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Hey and the next Haystacks CFP is open. You should submit a talk Max! http://haystackconf.com

Props to Sciencenews.org. The articles are interesting. The pages load fast. And lots of meaty references to backup the claims. Will subscribe

You’re right, I was overzealous with that statement. I think my opinion would be the “free” in FOSS is not supported when a business monopolizes a community. That building a company to effectively c…

I was wondering this too. Though it used to be you could monetize programming languages more readily. I wonder as databases approach a commoditization point if the DB market becomes more like the prog…

Most of these projects reached that stage before or early in the life of these companies. So by that logic the companies were not necessary to support the projects.

I don’t disagree. But many projects have a benevolent dictator but are still run by a foundation not a company (like Python, Ruby, etc).

There’s an assumption that an open source project should “belong” to a single company (Mongo, Elastic, Confluent, etc). I think that model may be more dangerous to OSS than large cloud providers. If i…

Cool stuff, appreciate the answer. Makes more sense. BTW feel free to join us on relevance slack community, a lot of us we’re curious what you were doing http://o19s.com/slack …

Very cool, how exactly do you generate the hierarchies? Is there an existing site taxonomy or categorization you’re using? Or associating query strings with the docs clicked and using refinements to s…

In most learning to rank data sets, the only notion of a "query" is a numerical identifier that groups a set of features and a grade. Your goal is to optimize the ordering in that group. Tha…

Sure here it is sadly no videos, just slides https://haystackconf.com/europe2018/

I’d also be curious who your team is exactly and what are their results? Be very interested in learning more

Undoubtedly I’m doing a lot wrong :) Yup that’s one method I teach people in Learning to Rank training. In addition to reducing dimensionality on queries, you can also do so by geo and user depending …

I wonder with Amazon if we’re seeing a failure mode of Apache and BSD licenses, and if the future OSS might trend back towards more aggressively being copy left... or some place in between.

Amazon will probably go broad, not deep. And that can be (and is) leveraged by the right companies. The trick will be differentiating within that space. Take hosted search - AWS Elasticsearch for exam…

Deleted the link I did write a book on the topic, developed the Elasticsearch learning to rank plugin, and have helped several Alexa top 50 sites deliver more accurate search I’m only pointing out tha…

Ah thanks for catching that. Changed to “obsessed”

Very cool! - Most search problems are solved this way - interesting index data modeling to the needed use cases, not magic machine learning neural network unicorns. Many want to sell you the latter. …

Yes. As a practitioner it’s very frustrating I think the situation is pretty analogous to other area with replication crises like psychology and nutrition: local variables dominate. Just like our own …

A version of this happens in software too. See machine learning. There’s definitely valid field with real benefits. But also lots of BS. Nobody wants to call out their peers because everyone benefits …

Yeah and it takes a company the scale of Google to maintain it. Not feasible for pretty much anyone else.

I think there’s a time though when an open source project becomes so dominant in its field, that alternatives become few or untenable. In these cases were all at the mercy of the market for having con…

In a grant-funded and eyeball driven world, science and media have perverse incentives to cherry-pick data to show trends that don't really exist. You live long enough, you get skeptical of '…

If you click through to the underlying report, it shows loneliness rates by generation groupings as of right now. So what is a Gen Zer experiencing with loneliness now. What is a baby boomer experienc…