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Hmm?.. Selçuk (26 years ago, 21-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Attn Todd: Example of user defined fuzzy database
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Have you seen Everything? (URL) kind of hard to describe but it looks like very interesting experiment. (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | 8226 Mud Masher is Tech Build?
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In the database, the 8226 is listed as Tech Build: (URL) always thought this was a part of the Tech Play series. What do you people think? Fredrik (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: Official and Unofficial theme categories
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(...) Wow. I had totally forgotten about that thread. Those were the good old days. That one, and the thread about the 12H quarter domes. (Speaking of which, I'm currently updating my web pages about the spaceship BR.[1] I'm not any closer to (...) (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: Official and Unofficial theme categories
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(...) Well, I just remembered that you'd saved me from opening a huge can of worms. :) To be more accurate, I wanted to categorize the sets based on color scheme, and it probably wasn't super-clear that I was considering breaking up the "Classic (...) (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: Fuzzy categories: The death of black & white
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(...) My Theory is that Ninja will move to 48xx. I think 3050-3053 are "promotional", like Unitron was. I guess we'll just have to wait and see. Jeff (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: Fuzzy categories: The death of black & white
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(...) Well, I think there's still gonna be a lot of queries for "space" and "castle". (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Note: it probably wasn't me. I *think* FLG has been around longer than I have (my roll-call form says "late 1995"). Steve (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: Element search with fuzzy categories
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(...) Right-o. The real thingie (remember, the /dbtoys/elementsearch/ thingie is just a toy/prototype) will need to be smart like that, so it knows what's too little to return vs. what's too much. (...) Dunno. Maybe some of both, but probably few if (...) (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: Element search with fuzzy categories
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(...) on (...) Egypt... That sounds like a good idea. If the results told you something of the logic the engine followed to get to each hit you would have a better chance of rewording your query to avoid the spurious results. from a UI point of view (...) (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: Element search with fuzzy categories
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(...) Well, I guess it comes up from that I'd expect desert to go to Egypt and Outback maybe but I'd probably be surprised how mummies came up in a query on desert. Maybe if it told me that mummies came up indirectly through Egypt... (...) I'm (...) (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: Fuzzy categories: The death of black & white
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(...) Whoa -- yes -- good point! Star Wars is a lot more environments that just T.I.E. fighters and X-Wings blowing each other up! :-) --Todd (26 years ago, 10-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: Fuzzy categories: The death of black & white
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Matthew Miller wrote in message ... (...) "s"), (...) perhaps a more useful and less confusing name for "space" (lower case) would be sci-fi(also lower case) Similarly castle(lc) could be renamed historical(lc) or somehting similar (medievil?) to (...) (26 years ago, 10-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) See, I'm not even sure about that. Three of the five currently-known sets are ground-transport and not space sets at all (not even in the sense of "designed for ground exploration of alien planets"). And I can definitely see Mos Eisley (...) (26 years ago, 10-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: Element search with fuzzy categories
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Wow! (...) Why would you not want mummies in the desert? Ok I can sort of see why, but they are related, (By about 80% :) The percentage cutoff would be useful here. If the cutoff is set to x% then once a subgroup falls below x% relative to the (...) (26 years ago, 10-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: Official and Unofficial theme categories
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(...) I feel much better now... Lets see. I would say that ideally, each of the following criteria could be treated as part of an equation (<>= (value), !(value), etc) - in other words, have them treatable as logical expressions. Set number set name (...) (26 years ago, 10-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) says (...) down, (...) Something like that, yes. I seem to be attacking this from an interface point of view, so I'll keep with that, for now. Scroll down for an example of some of my thoughts (...) enter (...) Yes! I knew I'd seen something (...) (26 years ago, 10-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: Fuzzy categories: The death of black & white
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(...) Ah, but sometimes they do (anything in 6800-6999 :-). But I admit, it's possible that TLG may someday destroy the sacred 6800-6999 range as they destroyed the 6700-6799 range. 67xx used to be solely for Space minifigs and Space Light & Sound (...) (26 years ago, 10-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: Fuzzy categories: The death of black & white
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Also sprach Todd Lehman: : To be more precise, Star Wars sets are certainly "space" sets (lowercase "s"), : but clearly not "Space" sets (uppercase "S" as in "LEGO[LAND] Space System") : because of their non-6[89]xx numbering. Ah, but as various (...) (26 years ago, 10-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: Fuzzy categories: The death of black & white
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(...) That's an interesting thought. :) The question, of course, was a trick question -- where the [de]capitalization of "space" is intended to illustrate the inherent controversy/confusion. To be more precise, Star Wars sets are certainly "space" (...) (26 years ago, 10-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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