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by tb99 2mo ago
> If economy passengers preferred better services to cheaper fare, they would have chosen airlines with better services It's not quite that simple. Unless you fly a lot, it's hard to know about service differences between two a
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by tb99 3mo ago
Sneaky age filter? You must be young enough to remember your SAT scores.
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by tb99 4mo ago
Supply and demand of Google equity. The fundamental value of a share doesn't change, but you now need more investor capacity to hold the equity. So you need to sell to investors who weren't quite willing to pay the previous price.
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by tb99 5y ago
Yeah, there's been a lot of good stuff recently! We are definitely a build-things team more than a research team. I'm actually not sure about our hiring stance right now, but email me (address in profile) if you're intereste
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by tb99 5y ago
Thanks! I can't talk about potential future releases, but we do have some nice thumbnailing capabilities that could be used for this sort of thing if we decided to go that way. Some of these capabilities are exposed in our public API
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by tb99 5y ago
Search by image is conceptually easier because you don't have to map between text and images, but it's a very different product. It is something we've considered. Encoding words and images into the same space and doing ANN i
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by tb99 5y ago
I think this is a nice approach. You may even be able to take it further; if you're training end to end based on users' queries, you can probably have the query and image representations in the same space and use a simple similar
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by tb99 5y ago
Hi everyone, I wrote this post. I didn't notice it on hn until just now, but I'm happy to answer any questions about it.
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by tb99 5y ago
Hi, I wrote this post. The retrieval stage amounts to storing the top 50 categories in the inverted index and searching for the top 10 from the query. The harder part is the ranking. There are approaches to the ranking that are more akin