I don’t usually talk in public about the technical side of what I do at work, but I co-wrote a post for the company blog a few weeks ago on how we build and use language models which I should have linked to earlier.
Adolph S. Ochs, New-York, Aug. 18, 1896:
To undertake the management of The New-York Times, with its great history for right doing, and to attempt to keep bright the lustre which Henry J. Raymond and George Jones have given it is an extraordinary task. But if a sincere desire to conduct a high-standard newspaper, clean, dignified, […]
I finally read Vannevar Bush’s essay As We May Think for the first time this week. For something written in 1945, it’s amazing; for that matter, if it had been written in 1975, it would have been just as amazing for its uncanny predictive power. He outlines something very close to the […]
This is rainy season in San Francisco. It’s also, unfortunately, the time of year when Pacific Bell SBC at&t delivers new yellow pages.
I just about stopped using the yellow pages nearly a decade ago, long before I started working at a search engine and long before there was good integration of local information with […]