Software Engineer with keen interest in Search / Information Retrieval. BMX/MTB, Climbing, Photography, Guitars
Brisbane, Australia
Joined April 2007
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Some fun building an MCP server to expose tools for querying any search system, judge candidate results and calculate relevancy metrics like NDCG and ERR:
youtube.com/watch?v=vLhpnman…
It inferred tools to call and how to build queries
#search #relevancy #evaluation #metrics #mcp
🚀 Introducing Search Pioneer Ranking CLI – An open source Learning to Rank (LTR) command line tool for training rankers:
github.com/searchpioneer/ran…
✅ Train rankers with LightGBM & FastTree
✅ Calculate feature importance using PFI
✅ Split and Fold data sets for training
Had a blast chatting with @nicolaygerold and Stuart Cam about Search Systems on How AI is Built podcast:
youtu.be/Uvx2v2sK7MI
Search is such a vast topic and there's always more to learn and explore, but hopefully we packed in enough insights to spark ideas and curiosity!
🎉 Announcing the launch of BidZenith (@bidzenith), a new start-up I've been working on that helps businesses monetize audience data through real-time auctions 🎉
bidzenith.com
Reach out for a chat if you'd like to learn more 👋
SearchPioneer.Lingua, a natural language detection library for .NET! 🚀 searchpioneer.com/blog/intro…
Language detection needs to be fast and accurate. SearchPioneer.Lingua brings the excellence of the Lingua libraries— originally available on JVM and Rust— into the .NET ecosystem.
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Anyone in Houston TX up for hosting a show? If so get in touch here!: rockyvotolato.com/living-roo…
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The DDD Brisbane CFP is now open! 🎉✍️🎤
✍️ sessionize.com/ddd-brisbane-… ✍️
Get submitting, everyone!
I'll be talking about developing the #Elasticsearch #Rust client this Thursday, at the Brisbane Rust meetup: meetup.com/rust-brisbane/eve…
I'll be talking about writing a CLR profiler in Rust to instrument .NET applications, at the Brisbane Rust meetup next Thursday 14 April: meetup.com/Rust-Brisbane/eve…. Come along if you're keen to know more!
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Are you learning Rust? Are you having trouble with anything? Do you have any questions?
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Elastic 8.0 is here! This major release ushers in a new era of speed, scale, relevance, and simplicity with new capabilities like approximate nearest neighbor search, native NLP, and simplified security.
Learn more → go.es.io/3Jh088m
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Elasticsearch's upgrade to Lucene 9 reduced disk usage of the index of the `message` field (StardardAnalyzer, indexOptions=DOCS) by almost 15% (and overall ~3.5%) on the applications logs dataset we use for nightly benchmarks thanks to the move from FOR to PFOR for postings.
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I'm the author of the best-selling book System Design Interview-An Insider’s Guide. 11 days ago, two fraudsters hijacked the "Buy Now" button on Amazon, fulfilling all orders with a different book. I'm helpless to do anything. A sad story on self-publishing: a thread.
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A new year, perhaps a new job?
We are looking for a Developer Advocate (DA) for @jetbrains_space! 🧵 #devrel
