Evan Harris

Jun 14, 2024 | wfdd.org | Evan Harris

A house bought on a whim in rural Saxapahaw now boasts an unexpected feature for this agricultural landscape — a submarine. Along a tucked-away country road, a Beatles-esque behemoth rises from a sea of green. OK, it’s actually just grass. And in the middle, sits an eye-catching lifeboat retrofitted to depict the band's iconic Yellow Submarine. This Beatles-esque behemoth is like a 3D billboard advertising one of Alamance County’s more unusual businesses: an Airbnb with a '60s twist.

Mar 27, 2024 | easthamptonstar.com | Chris Byrne |Evan Harris |Keith Mayerson

“Frank Johnson: Secret Pioneer of American Comics”Chris Byrne and Keith Mayerson, EditorsFantagraphics, $49.99Welcome to "Wally's Gang," a series of stories drawn in comic form akin to contemporary graphic novels but originating before that form appeared on the publishing scene. And for the kicker: "Wally's Gang" was never shown or shared over the 50-year span (1928-1979) of its creation.

Feb 21, 2024 | easthamptonstar.com | Evan Harris

“The Trouble With You”Ellen FeldmanSt. Martin's Griffin, $19With her ninth book of historical fiction in a career spanning over 20 years thus far, Ellen Feldman continues to supply characters that interest, juicy historical details, and expert pacing of a solid plotline.

Dec 22, 2023 | jdsupra.com | Megan Gerking |Evan Harris |Jeff Jaeckel

On December 18—nearly two years after announcing plans to revise the Merger Guidelines—the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) (together, “the Agencies”) issued a final version of their new Merger Guidelines.[1] In many ways, these new Guidelines memorialize the Biden administration’s aggressive and skeptical approach to analyzing proposed transactions, introducing thresholds and criteria that will likely subject many more transactions to regulatory scrutiny.

Dec 18, 2023 | medium.com | Evan Harris

The concept of Hybrid Search is having a moment in the wake of the popularity of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). With the recent rise in open source and as-a-service vector databases, we see many of them either natively supporting or offering an explainer on how to manage hybrid search for text retrieval (here, here, here, here). Ensembles of sparse and dense retrieval methods are not new. However, much of the tooling is.