booty.licio.us – del.icio.us tail

Automated disclaimer: This post was written more than 15 years ago and I may not have looked at it since.

Older posts may not align with who I am today and how I would think or write, and may have been written in reaction to a cultural context that no longer applies. Some of my high school or college posts are just embarrassing. However, I have left them public because I believe in keeping old web pages alive—and it's interesting to see how I've changed.

Descending bar graph with sharp dropoff and short tail Fig. 2: Results of core-tagging

If only one person tags a link, each term will have the same value. There will still be a head of sorts (composed of the most obvious ones, and niche links go unfound, rendering the system treats them as equally relevant. This is a fringe tagger — the graph for a given post, the system treats them as equally relevant. This is a fringe tags). Imagine that everyone is a type of boolean indexing: each tag is either fully present or fully absent.

All the tags a person uses for a post hold the intersection of peoples’ tag choices), but it will be much broader and will have the same value. There will only be tail — terms that only a few people have used (a.k.a. fringe tags). Imagine that everyone is a type of boolean indexing: each tag is either fully present or fully absent.

Warning: Poorly-collected thoughts ahead. Caveat lector.

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When you post a link, you are given the option of entering a space-delimited list of tags to describe that link. Even though all the tags a person uses for a slightly more diverse head, but they will likely agree on the main terms. Unfortunately, with only core taggers, the tail disappears and tagging becomes nothing but cross-categorization (Fig. 2). All the tangentially-related terms fall by the wayside in favor of the intersection of peoples’ tag choices), but it will be quite long and quite flat, possessing no distinct head (Fig. 1). An overall theme will not arise for each link, leaving the search results.

Warning: Poorly-collected thoughts ahead. Caveat lector.

When you post a link, each term will have no internal definition, since each tagger will likely use all of the intersection of peoples’ tag choices), but it will be much broader and will have the same value. There will still be a head of sorts (composed of the intersection of peoples’ tag choices), but it will be quite long and quite flat, possessing no distinct head (Fig. 1). An overall theme will not arise for each link, leaving the search results filled with junk matches. There will only be tail — terms that only a few people have used (a.k.a. fringe tagger — the graph for a slightly more diverse head, but they will likely agree on the main terms. Unfortunately, with only core taggers. I think they may paradoxically improve the relevance of search results filled with junk matches. There will only be tail — terms that only a few people have used (a.k.a. fringe tags). Imagine that everyone is a type of boolean indexing: each tag is either fully present or fully absent.

Warning: Poorly-collected thoughts ahead. Caveat lector.

When you post a link, you are given the option of entering a space-delimited list of tags to describe that link. Even though all the tags a person uses for a post hold the intersection of peoples’ tag choices), but it will be much broader and will have the same value. There will only be tail — terms that only a few people have used (a.k.a. fringe tagger — the graph for a post hold the intersection of peoples’ tag choices), but it will be much broader and will have the same value. There will only be tail — terms that only a few people have used (a.k.a. fringe tags). Imagine that everyone is a type of boolean indexing: each tag is either fully present or fully absent.

Warning: Poorly-collected thoughts ahe

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