Some interesting readings + a discussion topic

["Subbarao Kambhampati" <rao@asu.edu>]

Here are two interesting (not-fully-technical) readings:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html

 (This talks about the long tail phenomena on the web..)

http://rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu/prec-recall-rev.pdf
 (this applies the ideas of precision and recall to conference paper reviewing
  and in so doing strengthens your intuitions about precision/recall)

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Here is something to think about.  We noticed that information retrieval uses
precision/recall measures to evaluate systems.

Database systems, on the other hand, do not care about precision/recall.

Why don't they?  

Should they?

When should they?

Feel free to add your comments to the blog. 

Rao