Re: Random Field

2010-05-01 Thread Static Void
Example use case: We have a bunch of items sold by multiple sellers. I would rather show closely related items distributed by seller rather than clumps of items by the same seller. This will be more of a "fair" scoring for sellers. The scores should be within a certain percentage of each o

Re: Random Field

2010-05-01 Thread Yonik Seeley
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Static Void wrote: > What would be more useful would be randomizing closely related hits. IE hits > within 5% of each other This is not the use case I've encountered multiple times in the past, but it should also be doable by using the random field in a function q

Re: Random Field

2010-05-01 Thread Static Void
What would be more useful would be randomizing closely related hits. IE hits within 5% of each other Sent from my iPhone On May 1, 2010, at 7:37 AM, Yonik Seeley wrote: On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Blargy wrote: Can someone explain a useful case for the RandomSortField? People so

Re: Random Field

2010-05-01 Thread Yonik Seeley
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Blargy wrote: > Can someone explain a useful case for the RandomSortField? People sometimes have requirements to show different results to everyone (essentially randomly shuffling matches per person). -Yonik Apache Lucene Eurocon 2010 18-21 May 2010 | Prague >