Comments for Thoughts and Notes

Comment on Google SearchWiki by Liudmila

Liudmila — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:23:45 +0000

Thank for the tip

Comment on videolectures.net: YouTube for Academic Videos by aliceoh

aliceoh — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:27:17 +0000

Thanks for the math site! I’ll definitely take a look. It’s always good to hear from famous people with deep insights.

Comment on videolectures.net: YouTube for Academic Videos by ...

... — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:18:16 +0000

I also found that web site very useful, especially for someone who
never studies machine learning but wants to study it carefully. The web site contains many good lectures by, I guess, top machine learning people. Those lectures often gave me good intuitions behind various learning algorithms, which I could not see in textbooks.

Another useful web site for academic videos is:

http://www.msri.org/communications/vmath/VMathVideos/

This site contains several math lectures. For instance, you can find
lectures by Fields Medalists, like Terrence Tao.

Comment on Google SearchWiki by aliceoh

aliceoh — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:41:56 +0000

Well, all of your points are indeed valid and important. But I think google has a good start. I think they are doing it as a place to start gathering information about personal preferences. I hope that they will use it to develop a more advanced personalized search system. I doubt that they can extract distance-based customizations yet, but that may be coming soon also.

Comment on Google SearchWiki by swhcm

swhcm — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:59:14 +0000

Do you think that this feature is a good tool for users, Alice ?

In my point of view, it is a good tool to share searching experience among users, but sometimes merely a bookmark tool to note your preferences. As an example, when I want to search for a specific group of keywords the second (or third,…) time, I may want the search engine to show up “new” suggestions. I expect the search engine to evaluate and show the best links at present time, not the links I thought the best, but now obsolete. Using Google SearchWiki, I might miss interesting update search results and tie only to the links that are good according to my old knowledge.

Besides, the quality of users’ comments is uncontrollable. When we search for a good restaurant in Yuseong district, for example, we may see comments next to a link like “I have been here, this is the best restaurant in Taejon”, but the truth is not. This time, Google search pages become free places for advertisements.

It would be much better if Google can find better links based on the customized ranks we did for links. For example, I search three or four times for a restaurant in some places in Taejon, and rank 1st and 2nd for those located near KAIST only, although other people in Taejon do not do the same. Then, Google should guess that I have only limited transportation means and customize search results for other related queries a little in the future regarding to this problem ^^.

Comment on Leave me a birthday note! by swhcm

swhcm — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:53:20 +0000

I have just known your blog today. It’s late, but Happy Birthday ^^

Comment on Leave me a birthday note! by Hijbul

Hijbul — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:37:47 +0000

I am very glad to introduce with you and hope that you had enjoyed your birthday. Thanks for visiting Korea University. I enjoyed your Presentation and R&D very much.

Comment on Leave me a birthday note! by Hijbul

Hijbul — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:32:13 +0000

I am very glad to introduce with you and hope that you had enjoy your birthday. I enjoy you Presentation and R&D very much. Thanks for visiting Korea University.

Comment on Leave me a birthday note! by Jaeyeon Jung

Jaeyeon Jung — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:56:49 +0000

Didn’t know about this blog site. Happy (belated) birthday! Hope you had a nice birthday night out with Taesik.

Comment on Leave me a birthday note! by Daniel Tunkelang

Daniel Tunkelang — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:58:35 +0000

Happy belated birthday!