There is confusion sometimes as to what “science” is. For something to be science, the “scientific method” needs to be applied to it. (The diagram shows the different steps involved in this). This is a brief overview of it, if you want to delve into the philosophi[...]
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Short Information Retrieval glossary
When you read papers or patents to do with information retrieval, sometimes the authors assume you know what some of the things they use are all about and don’t explain it. I have written a tutorial on the Search Engine Index, and also on Search Engine Spiders and Clustering. Those should[...]
The SEO Dojo
Something really exciting is going on, David Harry has launched a very cool social community called “The dojo”. It’s all about SEO, SMM, IR and all that good stuff. If you join up you will get access to a huge repository of knowledge in the form of links to resources and also pap[...]
February 10th, 2009 - 1:54 pm § in Tutorials
Is an algorithm an equation?
…No. I’ve had this question quite a lot recently so I thought I’d clear that up. My other post from today tells you what an algorithm is if you want to read that. An algorithm is a set on instructions that have an initial and terminating state – a basic but correct definiti[...]
