tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post5672078121591747280..comments2024-03-28T18:17:00.135-05:00Comments on Computational Complexity: Search Engines gone wild!Lance Fortnowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06752030912874378610noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-47727215688985796982007-09-19T10:58:00.000-05:002007-09-19T10:58:00.000-05:00Try searching for "William Gasarch" on Google book...Try searching for "William Gasarch" on Google books instead (books.google.com); it seems to give much more relevant results.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-75803785490156846272007-09-12T07:33:00.000-05:002007-09-12T07:33:00.000-05:00Thanks, Ken, that was a great thing to start my da...Thanks, Ken, that was a great thing to start my day with. But next time you're in a movie, be sure to visit us here at the middle-of-nowhere theory lab. We'll make an extra trailer available for you. Hell, I've put a down payment on my own double-wide already.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-39217903314163770572007-09-11T22:14:00.000-05:002007-09-11T22:14:00.000-05:00Amir Michail runs the recently-launched "Mindrosit...Amir Michail runs the recently-launched <A HREF="http://mindrosity.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow">"Mindrosity"</A> blog, and develops and blogs for Web 2.0. The paper he referenced <I>might</I> interest some readers of this blog who work on ranking, e.g. Lane Hemaspaandra or D. Sivakumar. It also has a small overlap in ideaspace (max-likelihood inference) with <A HREF="http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~regan/chess/fidelity/" REL="nofollow">my own stat. testing of chess-cheating allegations</A>. It's fine to post a spec-query as a short flyer, even one 90% likely to meet silence---and better to try again elsewhere than to put more posts in the same thread.<BR/><BR/>Plus I can say Amir---I posted a concrete example in your "Justin TV" item, did you see it?KWReganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09792573098380066005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-50091067846209218662007-09-11T21:57:00.000-05:002007-09-11T21:57:00.000-05:00...then on the 3rd page I see my most important bo......then on the 3rd page I see my most important book items (chapter and paper credits) at the end. So what exactly does determine the sorting order?KWReganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09792573098380066005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-906592465986420362007-09-11T21:43:00.000-05:002007-09-11T21:43:00.000-05:00Bill has (inadvertently) blasted open my life's se...Bill has (inadvertently) blasted open my life's secret. Do the same Amazon search on "Ken Regan" and you'll find that I've:<BR/><BR/>() prepped Ken Burns on baseball history---stuff I got from Lance Fortnow, actually---and visuals.<BR/><BR/>() co-authored with Oprah. <BR/><BR/>() been involved with "The Bridges of Madison County" (I tried to sneak in a visit to Jack Lutz but there wasn't time).<BR/><BR/>() designed art posters of my mom's favorite 1960's singers.<BR/><BR/>And lots of etc.....NOT!! :-) But if you want me to take photos of Complexity'08, it's still a 5-figure fee :-).<BR/><BR/>Seriously, search Amazon with my full first name and, weirdly, a bunch of my old Buffalo TRs come up, plus a similar ack. in Hemaspaandra-Ogihara...KWReganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09792573098380066005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-29027657971917962352007-09-11T21:30:00.000-05:002007-09-11T21:30:00.000-05:00Who is Amir Michail? I get the feeling you're goin...Who is Amir Michail? <BR/><BR/>I get the feeling you're going from blog to blog trying to start lengthy conversations in comments section so you can extract some quotes from a cloud of opinions on a topic you're writing/researching about. <BR/><BR/>You're like a human spam-bot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-13020856244533905942007-09-11T21:18:00.000-05:002007-09-11T21:18:00.000-05:00Amazon's search function used to be amazing (five ...Amazon's search function used to be amazing (five years ago, say). It would nearly always find exactly what I wanted with very little input. Now, I can type in the exact title and author of a book (or the exact title and "DVD" for a DVD), and it still won't be able to find it. I don't know how they broke it so badly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-32159273616298580772007-09-11T17:09:00.000-05:002007-09-11T17:09:00.000-05:00For a theory blog, it'd be nice to see the fact th...<I>For a theory blog, it'd be nice to see the fact that soda results were announced... better late than never.</I><BR/><BR/>Speaking of SODA, have you looked at this paper?<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.1051" REL="nofollow">http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.1051</A><BR/><BR/>This sort of work is very interesting because it is about constructing a human algorithm, making it tolerant to human errors.<BR/><BR/>We need more research like this, particularly with all the web 2.0 social apps and focus on human computation.Amir Michailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11532311330603872562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-48460404830531176822007-09-11T15:53:00.000-05:002007-09-11T15:53:00.000-05:00Anon 2 and other readers: If you want SODA or some...Anon 2 and other readers: If you want SODA or some<BR/>other conference list-of-papers<BR/>or Call-for-paper or<BR/>whatnot announced here<BR/>you should EMAIL me and<BR/>I'll probably do it ASAP.<BR/><BR/>Anon 2: Why didn't you also<BR/>include in your comment<BR/>the following:<BR/><BR/>SODA PAPER LIST AVAILABLE<BR/><BR/> http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~iftgam/conflist/soda.2008.txtGASARCHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06134382469361359081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-6544581677926176832007-09-11T15:09:00.000-05:002007-09-11T15:09:00.000-05:00For a theory blog, it'd be nice to see the fact th...For a theory blog, it'd be nice to see the fact that soda results were announced... better late than never.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-68073423420647467402007-09-11T13:37:00.000-05:002007-09-11T13:37:00.000-05:00As long as the hits are sorted by relevance I don'...As long as the hits are sorted by relevance I don't see the problem.Arvind Narayananhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02495762505427759752noreply@blogger.com