Does anyone know if the average document length mentioned in the document length normalization is median? It seems like it would need to be to properly deweight excessively long documents, otherwise the excessively long documents would unfairly weight the average, right?
Can I just drop a word of love and appreciation for Abe Books? I don't buy physical books a lot, but when I do, Abe is definitely the first place I look. The books drop ship from the actual seller, and it's remarkable that I've never had a problematic delivery, after a dozen or so.
My favorite book I've gotten from them was A Psalm for the Wild-Built, which was previously a library book, funny enough.
Was just thinking about some of the docs we have at work, and how most are relatively short ( probably < 10 pages) and some are like... 200+ page government things