Real lexical boundaries tend to vary where Dr Regier's algorithm produced several options that were almost as good as each other.

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But like a bad compression algorithm, all they really do is throw away a lot of good information.

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By creating a mathematical algorithm, the charity hopes to predict whether someone could be a good match using the information gathering in initial testing.

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The ideas get a little more on a parallel track after that, such as start small, consider rewriting the algorithm to is it parallel-friendly, and stop when you have good enough.

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Sites like Facebook are very good at presenting you with choices but not great at letting you navigate and browse without their PageRank algorithm making decisions for you.

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