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Using a Supercomputer To Predict Revolutions

Posted by samzenpus on from the what-is-to-be dept.

bLanark writes "A fascinating article from Singularity Hub describes software which, when fed news, makes predictions about forthcoming events. When given information on recent events, it spiked before the Egyptian and Libyan uprisings. It uses various sources including the News Bank which is a database of global news."

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  1. Needs some smoothing by paiute · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The graph of the "spike" was very unimpressive. The signal-to-noise ratio looks pretty small.

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