Super Computer Predicts Civil Unrest

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Post by Egg » Fri Sep 09, 2011 5:40 pm

Pigeon wrote:I got your webbot

http://toasteddolphin.com/tdbot.php
:lol: That's awesome :D


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Re: Super Computer Predicts Civil Unrest

Post by Pigeon » Fri Sep 09, 2011 5:47 pm

It needs a bit more knowledge. (or BS)

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Re: Super Computer Predicts Civil Unrest

Post by Egg » Fri Sep 09, 2011 5:48 pm

It's a work in progress. HAHAHAHA!!!


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Re: Super Computer Predicts Civil Unrest

Post by Pigeon » Fri Sep 09, 2011 5:52 pm

Give me some good phrases....

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Post by TraumaT » Fri Sep 09, 2011 5:54 pm

Pigeon wrote:Give me some good phrases....
If you want real BS, just copy and paste from AmKon.

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Re: Super Computer Predicts Civil Unrest

Post by Egg » Fri Sep 09, 2011 5:59 pm

They're watching you

They're on the zipulator

It's popsicle!


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Re: Super Computer Predicts Civil Unrest

Post by Pam » Fri Sep 09, 2011 8:45 pm

Pigeon wrote:I got your webbot

http://toasteddolphin.com/tdbot.php

Very clever Pigeon :D

You could add:

And you believed everything that the cleverbot told you.... hahahahahaha

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Re: Super Computer Predicts Civil Unrest

Post by Mungodave » Sat Sep 10, 2011 2:57 pm

Egg wrote:I'm happy to know that I can predict as well as a super computer.

In Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, the future of masses of people can be predicted with “psychohistory,” a method of predicting future poitical and social trends, using a device called the “Prime Radiant.” In the 1950s, there wasn’t the math or the computational power available to make such a thing reality. Now there might be.

Supercomputers, such as the Nautilus at the University of Tennessee’s Center for Data Analysis and Visualization, may have brought the world closer to Asimov’s vision, though it is still early days. The key is seeking paterns in massive amounts of data and being able to visualize them. Kaley Leetaru, assistant director for text and digital media analytics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, did just that.

BLOG: The Pursuit of Intelligence In Computer Science

Leetaru used a database of 100 million news articles spanning the period from 1979 to early 2011. The data is from the Open Source Center and Summary of World Broadcasts, both set up by the U.S. and British intelligence agencies to monitor what amounts to nearly every news source in the world, and translate them into nuanced English. By analyzing the text in the news stories and the tone — whether they were largely positive or negative — Leetaru found that patterns emerged that seem to line up with major periods of unrest. For example, in Egypt, the tone of news articles about Mubarak grew increasingly negative as the protests grew, until eventually Mubarak resigned.

It isn’t just the tone, howvever — it’s also the change in tone over time. Saudia Arabia’s government has remained in power, becuase the tone of the news there has been equally negative before, whereas Tunisia and Egypt hit new lows. Leetaru notes that many of the country experts on Egypt said Mubarak would likely ride it out, as he had done before.

Another pattern the supercomputer was able to tease out that Osama bin Laden was in Pakistan, by checking how often his name was recorded in association with the country. Visualized as lines on a map (pictured) connecting the cities mentioned in stories that also reference bin Laden, a pattern emerges that centers on northern Pakistan — within a couple of hundred miles of Islamabad.

All this is possible because the supercomputer can seek patterns in networks with 100 trillion connections and 10 billion nodes (or actors). An ordinary computer, Leetaru says, can only look at small parts of the data at a time, and even attempting to run many in parallel wouldn’t do the job. That’s because when mapping networks, the amount of memory required goes up exponentially with the number of connections. Only a supercomputer could do it, and it was getting the time on the machine (140,000 hours per processor, or about a week with the whole thing running at once) that really enabled Leetaru to make the kinds of conclusions he did.

The technology isn’t able to predict events precisely yet. Leetaru likens it to the early days of weather forecasting — at one point, not much better than a guess, but now reliable enough to base decisions on. It won’t predict individual actions, but it might be able to say what the reaction to something like the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi in Tunisia would be.

It’s obvious why Intelligence agencies and militaries would be very interested. Asked if they had called, Leetaru said, “I can’t answer that.”

http://stratrisks.com/geostrat/1291


Sorry... I am late any havent got past this......



This is a prediction based on how reporters think and report on world affairs?


You might as well poll Amkon ! ! !


Now back to the 2nd ost.

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