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Category Archives: General
Long Term versus Evolutionary Thinking (Part 2 of 2)
Continued from Part 1. Now that I’ve fully (perhaps too much so) explained the analogy that I will be using, I’d like to ground this discussion in the subject of information retrieval. And I’ll start with an example that O’Reilly … Continue reading
Long Term versus Evolutionary Thinking (Part 1 of 2)
Last week I attended the O’Reilly eTech conference. The first night, Tim O’Reilly gave his annual Radar talk, in which he surveys the technology landscape and comments on upcoming and interesting trends. I have heard this Radar talk for years, … Continue reading
Overloaded Operator: Collaboration
I just want to announce that over on the FXPAL blog, Gene Golovchinsky and I are starting a series of posts about what we think it means to collaborate during the information seeking process. There are many different dimensions and … Continue reading
Computers and Poetry
I first became fascinated with the relationship between computers, information, language, and emotion back in 1984 when I read an Analog article about a computer than had been used to automatically generate poetry. A week later, I was on my … Continue reading
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Exploration and Explanation
Sometimes, the story is as good as the moral. Sometimes, the journey is as good as the destination. So in Information Retrieval, why are we too often satisfied with producing results, but not with explaining how the results were arrived … Continue reading
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And just like that..
..I’ve changed my domain. I liked Jeff Dalton’s suggestions, to switch from wiakli.net to irgupf.com. So if you’ve got me in your feed reader, please make the switch, and apologies for the sudden change. wiakli.net as a domain should remain … Continue reading
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What is a “Gupf”?
The title of this blog is “Information Retrieval Gupf”. I’ll wager that more than a few of you are wondering what a Gupf is. Gupf is an Austrian slang/dialect form of the high German word “Gipfel”, which means “peak” or … Continue reading
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One Click Away
Daniel Tunkelang pointed me to a NYT article on the growing power, and therefore growing public unwariness, of Google. The article makes a number of points, but what struck me most was the pseudo-repartee between Google’s chief economist, Hal Varian, … Continue reading
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Jumping in
Over the years, Greg Linden, Jeff Dalton, and Daniel Tunkelang have asked me to stop reduce commenting on their blogs, get out there and start one myself. While I am still not convinced that the world needs yet another blog, … Continue reading
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