Articles by softwaredoug
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Nearly 60% of Last Year's Graduates Still Haven't Landed Their First Job (yahoo.com)

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Likely VRA Overturning would hand the House to Republicans for a generation (nytimes.com)

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Every Sora AI video burns 1 Kilowatt hour and emits 466 grams of carbon (reclaimedsystems.substack.com)

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US Pushing Ukraine to accept deal by Thanksgiving or lose support (washingtonpost.com)

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NATO on alert as Poland accuses Russia of 'state terrorism' in rail blast (washingtonpost.com)

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Choosing a Vector Database for Reddit (reddit.com)

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Liberating Search from the Search Engine (softwaredoug.com)

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Audience Capture (wikipedia.org)

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LLM As A Judge is not the shortcut you think (softwaredoug.com)

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First climate tipping point reached, coral reefs facing 'widespread dieback' (theguardian.com)

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A century of reforestation helped keep the eastern US cool (2024) (agu.org)

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TwitchCon's Sexual Harassment Problem (wnyc.org)

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The 996 Schedule Just Means You Have No Leverage (joanwestenberg.com)

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Amazon's Silent Sacking (2023) (justingarrison.com)

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An agent-coded search reranker (softwaredoug.com)

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Rare human syndrome may explain why dogs are so friendly (2017) (aip.org)

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General purpose agentic loop in 40 lines of Python (softwaredoug.com)

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Satyagraha (wikipedia.org)

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Mind the Gap: Quantifying Vocabulary Mismatch in E-Commerce Site Search (searchhub.io)

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Conservative justices signal openness to allowing conversion therapy (sfchronicle.com)

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Positivity Offset (wikipedia.org)

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Climate Science, Risk and Solutions (climateprimer.mit.edu)

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Is carbon capture too expensive (2021)? (iea.org)

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US to open more public land for coal mining (apnews.com)

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Agents turn simple keyword search into compelling search experiences (softwaredoug.com)

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BM25F from Scratch (softwaredoug.com)

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Could the South Have Won the US Civil War? (quora.com)

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One sec App – Stop mindless scrolling – scientifically (one-sec.app)

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AI code assistants make developers more efficient at creating security problems (theregister.com)

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China's EV influence is spreading globally, except to the U.S. and Canada (fastcompany.com)

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What AI Teams Get Wrong about Vector Databases [video] (youtube.com)

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Instructor – Structured Outputs for LLMs (github.com/567-labs)

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OpenAI has lost the plot on boring LLM use cases (softwaredoug.com)

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Will there be no more non-reasoning models? (community.openai.com)

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A big part of context engineering comes down to empathy (twitter.com/jnbrymn)

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Real life NDCG notebook (2024) (softwaredoug.com)

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The tradeoff between human and AI context (softwaredoug.com)

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Tightsqueeze, Virginia (wikipedia.org)

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The whipsawing of Windsurf employees has left a bitter taste in tech (businessinsider.com)

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Humans overrely on overconfident language models, across languages (arxiv.org)

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Mercenaries over Missionaries (softwaredoug.com)

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Start with Who, Not Why (2022) (softwaredoug.com)

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Senate passes Trump’s megabill after pulling all-nighter (politico.com)

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Query Autocomplete from LLMs (reddit.com)

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How to Do Autocomplete (bonsai.io)

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Against LLM Maximalism (explosion.ai)

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I made a search engine worse than Elasticsearch (2024) (softwaredoug.com)

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Parasite Infecting Up to 50% of People Can Decapitate Human Sperm (sciencealert.com)

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Live coded vector search engine w/ filtering (Colab notebook) (colab.research.google.com)

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I accidentally built a vector database using video compression (reddit.com)

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You Don't Need Re-Ranking: Understanding the Superlinked Vector Layer (superlinked.com)

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Tail latency might matter more than you think (2021) (brooker.co.za)

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The size bias of text embeddings and its impact on search (jina.ai)

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RAG's Big Blindspot (softwaredoug.com)

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What is presentation bias in search? (2022) (softwaredoug.com)

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The effect of ChatGPT on students learning performance (nature.com)

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Building a vector database from scratch [video] (maven.com)

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Best Books on Search (tomsquest.com)

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Bridging the gap between keyword and semantic search with SPLADE (2024) (arcturus-labs.com)

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On the road to building your own vector DB - some basics (softwaredoug.com)

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SPFresh: Incremental In-Place Update for Billion-Scale Vector Search (arxiv.org)

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Linguistics Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Language Models (arxiv.org)

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Understanding Information Architecture (prezi.com)

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Two tower models instead of 'hybrid search' (softwaredoug.com)

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Stop Overbuilding Evals (softwaredoug.com)

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Lucene University (github.com/msfroh)

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Roaming RAG – RAG without the vector DB (arcturus-labs.com)

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LambdaMART in Depth (2022) (softwaredoug.com)

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Hybrid Search Is Just the Beginning: Optimizing the R in RAG [video] (maven.com)

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Filtered HNSW search, fast mode (elastic.co)

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Show HN: SearchArray – Full text search that feels like a NumPy array (github.com/softwaredoug)

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Native filtering for high-recall vector search (turbopuffer.com)

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Visual Reasoning Is Coming Soon (arcturus-labs.com)

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An LLM Query Understanding Service (softwaredoug.com)

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How likely is a given dot product (2023)? (softwaredoug.com)

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All search is structured now (softwaredoug.com)

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AI Brainrot Means Developer Opportunity (softwaredoug.com)

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Riot Dog (wikipedia.org)

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Elasticsearch Hybrid Search Recipes – Benchmarked (softwaredoug.com)

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Ask HN: How will uncertain tariff policies impact tech startups and funding?

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Identity Fusion (wikipedia.org)

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Turmoil in DOGE spills into public view as Musk's group confronts a PR crisis (washingtonpost.com)

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US authorities arrest Palestinian student protester at Columbia University (reuters.com)

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Lawrence of Arabia, Paul Atreides, and the roots of Frank Herbert's Dune (2021) (reactormag.com)

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Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18F employees (techcrunch.com)

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"Everyone wants to do the model work, not the data work" (2021) (research.google)

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Reflecting on 18 years at Google (2023) (hixie.ch)

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Elasticsearch Hybrid Search in Practice (softwaredoug.com)

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NIH cuts billions in biomedical funding (washingtonpost.com)

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Classic ML to Cope with Dumb LLM Judges (softwaredoug.com)

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Turning my laptop into a Search Relevance Judge with local LLMs (softwaredoug.com)

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A skip list cookbook (1989) [pdf] (unizar.es)

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Show HN: An AI-only Twitter of bots yelling at each other (github.com/softwaredoug)

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Turns out an AI-only Twitter is pretty boring (softwaredoug.com)

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Reflecting on 6 years of "AI Powered Search" (softwaredoug.com)

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Preferring throwaway code over design docs (softwaredoug.com)

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Going to Go from Python – initial impressions (softwaredoug.com)

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Roaming RAG – Make the Model Find the Answers (arcturus-labs.com)

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Your big company can't be a startup again (softwaredoug.com)

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Failing at an Elasticsearch 'full' phrase match (softwaredoug.com)