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Finding a Needle in a Haystack of Data
Roland Piquepaille writes "Finding useful information in oceans of data is an increasingly complex problem in many scientific areas. This is why researchers from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) have created new statistical techniques to isolate useful signals buried in large datasets coming from particle physics experiments, such as the ones run in a particle collider. But their method could also be applied to a broad range of applications, like discovering a new galaxy, monitoring transactions for fraud or identifying the carrier of a virulent disease among millions of people." Case Western has also provided a link to the original paper. [PDF Warning]
It would be a lot easier to find data if we tagged it with things like the Evil Bit, and Broadcast Flag, or like Technocrati's blog tags that the user associates with their data so a search can find it.
What does God use to tag a galaxy with though?
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
I see all of these IT breakthroughs and it's just giving me the creeps!
My first post got modd'ed down. Help me.