Now for the first time, scientists have performed
simple algorithms on a silicon - based quantum computer, physicist Lieven Vandersypen and colleagues report online February 14 in Nature.
Not exact matches
As one of the researchers said, «My take
on this is that it's very hard to train an
algorithm that would be accurate across a wide variety of people because energy expenditure is variable based
on someone's fitness level, height and weight, etc.» (Or in
simpler terms, your fitness watch will never truly know you.)
Oh sure, there's been a lot of talk
on algorithms and over-booking, but the real reason is plain and
simple.
Once someone has figured a
simple, smart way to easily get everybody
on board of a surveillance, spam, reach restriction free social network (with all the
algorithms and choices it entails), then you can be sure millions of people leaving it will even let a «Fuck Facebook» as their last post.
Unlike novelty smartphone apps that use
simple algorithms to morph users» features into different shapes and permutations, Brown's AprilAge relies
on a database housing thousands of scanned images of real faces to predict future appearances based
on age, gender, ethnicity and lifestyle.
Solving that
simple problem requires having lots of contextual knowledge, vastly more than can be supplied with the
algorithms that advanced computers depend
on to identify a face or detect credit - card fraud.
The chimps» drumming styles were distinct enough for a statistical
algorithm to correctly identify the drummer 47.5 % of the time based
on these
simple rhythmic features, a good score considering chance identification of one chimp out of eight would be only 12.5 %.
Now Stefanie Barz's team at the University of Vienna, Austria, has got Lloyd's
algorithm working
on a very
simple quantum computer, using two entangled photons to solve a system of two equations (arxiv.org/abs/1302.1210).
Research at the University of Edinburgh first created a
simple algorithm to determine the key factors shaping climate change and then estimated their likely impact
on the world's land and ocean temperatures.
Using this, the team derived a
simple algorithm to predict a rogue wave based
on incoming data.
the
simple truth is that, people like to explore the pool of singles by sifting through
simple location based searches and not relying
on an
algorithm and a bunch of gimmicks, not to mention a cash grab, in order to find someone they like the look of.
While some dating sites concentrate heavily
on intricate matching
algorithms and lavish features, Purrsonals.com focuses more
on ease of use and
simple tools that will get you meeting compatible people — and then get you offline and connecting with those people in real life.
It's easy to believe that all the takes is a few clicks of your mouse and you will be
on your way to finding love, but real relationships are not as
simple as the computer
algorithm wants you to believe.
«For example, making up a dance routine for something as
simple as the Hokey Cokey to impress our friends, figuring out how to streamline a supply chain business process, developing a computer simulation to model how a new antibiotic will impact
on the immune system, or just doing long multiplication, are all examples of using
algorithms to solve problems.
At the 3DO Company in the early and mid 90s, he was very involved in the generational video game transition from games built
on simple algorithms with 2D sprite graphics to games with real - time 3D photorealistic graphics and physics engines.
Programming is done by dragging and dropping icons into a line to form commands allowing students to build
simple programs, and then easily and intuitively build
on their skills until they are developing complex
algorithms.
Advertising
algorithms are never 100 % in relation to whom they convey their message; in contrast, hosting a Twitterchat not only has an engaged audience in place and
on topic, but they're ready buy in with the
simplest of mention from the host and their guest (s).
Although I have developed optimized switching
algorithms and looked at a Latch and Hold approach, I have found that you can do even better by practicing
on my Simplified Retirement Trainer with Dividends A.
Simple mechanically implemented
algorithms make obvious mistakes such as buying and selling repeatedly as valuations vary slightly around a P / E10 threshold.
When you consider that Smart Beta ETFs are quantatively based and their factoring or holding methodology can be traded / maintained with a
simple algorithm ran
on a computer no more powerful than your PC, the expense ratio's look even more bloated.
That's when the personality quiz was born: a complex
algorithm that bottles 30 + years of experience from our team into a
simple questionnaire that can steer people in the right direction, and have a huge impact
on the ultimate success of any canine - to - human or feline - to - human relationship.»
However, also in the choice of MCMC techniques, care has to be taken because
simple (scalar) Gibbs sampling
algorithms «get stuck»
on pedigrees with large families, especially when estimating genotype effects.
His interface works with tester
algorithms based
on simple mathematical operations which help in the compositional decesion - making and trigger different temporal and spectral musical events run by an unique timeline.
It isn't a
simple tale of over-confidence in
algorithms in the face of black swan events, but rather a tale of poor communications and siloed researchers that slowed down the ability of the wider community to see and interpret what was going
on.
I didn't use their
algorithm, just a
simple damped exponential lagged response
on delta volcanic disturbances.
It occurs to me, that a
simple test of the fairness of these
algorithms, would be to run it
on existing data, only time - reversed.
The whole mutual fund industry is based
on stock picking, the almost certainly fallacious view that investment experts can do better than a diversified index fund run by a
simple algorithm; are these fund managers criminals?
This suggests some
simple algorithms that can be used, for example, by automated vehicles
on land and in the air.
One set of their reconstructions uses the «Lasso»
algorithm, while the other reconstruction methods use variations
on a principal component (PC) decomposition and
simple ordinary least squares (OLS) regressions among the PCs (varying the number of PCs retained in the proxies or the target temperatures).
As the role of
algorithms grow, it is incumbent
on attorneys to echo Warren's words, insisting
on an answer to a
simple question, «Is it fair?»
The
simplest of the solutions offered by Fair Outcomes, Fair Buy - Sell, is based
on an
algorithm Brams helped develop in the 1990s.
The Term Insurance calculator is a
simple calculator and provides results based
on the specific
algorithm related to the inputs given by you.
Computer
algorithms can do things that are far more complicated than my
simple example and take a lot less time than it did for me to count
on my fingers.
This
algorithm is based
on a 144 - period
simple moving average.
They based this
on keywords and
simple algorithm to identify the number of instances that the relevant keywords appear or if it even appear at all.
Wouldn't it be great if someone cracked Google's secret
algorithm and gave you a
simple list of factors you need to focus
on to improve your results in local search?