A little more natter. Internet spelling osmosis is your best chance for getting "Mme" into common usage, so it's not all evil. Also, John H showed me 100,000 misspellings of Britney Spears typed into the Google.com search engine. "Allyson" shames me as a Buffy fan, but it's no "Birtteny."
All right, no one's killing folk today, on account of our very tight schedule.
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Noumenon - Dec 06, 2002 6:42:40 pm PST #1890 of 10000
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
§ ita § - Dec 06, 2002 9:07:25 pm PST #1891 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The comma quote thing is already fixed. Unless someone has evidence to the contrary.
The search results are ordered by relevance, as determined by the full text engine.
Noumenon - Dec 06, 2002 9:21:31 pm PST #1892 of 10000
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
And by length, I believe. Or else the fic just shows up by the bottom because it's got a lower ratio of keywords to text. That's probably it.
§ ita § - Dec 06, 2002 9:27:59 pm PST #1893 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Here's the MYSQL explanation:
Every correct word in the collection and in the query is weighted according to its significance in the query or collection. This way, a word that is present in many documents will have lower weight (and may even have a zero weight), because it has lower semantic value in this particular collection. Otherwise, if the word is rare, it will receive a higher weight. The weights of the words are then combined to compute the relevance of the row.
Such a technique works best with large collections (in fact, it was carefully tuned this way). For very small tables, word distribution does not reflect adequately their semantic value, and this model may sometimes produce bizarre results.
I suspect slash (and porn and ita) have little semantic value, what with the omnipresence and stuff.
DXMachina - Dec 06, 2002 9:30:19 pm PST #1894 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I suspect slash (and porn and ita) have little semantic value, what with the omnipresence and stuff.
And 'ita' won't even register, because it's too short.
Beverly - Dec 07, 2002 10:46:29 am PST #1895 of 10000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
PF Stompy Foot? Really stinky troll in Buffy American Style, NAFDA equivalent. Stomp, stomp, stomp! Do the dance of squishy trolls!
§ ita § - Dec 07, 2002 12:49:58 pm PST #1896 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Pfah.
Going through and checking changes, I've realized that since we allow tags ( t i t u t b ) in taglines, the same fscking can happen there that can happen in posts. Which means that we need to roll the same function against tags as we do posts, which means it's no longer a method of posts, but a generic helper function.
FYI.
John H - Dec 07, 2002 1:29:47 pm PST #1897 of 10000
it's no longer a method of posts, but a generic helper function.
Does that raise the idea of making QuickEdit available in the tagline box as well, or is that just more trouble and work? Just a thought.
§ ita § - Dec 07, 2002 1:31:28 pm PST #1898 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'd rather take out the tag-ability and put quickedit in. Limited quickedit, though.
Or we could just not have HTML in tags. I'm good with that too.
§ ita § - Dec 07, 2002 1:41:00 pm PST #1899 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hokay. Implemented some of Jon's changes -- you are now informed (via a server-side count) that your tag has been amputated. Also put in the screen so one can change the number of posts displayed.