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Digg In the Future

Posted by samzenpus on from the I-thought-there-would-be-more-sparkles dept.

jamie writes "A new site called Digg In The Future - created by 17-year-old high-school student Raj Vir as a research project - says that its algorithm can predict with 63-percent accuracy what shared links are going to make it to the front page of the Digg website. (Does it allow for brigades?)"

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  1. Re:In a self-fulfilling prophecy... by MarkRose · · Score: 4, Informative

    It looks at data after the fact. That is, who shared it, who diggs it, the frequency it is shared, etc. Thus it couldn't predict where itself would end up, at least not until after it was posted, which would be too late.

    It's not like a Slashdot comment that says it will be moderated +5, Informative.

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  2. So... by cybrodroid · · Score: 5, Funny

    it scans reddit?