Using a Supercomputer To Predict Revolutions

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Posted by samzenpus on Sunday September 25, 2011 @05:11PM from the what-is-to-be dept.

bLanark writes "A fascinating article from Singularity Hub describes software which, when fed news, makes predictions about forthcoming events. When given information on recent events, it spiked before the Egyptian and Libyan uprisings. It uses various sources including the News Bank which is a database of global news."

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Needs some smoothing (Score:4, Interesting)

by paiute ( 550198 ) writes: on Sunday September 25, 2011 @05:41PM (#37510018)

The graph of the "spike" was very unimpressive. The signal-to-noise ratio looks pretty small.

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