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Jimmy Lin
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I profess CS-ly at @UWaterloo. Previously, I monkeyed code for @Twitter, slides for @Cloudera, and scienced for @yupp_ai.
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    Jimmy Lin
    @lintool
    3h
    I always tell this joke in my classes about IR, and it goes something like: well, short of inventing telepathic retrieval, we remain stuck with some form of query formulation, be it a few keywords (before) or a prompt (now)... little did I know... ๐Ÿ˜œ
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    Naomi Bashkansky
    @NaomiBashkansky
    Aug 5
    Two weeks ago, I resigned from OpenAI to join Conduit as a founding researcher, where we're training models to non-invasively read the human mind. I've written some thoughts about what telepathy could look like by 2035 and how to get there:
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    Jimmy Lin
    @lintool
    Aug 5
    ๐Ÿช  Belatedly plugging a paper that attempts to bridge information nuggets and side-by-side comparisons with @arena data for complex LLM responses (tl;dr - pointwise vs. pairwise evaluations) dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/38โ€ฆ Paper led by @Sahel_Sharify @Ushivani3 @beirmug!
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    dl.acm.org
    Search Arena Meets Nuggets: Towards Explanations and Diagnostics in the Evaluation of LLM Responses...
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    Jimmy Lin
    @lintool
    Jul 17
    As they say, now for something different! "Rethinking Deep Learning-Based Rainfall-runoff Modelling for Data-Rich Hydrology" ๐ŸŒง๏ธ๐Ÿ’งโ„๏ธ defended by DR. Qiutong (Glen) Yu, co-advised with Bryan Tolson.
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    Jimmy Lin
    @lintool
    Jul 17
    The saga continues ๐Ÿš€ All you need... grep? โœ… BM25? โœ… psssh... ๐ŸŸข๐Ÿ”ด Boolean! โ‰๏ธ
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    Charlie Clarke
    @claclarke
    Jul 16
    This was fun. Humans need powerful search tools, but even exact-match Boolean queries can work for agentic search. Our Boolean ranking uses only match proximity and density. No learning, vectors, or even term statistics required. arxiv.org/pdf/2607.11362
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    Jimmy Lin
    @lintool
    Jul 16
    It's now officially ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸŽ“ DR @xueguang_ma - who yesterday successfully defended his Ph.D. ๐ŸŽ‰ Congrats!
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