A few notes from Paul Janecek’s presentation of his research on the effectivness of Semantic Fisheye View (SFEV)

Opportunistic search
- browsing over images
- browsing categories

Us of WordNet - Semantic model
Concept hierarchy: from specialized concept to the least specialized

Similarity-guided: keyword linked to images)
Semantic-guided: according super-concepts and siblings with WordNet)

DOI (Degree of interest) function: frequency in a number of time it is used

relevence vs interest

Calculate interests metrics

Information “scent”: how well the information leads you to a direction

My prediction of shrinking smoking areas according Moore’s Law is confirming (see Miniaturized Smoking Area) . After a few monthes, the area has almost been divided by 2. Current size is:

2 heating engineers from Central Services came this morning to fix some shelves.

See also the previous intervention.

Spam poetry has be slashdotted by michael in his post Spam as Poetry.

My spam filter receives about 500/wk, and within those frisky messages, among the pulp and porn, comes some pretty daring poetry

Very similar to my Spam Poetry idea of From Spam to Info Art.

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