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Montag, 14. März 2005

Wie kann man es besser sagen als Monsieur earl ...

Loopy. And proud of it.

Ernsthafterweise schadet Python der momentan stattfindende Frühjahrsputz und etwas Kohärenzinjektion mit Sicherheit nicht.

2005-03-14-msl.py

Controlled Vocabularies Cut Off the Long Tail

Serendipity, additivity and our friend-du-jour, The Long Tail.

"Controlled vocabularies are, at their finest, a best guess, not an artifact of actual behavior. However, we have many techniques to make controlled vocabularies more user-friendly as we design them: card-sorting, advanced card sorting, synonym dictionaries, variant terms, best bets, mental models. The problem with these techniques, however, is that they’re too deliberate to be inclusive. Someone has to deliberately program the system to show "jeans" when a user types in the variant term "dungarees". Not only is this expensive and selective, in most systems there is little or no support for it."

2005-03-14-additivity

guan 7192 days AGO
Could you please translate your comment on the Python 3000 changes? Are saying that they do or do not harm the Frühjahrsputz and the Kohärenzinjektion mit Sicherheit?

chris 7192 days AGO
they don't harm. python is a paradigm mudball already; to emphasize some constructs over others fits well with pythonic philosophy as I perceive it.

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