How to improve your listening skills: 1 talk less 2 do not interrupt 3 maintain direct eye contact 4 put your phone down 5 listen with your eyes; look for the unsaid 6 be interested 7 if you are waiting for a pause, so that you can speak, then you're not actively listening

Apache #Lucene and #Solr 8.5.0 released! Release highlights: Lucene: bit.ly/2wHOdkl Solr: bit.ly/39sEMm6 Supports running Solr with Java security manager, adds a new bin/postlogs tool for indexing logs and delete() stream decorator

Focus on Healthy First Nation/State instead Wealthy First #AskKTR after the corona pandemic ends

They grow up (and parse) so fast … happy 20th birthday, Apache #Lucene! We’re celebrating the open source software that changed the world with something special. Check it out here → go.es.io/2RtA4OX #20YearsOfLucene

Elsevier launches Coronavirus Research Hub, w/access to tools around health and COVID-19 research (ClinicalKey, Embase, SSRN, Mendeley, Mendeley Data (+Pathway Studio), ScienceDirect (COVID-19), Elsevier Text Mining (ETM), Pure (COVID-19) + consulting -- elsevier.com/clinical-solut…

Impressive reductions in heap to storage ratio for #Elasticsearch! I wonder how much of that was from #Lucene level changes?

Here's a great talk describing how #Apache #Lucene achieved massive speedups in 8.0 for common search use cases (top k retrieval when ranking by text relevance, e.g. #BM25, or a blend) using the Block-Max Weak-And algorithm: youtu.be/TK4F0GjLKRc?t=… Also: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Happy 25th Birthday Java. Once a Java programmer always Java programmer for life. Thank you James Gosling and team. #Java25

Trying to follow someone else's exact footsteps is the wrong way to get inspired. When looking for inspiration, it's about discovering ideas and attitudes. The details don't matter. They're up to you to determine, based on your preferences and circumstances.

It’s a fake media and they want fake news - Satyameva Jayate (Truth alone triumphs). Please continue your research and knowledge sharing @PraveenMohanET #wesupportpraveenmohan #shameonfb

Compare this with the boredom & health risks of #ImpossibleBurger This richness of cuisine is not #unimprovedtechnology as impossible burger narrative is trying to present . It is sophisticated culture , rich nutrition , health, taste We will not be colonised by #FakeFood

Another interesting talk at Community Over Code search track Concurrent Search In Lucene by x.com/atri_jiit?lang…

Take a trip down memory lane & check out the key Java milestones from the last 25 years that have made the world #MovedbyJava. bit.ly/3oiVWuX

blunders.io/posts/lucene-b… shows exciting Java Flight Recorder (profiler) flame charts of where #Lucene's nightly benchmarks are spending CPU time and allocating many objects!

My blog post on learning vespa.ai using Apache Solr analogies on the vespa.ai blog -- blog.vespa.ai/how-i-learned-…

I managed and grew many Engineers into leaders in Startups and Big Tech. Tech Leads, Team Lead, Staff+ "Architects," Managers of Managers, etc. I've also reported up to EVPs, CTOs, and CEOs. Eleven hard truths about engineering leadership 👇

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For international travel from US to RGIA Hyderabad and return avoid two things if you can - Mumbai airport stop over - Lufthansa USA and their partner Vistara which doesn’t coordinate well for your boarding pass and additional baggage check in - Lufthansa India boarding staff 👎

Isn't a classic example of semantic search named entity recognition (NER) of query term as place vs person and give higher importance based on the context. Of course you can play dumb as needed :) factcheck.org/2024/11/google…