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Resident I Believe people that write something good about this place is from the office Because is nothing good about this place Office personal don't have manners to talk to you They are nice just when you want to rent... Once… Full Review ▶
I went in to the office to thank LaVue for taking care of my ac issue on a saturday almost right away, and they asked if I would be willing to share my thoughts online, so here I am. They said… Full Review ▶
RUN AWAY FROM THIS PLACE .IT'S THE WORST PLACE EVER. FIRST THEY SHOW YOU THE MODEL APARTMENT THAT NOBODY LIVED IN IT THAT LOOKS OK AND AFTER YOU SIGN THE LEASE THEY GIVE A ---- HOLE THAT YOU HAVE TO LIVE… Full Review ▶
Not a safe place to live. Shootings and theft. Motorcycles are stolen and cars are broken into. No security what's so ever, and anybody can just drive in with no problem. Your belongings are opened to the public basically. Do not… Full Review ▶
First we moved in they still had some kind of landscaping going on, some shrubs ,bushes around the patios, which was nice to look at, also gave us some privacy on the patio. Soon enough they started to pull out all… Full Review ▶
Great place to live. They have free Pilates and Zumba for their residents and 24 hour fitness. I work a lot so this is perfect for me. Full Review ▶
Wow needs lots and lots of work. Huge safety issues lately, very unscrupulous people always hanging out at our pool at night leaving empty bags of drugs and their empty bottles of Hennessey pool side. Cops are being called constantly. The… Full Review ▶
I am only giving this place 2 stars because of the location and the price. Besides that... This place is horrible! I should have listened to the reviews from other sites. When people said they only care about getting your money,… Full Review ▶
I moved here in 2013, I was skeptical because of the reviews I read prior to moving here. When I came for the viewing, I was quite surprised. The leasing manager was very nice and informative, I managed to snag a… Full Review ▶
I love living at La Vue for many reasons. First is close to all the main highways, second is ten minutes from the beach. The neighbors are nice, and try to interact with others. Now they offer Pilates classes all Thursday… Full Review ▶
LaVue is a great community to live at. My kids really enjoy being close to TY Park, and the school district for elementary is great. The location is centric to everything I95, I595, and 441. We have excellent maintenance they always… Full Review ▶
I don't usually post these types of things but I was driving to work on Friday and as I left La Vue there were employees handing out breakfast bags and juice for Valentines Day. An apartment is just an apartment but… Full Review ▶
Lived there for 3 years, apts are outdated, rent is to high, had sewage leak twice into apt and they say I raided the carpet what a joke. Never fixed my ac problems, staff is rude not very helpful, we had… Full Review ▶
the maintenance guys are great it's just a shame they are always working on something cause everything is old.. They get on things and fix them it's just everything I mean everything in your unit is ancient.. The cabinets all flake… Full Review ▶
This place is horrible I had 3 different types of roaches in my apartment a lot of mold doors falling apart the front staff is probably the rudest people In the world all they do is smoke cigarettes in the back… Full Review ▶
First, yes its a lovely view, and thats where it ends! My lovely view comes with the loudest landscapers and mowers I have ever been rudely awakened by ever! I can't take a shower, wash my hair, or shave at the… Full Review ▶
I've lived here almost a year and have no complaints at all. I highly recommend this place because it's quiet, SAFE (many Hollywood police live in complex) lots of parking, clean, extra storage space, washer and dryer, maintenance is efficient and… Full Review ▶
First the office staff is very helpful,professional, and fun , any maintenance issues are taken care of within 1-2 days.. Unless its an emergency then Immidiately and they do care!! Rent could b lower for age of apts and not updated… Full Review ▶
I've lived in this dump for a year the rent is way to much the management Sucks big I pay extra for a view my view is of a fence the managent here is un professional and rude they really are… Full Review ▶
I HAVE BEEN LIVING HERE FOR A LITTLE UNDER A YEAR AND THE COMMUNITY HAS CHANGED DRASTICALLY. THE OFFICE STAFF IS DISGUSTING. THEIR ATTUTUDES ARE HORRIBLE. I BELIEVE THEY SHOULD ALL BE REPLACED. ALL OUR NEIGHBORS AGREE WITH US AS WELL.… Full Review ▶
I really love this place! I dont understand all the reviews with people that complain about office staff or maintaince. Any issues are solved very quickly, and the office staff is nothing but helpful and polite to us. I have lived… Full Review ▶
I originally moved in to La Vue back in 2005 after relocating from up north. I love the character that the complex has - so much more interesting than the cookie cutter buildings you have out as you go further west.… Full Review ▶
I moved in last month and am happy so far. I chose this place over others because of its secluded access. One road in/out. The property is basically surrounded by water with golf course all around. I moved out of my… Full Review ▶
We had a serious mold problem that they tried to cover up and refused to fix. In general the complex is very old and not modern looking so at first, a warped kitchen cabinet may seem quite harmless. There was a… Full Review ▶
I MOVED IN LATE JULY AND MY 6K MOTORCYCLE WAS STOLEN FROM THE PARKING LOT ON 8/29/09 WHEN I SPOKE TO THE UNPROFESSIONAL IDIOTS AT THE MANAGEMNT OFFICE (YES JENNIFER AND CREW ) I ONLY DISCOVERED THAT THE CAMERAS AT THE… Full Review ▶
I have lived at La Vue for three years and am in the process of moving out. While the view of the lake from our apartment was nice, and well worth the extra $100, that is about all that is worth… Full Review ▶
I lived at La Vue for 4 years and was overall happy with the place. I had a gorgeous view of the golf course and a river where you could see fish jump. I never had a problem with the staff… Full Review ▶
Rent is expensive for this type of apartment. Kitchen appliances are very old, kind of reminds me of the 1960's. Therefore electric bills are comparatively higher since appliances and air conditioner are not as energy efficient as newer models. Management could… Full Review ▶
I lived there for 1 year and the life was nice. If I 'll go back in florida in this life i'll go at la vue. I loved the lake view and the personal was fine, be a little bit careful… Full Review ▶
She was very RUDE when I lived their 3 years ago. She was 1 of the reasons we moved!!!! Full Review ▶
When i moved to La Vue it was quit neighborhood with quality people, now there is a lot low class people. Need to chanced the security their are not checking any vehicle. The manager Jennifer very rude she is ignore you… Full Review ▶
I agree with all the horrible things written below. This property is like living in the projects. It is a working class Ghetto because of the lack of care or concern by the office staff. Speaking of the office staff, watch,… Full Review ▶
Regarding dogs, I see tenants with dogs all the time, so I do not think it's really prohibited as stated so. Secondly, I have a concern with those who are hired to do "security" in the entrance booth. I see no… Full Review ▶
I have lived at La Vue for almost 2 years now, and I love love love my apartment and the location. My only complaint would be about the management staff. When moving in to the complex I was told I could… Full Review ▶
A few months ago, I received a questionaire from the management company asking in detail about the employees at La Vue and the quality of service with reference to work orders, customer service issues, etc.
Since then, I've noticed a positive change… Full Review ▶
The staff there is so cynical I wouldn't doubt they are now being nice just to calm down the bad press they have gained. I personally don't like the treatment I have received from the office staff. In different ocassions, I… Full Review ▶
Nobody at the staff was ever rude to me. I live here for 14 months now and I am happy. I would only review the rent prices that seems to me a little over what places are charging in Hollywood with… Full Review ▶
I've recently moved into LaVue and yes had read all the "bad press" on this site. Since I was searching in the Hollywood area I figured what the heck and went to see for myself and I'm glad I did! I… Full Review ▶
I agree with tenants views of the staff at La Vue. They are the worse you can find.....they have no consideration nor respect for the people who bring in their own income. Everybody in the complex knows they are not qualified… Full Review ▶
I live here now for about 6 weeks. The location for me is just the best..close to 95 and the beaches. The apartment complex might be older, but I think it is very much OK.
I know only 1 maintenance guy. Maybe… Full Review ▶
Its disturbing to see the positive reviews were so obviously false and written by the staff. Great way to mislead the public, service maintance is great? LOL. Management is professional and responsive?? LOLOLOL.....for those who live here, this is nothing but… Full Review ▶
I have been at La Vue for quite some time. I have one serious complaint about this community, its management. I can't find words that will really describe them, there are just many things that are wrong with them. From the… Full Review ▶
I recently moved into La Vue. One night I had a problem with a clogged toilet. I live in a one bedroom apartment, so this was an obvious problem. I called the office, spoke with the answering service and a maintenance… Full Review ▶
I have lived here for quite some time and have had issues in my apartment that we all have. I have owned my own home in the past and find that with my age and having recently retired, living at La… Full Review ▶
The appliances are very old, and so are the apts. Management is very rude and unprofessional. Must not take a lot to be part of the staff at La Vue.....don't like it overall, parking lights are not adequate, maintance service is… Full Review ▶
La Vue is a nice community. Everything is clean, the grounds are well kept and the rent is comparable to most other complexes. What more can you ask for?
My office was relocated a few months ago and I was looking… Full Review ▶
Lately, I've been a bit confused about all the write up's. I've lived at La Vue for 5 years now and have had nothing but pleasant experiences with the office staff and maintenance also. I hardly ever have to go to… Full Review ▶
I do not understand why all of you people have such bad things to say about La Vue. I think that this is a wonderfull place to live, and on top of that, the staff is magnificent. I think the person… Full Review ▶
The refrigerator is old. It leaks and using too much electricity. We are moving out because of this. They will not replace it. Full Review ▶
YOU ARE RIGHT ABOUT SAYING THIS IS A VENUE TO EXPRESS OUR FRUSTRATIONS. THIS IS ONE WAY OF LETTING THE INEPT MANAGEMENT AT LAVUE KNOW THAT THEY CAN'T TREAT TENANTS WHATEVER WAY THEY PLEASE AND GET AWAY WITH IT. HOPEFULLY, RENTERS… Full Review ▶
When I needed a place, I looked all around Hollywood and for the price and money you are paying, La Vue was the best bet. Your rent includes most utilities, its location is awesome, and there was no other place that… Full Review ▶
For some reason I see washer and dryers usually broken or vandalised and left without repairing. I had to take my damp clothes back home, for the few dryers that are "working" are not functioning properly. I also see graffiti on… Full Review ▶
THE SINGLE WORST, UNPROFESSIONAL, AND RUDE STAFF I HAVE EVER SEEN! THE PREVIOUS WRITERS ARE CORRECT IN TELLING PEOPLE TO RUN!!!! THE STAFF IS THE WORST THING ABOUT THE PROPERTY, NOT TO MENTION THE FACITLITIES IN THE APARTMENT DONT WORK VERY… Full Review ▶
JUST A QUICK POSITIVE NOTE---VISITING MY FREINDS AT LAVUE HAS BEEN A GREAT PLEASURE--YOUR PROPERTY IS ONE OF THE BEST I HAVE EVER SEEN--THE OFFICE STAFF ALWAYS GREET YOU WITH A SMILE AND A WAVE--HAVING TO USE THE BUSINESS CENTER WHEN… Full Review ▶
please the managment is rude not to mention any names they know who they are they should be ashamed of themselves
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YOU WILL REGRET MOVING HERE. THE OFFICE STAFF WILL BE NICE ONLY TO GET YOU TO MOVE IN. YOU WILL SEE AN ATTITUDE CHANGE ONCE YOU BECOME A RESIDENT AND CALL WITH INQUIRIES. THE MANAGEMENT IS RUDE, UNPROFESSIONAL AND UNHELPFUL, FROM… Full Review ▶
I have been noticing that a lot of white people are moving out lately and more ------ coming into the La Vue apartment neighborhood. I'm not sure if this is a bad thing, but I do know that property value lowers… Full Review ▶
I just moved in a couple of months ago, and I love living here. I have a great view and I couldnt ask for more. When I first moved in their were a couple of things wrong with my apartment, but… Full Review ▶
I have also noticed the issue with rude employees working at La Vue. Not only that but I have noticed a lot of people moving out lately. I've spoken with a few of them as they were moving and they basically… Full Review ▶
I just moved in, and I really like the apartment, but the people that work in the office is the most unprofessional and disrecpectful that I've had ever met. I can't think what garbage they have in their heads. Full Review ▶
Keep looking! Run! Don't even think about it! I am still living here but I can't wait to move! The worst thing about this complex is the management. Jennifer is the most rude and unprofessional person I've ever met. And her… Full Review ▶
Jen and her staff are wonderful. My 6 years there were fantastic and any issues or difficulties were handle quickly, professionally and to my complete satisfaction.
I highly recommend La Vue. Full Review ▶
We have been here for almost 4 years. I don't know what all the complaints are about the management, we've never had a problem. There have been times when one of the ladies was short with me, but maybe she was… Full Review ▶
We have been living in the apartments for a few years now. Although it was incredibly good, when we first moved in-service has slipped down to sloppy. I compained last month i had a roof seepage (near a lighting fixture!) after… Full Review ▶
Best bang for the buck. Full Review ▶
I moved into La Vue a few months ago and really enjoy calling La Vue home. The last place I lived at was dreadful, you could never get anything taken care of and the office staff was awful. La Vue is… Full Review ▶
We lived there for almost 2 years, if "Uncle Sam" wasn't in our back pockets we could have stayed much, much longer. You can't beat the nice staff working there and anything you ask for is either check on or repaired… Full Review ▶
I don't know why people complain, if it is that much of an inconvenience MOVE. I have had nothing but positive interactions with staff and maintenance. As for the Guard at least there is someone.
P.S. Trudy is HOT!!
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I used to live at La View, and at first I had great things to say. But let me tell you that moving out was hell and after I moved they wanted to charge me more money. The manager (Jennifer) was… Full Review ▶
I live here now and I hate the girls in the office. They are soooooo stuck up and I walked in the office once and heard Trudy cursing out loud about a tenant. She said he was F#$%ing stupid and what… Full Review ▶
I live facing the parking lot and there is a constant stream of loud car exhaust that you can hear coming for a quarter of a mile. Then they get into the parking lot and rev their engines, get out and… Full Review ▶
Very nice apartments. They have spectacular lake views. Good for children, excellent location, good schools. The maintenance is good, I had a problem with one of my bathrooms and they fix it within 1 hour! The only bad part is some… Full Review ▶
I lived at La Vue for nearly a year between 03 and 04. I thought our apartment was very spacious and maintenance responded quickly. I do know that my room-mates had problems with bugs in the bathroom before I moved in,… Full Review ▶
Sean and all the other maintenance guys at La Vue. Just wanted to say thanks for your quick response over the past 4 years. You guys are the best.
Alicia Goldman Full Review ▶
The maintenance guys here had the glass replaced before I got home from work. It may be one of the hazards of living of the golf course, but the maintenance guys here are top notch!!!
Thanks. Full Review ▶
It's been about a year since I left that place. When I did, they were extremely rude. Once they weren't having rent money come in, they didn't seem to have any problem giving you the boot. I was on the way… Full Review ▶
Jennifer & Geena,
Thank you for doubling the size of the gym and adding all the new LifeFitness equipment. it's great!
Robert P. Full Review ▶
In 1998 i moved from New York to Hollywood.I settled in at La Vue knowing that i was only going to stay for one year.At that time the office managers name was Michelle and also Jenniffer worked there. I live on… Full Review ▶
I picked this complex because of the great location, nice lake views and good prices. Maint. responds rel. quickly, clean area mainly young prof. people, nice pool, new business center with new flat screen computers, a nice movie library for… Full Review ▶
I have lived at LaVue for over two years. Location is good, but you will have to deal with rude, immature and unprofessional office staff. Maintenance has always been responsive, that is if the office people give them the work order.… Full Review ▶
Read OceanView at Sunset Pointe(may be called Ocean Crest Club now) it´s number 6 on the list..it´s 3001 South Ocean Drive Hollywood, Florida..$$$$ to make..lawsuit material..so far there are six reviews..easy lawsuit..read it and you´ll see..money to be make..have fun!!!! Full Review ▶
I lived at La Vue for about 2 years. The good: excellent location, nicely off the beaten path, generally pretty quiet place, small but decent weight room.
The bad: very over-priced for the size of the apartments esp. the small… Full Review ▶
As you know sites like this one is only a place where miserable people can go to complain. When people are happy they don´t think about where they can go to say something nice.
All I can say is that… Full Review ▶
I moved here from Georgia 4 mths. ago and so far I love it here. The office and maintenance people have been very helpful so far. I only wish the business center stayed open later. Other than that I enjoy the… Full Review ▶
Old a/c units Your electri bill will be very hight. A lot of Israeli people it looks like Osama is renting the complex hehe :) make yourself a favor look somewhere else for nicer neighborhoud Full Review ▶
I just wanted to thank the management for upgrading the tennis courts and adding the new business center.
Is refinishing the indoor racquetball court floors planned anytime in the near future? (hint hint) Full Review ▶
I like it here. I see changes all the time. New business center, revamped laundry center. Things always clean.
For the one or two who are constantly bad mouthing the complex, why not move out?
I live in building… Full Review ▶
First, I have to say that the 3/13/03 review was definitely written by another La Vue staffer. The La Vue staffer neglects to mention that, despite the fact that there is one entrance to the property, someone can easily enter the… Full Review ▶
I moved into La Vue apartments about 6 months ago so I could live with my boyfriend. I was not happy where I lived previously because of my neighbors had their cars or apartments broken into.
La Vue is better… Full Review ▶
The best thing about this complex is the fact it abutts the Emerald Hills golf course, with lakes and canals. There is lots of wildlife - birds, turtles, tarpon, jumping mullet, and even manatees.
The management is just OK. No… Full Review ▶
My neighbor told me to write a review about La Vue because a few residents were bad mouthing Jennifer and the rest of the office staff. I have lived here 9 years and absolutely love it. The office and maintenance staff… Full Review ▶
I´ve lived at La Vue for 2 years now. Never had any major problems or complaints. Great location. Off the main road, but 2 seconds from I-95. Can´t complain about the management...I´m happy. Full Review ▶
I agree with the previous post that all of the good reviews were definitely written by the La Vue management staff, especially the one that refers to "work orders." No one writing a review would refer to a request for repair… Full Review ▶
I´ve lived here for five months and am already planning on moving out at the end of my lease. Despite some very attractive apartment layouts, the apartments themselves are very badly maintained. There are shoddy paint jobs -- drips, bad plastering,… Full Review ▶
I've recently moved into LaVue and yes had read all the "bad press" on this site. Since I was searching in the Hollywood area I figured what the heck and went to see for myself and I'm glad I did! I… Full Review ▶
I have been a resident of La Vue for 3 years and getting ready to sign on for another year! Maintenance has been quick and efficient normally work orders are handled within 48 hours and the office staff is calling to… Full Review ▶
la vue at emerald pointe is an awesome place to live the apartments are very nice and the neighbors are all friendly you get a sense of a true community of caring people right down to the office staff who have… Full Review ▶
I´m a fairly new tenant, FYI, but have to agree with the previous poster. The apartments are lovely, but I was faced with a horrible leak and drywall repair (encompassing most of one living room wall) when I moved in, and… Full Review ▶
This is one of the only ways for me to voice my Disappointment with the managment staff of La Vue at Emerald Pointe. At first glance the staff is nice and respectful, then you sign the lease and then the Staff… Full Review ▶
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A big eskimo and a little eskimo go to a convent and they knock on the door
and a nun answers, and the big eskimo nudges the little one in the side and says "Ask her the question!"
So the little eskimo says, "Are there any midget nuns here?"
The nun answered "noo...no I dont think so why?"
The big eskimo nudges him again and says "Ask her the other question!"
So the little eskimo goes, "Are there an midget nuns in Alaska at all?"
And the nun thinks for a minute then looks at him and says, "No I dont think so...no."
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They have a segment of their subscriber base that they convinced to go with a phone (VoLTE unit) that didn't even have coverage across their existing footprint on the promise that it would soon. those customers could have gone with the more versatile CDMA units, but they didn't for a reason. To not only break the promise of future coverage but also stop supporting their phones altogether is bound to leave some with a bad taste, I know it would leave me with one. Having been both subscriber and employee of MetroPCS I can tell you firsthand that you have the deal seeking crowd, and the fugitive element that come in, and there are a lot n the deel seekers that look for a flashy techy phone to brag to their friends about. VoLTE being the new latest greatest tech, then shut down is gonna piss some people off.
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Yes, I've made the money optional.
If you pay, and win the league then you get however much money is in the pot. If someone who doesn't pay wins the league, then I'll refund they money at the end of the season to everyone who did pay.
The paypal account is set up under firstname.lastname@example.com
In terms of your questions on the playoffs I'm pretty sure I did answer them on the last page. I'll do my best in this post again.
If you don't finish top two in your division at the end of the regular season then you can't win the league, however I will tally up your points with the bonuses that I spoke of so we can have a correct final standings 1-14.
For the four teams that make the playoffs, I'll reseed them according to their total points, divisions won't matter, and the slate will basically be wiped clean.
The semis will be #1 seed v. #4 seed and then #2 seed v. #3 seed, which ever teams score the most in each match up that week moves onto the final.
So if the #1 and #2 runaway with leads during the regular season, but then lose by 1 point each in the semi's it doesn't matter, #3 and #4 will play for the title while #1 and #2 will play for third.


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The country's premier one-on-one brain training company has released its 2014 Results Report. The report is based on data from 6,000 clients who received brain training from 80 LearningRx Centers in 2011 and 2012.
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Re: Structural Slab for new WFO
The one I have reads maximim 600 deg F. For most cooking that is more than adequate, but I still need something that reads higher for the original curing fires ... right?
That was the reasoning behind using the IR thermometer.
When I eventually have the thing cured, (WFO) probably the IR will just be another piece of junk to take up space somewhere...
As far as baking is concerned, don't you have a thermometer on your oven door? Or do you have a window in the door to see the interior temperature on the oven thermometer?
Would not take much to make a larger base for the little oven thermometer.
Have to start looking for some thicker stainless for making some oven tools. No where in my non-budget is there money available for store bought tools!
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I tried the thermometer in the door, but found it unsuitable as it gave an inaccurate (lower) reading in that position. It he probe sticking out is also a nuisance and subject to damage. The thermometer inside the oven is perfectly adequate but yes, you have to open the door to read it. At temps higher than 300C the soot burning off the dome can be your temp indicator. After you've fired your oven a dozen times you won't really need any fancy temperature measuring devices. I have kiln pyrometers thermometers with probes that go through the dome wall IR gun and the cheap thermometer like you have. Most of the time I never use any of them, but if I do it is usually the little cheap one that sits inside the oven (roasting or baking only)
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I wish we had this conversation a week ago! I have the IR unit and the oven door thermometer is on order--cannot be cancelled without making problems with my supplier.
I guess everything will come out in the wash....
As for the oven door thermometer, did you determine why you were getting lower readings? Could you have made the door differently--or after regular use, could you anticipate the difference in readings and still find it useful?
Hard to justify wasting money--when I have been careful most of the time on this build, I have used good materials but found them at really good prices or free. Now, the recent purchases are like pi--ing away hard earned money! Argh
Thanks for the insight!
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You will find them all useful, at the start. Once you start cooking and getting to know your oven you will use your measuring equipment less and less. I love the traditional Italian method of placing your fist in the centre of the oven and time it for how many seconds you can hold it there.
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So, your oven door is made of wood?
From your experience and from other people you talk to, is that the norm for oven doors?
A project that has been on my mind for a while was making the door from light steel that would surround some kind of insulating material--Oya stone, Power board, Pericrete, or if somehow I could find some ceramic fiber. The whole thing fabricated then the seams welded to keep the insulation inside. Pipe sleeves where thru bolts to hold handles, same for where thermometer would be mounted. A lot of BS to make a cover.
If wood works best, that is the easy out--something I work with daily or chunks that could be cut off logs or stumps to fabricate a cover. I would imagine wet is better--same as for wooden sauna buckets--keep them wet, they will hold water.
I don't know about the fist in the oven method. There is a delay between when burning occurs and your body's ability to sense pain. Have gotten some pretty good burns while welding--after picking up things with unprotected hands.. the time it takes to say O-H! N-O! is more than enough to get some pretty good burns.
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I plan on making my door from thick white oak...I have a pile of 3"x3" that I will cut into planks on a bandsaw, then thickness plane them down for the door. I'll probably make them 2" thick. I haven't decided if I'm putting some kind of heat shield on it...probably will do something then clad it with copper...maybe.
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Hello Stonecutter,
If you are bandsawing and thickness planing, then you are working with dry wood.... right? I have to be missing something...oak is a great firewood...what is the cladding and shielding that will prevent it from spontaneously combusting?
You and Davids have been doing this for a while--working with WFO's....why would both of you use wood when at first glance, it would be assumed to be an inappropriate material?
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Wood is a pretty good insulator, looks good, easy to fabricate, cheap, relatively lightweight,was used for centuries for oven doors and so long as it does not get too hot will provide good service for quite a long time. An insulating panel can take the sting out of the radiant heat.
The most common alternative is steel. A poor insulator, can get dangerously hot, difficult and expensive to fabricate, heavy and unless made of stainless is subject to corrosion which is of course accelerated by heat.
Wood for me, but I'd love to be convinced of an alternative.
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David s---hello!
On this topic, I know absolutely "zero" and zero would be boasting!
I have no idea that wooden doors have been used for centuries... Like I say,
I am just trying to figure out what works so that I do not waste a lot of time doing something and ending up with nothing---except the experience of failure!
So---wet? , Dry? How do you use a wooden door and not end up with a pile of ashes? What species of wood would be better?
Japan has oak...called Nara. I do not know what kind of oak it is, but usually used to propogate "shitaki mushroom", otherwise considered only good for firewood or to be chipped.
We also have sugi, sawara, and hinoke. Hinoke is also called Port Orford cedar and used for hot tubs etc. This is a very nice type of cedar.
Keiyaki (I do not know spelling) is a decidious tree and has beautiful graining--can be used in fine homes and furniture.
That is about it---for local woods, any suggestions on what would work for a good oven door? I can get chunks of wood from a variety of local sawmills. Even some of the stumps are used for tables etc...that is..if they have some very good character to the grains.
I mentioned in a different thread...I might have access to "ume wood", Japanese plum or apricot wood. For firewood. I do not know if there are any larger pieces available for making a door. This source is very preliminary right now.
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Hardwoods are generally more resistant to heat than softwoods. But of course being denser would not insulate as well presumably.i use Quilla which is a quality hardwood. To prevent it from charring I have 12 mm of bio (safe fibres) mill board. If my oven door is left in place for too long say three hours, then the door gets hot and is beginning to cook. But when baking or roasting it does not stay in for even that long usually. I could increase the thickness of the panel to improve the insulation but that will make the door more difficult to handle. Because my oven is small my door is small and I operate the door one handed which is very useful. Also because my oven is small it is no problem to kick in with abit of fire to bring up the temp the next day because it uses so little fuel. I have made the mistake of placing the door when the oven was really hot in an effort to save heat for the next day and found the door burnt through the next morning. A customer who hired my mobile version also did exactly the same thing. If my door is only used for roasting and baking then it's perfectly ok. Also ok to place it half way into the entry when hotter for short periods. I quite like the idea of knowing it's fragility and limitations.
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Shannon Moore, a friend or former friend of Matt Hardy's, weighed in on the matter as he tweeted to Sytch, "Sid is great. He worked with 3 Count in WCW and worked hard. If you have been in the biz for 3 min your opinion don't fn count. Thanks Sid!! Why do people that have done nothing in the biz want to trash legends. Karma is a b---h. Shut up if you trying to actually make it! @WWEHOFerSunny You proved your point and made a big impact for the chicks. They have no clue what being a Pro is."
Vicious also reached out to Sytch to thank her for her support, tweeting, "@WWEHOFerSunny Do not worry about her. Not worth out time. Thank you though. Thank you and I understand. Doesn't matter what people say though. I loved being on RAW. Bottom line."
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Long Term Verdict: 2006 Infiniti M45
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Significant vehicles (cars notonly important to their brands but also to theirsegments) generally make it into our long term-test fleet, especially when they representa radical departure from their predecessors.Case in point: our 2006 Infiniti M45. While thefirst-generation M promised to deliver thegoods of an Audi A6 or a Mercedes-Benz E Class,it failed to do so, instead feeling more likea Japanese Buick that was quick in a straightline but clumsy in the curves. The second generationM, conversely, actually deliveredthe goods, coming across as an Asian 5 Seriesthat cost thousands less than the real deal.Which brings us to that radical departure--compared with Gen I M, Gen II representedmyriad leaps and bounds: an all-new structurebased on the FM (front-mid-engine) platformused in the G35 and the FX sport/utilities, acontrol-arm front suspension in place of theold car's struts, a 4.0-inch-longer wheelbaseenhanced by a 4.6-inch-shorter overall length,a more commodious interior that received anextreme makeover in quality and design and acurvaceous exterior styling that replaced three boxho-hum with flavor and fluidity. Long-termduty? Definitely.
Thus, we ordered a "base" $47,360 M45 thatcame plenty well-equipped, evidenced byits standard 335-horse V-8 and five-speedmanumatic powertrain, 18-inch wheels, powersunroof, in-dash six-disc changer, Bluetoothwireless technology, leather and rosewoodinterior trim, 10-way power driver's seat, andsix airbags. On top of its base price, we addedjust two options: $1000 chrome wheels andthe $10,500 Premium Package, which includeda rearview monitor, adaptive front lighting,navigation, intelligent cruise control, a lane departurewarning system, and a mobileentertainment system with an eight-inchscreen. The grand total came to $58,860--notexactly a bargain but still less than acomparably equipped BMW or Benz.
Shortly after its arrival, the M began to garnergushing praise. Compliments focused on theM's gutsy V-8, mellifluous exhaust, and seamlesstransmission, not to mention sophisticatedsuspension and quick steering. Moreover, moststaffers found the nav system intuitive andeasy to use and the rearview monitor and itspredicted course lines invaluable.
Of course, with pros come cons. Many editorsdecided the as-tested price too steep--somewere even stunned that it bordered $60grand--but noted that the base price wasattractive. (For 2007, Infiniti addressed thissticker-shock issue, making several optionsstandard, including HID headlights, adaptivefront lighting, and climate-controlled frontseats.) The novel lane-departure warningsystem quickly proved annoying and distractive,beeping incessantly when hugging lines anddefaulting to "on" following a defeat and arestart. Further, some drivers felt the nav screensuffered from too much glare, while othersfound the air-conditioning too anemic for thehottest Death Valley drives. It also gave us aheadache at the gas pump, delivering just16.4 mpg, well short of its estimated 20-mpgcombined fuel economy.
During its 15-month stay, the M45 madefive service visits, two of them unscheduled.At 7500 miles, it received a scheduled $100.78checkup that included fresh oil and filter, a tirerotation, and a full inspection of all fluids, belts,and joints. Similar services were performed at15,000 and 22,500 miles, with the former costing$209.22 due to the replacement of a pricey in-cabinmicrofilter, and the latter just $68.45. Thefirst impromptu call came at 4000 miles whenwe discovered a cut in the sidewall of the leftrear tire. We replaced the damaged Goodyearfor $300, including mounting and balancing.Our second unscheduled visit came with nearly24,000 miles on the odometer and was due toworn brake pads and rotors and a stubborncruise-control system that refused to engage.The cruise control was fixed under warranty butthe new brake pads and machined rotors set usback $250.04.
While the M displayed solid reliability, it didsuffer from a few glitches during its tenure.At just 1900 miles, its rear-window sunshadejammed. It was repaired under warranty duringthe first service stop. Intermittently through itsfive seasons with us, the M's dash lights wouldgo on hiatus at night, causing the nav screento turn to bright daylight mode and leavingonly the speedometer and tachometer lighted.As with the aforementioned air-conditioningand cruise-control gremlins, the dealer wasunable to replicate this dash-light poltergeist.Of final note--and this one is more on us--isthe consequence of accidentally leaving theM's accessory mode on. On a few occasions aneditor exited the M thinking the car was fullyshut off and unaware that the accessories werestill running strong, only to return later to findthat nothing would run at all, as the batteryhad been drained. Technology is great, butsometimes we miss a good old-fashioned key.
What we'll miss more, though, is the M itself.
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Eventually, Chad paid to have the car picked up and brought to Austin in an enclosed trailer. In the meantime, he'd been busy checking into the past life of Ginger. "I had talked to every one I could that I know was involved with the building of the car and it was clear this horse was ridden hard and put up wet." Once safely in Austin, the rebuilding could begin. The fuel system was first on Chad's list. Aeromotive components, including fuel pump, pressure regulator and filter, brought the car's outdated hardware back into spec. Next came some suspension work and a little love for the ignition system. After that, the issue of cooling had to be addressed, but a hollow feeling was starting to develop.
Chad told us, "I started to learn that all these Band-Aids were not going to fix the true issue of a worn out motor and tired clutch." So, the engine and transmission came out with helping hands from his neighbors, Jim Skiles and Doug Luquette. Chad enlisted Dave Kropp to handle the engine build and, when you check the specs on it, you'll see that Dave's 25 years of experience were fully brought to bear on the problem. The engine came back just a little before Chad was going to move out of his apartment and into a house, so he needed to get Ginger on the road soon. That almost didn't happen. "Eleven days before my move, I started the car up and got an instant milkshake dip stick. Yes, I suck again. What now?"
The dipstick was telling Chad, in no uncertain terms, that coolant was leaking into the crankcase. This is not a situation that can continue for any time without losing the main or rod bearings, so a call to the engine builder was made. Chad got far more than he expected. "He not only offered to fix it, but also to come to my house and fix it in my non-a/c garage." Given the average temperatures in Austin, that is customer service, for sure. After some investigation, they found that a water passage in the lower intake was the problem. Not happy with doing a quick fix, Dave Kropp took the piece back to his shop for welding and resurfacing. The following weekend, with only four days before Chad's move, Dave was back and putting the motor together.
Having been caught out twice by the car, Chad was more than nervous. "I had never been so scared to turn over a car in 15 years." Still, all went well and Ginger was driven to her new residence. Through the entire process of sorting and rebuilding the motor, Chad had lots of help - the neighbors already mentioned, Dave Kropp, John Dinkel from Punisher Automotive and also from Chad's favorite speed shop, Austin Performance. Before the rebuild, Ginger's heart was putting out 867 RWHP and 802 RWTQ, when running 109-octane gas, or 670/663 on pump gas. When we met up with Chad, he and the other Southern Comfort participants had gathered at American Racing Technology in nearby Buda, TX. Chad was looking for pump gas numbers of 770 RWHP and 700 RWTQ. Let's just say that he found them, no problem.
Part of the ability to manage numbers like that on the street comes from tuning the car's electronic processor. Ginger is equipped with the factory EEC-IV processor from a 1991 GT and supplemented by an AutoLogic chip that was tuned by Don Walsh, Jr. at D&D Performance in Wixom, MI. Chad has yet to return to the quarter mile exercise yard since the rebuild, but we can expect that Ginger would beat her previous best of 10.51 seconds @ 141.3 mph before the rebuild.


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Baaba (dad): Remember all the times you would ask if we would agree to go on a family trip for the weekend? We'd be excited until the second we discussed options. You would list every single village name you knew, and with a little back and forth and friendly debate, I used to say: "I have a lot to do this weekend," then walk up to my room. Do you recall all the times when I put off weekend trips for poor excuses only because I abhorred visiting the village? I don't need to remind you of all the times I whined that I couldn't sleep in the village because the "FLIES HAVE BITTEN ME ALL OVER!!" You smiled and said, "They like sweet people!" I always got mad, saying it wasn't funny.
Your daughter was naïve; she didn't understand you and she didn't understand the world.
Here I am, so far from you, an hour and a half past midnight. My tears that have fallen on the keyboard have formed a river and every time I press a letter it forms a little splash. With the tears I have a confession to make. One of the best days of my life was when you and I woke up when it was still dark in the village of Haladen, and you took me on a morning walk that lasted more than three hours.
Dad, everything you had taught me in my life I learned on that walk.
Dad, do you remember the breakfast of maast, chay, and naan in the company of someone we bumped into during our walk that later turned out to be one of your previous students?
Do you remember the sheep that walked all around me, and you laughed as you told me "stay here for two months and you will make a great village girl"?
Did you realize I did not scream when the donkeys walked past me? And I didn't walk away when the chickens and roosters came closer?
Remember the very old woman in jli Kurdi hitting the cows? You admired her.
Baaba: Remember how I took off my jumper, untied my hair and walked in the rain, feeling every sprinkle on my face with my hands wide open to welcome it on me' You are the only person in the world who refuses to tell me off when I walk under the rain. In fact, you are the only person I remember who has agreed to walk under the rain with me so many times. Kurdish fathers know walking under the rain is medicinal to all of life's illnesses.
How I miss those times. Now that I am far from home, I wish for those moments to be re-lived once again. I treasure every moment of life in a Kurdistani village.
It takes awhile for one to realize how calming it is to live a day in nature itself and everywhere you look, you are surrounded by Kurdistan's mountains. There are no meetings one after the other, no iPhone to answer calls and no Twitter every five minutes. There is no stress of whether you will miss the bus, can make the deadline or how many calories of fat your sandwich for lunch contains. It doesn't matter if Real Madrid is losing, and the last concern you would have is to afford the designer shirt or a trip around the world.
Then what is happiness? In a Kurdish village, happiness is when you have a good rain in winter and breathing in the air in summer nights while eating fresh fruit under the night sky, rather than sitting in a coffee shop and posting it on Facebook.
Baaba gyan, your dream has become my dream.
You always said: "I wouldn't change an hour in the village for a lifetime abroad."
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Arsenal made sure of a crucial victory in the battle for Champions League qualification when Podolski crashed home his second goal of the night with 12 minutes left after a knockdown from Aaron Ramsey.
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Before the youth of America fooled around at drive-ins and necked on Lover's Lane, they coupled in canoes. Boatloads of them. In the early 1900s, canoes offered randy young guys and gals a means of escape to a semi-private setting, away from the prying eyes of their pious Victorian chaperones. »
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A Memphis high school principal publicly outed a bunch of gay kids when she posted a list of couples teachers had told her were "known couples" in hopes of shaming them out of making out in the hallways. And yes, that is mindbogglingly outrageous — as opposed to merely "sad," which is how I characterized it before I… »
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It's turned quite chilly today and we've all developed colds. This blanket fort, above, looks like a great place for everyone to recuperate with a good book, some tea (or hot cocoa) and a cozy blanket this weekend.
Another blog redesign, I think the last for a while if I can get the bugs worked out. For some reason there's a ton of blank space at the top of each post and the photos and text in old posts is all discombobulated. Not sure I possess the coding skills to fix this, but here's hoping. At any rate if you found this and realized to scroll down then let me know. Any other bugs you're noticing?
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This week I asked if anyone else viewed the creation of a home as creative process, my Apartment Therapy house tour came out, I painted my dining room and began looking for art (I think the Warhol must come live here) and we looked at a shared children's room for The Weekly Room.
In between cuddling up in blanket forts and movie watching this weekend, I'm going to try to find the motivation to finish painting the kitchen ceiling and walls. Ugh, ceiling's are just the worst aren't they? If everyone's feeling up to it we might fit in a bike ride to look at the fall color too. It's the first weekend in quite a while that nothing has been scheduled for and I'm looking forward to letting it just evolve lazily.
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My girlfriend, Joan, of two and a half years would often reminisce about her trips to the Phoenix Art Museum as a young girl. She loved the atmosphere and the art. Her particular favorite was Flowering Arches by Monet. With this in mind, I planned our engagement for over a year.
Ultimately, I rented out the Phoenix Art Museum for an entire evening. I told Joanie we were celebrating a friend's birthday, but before we went to the restaurant, I had to drop off some legal documents at the museum (after hours) for my firm (I'm interning as a law student). When we arrived, I dropped off the "legal documents" (a manila envelope filled with blank paper) and asked if we might take a look around. The gentleman at the front door played his part perfectly and allowed us inside. As we began our tour, he radioed to staff members informing them of our presence.
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In the beginning of its second year of implementation the joint IUCN, WWF and SNV Environment for People in the Dinaric Arc project took a step forward in convening stakeholders from the region of the Western Balkans to agree on concrete joint actions that will advance cross-border cooperation in the region. The project is funded by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and runs for three years. …
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Eco-tourism is becoming a source of income for communities in Madagascar
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Transboundary cooperation is instrumental for the conservation of natural assets and for improved regional cooperation in the Western Balkans. This is one of the key conclusions of a stakeholder meeting organized in Tara National Park (Serbia) under the auspice of the IUCN-led project Environment for People in the Dinaric Arc. …
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Former Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland is officially a married man!
The rocker said "I do" to photographer girlfriend Jamie Wachtel Saturday night at their Los Angeles home, according to People. "We had the most beautiful, heartfelt ceremony," Wachtel tells the mag.
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Nano-LEDs emit full visible spectrum of lightJune 17th, 2011 by Lisa Zyga in Nanotechnology / Nanophysics
(Left) A single nanodisk-nanorod LED viewed with a field-emission scanning electron microscope. (Right) Some colors of light emissions from nanodisk-nanorod LEDs - violet, blue, cyan, green, and yellow - viewed with an optical microscope. Image credit: Lu, et al. ©2011 American Institute of Physics
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists from Taiwan have designed and fabricated nano-sized light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that emit light spanning the entire visible spectrum. Although the tiny full-color LEDs aren't intended for commercial lighting applications, they should be useful in high-resolution microscopy and subwavelength photolithography.
The researchers, Yu-Jung Lu, et al., from National Tsing-Hua University in Hsinchu, Taiwan, have published their study on the nano-LEDs in a recent issue of Applied Physics Letters.
The new nano-LEDs have a unique structure that consists of 40-nm-thick nanodisks sandwiched between two layers of nanorods, resulting in a nanodisk-in-nanorod geometry. The nanodisks are made of indium gallium nitride (InGaN), a semiconducting material that is widely used in LEDs and solar cells, while the nanorods are made of gallium nitride (GaN). However, InGaN LEDs capable of emitting light of the entire visible spectrum have not been achieved until now.
The InGaN/GaN nanodisk/nanorod structure is similar to a well-known quantum well structure, but in a reduced dimensionality (reduction in lateral sizes), coauthor Shangjr Gwo, a physics professor at National Tsing-Hua University, told PhysOrg.com. The InGaN nanodisks sandwiched between the p- and n-GaN regions act as the full-color visible-light emitters when electrons and holes are injected across the p-n junction at a forward bias voltage. The electroluminescent light comes from the electron-hole recombination within the InGaN nanodisks.
As the researchers explained, the key to achieving full-color LEDs was overcoming large lattice strains, which degrade long-wavelength emissions. The InGaN/GaN nanorod system resolves this issue due to the strain relaxation in the nanostructured geometry.
The researchers hope that these full-color nano-LEDs can be used in high-resolution imaging techniques that can resolve ultrasmall subwavelength features of objects. To do this, these techniques must overcome the diffraction limit, which is a fundamental limit on imaging resolution caused by the spreading out or diffraction of waves. Imaging techniques can get around this limit by using evanescent waves, which reveal information on objects subwavelength features, but also decay exponentially away from the object. Due to the short range of the evanescent waves, imaging techniques that detect them are based on near-field optics.
One of these techniques is scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM), which uses a tiny probe to generate and retrieve evanescent waves. One of the biggest challenges in SNOM is getting a light source that is small and versatile enough to work on this probe, and thats where the new nano-LEDs come in. While previous research has demonstrated the advantages of using nano-LEDs on the probes, this is the first time that a nano-LED with a full-color range has been available.
For microscopy, we can use the nano-LED as a localized excitation light source at a chosen wavelength to selectively excite specific fluorescent molecules, Lu said.
In their study, the researchers experimentally demonstrated using the nanodisk-in-nanorod LEDs for subwavelength photolithography, in which light is used to create a pattern on a light-sensitive material. They predict that, by fabricating the nano-LEDs onto the SNOM probe tips, they could achieve better spatial control for future subwavelength photolithography.
For the applications of photolithography, the freedom of using nano-LEDs at any wavelength broadens the choice of photoresist and allows for the control of their photo-response, Lu said.
More information: Yu-Jung Lu, et al. Single InGaN nanodisk light emitting diodes as full-color subwavelength light sources. Applied Physics Letters. DOI: 10.1063/1.3597211
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Susan Blackmore's article on consciousness misinterprets my work (22 June, p 26). Global workspace theory is not the same as working memory.
Nor is global workspace only a kind of memory. A memory is a place to store things. But a global workspace is more like the stage of a theatre. You could just store things on a stage, but the whole point of a theatre stage is to distribute information to a vast audience of active listeners. In a less obvious way, a stage is also a place for integration of many converging ideas, from the playwright, the dress designer, voice coach and director, in one unitary display. That is the role of the global workspace, to enable the integration and distribution of essential information. This is apparently also a major function of consciousness in the brain.
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A problem with the standard importance function? Trading off query terms against one another
Working notes ahead! This post is different to my last two posts. Those posts were broad reviews of topics of general interest (at least if you're interested in data-driven intelligence) – the Pregel graph framework, and the vector space model of documents. This post is not a review or distillation of a topic in the style of those posts. Rather, it's my personal working notes – me, thinking out loud – as I try to understand a particular question in some depth. You can think of it as a variation on open notebook science. As such, the notes go into much more detail than previous posts, as I try to wrap my head around all the details of the problem at hand. In writing this blog I expect to alternate between these two formats (working notes and broader reviews). When it's my personal working notes, I'll make that clear in the first paragraph or so, so people who just want carefully distilled highlights can skip the more specialized posts.
With that out of the way, let's get on with the main problem. In the last post I described a way of measuring how relevant a document is to a given search query. That notion of relevance was based on the cosine similarity (essentially, the angle) between the document vector and the query vector. Those vectors, in turn, were defined based on a notion of the importance of a term in a document . In the post I used what I called the standard importance function (I'll remind you how that's defined in a moment). But although the standard importance function is widely used, that doesn't mean it's without problems, and in this post I describe a problem caused by the standard importance function.
The strategy in the post is to first describe a specific example that illustrates the problem with the standard importance function. The example is somewhat artificial, but, once we understand it, we'll see that it's part of a broader problem that is very real, and not at all artificial.
To describe the example, let's suppose our search query contains two terms, "hobbit baggins". We can represent this by a query vector whose components include a term for "hobbit" and a term for "baggins". Recall from the last post that, if we're using the standard importance function, then those components are given by the inverse document frequency for each term, . Here, logarithms are taken to base two, is the total number of documents in the search corpus, is the term ("hobbit" and "baggins" being the relevant terms in this example), and is the document frequency for term , i.e., the number of documents in the corpus in which occurs.
Now, both "hobbit" and "baggins" are likely to be pretty unusual terms in the corpus, and so the inverse document frequency will be pretty large. Suppose, for example, that approximately one in a thousand documents contains "hobbit", and similarly for "baggins". Then the inverse document frequency will be . So to a good approximation the query vector will be:
where I've written the query vector so the first component is the component for "hobbit", the second component is the component for "baggins", and the other components are for other terms – all those components are in this case, since those other terms don't appear in the query. I've also written the query vector as a transposed row vector, because row vectors display better on the blog.
Now suppose we have a document that contains ten occurrences of "hobbit", and ten occurrences of "baggins". Using the standard importance function, its document vector will have the form
Here, I've used the fact that the component of in the "direction" of term is given by the standard importance function:
where is the term frequency of in document . I've also used to denote the document vector for the remainder of the document, i.e., for all the terms not involving "hobbit" or "baggins".
Suppose, now, that we change the document, so that for some reason we replace all occurrences of "baggins" by "hobbit", so there are now occurrences of "hobbit", and none of "baggins". Intuitively, it seems to me that the resulting modified document is much less relevant to the query "baggins hobbit". The reason is that although it contains twice as many occurrences of "hobbit", those extra occurrences don't compensate for the complete absence of the term "baggins". Put another way, I think a small decrease in the frequency of "baggins" should only be compensated for by a much larger increase in the frequency of "hobbit". As we'll see, though, the cosine similarity doesn't reflect this intuition very well.
To compute the cosine similarity, note that the document vector for the modified document is:
Recall also that the cosine similarity for an arbitrary document is defined to be , where I use the convention that . In principle this notation could cause confusion, since we now use (or ) to refer to the query (or document), as well as the length of the corresponding query (or document) vector. In practice it should be clear from context which is meant.
We get a hint of the problem with the standard importance function when we observe that . I.e., changing all occurrences of "hobbit" to "baggins" has no effect at all on the inner product, simply moving weight in the inner product from one term to the other. And so the only difference in the cosine similarity is due to the change in length between and . One way of expressing this is to observe that:
Note furthermore that
and so we have:
The good news is that this gives us the right ordering – the document is more parallel to than is , since , and so . That's what we hoped for, and so at least the ordering of relevance will be correct.
The bad news is that, for complex documents, the difference in cosine similarity is tiny. The reason is that for a long, complex document containing many unusual terms ("Gandalf", "Galadriel", "Saruman"), the value of may be enormous - let us say, conservatively, billions. In this approximation, we see that . By itself this isn't a problem. But it means that the ordering of and is enormously sensitive to changes in . If, when we modified the first document, we changed not just "hobbit" to "baggins", but also other terms, then that might cause the value of to decrease. If it decreased by more than - easy to imagine, with just a few minor changes - then it would reverse the ordering of the two terms. And that doesn't seem like such a good thing.
The example I have given may be artificial, but the broader phenomenon is not. More broadly, if we use the standard importance function when computing cosine similarity, then it becomes much too easy to trade off query terms in a document. For two-term queries, , an increasing number of occurrences of can be traded off almost exactly by a corresponding decrease in the number of occurrences of . So, for example, doubling the number of occurrences of allows us to (approximately) completely wipe out the occurrences of , while making only a tiny difference in cosine similarity.
In broad terms it's pretty clear how to address this problem - change the scoring function so that we can't trade off query terms in this way. It's also easy to see how we might go about changing the scoring function to do that. In fact, it's a bit too easy - there are so many ways we could go about doing it that it's not at all clear which will give the best results. Here's one trivial way: redefine the importance function to be:
That is, modify the importance function so it has the square root of the term frequency in it rather than the term frequency. If we do this for the "hobbit"-"baggins" example, then increasing the frequency of "hobbit" to occurrences (from ) will require there to be no fewer than occurrences of "baggins" for the score to remain as high (assuming the rest of the document is complex, i.e., ). This matches our intuition much better. Unfortunately, it's by no means clear that it preserves whatever other properties of cosine similarity made it a good measure of relevance in the first place. That's a question that most likely would require empirical user testing to resolve.
To wrap up, my takeaways from this are that: (1) the standard importance function makes it too easy to trade off query terms against one another in a document; (2) it's easy to make ad hoc modifications to the standard importance function that remove this problem; but (3) it's not clear which of those modifications would preserve the other qualities we want. The obvious thing to do is some empirical testing to see how satisfied users are with different measures. It'd also be good to think more deeply about the foundation of the problem: how should we define the relevance of a document to a given user query?
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The first time you use the importance function, right after "Using the standard importance function, its document vector will have the form", you have the square root of tf_{t,d}. Is this a typo?
Does the use of Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) overcome some of the problems described here?
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