to frame everything as a search problem. After...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | November 22, 2022 at 09:01 AM
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Despite its importance, content quality is hard to define without devolving into circularity. What we mean by content quality is a measure or collection of measures...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 10, 2022 at 11:50 AM
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One of the challenges facing search applications is that users aren’t necessarily searching for documents. To put it another way, the unit of content that a user...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | April 25, 2022 at 09:03 AM
By the UASG Communications Working Group Imagine trying to complete a transaction online — signing up for a class, ordering food delivery or subscribing to your...UASG From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | April 20, 2022 at 09:40 AM
Search engines are at the heart of the digital world. We interact with them on the outside, using search engines to find information, products, and more. But they...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | April 19, 2022 at 01:20 PM