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
Recall is a key measure of search quality that doesn’t always get the attention it deserves. But how does a search engine recognize when recall is a problem?Size...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | January 4, 2021 at 08:03 AM
The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) Administrative Group is pleased to announce the UA working group leadership selections for the 2021 term (1 January...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | December 23, 2020 at 04:47 AM
In grade school, we were taught the three Rs: reading, writing, and ‘rithmetic. In search, we can be thankful that the three Rs actually start with the letter R...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | December 21, 2020 at 09:03 AM
Search developers tend to focus most of their efforts on the first page of results. As a result, they prioritize investment in ranking models, with the goal ofprecision...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | December 7, 2020 at 09:02 AM
I wanted to give a pointer to a new preprint up on bioRxiv on developing diagnostic assays for viruses, by (first author) Hayden Metsky (and others!) out of the...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | November 29, 2020 at 10:25 PM
Francis Fukuyama, Barak Richman, and Ashish Goel recently published a piece in Foreign Affairs, which they ambitiously titled “How to Save Democracy From Technology...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | November 29, 2020 at 06:31 PM
I wanted to link to a survey that is up entitled Committee on TCS Connections Questionnaire. They are examining modifying approaches to publishing in the theoretical...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | November 26, 2020 at 10:46 AM
Faceted search is a fascinating topic. It’s a standard feature of site search, and one could write an entire book on the subject. In this post, I’ll focus on some...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | November 23, 2020 at 08:03 AM
During the ICANN69 Virtual Annual General Meeting, the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) hosted three sessions focused on Universal Acceptance (UA). Session...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | November 17, 2020 at 02:00 AM
A few years ago, I proposed a non-adversarial ad-supported model: an explore-exploit model, applicable to search engines and feeds, that aligns the interests of...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | November 12, 2020 at 05:29 PM
By Mark Svancarek, Chair, EAI Working GroupMany people around the world are currently excluded from experiencing the full benefits of the Internet simply because...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | November 12, 2020 at 02:00 AM
By Ajay Data, UASG Chair - 29 October 2020 Throughout the year, the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) spearheads global projects that raise awarenessMaking...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | October 29, 2020 at 05:11 AM
Wolf, thank you for these additional points. I agree that Peter Norvig’s post, while very educational, is a starting point to learn about spelling correction but...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | October 24, 2020 at 03:24 PM
In 1984, Robin Williams starred in Moscow on the Hudson as a Russian saxophonist who decides to defect from the USSR during a shopping trip to a New York department...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | September 21, 2020 at 09:01 AM
When we design search applications, we aspire to make the user experience frictionless. A search engine should “just work”, enabling searchers to easily express...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | September 10, 2020 at 03:50 PM
I have a loose association with the Broad Institute, an institute created so that "complementary expertise of the genomic scientists and the chemical biologists...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | September 2, 2020 at 08:32 PM
Thanks. And sorry that slide was cryptically brief. What I mean is that spelling correction should not restrict itself to correcting each token separately. Many...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 28, 2020 at 12:07 PM
In this case, I’m imagining that the only match of the string “black” against one of the attributes is for the “color” attribute. If the string matches multiple...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 27, 2020 at 06:20 PM
The typical integration approach I’ve seen is to use a separate query rewriting service that then either filter the Solr query to the preferred categories / attributes...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 27, 2020 at 06:18 PM
If the results for two queries expressing the same intent are similar, then they should map to similar vectors. If not, then it’s more complicated. You might still...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 14, 2020 at 11:43 AM