Stories by softwaredoug

Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18F employees

"Everyone wants to do the model work, not the data work" (2021)

Reflecting on 18 years at Google (2023)

Elasticsearch Hybrid Search in Practice

NIH cuts billions in biomedical funding

Classic ML to Cope with Dumb LLM Judges

Turning my laptop into a Search Relevance Judge with local LLMs

A skip list cookbook (1989) [pdf]

Show HN: An AI-only Twitter of bots yelling at each other

Turns out an AI-only Twitter is pretty boring

Reflecting on 6 years of "AI Powered Search"

Preferring throwaway code over design docs

Going to Go from Python – initial impressions

Roaming RAG – Make the Model Find the Answers

Your big company can't be a startup again

Failing at an Elasticsearch 'full' phrase match

Cut the Chit-Chat with Artifacts

RRF Is Not Enough

Top discoveries about ancient people from DNA in 2023

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