the english Laberthread (the fine british way!)

[LuminFlare]

(22.11.2014)Morasain schrieb:  Blue is an amazing colour. It's so... blue!

I promised to give you an example of a stupid question in my lectures. Well, this one isn't from Anglistics but from Information Science. We spoke about Relevance Ranking (that's the stuff Google does to give you good results). There are three different versions... the first one is the Power Law. You can describe it with C/x^a. The second one, the inverse logistic version, has a pretty complicated e-function. And the last one, the binary version... well, it's either "1" or "0". If it is relevant in any way, it's "1". If it's not relevant at all, it's "0". Someone asked if there is a formula for the binary system.

Well..
if relevant: 1 else 0?
Oh I see what you mean...

[Morasain]

There is no actual function for that.

Other example, same course (it's actually not the lecture itself, but an accompanying exercise)... The exercise instructor gave us a task.

Web of Science gave us 15 relevant and 6 irrelevant results for the term "Information Retrieval", and 24 relevant documents were not displayed. How many relevant results were found.
A. 6
B. 15
C. 24
D. 9

There were actually some people who chose D.

[LuminFlare]

(22.11.2014)Morasain schrieb:  There is no actual function for that.

Other example, same course (it's actually not the lecture itself, but an accompanying exercise)... The exercise instructor gave us a task.

Web of Science gave us 15 relevant and 6 irrelevant results for the term "Information Retrieval", and 24 relevant documents were not displayed. How many relevant results were found.
A. 6
B. 15
C. 24
D. 9

There were actually some people who chose D.

I don't understand the question perfectly.
Is the answer B?

[Morasain]

Of course it is. The answer is given in the question.

[LuminFlare]

Oh I thought documents are also counted as result. Oh well

[Morasain]

Um, actually, the 15 results are documents as well, and so are the 6 irrelevant result. Everything on the internet is a document.

[LuminFlare]

Oh well, there is no reason to pick D anyway.

[Tuxedo Stallion]

Oh wow, Ingress is for iOS! I've been meaning to play this game for ages XD

[DrDerrek]

Well, join the green ones. We have cookies

[LuminFlare]

Join the resistance! We have cakes!

[Morasain]

Join me, I can promise better things :p

Power etc

[Whitey]

It's a trap!

[LuminFlare]

(27.11.2014)Morasain schrieb:  Join me, I can promise better things :p

Power etc

What can be better than cakes?

[Whitey]

How about cupcakes?

[LuminFlare]

You are right!
Come to resistance, we will give you cupcakes!

[DrDerrek]

Well, he chose the cookies. Yay!

[Morasain]

Unlimited power. Freedom. Et cetera.

[Tuxedo Stallion]

Is there an option 3? I'm more of a pie fan myself

[LuminFlare]

The third option for you enlightenment is XMP bursts

[Tuxedo Stallion]

I have no idea what I'm doing. If you win by hacking stuff, then I'm kicking ass!