Episode from the podcast Programming Throwdown
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Search at Etsy
Released Monday, October 7th 2019 1 hr 18 min
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About this episode
What actually happens when you type something in the search bar at the top of etsy.com and hit enter? This awesome interview with Liangjie Hong, Director of Data Science and Machine Learning, answers that question all the way from the philosophical (what should we show first?) to the inner workings (what is a reverse index and how does it work?).
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