A short while back, Google embarked on a quest to find funny YouTube videos before they go viral, through science. It created an algorithm that looks at various things to try to discover the really funny videos.
The clues it searches for are things like audible laughter in the background, in the video, the tone of t... |
15 February 2012
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Google, despite more recent developments, is all about algorithms. It built its search engine around them, it built its ad business around them and it's doing the same for most of its other products, including YouTube.YouTube needs ways of discovering and raking content while dealing with 48 hours of uploads eve... |
9 February 2012
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A team called All Your Shreds Are Belong To U.S. managed to develop an algorithm to solve the DARPA challenge that required contestants to reconstruct shredded documents.
By looking at similar edge shapes and distinctive marks on the more than 10,000 bits of paper, the team suggested the potential matches for any pi... |
6 December 2011
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Google has never been too forthcoming about what happens inside its search engine, how its algorithm work and what are the things that are taken into account when coming up with the results ranking.There's good reason for that, give website owners too many clues and they'll try to abuse them to get their si... |
14 November 2011
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Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announce that they are currently working on a new algorithm for controlling an intelligent transportation system that also takes into account vehicles that already circulate public roads. There is currently no doubt that the future of car-based personal tra... |
15 June 2011
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Most philosophical contemplation involving the notions of racism and artificial intelligence usually takes the form of disputes on whether or not an AI turned sentient should be discriminated against just because it isn't human. Still, it appears that machines might just be the first to racially discriminate bet... |
22 December 2009
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In an innovative line of research, experts from the Cornell University may have made an important contribution to the developing field of direct sound simulation and playback. In today's virtual reality, when something happens on screen, the sounds that go along with that event are usually recorded and played ba... |
5 June 2009
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Fitting the largest amount of objects into the smallest place possible, without overlapping, is the single main strive of all shipping and packaging companies worldwide. Less wasted space means less deliveries to a single area, as well as greater efficiency in transportation. This translates into lower costs, saved f... |
7 March 2009
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The Google News team always hurried with their predictions about features being implemented and mostly they were right. Some minor exceptions don't count, like the fact that they won't check for updates if they are included in the same article and will only present the original story, no matter how many add... |
7 February 2008
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The News from Google are quite interesting to follow. Not because of the information provided, which is top notch and I just had to mention it, but because of the constant updates that are being made by the dev team in order to optimize the algorithm, the search modality, the updating of the sources and so on and so... |
18 December 2007
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It's not been a week since I talked about the all new all improved Google News Algorithm that was supposed to make the reading news experience a lot more closer and intense with the latest updates on all the stories that might have caught your fancy.I'm not sure why a story about "Grasshopper Chocolate Chun... |
13 December 2007
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We are a unique gene complex, so, if we function so differently from one individual to another, why not use a personalized IVF (in vitro fertilization)? Especially as 90 % of the women receive the wrong dose when undergoing IVF. An international team has developed an easy-to-use mathematical formula that permits a pe... |
16 July 2007
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Number 1 is very frequently used around the world. That wouldn't be much of a curiosity, if you knew all the fields it appears in. It's the most commonly found figure in groups as disparate as populations, death rates, physical and chemical constants, baseball statistics, the half-lives of radioactive isot... |
11 May 2007
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If you didn't know, Google is now ranking the websites using a simple algorithm that calculates the number of the pages linking to a certain site. This procedure is also used by attackers aiming to create Googlebombs because they are able to create fake results using numerous links placed on other websites on th... |
19 March 2007
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