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  Re: Official and Unofficial theme categories
 
(...) Here's an example of what I mean by wanting things to "just work" -- and wanting the categories to be relatively transparent by default. If you type in "bike" into this element-search thingie, (URL) fails to find any pieces labeled as "bike." (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
 
  Re: Official and Unofficial theme categories
 
(...) Here's another example of where purely word-based attributes can lead things astray -- I just noticed this: (URL) says that "egypt" contains "pyramid", which makes sense. OK so far. But -- if you click on "pyramid", (URL) comes up with this (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
 
  Element search with fuzzy categories
 
OK, here's the fuzzy element search thingie I was mentioning earlier tonight. It's ugly, it doesn't contain all possible information, and it's just a proof-of-concept toy -- but it's kinda actually helpful, and its results are sometimes surprising (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
 
  Re: Sets which "break the rules"
 
Todd Lehman wrote in message <36957e56.27889166@l...et.com>... (...) There are also some other sets from the very beginning of TLG. They were named like "700/0", "700/1", and so on. They are all (7 ot 8 in total) are small sets feturing Legoland (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
 
  Re: Official and Unofficial theme categories
 
(...) Yup -- pretty much like that, in terms of relevance matching and neighboring categories (up, down, sideways in the graph). (...) Do you have a wish-list in mind of all the possible things you'd love to see be configurable? (...) I guess that's (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)


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