Re:Search at Slack
by amelius on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @02:35PM
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> so I'm wondering what you'd like to see more competition achieve
There's a lot that competition can help improve, for example in the areas of performance, robustness, and also in functionality, e.g. better NLP for better understanding of queries and translating them into results, image/audio search, etc. And competition can also come up with surprising new features that we can't even think of right now.
This, plus it is (imho) quite weird that we have only one source of code for one of the basic branches of Computer Science.
There's a lot that competition can help improve, for example in the areas of performance, robustness, and also in functionality, e.g. better NLP for better understanding of queries and translating them into results, image/audio search, etc. And competition can also come up with surprising new features that we can't even think of right now.
This, plus it is (imho) quite weird that we have only one source of code for one of the basic branches of Computer Science.