{"id":186,"date":"2006-04-30T22:02:50","date_gmt":"2006-05-01T04:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hunch.net\/?p=186"},"modified":"2006-04-30T22:05:10","modified_gmt":"2006-05-01T04:05:10","slug":"john-langford-yahoo-research-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"John Langford &#8211;> Yahoo Research, NY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will join <a href=\"http:\/\/research.yahoo.com\/\">Yahoo Research<\/a> (in New York) after my contract ends at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tti-c.org\/\">TTI-Chicago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The deciding reasons are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Yahoo is running into many hard learning problems.  This is precisely the situation where basic research might hope to have the greatest impact.<\/li>\n<li>Yahoo Research understands research including publishing, conferences, etc&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Yahoo Research is growing, so there is a chance I can help it grow well.<\/li>\n<li>Yahoo understands the internet, including (but not at all limited to) experimenting with research blogs.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In the end, Yahoo Research seems like the place where I might have a chance to make the greatest difference.  <\/p>\n<p>Yahoo (as a company) has made a strong bet on Yahoo Research.  We-the-researchers all hope that bet will pay off, and this seems plausible.  I&#8217;ll certainly have fun trying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will join Yahoo Research (in New York) after my contract ends at TTI-Chicago. The deciding reasons are: Yahoo is running into many hard learning problems. This is precisely the situation where basic research might hope to have the greatest impact. Yahoo Research understands research including publishing, conferences, etc&#8230; Yahoo Research is growing, so there &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hunch.net\/?p=186\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;John Langford &#8211;> Yahoo Research, NY&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}