Ok, perhaps not statistical bias. But there is a certain lack of iid, wouldn't you say? The suggestions beget actions beget suggestions. There is loopy feedback in the whole process, something th...
http://irgupf.com/2010/12/16/its-just-math/comment-page-1/#comment-81151
I'd say it's "just a probability model". Let's assume Google's engineers can count (not always easy on the web with all the duplication and robo-spam), and that the most frequent query starting w...
http://irgupf.com/2010/12/16/its-just-math/comment-page-1/#comment-80964
I don't have access to all the statistics that Google does. But I would say that the analogous IDF in the query suggestion would correct against average behavior. I'm not an average user. Don't u...
http://irgupf.com/2010/12/16/its-just-math/comment-page-1/#comment-78579
Surely. I agree that just math is a lame argument. Note, however, that in a TF * IDF formula IDF corrects a local occurence of the word using the global score. What is global and and what is loca...
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