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Great Links to Lucene/Solr Revolution 2015
A great list of links to slides from Mani Siva’s blog. A lot of things I’m currently thinking about: overlaying graphs on Elasticsearch to do content re-ranking, improving search relevancy, what is...
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No Handlebars
Was listening to the Flobots earlier on a run. Feels very appropriate to be thinking about the impact of technology on society and how to do better. Uniform priors now seem much less appropriate to me...
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Struggling with Content Ordering
I agree in freedom of speech. I agree in democratizing publishing. I agree with giving a voice to everyone with as small a barrier to entry as possible. I’m not sure anymore what I think about...
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Technology Apathy
Someone is wrong on the Internet. Sure, personal apathy and sarcasm in the face of lots of people being wrong is understandable. Life is busy, and it takes a lot of energy to discuss something. But...
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Is This Post True?
There’s a lot of discussion about what constitutes fake news, what impact it has, and whether blocking it is the bigger threat. I’d like to instead talk about the perception of truth. How do we change...
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Bash Your Day
For the past six months or so I’ve used a bash script to start my morning. The genesis of this idea was that I wanted to be more effective at prioritizing reviewing other peoples’ code and writing my...
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Notes from The Printing Revolution
I’ve been reading The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe by Elizabeth Eisenstein on the transition of Europe from a scribal culture to a printing culture. In referencing Michael Clapham: A man...
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Top Five Posts from 2016
Most of this blog’s 40k visitors a year are looking at the epic Elasticsearch posts that I wrote years ago. For the most part they seem to still be relevant to people even if they are somewhat...
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Senator Bennet, your email address doesn’t work.
I emailed my Senator a few weeks ago to oppose Gorsuch being appointed to the Supreme Court. His response seems to indicate he thinks Trump nominees are still worthy of consideration. That’s an absurd...
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Combining Search Scores: Winning and Failing
Trey Jones at Wikimedia Foundation published some very interesting notes up about how to think about combining scores for search ranking (particularly Elasticsearch). I like this insight a lot:...
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