If You Thought Studying History Was Bad, This Math Professor Is Making It Harder

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday April 1, 2015 @03:09AM from the when-reference-books-become-religion dept.

Raven writes: New research out of Streeling University aims to make planning for the future much easier. The work, led by professor Seldon, tries to set probabilistic values on future events, and then weigh those probabilities against each other to figure out what combination of events is most likely to happen. Describing it under the unlikely moniker "psychohistory," Seldon seems to think planning even 10,000 years into the future might be possible. (Seldon also seems to be a bit of a doomsayer, so this is likely exaggerated.) Nevertheless, it'll be another tool for government planners to consider when developing new colonies.

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Re:Where is the story? by hodet · 2015-04-01 03:14 · Score: 4, Funny

Ah fuck.......leaving slashdot until April2. fuck ^*&((^&*(^*&Y&* SUHRUISHUIPY&Y&*)^6
Home, home on derange by techno-vampire · 2015-04-01 03:16 · Score: 4, Funny

...Where Seldon is heard,
A discouraging word.

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Re:now this more like it by Anonymous Coward · 2015-04-01 03:36 · Score: 2, Funny

Every now and then a /. thread shows up and completely restores my faith in humanity.
This is not that thread, but it sure beats the usual.
Re:We must build by Dragonslicer · 2015-04-01 04:31 · Score: 3, Funny

Star's End? Where the hell is that?