People that worked on the same idea for decades — Nitya's Noteskept by mylescooper • sep 03The article showcases long-term dedication, illustrating how Robertson's IR research over decades produced BM25 and Hokusai's forty-year journey to his iconic Great Wave.AboutHokusai · Stephen Robertson · The Great Wave · BM25Filed#creativity#developer-tools#productivityRelatedCan agents replace the search stack?Using a basic BM25 or e5 retriever with an LLM agent can achieve 0.289→0.453 NDCG on Amazon ESCI by reasoning over queries, but this approach fails on passage retrieval where the embedding model already knows best.also on BM25, #developer-tools
People that worked on the same idea for decades — Nitya's Notes