The algorithm for Google PageRank is based on the concept of citations from academia
Exactly! Quoting from the original paper: "It is obvious to try to apply standard citation analysis techniques to the web's hypertextual citation structure. One can simply think of every link as being like an academic citation. So, a major page like http: www.yahoo.com will have tens of housands of backlinks or citations pointing to it" [L Page, S Brin, R Motwani, T Winograd. The pagerank citation ranking: Bringing order to the web
].
the software was originally meant only to index academic papers
That's not right. From the same original paper:
"PageRank is a global ranking of all web pages, regardless
of their content, based solely on their location in the Web's graph structure
" Anyway you are right, and the article's idea sounds way too old: probably an example of two research communities (physics & citation analysis) not knowing too much of each other
almost none of this sort of stuff - the info that governments really care about - gets into the wrong hands
I wouldn't be so sure. From today's news: "Confidential records [...] on tens of thousands of the country's most prolific criminals have been lost in a major breach of data security [...] Scotland Yard is investigating the loss of the information, which was taken from the Police National Computer and entrusted by the Home Office to a private consultancy firm"
And, how do you know covert data is never lost if you wouldn't even get news it was collected in the first place?
In my opinion there's a lot of stupidity involved. Folks just don't care about security.
Let me give you a petty example. At my office in a quite big IT shop there's a copier machine that's also a fax. Most faxes contain personal information. And most people sending them fail to collect the confirmation the machine spits out, which is basically a copy of the sent document.
If people are unable to care about their own personal data, how are they going to be careful with someone else's?
I hope that's not the final form of the keyboard, though -- lots of wasted space on each side
I reckon it IS the final look, given it's true what the source cited in the article says, and the thing is shipping next Friday.
Anyway, you can use that space for a couple stickers...
Does this mean the days of bullying OEMs are soon to be over? I doubt MS is going to find an alternative source of revenue in subscriptions: they would have to be outrageously high. Unless they disguise OS cost in such a clever, if evil, way as they do now.
Advertisement as a business model is also in doubt nowadays...
Who are they gonna bully, then?
I agree. I would recommend the books that made me love sci-fi. Back to basics! Stanislaw Lem is just great: interesting, informative, insightful and even funny (check out The Cyberiad too).
And talking about funny insightful sci-fi, War with the Newts, by Karel Capek, the guy who came up with the word Robot, is both at a high level
I see the validity of your arguments here. My point here is that Reiser's innocence was very doubtful for all we knew even before he led investigators to the body. It would have struck me as suspicious if you had dumped your car seat (and forgot where) following your friend's disappearance
Evidence is all too difficult to weigh and juries may fail to do it quite often... The thing that makes perfect crime difficult and Reiser suspect is motive (or lack thereof in your story?)
Wow that's a story deserving to be told long! Anyway, the point here is that your explanation for what happened is plausible (I guess they've seen weirder things in A&E) and well supported by evidence and witnesses... To sum up, is a different thing altogether from Reiser's case
The Music of the Primes, by Marcus du Sautoy is, as far as I know, the best account not only of the great intricacies of the Theorem but also of the amazing quest for an explanation of the hidden structure of numbers.
You may also find interesting the book's website (warning: cool web design)
People notice this and they either cut back on their use of the stuff, find a substitute, or go out digging for it [...] Who cares?
While you have a point there, consequences of scarcity are something to care about. And sadly enough, it's not as simple as just digging for them: export of coltan has been blamed for fuelling war in the Congo.
According to the 2006 Human Development Report even if the Millennium
Development Goal for water is
achieved, "there will still be more than 800 million
people without water and 1.8 billion people
without sanitation in 2015" (page 4).
Is it just me or does that seem outrageously big?
This is gonna be an inconvenience when mankind decides to clog the skies to prevent environmentally friendly intelligent machines from getting their energy from the sun!
Let us feed the high achievers with the tender meat from those hopeless dull kids. The good ones will grow both stronger and smarter without their annoyance
I'm not with you in the argument. Assuming there are just 6 cities, and that the proportion from each is the same: 1/6, if you guess randomly you are right 1/6 of the time. It's just like a die...
Then, if there are zillions of sources but only six cities amount for most of the pictures, then randomly guessing among them will get you close to this 1/6...
1. Observe an apparent difference in efficiency between two groups of people, based on anecdotal evidence.
2. Write a management book: "Touchy-feely Code Monkeys". Optionally, talk around the country.
3. Cash in
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The algorithm for Google PageRank is based on the concept of citations from academia
Exactly!
Quoting from the original paper: "It is obvious to try to apply standard citation analysis techniques to the web's hypertextual citation structure. One can simply think of every link as being like an academic citation. So, a major page like http: www.yahoo.com will have tens of housands of backlinks or citations pointing to it" [L Page, S Brin, R Motwani, T Winograd. The pagerank citation ranking: Bringing order to the web ].
the software was originally meant only to index academic papers
That's not right. From the same original paper:
"PageRank is a global ranking of all web pages, regardless of their content, based solely on their location in the Web's graph structure "
Anyway you are right, and the article's idea sounds way too old: probably an example of two research communities (physics & citation analysis) not knowing too much of each other
Yeah, you are damn right, large prime numbers have no use whatsoever!
/sarcasm
Least of all for us using The Internets!
For all things prime, I suggest you read Music of the primes. It's a good read and quite informative on the subject.
Google Adsense advertising Scientology Youtube channel is not really a good, pretty sight
Yeah, I agree. Adblock Plus spares me the view, though!
almost none of this sort of stuff - the info that governments really care about - gets into the wrong hands
I wouldn't be so sure. From today's news: "Confidential records [...] on tens of thousands of the country's most prolific criminals have been lost in a major breach of data security [...] Scotland Yard is investigating the loss of the information, which was taken from the Police National Computer and entrusted by the Home Office to a private consultancy firm"
And, how do you know covert data is never lost if you wouldn't even get news it was collected in the first place?
In my opinion there's a lot of stupidity involved. Folks just don't care about security.
Let me give you a petty example. At my office in a quite big IT shop there's a copier machine that's also a fax. Most faxes contain personal information. And most people sending them fail to collect the confirmation the machine spits out, which is basically a copy of the sent document.
If people are unable to care about their own personal data, how are they going to be careful with someone else's?
I hope that's not the final form of the keyboard, though -- lots of wasted space on each side
I reckon it IS the final look, given it's true what the source cited in the article says, and the thing is shipping next Friday.
Anyway, you can use that space for a couple stickers...
I for one welcome our new intelligent self-service weighing overlords
iPhone Shuffle. Makes random calls. No display. Think indifferent
Does this mean the days of bullying OEMs are soon to be over?
I doubt MS is going to find an alternative source of revenue in subscriptions: they would have to be outrageously high. Unless they disguise OS cost in such a clever, if evil, way as they do now.
Advertisement as a business model is also in doubt nowadays...
Who are they gonna bully, then?
Oh, damn, I thought the post was about LexisNexis&Plexis by Henry Miller!
After you read it, you'll be asking the same question the author does
Do you mean we are supposed to read TFA? Seriously?
I agree. I would recommend the books that made me love sci-fi. Back to basics! Stanislaw Lem is just great: interesting, informative, insightful and even funny (check out The Cyberiad too).
And talking about funny insightful sci-fi, War with the Newts, by Karel Capek, the guy who came up with the word Robot, is both at a high level
I see the validity of your arguments here. My point here is that Reiser's innocence was very doubtful for all we knew even before he led investigators to the body. It would have struck me as suspicious if you had dumped your car seat (and forgot where) following your friend's disappearance
Evidence is all too difficult to weigh and juries may fail to do it quite often... The thing that makes perfect crime difficult and Reiser suspect is motive (or lack thereof in your story?)
Wow that's a story deserving to be told long! Anyway, the point here is that your explanation for what happened is plausible (I guess they've seen weirder things in A&E) and well supported by evidence and witnesses... To sum up, is a different thing altogether from Reiser's case
John Nash in "beautiful Mind" tries to prove this one too. Sorry gladiator... not today!
Amazingly enough the actual (and deranged) Nash claimed he had. It'd have been the greatest among his great achievements.
The Music of the Primes, by Marcus du Sautoy is, as far as I know, the best account not only of the great intricacies of the Theorem but also of the amazing quest for an explanation of the hidden structure of numbers.
You may also find interesting the book's website (warning: cool web design)
People notice this and they either cut back on their use of the stuff, find a substitute, or go out digging for it [...] Who cares?
While you have a point there, consequences of scarcity are something to care about. And sadly enough, it's not as simple as just digging for them: export of coltan has been blamed for fuelling war in the Congo.
I reckon ther's not sucha a thing as a once-in-a-universe event!
According to the 2006 Human Development Report even if the Millennium Development Goal for water is achieved, "there will still be more than 800 million people without water and 1.8 billion people without sanitation in 2015" (page 4). Is it just me or does that seem outrageously big?
This is gonna be an inconvenience when mankind decides to clog the skies to prevent environmentally friendly intelligent machines from getting their energy from the sun!
Let us feed the high achievers with the tender meat from those hopeless dull kids. The good ones will grow both stronger and smarter without their annoyance
I'm not with you in the argument. Assuming there are just 6 cities, and that the proportion from each is the same: 1/6, if you guess randomly you are right 1/6 of the time. It's just like a die... Then, if there are zillions of sources but only six cities amount for most of the pictures, then randomly guessing among them will get you close to this 1/6...
then... if there are 6 sources of pictures, by blindfold guessing you'll get it right 16.66..% of the time
Will network infrastructure meet this doubling demand? Or is net traffic going to get stuck due to a series-of-tubes shortage?
It's in the title of the article:
1. Observe an apparent difference in efficiency between two groups of people, based on anecdotal evidence.
2. Write a management book: "Touchy-feely Code Monkeys". Optionally, talk around the country.
3. Cash in