From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/4954 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brian Edmonds Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: new feature for Red - adaptive scoring Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 12:05:20 -0800 Message-ID: <199601282005.MAA28796@edmonds.home.cs.ubc.ca> References: <199601261752.AA084158727@teal.ece.ucdavis.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035145627 31338 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:27:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:27:07 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA19583 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 12:46:35 -0800 Original-Received: from grolsch.cs.ubc.ca (grolsch.cs.ubc.ca [142.103.6.9]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 21:12:10 +0100 Original-Received: from edmonds.home.cs.ubc.ca (edmonds.home.cs.ubc.ca [198.162.38.73]) by grolsch.cs.ubc.ca (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id MAA28414 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 12:12:00 -0800 Original-Received: by edmonds.home.cs.ubc.ca (Sendmail 8.6.12) id MAA28796; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 12:05:20 -0800 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-reply-to: larsi@ifi.uio.no's message of 27 Jan 1996 21:33:07 +0100 X-Operating-System: Linux 1.2.13 #1 Sun Dec 24 12:02:32 PST 1995 X-Geek: GCS d?(-) H- s g+ p?+ au+ a- w+ v-(*) C++(++++) ULHSX++++$ P+++$ L++ 3- E++(-) N+++@ K W--(---) M-(+)$ V -po+(---)>$ Y+ t+ 5++ j R G''' tv+ b++>+++ D+(++) B- e++>+++(*) u++(-)* h- f+ r-- n+@ !y+(*) Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4954 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4954 >>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: Lars> The point of the decay thing is to avoid having all the things you Lars> like reach posinf while the things you don't like would reach Lars> neginf, isn't it? Well, as the person who originally suggested aging of adaptive scores way back when[1], I pretty much agree with Lars. As I see it, adaptive scoring mostly gets rid of noisy topics and people, with the side advantage of highlighting interesting topics and people. However, both topics and people change, but may not go away completely. So it would be nice for them to be able to fade in and out over time, which a percentage decay towards zero would accomplish. I also think that the max/min (at least max :) adaptive score is a good idea. With my scoring scheme, once anyone gets to a couple hundred or so, they really aren't any more interesting after going up another couple hundred, and scores too large tend to screw up formatting of my summary buffers. :) Brian. [1] See the mailing list archives starting towards the end of Feb95. Unfortunately, I had neither the time, nor the necessary experience with elisp (particularly with Gnus internals) to implement it.