Berlin Buzzwords 2024 - Doug Turnbull - Learning in Public

About this episode

Doug Turnbull discusses learning in public and his experiences with search technology and machine learning.

This episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIPC_xzqJ0o 00:00 Intro 00:30 Greets for Doug 01:46 Apache Solr and stuff 03:08 Hello LTR project 04:42 Secret sauce of Doug's continuous blogging 08:50 SearchArray 13:22 Running complex ML experiments 17:29 Efficient search orgs 22:58 Writing a book on search and AI Show notes: - Doug's talk on Learning To Rank at Reddit delivered at the Berlin Buzzwords 2024 conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUtF1gyHsSM - Hello LTR: https://github.com/o19s/hello-ltr - Lexical search for pandas with SearchArray: https://github.com/softwaredoug/searcharray - https://softwaredoug.com/ - What AI Engineers Should Know about Search: https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2024/06/25/what-ai-engineers-need-to-know-search - AI Powered Search: https://www.manning.com/books/ai-powered-search - Quepid: https://github.com/o19s/quepid - Branching out in your ML / search experiments: https://dvc.org/doc/use-cases - Doug on Twitter: https://x.com/softwaredoug - Doug on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/softwaredoug/

People in this episode

Host: Dmitry Kan

Guest: Doug Turnbull

Topics covered

• Learning in Public
• Machine Learning
• Search Technology
• Blogging
• Artificial Intelligence

Keywords

• Learning To Rank
• Apache Solr
• SearchArray
• Machine Learning
• AI Powered Search

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Apache Solr, Hello LTR, SearchArray, Reddit, DVC, Manning, Quepid

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