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It's the drive cog for the crankshaft of a WW2 Junkers JU88 engine.
In 1941 on a bombing raid on Liverpool, it was hit by gunfire from a Boulton and Paul Defiant night fighter over Skegness. Bomb jettisoned, it turned back, and loosing power, it belly landed on the beach at Sheringham.
The 4 crew survived.
Spotted last week sticking out from the sand by a local chap.
The last time it emerged was back in the 1970's. Soon it will be hidden again.
es erinnert mich an sommer, dabei ist es heute gemacht worden. bei eiseskälte und schönstem sonnenschein. sommer komm bald!
highest position on explore: 271
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Last night I read Flickr's patent on its interestingness algorithm. Patents are not easy to decipher sometimes, especially if they're written well as this one is, but I think I have some interesting things to share...
(Note: Please don't confuse the following with a discussion about Explore. Explore depends on interestingness, but getting into Explore depends on a lot more than just interestingness.)
From reading the patent, it seems to me that the entire "Flickr System" is largely built around this notion of interestingness, so anyone who says that popularity and interestingness are not important in Flickr universe is dead wrong. My intuition is that Flickr was designed first as a means to provide superior search results to seekers of "media objects", and second as a social network. It's interesting to see that the patent description forsees video and other objects, as well as launched advertising specific to the content of the media object (i.e. image).
The basics of the "interestingness score" that Flickr calculates for each of your images have been discussed here and many places: how many faves, comments, notes, views, and where the views come from (e.g. an award group versus an outside search engine). Also discussed elsewhere is the "how many groups" question (answer: 1-5 good, +5 perhaps penalized).
Here are some tidbits from the patent that perhaps are less intuitive...
--Interestingness is affected by how long it's been since your last upload (it doesn't say how it takes any of these factors into account by the way!)
--The EXIF camera data is important to have. If you are uploading scanned images (e.g. film) it likely won't have such data. My recent lomos didn't get into Explore until I added the EXIF data (I use a Mac, so I used some freeware called "Reveal 1.2").
--Other metadata is important to have. I haven't done "controlled experiments" on this, but my guess if the title, description, tags, or sets are empty, that decreases interestingness.
--Interestingness is decremented over time (e.g. 2% a day); and is decremented in the presence of metadata (in the title, text, tags, comments, notes) of blacklisted words (you can guess what those are!)
I also found it interesting that an image's interestingness score can be customized to the requester of the score. For example, if you've faved a lot of my pics with a particular tag, then other pics that you haven't faved but which have the same tag will show up to you as "more interesting".
Of course, in the end, faves and views and comments and all that stuff is the outcome--the cause is having an interesting photo to start with!
(Explore)
2015 Update
The information above is still correct, although I think the underlying Interestingness has become more complex than when I posted this 7 years ago. In general, a photo will be more interesting with more faves and comments, and text in the title, description, and tags, and EXIF and geo-tagging metadata.
There's an apparent moderate tradeoff between Interestingness and Relevance within the Flickr search engine. Fewer words in title, description, and tags usually increases Relevance but decreases Interestingness.
Optimize for Interestingness is you want to get into Explore, and show up high in the Interesting tab in Flickr Search. Optimize for Relevance if you want to show up high in the Relevant tab in Flickr Search. Note that all Flickr searches default to Relevant, so ceteris paribus this is a better tab to be ranked high in.
Two old men are reading newspaper with too much interest at the morning just beside a tea stall in Kolkata, West bengal.
Interesting lighting around the Moon tonight. Jupiter is the bright point of light to the lower left of the Moon.
A couple of interesting donkeys at the Chateau de Chenonceau in the Loire Valley of France. A previous post of the Chateau is in the comment section below.
Arriva T199 at Harrow Bus Station on route 258.
This bus left Watford over 35 minutes late and was a few minutes behind the 258 in front all the way from Watford on what should have been a 30 minute headway. By the time T199 arrived at Harrow from Watford, it should have been at Bushey going towards Watford. Being so late it curtailed at Harrow and the blind was changed to Watford Town Centre, instead of Watford Junction, a display only on the older sets at Garston! Having arrived at Harrow 40 late, it managed to leave only 20 late!
Temperatures of slightly below 20 degrees and sunshine from the early morning till sunset. Just a fine Sunday and no doubt, spring has arrived in East-Westphalia. So it was logical that we took the day for a long hiking trip along the river Weser between Minden and Petershagen, continued the mill project with two more locations and enjoyed the sunset in Porta Westfalica along the river banks.