Posted: June 6th, 2004 | Comments Off
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
Posted: June 4th, 2004 | No Comments »
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:
![](http://www.girardin.org/fabien/seventh-and-half/images/epfl_smoking2_small.jpg)
Posted: June 4th, 2004 | No Comments »
2 heating engineers from Central Services came this morning to fix some shelves.
![](http://www.girardin.org/fabien/seventh-and-half/images/epfl_shelves_small.jpg)
See also the previous intervention.
Posted: June 4th, 2004 | Comments Off
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.
Posted: June 2nd, 2004 | No Comments »
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