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Someday I will play it. Very beautiful and not wildly complex. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fy4kSo7Xx8

Bought these chess pieces today (already had the board).

Some people believe that in chats, they must always respond to messages, not just to questions. Apparently, they reason as follows: since the interlocutor has responded, he, like me, is waiting for a response.

Thank God, these people most often do not get offended if I decide simply not to respond, as the topic is exhausted, the person answered the question or I responded to their answer, and there is no time or reason for me to introduce a new topic.

But I’ve noticed many times. Speaking cynically, it’s important for them to have the last word in the conversation. Where does this come from? How do you cure it?

Perhaps it’s time to start teaching the basics of netiquette in schools. But that’s a broader topic.

An image explaining why my skills are needed in the market.

And isn’t Walmart clever, huh? Selling such garbage, yet they’ve survived and are growing.

I am currently working on a large project involving search, SOLR, grocery, and one of the languages is French. In French, there’s a problem with the ambiguity of words: cerise translates to “cherry,” but tomate cerise translates to small tomatoes, so the correct search for cerise should prioritize cherries. Another example: fraise means strawberry, but fromage frais translates to cottage cheese (frais in this context means fresh); thus, searches for fraise should prioritize strawberries, not cottage cheese. Or consider, for example, pomme de terre (potato). Pomme translates to apple. Therefore, searches for pomme should not show potato.

And nowhere, absolutely nowhere, is it written about such problems and what to do with them online. Although, of course, it’s clear what to do. But how many such cases are there? Each case needs to be handled differently.

Very interesting. It takes a chimpanzee 0.65 seconds to memorize the order of numbers arranged on a surface and reproduce them from memory at 100% accuracy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYVN-XwLwjE&feature=youtu.be&t=1m7s

Today Liza turns 16! 🙂 Liza, I’m so proud of you 🙂 you’re just brilliant at everything right away! Wishing you the brightest future 🎉🎆🎂

Yes-yes-yes! Happy Birthday, Lizok! :-*

There are 16 circles in this picture.

New article on my hybris blog: search synonyms and enhanced phrase search. There’s a well-known issue in SOLR (and it’s not just with hybris) that multi-word synonyms work very poorly. It still functions somewhat with single-word synonyms, but also comes with its challenges. The blog outlines a solution that helps circumvent these problems and make the search smarter.

https://hybrismart.com/2017/08/09/enhanced-multi-word-synonyms-and-phrase-search/