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Algorithms, Bias, and Beautiful Women

From Computer Science Teacher – Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson I've been keeping my eyes open for things to discuss with students this fall, especially in Advanced Placement Computer Science… Alfred Thompson | July 20, 2017

From My Biased Coin

Mitzenmacher and Upfal, 2nd Edition

The word is that the 2nd edition of our book is now (finally) available/in stock at Amazon. You can tell it's the 2nd edition, because the "Alice cover" is now... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | July 7, 2017 at 01:04 AM

From Blog@Ubiquity

In Praise of Spaghetti Code

Spaghetti code is not getting any respect. Software experts denigrate it; coding classes avoid it like the plague; and when students go out into the world, they... Denise Doig
From Blog@Ubiquity | June 28, 2017 at 01:19 PM

From My Biased Coin

STOC General Comment Page

The 2017 STOC is over, and I thought it went very well. The new format ran with what seemed to me to be minimal to non-existent glitches, and overall it sounded... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | June 26, 2017 at 03:40 PM

From The Noisy Channel

Prithiviraj, thanks for the kind words.

Prithiviraj, thanks for the kind words. As for NER systems for English text only recognizing named entities in title case, that’s usually a function of how they... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | May 31, 2017 at 11:15 AM

From The Noisy Channel

Entity Recognition

In the previous post on query scoping, we discussed query tagging as a special case of named-entity recognition (NER). In this post, we’ll dive a little bit deeper... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | May 30, 2017 at 09:31 AM

From Blog@Ubiquity

Is Computing in Reverse the Next Big Thing?

Some computer scientists and physicists are looking beyond the limits of current computing to “reversible computing.” The post Is Computing in Reverse the NextBLOG... Ted Lewis
From Blog@Ubiquity | May 25, 2017 at 10:47 AM

From My Biased Coin

Last Week For STOC Sign-Ups

A reminder that this year's STOC is supersized, with (completely in the STOC package) multiple workshops, tutorials, and special speakers. But for those of you... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | May 17, 2017 at 01:46 PM

From The Noisy Channel

Query Scoping

In the previous post, we discussed how query segmentation improves precision by grouping query words into semantic units. In this post, we’ll discuss query scoping... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | May 16, 2017 at 11:46 AM

From Blog@Ubiquity

How to Deal with Post-truthism

The very definition of post-truth implies rejecting fact-based logic. Too few possess the skill of distinguishing between self-serving claims, and reliable, well... Philip Yaffe
From Blog@Ubiquity | May 10, 2017 at 12:02 PM

From My Biased Coin

Super-Important Things to Do Right Now for STOC 2017

STOC 2017 is just around the corner, which means that several deadlines are just around the corner.The student travel support request deadline is this Thursday,... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | May 10, 2017 at 09:38 AM

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Thanks Bart. I haven’t read it, but I’ll take a look. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks Bart. I haven’t read it, but I’ll take a look. Thanks for sharing. Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | April 29, 2017 at 04:27 PM

From The Noisy Channel

Query Segmentation

The previous two posts focused on using query rewriting to increase recall. We can also use query rewriting to increase precision — that is, to reduce the number... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | April 28, 2017 at 02:51 PM

From Blog@Ubiquity

Insider Attacks Are A Bigger and Harder Threat?

There is a new trend apparently emerging to defend against data loss and data damage as a result of external hacking. Some organizations have been removing their... James B. Morris
From Blog@Ubiquity | April 27, 2017 at 10:23 AM

From My Biased Coin

STOC Theory Fest Announcements

There's a lot of new information up at the STOC web page http://acm-stoc.org/stoc2017/ about the amazing theory fest June 19-23 in Montreal. In particular, most... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | April 18, 2017 at 10:05 AM

From The Noisy Channel

A Non-Adversarial Ad-Supported Model

If you’ve followed me for a while, you know that I’m not a big fan of ad-supported business models. It’s not just that I find ads annoying; I also see them as economically... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | April 15, 2017 at 07:23 PM

From Blog@Ubiquity

The end of ICE is near – or not?

The internal combustion engine (ICE) has reigned supreme for over 100 years, but prognosticators are predicting its demise over the next few decades – or NOT, depending... Ted Lewis
From Blog@Ubiquity | April 12, 2017 at 01:06 PM

From The Noisy Channel

Thanks for the kind words!

Thanks for the kind words!Stack Overflow and Quora certainly have reputation systems, and I love both sites. But I don’t feel either of them is focusing on being... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | April 6, 2017 at 02:32 PM

From The Noisy Channel

How could LinkedIn be disrupted?

When I worked at LinkedIn, I focused on its mission of “connecting talent to opportunity at a massive scale”. Or, as I preferred to describe it, helping people... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | April 5, 2017 at 06:59 PM

From The Noisy Channel

Thanks for the kind words and for the heads up on the broken link, which I’ve now fixed.

Thanks for the kind words and for the heads up on the broken link, which I’ve now fixed. And good point about polo — a good reminder generally that all language... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | March 31, 2017 at 12:15 PM

From The Noisy Channel

Query Relaxation

In the previous post, we discussed query expansion as a way to increase recall. In this post we’ll discuss the other major technique for increasing recall: query... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | March 28, 2017 at 03:31 PM

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