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by researchers 2y ago
Tuning for qualitative outcomes is pretty much solved via RLHF/DPO (what this post calls "preference tuning"). Right?
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by researchers 4y ago
Thanks for reporting this. I think it has to do with certain tweets being made private/inaccessible after being added to the index. I'll look into it.
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by researchers 4y ago
A lot of that content has moved to newsletters and Twitter threads. If you know the right people to follow, there are a lot of niche, quirky, and insightful pieces that remind me of the homepages of yore. One problem is that these things ge
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Show HN: Mood Surf – A topic-based discovery engine for Twitter threads(mood.surf)
5 points by researchers 4y ago|0 comments
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by researchers 5y ago
Quite tractable actually. Take a look at the Andi Search post that is on the front page right now. They say they are using several natural language models for snippet selection, question answering, and probably a few other things. These tas
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by researchers 5y ago
Hi HN! So to clarify to everyone, the idea is that what a concierge search engine would do, a machine could do as well. sk55 shared this very interesting link [0] which outlines how a complex question could be broken down into micro-tasks
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by researchers 5y ago
Unfortunately we are not running the search concierge service indefinitely. But we will translate the findings into a search tool that makes it easier to answer complex questions. Sign up for our mailing list or shoot an email to outresearc
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by researchers 5y ago
In our sample, we found that people really cared about those topics but they were not urgent. Hence the reference to the Eisenhower Matrix. The current state of search tools doesn't make it easy to answer complex questions so complex q
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by researchers 5y ago
That's definitely one way to do it. Our approach is not to literally run a concierge search engine, but rather build up intuitions on how humans effectively find knowledge on the Web and then build tools to make that easier. Is that th
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What I learned from running a concierge search engine(re-search.xyz)
68 points by researchers 5y ago|23 comments
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by researchers 5y ago
You should consider just using the Matrix protocol and innovating on the UI/features side.
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by researchers 5y ago
> Real improved search efforts need to somehow change the content that's out there at the same time as they improve they experience Yes, this is our key takeaway too. However, that doesn't translate to "google has a much
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A Google Replacement Will Not Look Like Google(re-search.xyz)
17 points by researchers 5y ago|4 comments
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by researchers 5y ago
Yep, graph structure of topics enables users to wander around topic space. Good for less directed, more exploratory searching. Another graph that is useful is the graph of people -> topic clusters. See https://twitterverse.net
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by researchers 5y ago
Not OP but I am working on a search engine with vector ranking. Why do you say that vector search would help with narrow queries? In my experience, semantic search helps broaden the query to search for adjacent ideas without exact term marc
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by researchers 5y ago
Really great work! It is exciting that people are working on alternative indexes of content, especially ones that prioritize content written by individuals for smaller audiences. The uBlock heuristic is an interesting way to capture that. M
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Mapping the New World: Towards a New Information Engine for the Web(re-search.xyz)
4 points by researchers 5y ago|0 comments