One graph (shown after the break) has an FX-74 gobbling what looks like near double the juice of a Core 2 Extreme QX6700 chip for comparable (or lesser) performance values.
We just had a quick hands-on of Facebook's new " Graph Search" at one of the demo stations here at Facebook's press event.
The hopeful news Dr Bearman's work brings is that it should be easier to stop the spread of sexually transmitted diseases through a teenage-type graph than an adult one, since the spindly chains of connection between individuals can more easily be broken.
If one were to graph the pace of technological breakthroughs and resulting business structure changes and wealth creation throughout history, the graph would include little spikes to include the high points of Mesopotamian agriculture, Egyptian construction, Chinese paper, Athenian education, Roman roads and aqueducts, and so on.
And, as Euler's successor, Carl Friedrich Gauss, was to discover, if you plot real numbers on one axis of a graph and imaginary ones on the other, you create a plane that represents both sorts of numbers.
The second error was in the caption to a graph comparing the new temperature forecast with one from the past.
As one can see from the graph below, background checks have been strong over the last few years but have picked up steam in 2012.
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Preserving this spirit will be vital if Facebook is to present its new investors with the graph that they will most want to see: one that shows a steadily rising share price.
In the upper graph we assume the same sequence of events except for one crucial difference: that in 1991, when Liberty first became available, a guardian angel told you to cash completely out of TCI and put all your money into Liberty for three years.
Right now, Facebook Graph Search is in beta, so to try it, one must get on a waiting list to see how it actually works. (I am on the waiting list).
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There is a bit of fatigue, one more app that requires me to redefine my friend graph.
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He twists one into a plastic block, and moments later a graph on the laptop screen shows the screw's tension holding steady, even when jostled.
The last one was in January, when the social network introduced its Graph Search internal search engine.
The UK operation is among those expanding rapidly, as I found out this week when I met the engineer in charge of one of the firm's most important ventures, Graph Search.
Many observers see the launch of Graph Search as a crucial move for Facebook in its quest to become the one-stop destination on the Internet.
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The results, plotted as a graph, are a standard bell-shape: a few poor results at one end, a few excellent ones at the other and a bulge of average scores in the middle.
In January, CEO Mark Zuckerberg described the News Feed as one of the three pillars of Facebook, along with Timeline and the new Graph Search feature, which is still in beta.
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