Russ Cam

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

[Russ Cam @forloop]

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:

https://t.co/EeQ8uEgL0z

It inferred tools to call and how to build queries
#search #relevancy #evaluation #metrics #mcp

[Russ Cam @forloop]

@Aaronontheweb Congrats Aaron and family!

[Russ Cam @forloop]

@jpountz @turbopuffer Congrats Adrien!

[Russ Cam @forloop]

@jobergum Would love to read them @jobergum!

[Russ Cam @forloop]

@nicolaygerold The only constant is change!

[Russ Cam @forloop]

@tylerhannan @LatencyConf Hopefully you're able to make a bit of a trip of it!

[Russ Cam @forloop]

🚀 Introducing Search Pioneer Ranking CLI – An open source Learning to Rank (LTR) command line tool for training rankers:

https://t.co/HHvVSNKvft

✅ Train rankers with LightGBM & FastTree
✅ Calculate feature importance using PFI
✅ Split and Fold data sets for training

[Russ Cam @forloop]

@traskjd Sounds exciting!

[Russ Cam @forloop]

@Aaronontheweb @petabridge Congratulations on the last decade, Aaron. Huge milestone! 🙌

[Russ Cam @forloop]

Wise words!

[Jo Kristian Bergum @jobergum]

https://t.co/OanzSCwieD

[Russ Cam @forloop]

@jobergum @nicolaygerold Thanks Jo!

[Russ Cam @forloop]

Had a blast chatting with @nicolaygerold and Stuart Cam about Search Systems on How AI is Built podcast:

https://t.co/lcBnoikRYi

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!

[Russ Cam @forloop]

🎉 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 🎉

https://t.co/U8aOKB51V8

Reach out for a chat if you'd like to learn more 👋

[Russ Cam @forloop]

SearchPioneer.Lingua, a natural language detection library for .NET! 🚀 https://t.co/48y2kgXrXL
Language detection needs to be fast and accurate. SearchPioneer.Lingua brings the excellence of the Lingua libraries— originally available on JVM and Rust— into the .NET ecosystem.

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@dougrathbone @jeresig I do, and was a big fan!

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@bluxte Wishing him a speedy recovery, Sylvain! 🙏

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[Russ Cam @forloop]

A jetbrains IDE for Rust, awesome! https://t.co/OJK2Cbx1ir

[Russ Cam @forloop]

@bluxte @elastic Congratulations @bluxte !

[Russ Cam @forloop]

@davidfowl Yep!