Comment: Come on (Score 5, Funny) 561
Google kids? Why don't you have a seat over there.
Comment: Re:Privacy laws (Score 1) 236
I am intrigued by your daughters ideas and would like to subscribe to her newsletter.
I assume constant monitoring of her outbox may be required.
I assume constant monitoring of her outbox may be required.
Comment: Awesome (Score 0) 77
Now they can buy even more Slashvertisments!
Comment: Slogan (Score 1) 285
Don't be evil, my ass!
Digg In the Future 54
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samzenpus
from the I-thought-there-would-be-more-sparkles dept.
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?)"
Portal 2 Gets Release Date 110
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Soulskill
from the it's-been-a-long-time dept.
from the it's-been-a-long-time dept.
AndrewGOO9 writes "After what has seemed like an eternity since Valve initially announced a sequel to their lauded puzzle title Portal, a release date has finally been attached to the game. Originally slated to be released before the end of the year in time for the holidays, Valve instead opted to delay the game, citing reasons such as, 'making games is hard' as well as continuing their tradition of releasing games when they're finished as opposed to rushing them out the door. Either way, mark your calendars for February 9th, 2011, and in the meantime, brush up on thinking with portals."
There's some new gameplay footage available, and Valve announced that Stephen Merchant will be lending his voice to the game.
Comment: Re:Clones should be abhorred (Score 1) 235
If you read my post carefully, you'll see that I made a clear distinction between inspiration and cloning, and how the two were misused as synonymous.
Comment: Re:These "scientists" weren't (Score 1) 1747
They also managed to "lose" raw data.
Said raw data are still available you know. The station logs they got them from are still there. All you have to do is go and ask for them again.
Of course the reason CRU 'lost' these data, was because they originally concluded that they weren't good enough to use and then a few years later someone decided to free up some storage space by getting rid of copies of unused data from their archive.
Regards
Luke
Comment: Aha! (Score 0, Offtopic) 269
Now I just need the Flux Capacitor and I'm outta here!
Comment: More Accurate (But Boring) Version (Score 1) 1747
Q: Can we see the data?
A: No, we deleted some of it after concluding that it wasn't good enough to use. You can go to the station logs and get it if you want. Knock yourself out.
Q: Can we see the algorithms?
A: Sure. They are in the methods section of the dozens of papers published in the peer reviewed literature dealing with this area. We have links to these papers on our website.
Regards
Luke