
Constant learner. Love mixing DS + engineering to improve #search and #recommendations. Work @Shopify
Ontario, Canada
Joined December 2010
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Felipe Besson retweeted
The final whistle goes as the #CanMNT have won their first #FIFAWorldCup game!

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Felipe Besson retweeted
Did you know that you can now use `search` and `predictiveSearch` queries in the Storefront API to enable AI-powered search on your headless stores 🔎?
Take your storefront search to the next level 👇 Get started with the developer documentation here: shopify.dev/docs/custom-stor…
Felipe Besson retweeted
I blogged about how the LambdaMART algorithm works. It has a neat trick that can directly optimize your ranking metric (ie DCG, Precision, YourMetric™). This article details how :) lnkd.in/dxbkweNK
Felipe Besson retweeted
AI Powered Search is deal of the day today! Save 45% on it and other selected titles: mng.bz/WrEx
Felipe Besson retweeted
Some fascinating stuff here: "little direct ROI evidence"..."Fear and uncertainty is what sells for search/discovery…" ... "no search and discovery solution is transferrable from one bank to another " - search is hard!
Felipe Besson retweeted
We're building a world-class shopping app that's hell-bent on redefining the shopping experience across the world, and we need incredible engineers to make it happen. Check out our current opportunities over on our brand new Shop careers site 👉
shop.app/careers?utm_campaig…
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Relevance team at Bing aims to optimize the OEC metric [overall evaluation criterion] by 2% per year.
"Because the team runs thousands of experiment Treatments, and some may appear positive by chance, credit towards the 2% is assigned based on a replication experiment: …
My DS capstone project: applying deep learning for detecting dog breeds: besson.medium.com/using-deep… app: doggo.westeurope.azurecontai… It's funny to try human faces 🤣 #keras #tensorflow
Very cool nanodegree project: a NLP pipeline to classify natural disaster categories from messages. github.com/besson/disaster_r… #NLP #machinelearning #Udacity
Que história de vida! Parabéns @marcio_santos
Truta, sou da COHAB, sustento a família desde 15, entrei na USP aos 24.
Meu 1° voo foi para estágio em NY.
Hj tenho vídeo sobre minha vida, ad do Google e sou co-founder da Facio, investida por #monashees, @onevc_
e @ycombinator.
História 👇
1/12
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Felipe Besson retweeted
That's amazing. Super willing to try this one out. @code is continuing being awesome for @ProjectJupyter
devblogs.microsoft.com/pytho… #Python #vscode
Thanks @MathiasDuda I am very grateful for having learned so much with my smart colleagues and contributed to this topic. lnkd.in/euGAuVQ
Felipe Besson retweeted
Search is ubiquitous. Yet our knowhow on doing search well is far too siloed. By holding on too tightly, we stop doctors from supporting their patients; stop lawyers from standing up to the powers that be. Users lose time and we create economic waste.
opensourceconnections.com/bl…
Felipe Besson retweeted
Announced today at #haystackconf - our relevancy testing tool Quepid is now free and shortly will be #opensource - read the announcement at opensourceconnections.com/bl… #solr #elasticsearch
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MICES 2019 - call for talks now open at mices.co (ends 14 April) MICES is a one-day event on #ecommerce #search: Berlin, 19 June 2019 (right after @berlinbuzzwords)
Haystack 2019 is coming!
Why Haystack? Because search relevance solutions, tools practices, code need to be democratized!
#relevance #solr #elasticsearch lnkd.in/g6Tgm7u
About ML Engineer career at GYG 😀
inside.getyourguide.com/blog…
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At #HaystackConf @tboeghk @der_fabe and I gave a talk about 'Learning learning to rank' (@shopping24's journey into #ltr for #ecommerce #search using #solr). Slides are now online at opensourceconnections.com/ev… - Thank you @FlaxSearch and @o19s for organising this great event!














