softwaredoug

Thanks for sharing my book ;) I actually just replied to this (fantastic) post with some extra pointers I've discovered on my search projects! https://medium.com/@softwaredoug…

Doug Turnbull here, author of Relevant Search. I'm in love with this post. Thought I'd point out I added a few pointers that stream-of-conscioused into my head as I read this! https:/&…

I put my twitter password behind a hash function that takes a good 10 minutes to run. So current me can make future me a lot more productive by hitting "log out". Future me usually turns out…

Is there a use case for Sonos that good Bluetooth speakers don't address more simply?

> Diverting people from using Lucene/Elasticsearch would then be a breeze. Maybe. But most people's problems with Lucene/Elasticsearch aren't really speed. They use Lucene becau…

Whoah, front page! My colleague Bertrand Rigaldes wrote about evaluating this model https://brigaldies.github.io/learn-to-rank-with-linear-regre... …

Do you think the startup ecosystem is too focused on the Bay Area? Is YCombinator funding startups that don't have a Bay Area presence?

Aren't we just trees to them? They'll think in GHz and wonder if we're even alive as we ponderously grow and move.

Haha. That chapter was revised a lot and ultimately shortened a ton in the final version. I agree it had a lot of repetition. Hopefully it's better in the final printing.

Neat! Want to email me at dturnbull AT o19s.com We store models as a custom scripting language which takes care of distributing the model around the cluster, caching and basic CRUD operations. This wa…

Thanks for the kind words and the useful critique. I found it tricky to strike a balance between new budding search devs and people more advanced. I may write a more advanced book at some point.

Thanks! (This is Doug Turnbull :-p).

Neat. We've been building a Learning to Rank plugin for Elasticsearch. Feedback and contributions very welcome https://github.com/o19s/elasticsearch-learning-to-rank …

Trump is seen negatively because he can't deescelate any situation. He doubles down on the dumbest, most easily disprovable stuff. His narcisism runs deep so it's easily taken advantage of b…

Agree on the hysteria. Twitter especially rewards the pithy smartass that says something controversial. The thoughtful person interested in expressing complicated ideas and trying to empathize with ot…