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Offline Clive

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Supercomputer predicts revolution
« on: September 11, 2011, 12:51 »
Feeding a supercomputer with news stories could help predict major world events, according to US research.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14841018
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Re: Supercomputer predicts revolution
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2011, 16:01 »
AKA self-fulfilling prophecies... ;)
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Re: Supercomputer predicts revolution
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2011, 18:10 »
Indeed.  Sam has to shoulder some of the responsibility for the downfall of the human race.  :o
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Re: Supercomputer predicts revolution
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2011, 18:11 »
Aw, come on guys.  This isn't just any old computer - it's a supercomputer!

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Re: Supercomputer predicts revolution
« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2011, 18:20 »
Does that mean it can leap tall buildings in a single bound? ;)
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Re: Supercomputer predicts revolution
« Reply #5 on: September 11, 2011, 18:29 »
And not fall off a horse?  :o:
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Re: Supercomputer predicts revolution
« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2011, 18:30 »
 ;D
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Re: Supercomputer predicts revolution
« Reply #7 on: September 11, 2011, 18:44 »
Or, as Albus Dumbledore put it in Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince:

"being — forgive me — rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger."
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« Reply #8 on: September 11, 2011, 19:20 »
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Re: Supercomputer predicts revolution
« Reply #9 on: September 13, 2011, 13:04 »
My laptop is a supercomputer. Really the term doesn't mean much.
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Re: Supercomputer predicts revolution
« Reply #10 on: September 13, 2011, 14:35 »
Mine bloody isn't!
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Re: Supercomputer predicts revolution
« Reply #11 on: September 13, 2011, 16:28 »
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Re: Supercomputer predicts revolution
« Reply #12 on: September 13, 2011, 22:40 »
Quote from: Simon on September 13, 2011, 14:35
Mine bloody isn't!

but it really is.
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Re: Supercomputer predicts revolution
« Reply #13 on: September 13, 2011, 22:50 »
I sat there for a whole hour last night (while watching Dragon's Den), waiting for it to complete a .NET Framework update.  There's nothing on it, it's just exasperatingly slow.
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Re: Supercomputer predicts revolution
« Reply #14 on: September 13, 2011, 22:56 »
Quote from: Simon on September 13, 2011, 22:50
There's nothing on it, it's just exasperatingly slow.

Are you talking about the laptop or the programme?
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