[Aug 26, 2005]
Whole truth and nothing but the truth--> precision recall

L.stock/T.back/G.forward--> extraction flakiness


[Jan 27, 2004]

 -- The story of the guy who prays to god and gets a boon with the
caveat that whatever he gets everyone else in his village will get
too. 

-- The Alibaba story where the bad guys go put a mark on the hero's
   door and the heroine foils them by putting the same mark on all the 
   other doors. 

--The connection between IR/Relevance Feedback and the way used car
sales guys (in USA) or the clothes merchants (in India) try to guess
the under-specified buying desires of their customers by showing them
more of the things they had shown some interest in.. 

[Feb 26, 2004]
K-means--The way kids may form themselves into groups in elementary
school. 

single-link vs. complete-link distance measures: 
  The way students want the grade thresholds to be set vs. the way
faculty might want to (Student: "look teach, I am not that far from the
lowest A" Teach: "yeah, but you are plenty far from the highest/mean A").

   Also the way people cross over yellow (I am with *that* car which
crossed; so obviously cop won't catch me--only it is now the camera
:-(


[Apr 16, 2004]
Virtual Integration Architecture as a prototypical "outsourcing"
company