Slides from the Maven Lightning Course, talk April 2025 can be found here:

NDCG is Overrated

Colab notebook can be found here

Based on the blog series on Hybrid Search

Thanks for all who came, and as always, I enjoy feedback and lively discussion. Thanks Hamel for hosting!


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