Interesting note: Justin King, the chief executive of Sainsbury’s, was on BBC Breakfast this morning, talking about healthy eating and whose responsibility it is to help make Britain slim. (Note that yesterday’s news featured recent findings that Britain is now the fattest country in Eur[...]
Searching: then and now
Let’s talk about information retrieval algorithms. I’ve been comparing search engines, looking for something suitable for a large amount of unstructured data from a lot of repositories. Now, option 1 says it operates on the probabilistic model of information retrieval (a description of t[...]