Doug Turnbull

Housing advocacy opportunity!

AI Powered Search price will increase in 24 hours Starts Nov 3! Hope you can make it. maven.com/search-schoo...

I'm old, I just realized I started rewriting this classic softwaredoug blog post softwaredoug.com/blog/2023/05...

Join me and @treygrainger.bsky.social to hear from Yonik Seeley, creator of Apache Solr, on his new search engine Luxir maven.com/p/2762dc/int...

In 45 minutes, we'll hear from Marek Galovic on Top K's latest multi-vector embedding models Sign up - maven.com/lls/3c81d4

My course with Trey Grainger starts in less than two weeks! maven.com/search-schoo...

The Future of AI Search continues today with Praveen Mohan Prasad of AWS - scaling Muvera in OpenSearch maven.com/lls/3c81d4

Reminder that @treygrainger and I are beginning our online conference "The Future of AI Search" Lots of great names giving talks like Yonik Seeley, Jo Kristan Bergum, and more Today we're hearing from Amelie Chatelain on whats going on with late interaction in 2026 maven.com/lls/3c81d4

Banning math, Canada edition www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Is the Holiday Dr shelter better than the prior state and literally saving lives if the research on the topic is accurate? Yes. Is it a temporary and emergency phase of the project if a work in progress? Yes. Is it obviously not going to work well for everyone? Yes c-ville.com/opinions-abo...

I've been fortunate to get to know AI researcher Nish in the local Charlottesville tech scene. Love to see him write more about these sorts of things. nishtahir.com/build-your-o...

Looks like a good meetup tonight luma.com/19s23in6

Maybe we should treat queries as bags of decisions? Use an LLM to generate per-query noul decisions for ranking. IE 'desk for kids" -> "Is this product suitable for kids?" "Is this product a height below 36 inches?"... softwaredoug.com/blog/2026/10...

we're changing tpuf's storage architecture so we can keep pushing the search frontier the new engine (v3) now passes CI, but we have to make it fast before we ship it to prod we're grinding query plans in public until v3 wins on everything follow along: turbopuffer.com/v3

Hang out with me and Mr. Tunkelang at 1PM ET today :) maven.com/p/1f1f46/ir-...

My talk today: Embeddings Don't Solve RAG www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBFs...

In one week, I'm going to be giving the last Cheat at Search w/ Agents in 2026. Hope you can make it! maven.com/softwaredoug...

OK it's a little more than a week until I teach people about modern Agentic RAG. Then I have to go past shitposting and get hands on. maven.com/softwaredoug...

We'll hear from Adam Hevenor an 1.5 hours on his fun work with agentic memory at Retrieval Augmented Gathering, hope you can make it! maven.com/lls/f27953

Allow commercial-in-residential to support your local taco shop

We're finally building more housing, tell Council you support it www.reddit.com/r/Charlottes...

Cheat at Search starts in 1.5 weeks You: A search developer that wants to understand LLMs, Agents, and RAG Me: Someone who has built production AI search agents at Reddit, Shopify, and various startups I want to help :) maven.com/softwaredoug...

See everyone in 35 minutes :) maven.com/p/2acdeb/ten...

All hail our lord and savior Jevus softwaredoug.com/blog/2026/09...

Price going up to $1450 in a few hours maven.com/softwaredoug...

Career Q&A recap from Friday www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8Gn...

In 24 hours I increase price for October's Cheat at Search It's an important class: I explore how LLMs and retrieval intersect. From query understanding with LLMs to LLM as a judge, to exploring whether all search is now agentic maven.com/softwaredoug...

I think a lot about the quote "A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision" these days Except I think it applies to any 'decision', not just management. It's your code, not the AI's code

I read Brian Pedersen's data on what Search hiring teams are looking for and wrote about my own pointers for job seekers. One big danger for search professionals: keeping your head in the sand. Participate in community, in whatever form that can take for you. softwaredoug.com/blog/2026/09...

Retrieval Augmented Gathering starting tomorrow with a search career Q&A. Hope you can make it! maven.com/lls/f27953

Price will increase to $1450 on Friday for October's cohort. Hope you can make it maven.com/softwaredoug...

Over the next few weeks, we'll have a series of talks on retrieval, RAG, agentic memory, agentic search and more - come hang out! maven.com/lls/f27953

It's 2026 and this still needs to be said :) maven.com/p/74f7ed/emb...

On the road to my Cheat at Search w/ Agents course we'll have Brian Pedersen of The Search Bar with a Q&A on search + AI career Bring your tough questions! maven.com/p/2b0df3/sea...

Good morning everyone - here’s some good housing news to start your day!

first time I came across this verdik.substack.com/p/how-to-get...

It's down to the wire folks, Hugo and I are teaching in 1 hour! maven.com/softwaredoug...