But, of course, anonymous users are no longer allowed to create articles.
Furthermore, what good would it do you to create such an article? You couldn't link to it from the Hitler page, and if you linked from an unrelated page, the link (and possibly the article) would in all likelihood be quickly removed.
Whisper the newspost in one of those "CIA operative mission briefing" voices. It's pretty scary.
"The idea is to plant one of these puppies anywhere Google owns access to fiber, basically turning the entire Internet into a giant processing and storage grid. Your mission: Find and destroy Larry Page. But hurry."
The big thing that any serious algorithm for predicting hits would have to overcome is that the hoi polloi taste in music changes. Even the average 14-year-old girl's tastes will change with time. Even though the idea of comparing the music to music with a known response is a good one, there are still times when everything changes. I don't think any algorithm could have predicted the massive success of punk rock or grunge before the Sex Pistols or Nirvana. When the next "revolution" comes in music, it'll most likely still be unpredicted.
"While my parents and I are happy the case is resolved, most importantly, I'm hopeful this will help ensure that free speech rights of students aren't trampled on again in the future," said Dwyer, who is now in 11th grade.
He just got $120,000 because his school suspended him for a week, and he's going to say that the most important thing about the case to him was the free speech rights? For some reason, I'm skeptical.
These "moons" are only 30 and 100 miles across. Mars' Phobos and Deimos, widely thought to be captured asteroids, are thousands of kilometers across. These are PUNY. If we could somehow gather up all the junk orbiting Earth and pack it together, we'd probably have a "moon" about that size, too.
I must not FUD. FUD is the mind-killer. FUD is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face Microsoft's FUD. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye upon its path. Where the FUD has gone there will be nothing. Only Linux will remain.
n people are put in n different glass rooms, so that every person can see everyone else. Each person is then given a hat, which is one of n different colors. (However, everyone's hat may be the same color, or different colors, etc.) No one can see their own hat, but they can see everyone else's. Everyone then tries to guess the color of the hat on his or her head. If at least one person guesses correctly, everyone wins. What is a winning strategy?
Well, it's just Zeno's paradox. Let's say it takes them 300 years to index all today's information, then another 150 to index all the new infomation, then another 75... By 2605, all information to that point will have been indexed by Google. Then they can start indexing the FUTURE.
Let's just assume for a moment that about half of the Hugo "best novel" nominations are by American authors (I have no idea what the actual figure is, but this shouldn't be too far off). At five nominations per year, this gives a 1/32 chance that NONE of the nominees will be American. So the odds that something like this will happen in a 60+ - year time period are very high.
Even supposing that this can't be chalked up to pure chance, Stross' comment means nothing. He blames it on 9/11; I could blame it on a decreasing attention span of American writers (so they can't keep a novel together), an inherent anti-Americanism in the nominating process, or one of literally dozens of other possible "reasons." It doesn't make them all true.
Finally, anyone who wants to can find some sort of pattern in the nominees for any given year. (Oh look, none of the nominated authors' names begin with vowels! There must be some anti-vowel force in the universe at this moment...)
This is an interesting occurrence, but it's pointless to try to find a "reason" for it.
1. Take the politics out of the debate. Pledge of Allegiance, NCLB, vouchers...all of these miss the main point of schools, which is to educate.
2. Emphasize basic math skills early. If the kids can't count, then of course they'll fail an algebra class. And putting them in a remedial course (particularly when it's the school's fault) just makes them fall farther behind, because the class moves slower.
3. If a kid can't read or write, he or she shouldn't be past the 5th grade (exceptions for ESOL, of course, but students should be making progress in those classes as well to be allowed to move on.)
4. Fire any teacher who lets their own problems interfere with the students' learning. No questions asked. Teachers will have issues in their lives, but they should never be able to jeopardize their students' futures because of it.
I haven't read the decision (I still think very few to none of us have) so we don't know just how far it goes. It could only apply to P2P software, or it could be a total reversal of Betamax (thus perhaps applying to VCRs, CD-Rs, photocopiers, TCP-IP, and any number of other things.) Let's hope for the former.
While it is conceivable, the sheer number of moves that the computer would have to calculate would put a method like this beyond all practical application. And even then the computer wouldn't ALWAYS win - what if it played itself?
The article dedicates only a couple of paragraphs to PageRank, the main algorithm that Google uses, and about 2.5 pages to the rest. If anyone wants to know more about PageRank, here's Page and Brin's original paper:
http://www-db.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
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That's no galaxy...
But that Alien Illuminati Patriot Act infringes on my rights.
Pretty clearly, the French. The moral of the story is: Wait until 2006 to discuss the "best of" 2005.
But, of course, anonymous users are no longer allowed to create articles.
Furthermore, what good would it do you to create such an article? You couldn't link to it from the Hitler page, and if you linked from an unrelated page, the link (and possibly the article) would in all likelihood be quickly removed.
Of course, before we can demonstrate these "interesting features of quantum computing" we have to be able to actually compute with qubits.
Whisper the newspost in one of those "CIA operative mission briefing" voices. It's pretty scary.
"The idea is to plant one of these puppies anywhere Google owns access to fiber, basically turning the entire Internet into a giant processing and storage grid. Your mission: Find and destroy Larry Page. But hurry."
The big thing that any serious algorithm for predicting hits would have to overcome is that the hoi polloi taste in music changes. Even the average 14-year-old girl's tastes will change with time. Even though the idea of comparing the music to music with a known response is a good one, there are still times when everything changes. I don't think any algorithm could have predicted the massive success of punk rock or grunge before the Sex Pistols or Nirvana. When the next "revolution" comes in music, it'll most likely still be unpredicted.
From TFA:
"While my parents and I are happy the case is resolved, most importantly, I'm hopeful this will help ensure that free speech rights of students aren't trampled on again in the future," said Dwyer, who is now in 11th grade.
He just got $120,000 because his school suspended him for a week, and he's going to say that the most important thing about the case to him was the free speech rights? For some reason, I'm skeptical.
These "moons" are only 30 and 100 miles across. Mars' Phobos and Deimos, widely thought to be captured asteroids, are thousands of kilometers across. These are PUNY. If we could somehow gather up all the junk orbiting Earth and pack it together, we'd probably have a "moon" about that size, too.
I must not FUD. FUD is the mind-killer. FUD is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face Microsoft's FUD. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye upon its path. Where the FUD has gone there will be nothing. Only Linux will remain.
"An interesting read with perhaps some disturbing implications." I'll say - what if you lose it?
Epsilon won't be particularly destructive. It'll be tiny.
Note that this won't last long, as the NYT monitors accounts for "abuse" and stuff like that...
n people are put in n different glass rooms, so that every person can see everyone else. Each person is then given a hat, which is one of n different colors. (However, everyone's hat may be the same color, or different colors, etc.) No one can see their own hat, but they can see everyone else's. Everyone then tries to guess the color of the hat on his or her head. If at least one person guesses correctly, everyone wins. What is a winning strategy?
Well, it's just Zeno's paradox. Let's say it takes them 300 years to index all today's information, then another 150 to index all the new infomation, then another 75... By 2605, all information to that point will have been indexed by Google. Then they can start indexing the FUTURE.
Google Hyperion?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller-Rabin_test This is what I thought of when I heard Miller test. I need help.
I haven't heard about anything like this before and will likely remain skeptical until a link is provided.
Even supposing that this can't be chalked up to pure chance, Stross' comment means nothing. He blames it on 9/11; I could blame it on a decreasing attention span of American writers (so they can't keep a novel together), an inherent anti-Americanism in the nominating process, or one of literally dozens of other possible "reasons." It doesn't make them all true.
Finally, anyone who wants to can find some sort of pattern in the nominees for any given year. (Oh look, none of the nominated authors' names begin with vowels! There must be some anti-vowel force in the universe at this moment...)
This is an interesting occurrence, but it's pointless to try to find a "reason" for it.
http://www.bugmenot.com/
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1. Take the politics out of the debate. Pledge of Allegiance, NCLB, vouchers...all of these miss the main point of schools, which is to educate. 2. Emphasize basic math skills early. If the kids can't count, then of course they'll fail an algebra class. And putting them in a remedial course (particularly when it's the school's fault) just makes them fall farther behind, because the class moves slower. 3. If a kid can't read or write, he or she shouldn't be past the 5th grade (exceptions for ESOL, of course, but students should be making progress in those classes as well to be allowed to move on.) 4. Fire any teacher who lets their own problems interfere with the students' learning. No questions asked. Teachers will have issues in their lives, but they should never be able to jeopardize their students' futures because of it.
I haven't read the decision (I still think very few to none of us have) so we don't know just how far it goes. It could only apply to P2P software, or it could be a total reversal of Betamax (thus perhaps applying to VCRs, CD-Rs, photocopiers, TCP-IP, and any number of other things.) Let's hope for the former.
While it is conceivable, the sheer number of moves that the computer would have to calculate would put a method like this beyond all practical application. And even then the computer wouldn't ALWAYS win - what if it played itself?
The article isn't much better. I spell "spamming" with two m's and a lower case "s." But then again, that's just me.
The article dedicates only a couple of paragraphs to PageRank, the main algorithm that Google uses, and about 2.5 pages to the rest. If anyone wants to know more about PageRank, here's Page and Brin's original paper: http://www-db.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html