The Case of the Vanishing #Hit Count: Rethinking Query Craftsmanship in a Post-Boolean World— Reflections from Day 2 of my FSCI 2025 workshop on AI‑powered search

👉 Understanding the Shift from Exact #Boolean Hits to the "Top-k" Results of #SemanticSearch and the Evaluated Hits of #DeepSearch.

By Aaron Tay

https://open.substack.com/pub/aarontay/p/the-case-of-the-vanishing-hit-count

#SearchEvolution #AcademicSearchChallenges #Discovery #InformationDiscovery #InformationLiteracy #infolit #TopK #SearchStrategy #booleanoperations #HitCount

After a couple weeks of hitting dead ends with Open3D's bugs in boolean geometry operations, I've switched to scripting Blender for my boolean geometry operations.

I've got spheres, cylinders, and cubes with reliable intersections, unions, and differences, which was not possible with Open3D.

I'm excited to start a larger design to see how Blender holds up.

#blender #open3d #boolean #geometry #booleangeometry #booleanoperations #proceduraldesign #3dprinting #foss #floss #fosh #flosh