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Max Irwin

@max.io

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I make search go brrrr.

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Bonsai Search @bonsai.io · 05/06/2026

Max (@max.io) walks us through using agentic retrieval to improve search results relevancy via SID. Next-level search quality! bonsai.io/blog/agent-s...

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Agentic Search Models with OpenSearch and Elasticsearch

We introduce agentic tool-based retreival models, and show how they are shaping the future of search quality.

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Bonsai Search @bonsai.io · 29/07/2025

In Part 1, @max.io shared a guide to building autocomplete in Elasticsearch & OpenSearch. In Part 2, he shows you how to scale it to 6M docs and runs side-by-side load tests with a large hybrid search index. Dive in 👉 bonsai.io/blog/how-to-... #autocomplete #elasticsearch #opensearch

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Max Irwin @max.io · 09/06/2025

Having an official incident report on the web is a great battle scar.

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Max Irwin @max.io · 09/06/2025

Nice one. Maybe we could try experiment runs could use some histograms or violins or something for comparison, instead of the average NDCG.

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Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · 10/03/2025

The end of Whiplash except it's the Mute City theme from F-Zero.

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Max Irwin @max.io · 13/03/2025

Against my better judgement, I gave this LinkedIn scam bot the phone number of an SMS scam bot. Will they find love?

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Max Irwin @max.io · 26/02/2025

Any embedding model for the legal domain worth its salt would designate semicolon as a special token

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Max Irwin @max.io · 18/02/2025

Being a chess nerd I get especially triggered when I see chess AI slop. Hero images like this pop up on linkedin often.

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Max Irwin @max.io · 31/01/2025

Hey we're in the news! markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/...

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Revolutionizing Search: Experts Launch AI-Powered Search Book and Community for Those Building Next-Generation AI Projects

Authors Trey Grainger, Doug Turnbull, Max Irwin, release book and create online hub to inspire, educate, and showcase new breakthroughs in machine...

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Max Irwin @max.io · 28/01/2025

Who wore it best?

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Max Irwin @max.io · 27/01/2025

Long awaited, the ROC Data Science meetup returns! If you're in Rochester, come to the meetup reboot tomorrow night! Some of us will give some predictions for 2025, and @valerie-carey.bsky.social will get the inertia back for future events!

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Max Irwin @max.io · 27/01/2025

2 years ago I tried my darndest to run CLIP models in ONNX-RT without python. The issue has been the lack of the Multi-Head-Attention operator. This has also held back Llama ONNX and others. We might get a fix in v1.18 github.com/onnx/onnx/pu...

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Add Attention Op to ONNX Opset 23 by shubhambhokare1 · Pull Request #6501 · onnx/onnx

Description Add the following key LLM ops to the ONNX standard: Attention. This standardized attention operator should cover: Self and Cross Attentions Multi-Head Attention (MHA) Group-Query Atten...

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Max Irwin @max.io · 27/01/2025

👋 where my search nerds at?

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Max Irwin @max.io · 27/01/2025

It's going to really change everything. Really hope the huggingface replication goes well and solidifies the science.

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