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Comment tries to solve traffic problem (Score 1) 198

by miiiiceeee on Tuesday August 24, 2010 @05:03AM (#33352386) Attached to: China's Nine-Day Traffic Jam Tops 62 Miles

TunedIT and TomTom created a data mining competition to solve the traffic problem-> see:http://tunedit.org/challenge/IEEE-ICDM-2010

Lies, Damned Lies and Cat Statistics 175

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 18, 2010 @06:53PM from the nine-lies dept.

spopepro writes "While un-captioned cats might be of limited interest to the /. community, I found this column on how a fabricated statistic takes on a life of its own interesting. Starting with the Humane Society of the United States' (HSUS) claim that the unsterilized offspring of a cat will '...result in 420,000 cats in 5 years,' the author looks at other erroneous numbers, where they came from and why they won't go away."

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