How Autosuggest Ranking Works
Hundreds of recipes match what you typed. You can show ten. Picking which ten is the whole problem, and the formula that solves it builds itself one signal at a time.
16 min read
§ 00Engineering · Writing · Cooking
Nick
Karnik.
Nearly three decades of building software across search engines, disease models, data platforms, and AI tools. Serious about cooking, cocktails, travel, and building games with my three kids. Still figuring out what comes next and building it anyway.
How to Tell If a Model Is Good Enough
Learn why accuracy is a trap, and how precision and recall reveal what really matters when evaluating machine learning models.
7 min read
The Modern Attack Surface: How Computers Get Compromised
An overview of how the attack surface has evolved in modern computing, and the ways computers and accounts get compromised today.
17 min read
02Work
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AI and Developer Tools
Built Gemini Code Assist at Google. Writing about what I learned building it.
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Search and Relevance
Six years on Bing search at Microsoft. A patent. A lot of labeled data.
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Making Things
Currently building new tools. Making games with my three kids. Always something cooking.
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Engineering Leadership
Led and hired teams at Google, Microsoft, Tableau (Salesforce), and T-Mobile. Now a hands-on tech lead building product at PitchBook (Morningstar).