Russ Cam

@forloop

Software Engineer with keen interest in Search / Information Retrieval. BMX/MTB, Climbing, Photography, Guitars

Brisbane, Australia

forloop.co.uk/blog

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Russ Cam
@forloop
May 26, 2025
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=vLhpnm… It inferred tools to call and how to build queries #search #relevancy #evaluation #metrics #mcp
Russ Cam
@forloop
Mar 6, 2025
🚀 Introducing Search Pioneer Ranking CLI – An open source Learning to Rank (LTR) command line tool for training rankers: github.com/searchpioneer/… ✅ Train rankers with LightGBM & FastTree ✅ Calculate feature importance using PFI ✅ Split and Fold data sets for training
GitHub - searchpioneer/ranking-cli: A command line tool for training and evaluating ranking models...
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Russ Cam
@forloop
Nov 12, 2024
Wise words!
Jo Kristian Bergum
@jobergum
Nov 11, 2024
Article
Retrieval goes mainstream, but there is no silver bullet for fixing it
Retrieval has gone mainstream, and I have mixed feelings about it. After two decades of working with retrieval systems at scale, I'm watching this once-niche skill explode post-ChatGPT with mixed...
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Russ Cam
@forloop
Oct 31, 2024
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!
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Russ Cam
@forloop
Oct 29, 2024
🎉 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 👋
bidzenith.com
BidZenith | Real-time data auctioning platform
BidZenith is a data auctioning platform that allows businesses to capture, segment and monetize data in real-time.
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