Facebook has a separate algorithm for its Promoted Posts ad product, which launched in January.
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On Thursday, the researchers will publish their full P4P algorithm for the first time.
First, Messrs Brin and Page came up with what was for some time the best algorithm for searching web pages.
That proposal will then be used for a regular Kaggle competition to determine the best predictive algorithm for the Prospect proposal.
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MP3, owners of the player could download, for a fee, a new decompression algorithm for their player from the maker's website.
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For the Flight Quest, the challenge is to create an algorithm for a flight management system that reduces flight delays from the current 18 to 22% inefficiency.
For instance, our algorithm for automatic instruction interpretation can convert computer trouble shooting and configuration instructions from text into executable scripts, thus helping ordinary computer users with maintenance tasks.
In fact, since Google recently improved its algorithm for how easily content can be found on the web, press releases distributed via Business Wire are realizing increased hits and findability.
At Smashwords, up until January of this year, our algorithm for best sellers just looked at absolute downloads, but authors gamed that system by offering discounted or free books using the Smashwords coupon tool.
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Because their method of analysis characterizes the cases in which multiple squares can be moved into place simultaneously, it provides a way to recognize those cases, and thus an algorithm for solving a disordered cube.
The technology, which included an algorithm for deriving the summaries, was created with help from SRI International, a Silicon Valley research-and development firm that has an artificial-intelligence lab and has an ownership stake in the startup.
We need this same algorithm for filmmaking.
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Research conducted by Adi Shamir, one of the pioneers of the RSA algorithm for public-key cryptography which forms the basis of online security today indicates that bitcoin markets indicated that all the large bitcoin transactions over the past few years seem to have the same originating source, related to a single large transaction that took place in November 2010.
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Another example he did not work on was a project for a financial institution to develop an algorithm that screened for customers who would not be likely to repay their loans, keep them from over-borrowing, and saving the client millions in loan write-offs.
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.
Using a nifty algorithm, Work for Pie ranks coders by skill, based on quantitative data pulled from various online technical communities, including GitHub, Bitbucket, Stack Overflow and Hacker News.
It makes sense that search would draw from social for its algorithm to determine accurate rankings.
To address this, scientists from trust are working on a program called the Genotype Prediction Algorithm (GPA) for Asian donors funded by the Department of Health.
The decision leaves for future litigation questions about whether software that involves an algorithm based on natural laws, for example, or patents on certain medical procedures will survive review.
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Of course, beyond impressing friends with the predictions, the algorithm has direct implications for the likes of Twitter itself -- being able to sell ads against trending topics could benefit the social media company enormously in its ongoing quest to monetize.
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Insurance giant AllState, which has worked with Kaggle before, is offering a large, undisclosed cash prize for the algorithm that best predicts which customers are going to renew their car-insurance policies when they have six months left on their plan.
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It would be as if an algorithm could generate blueprints for a building that ideally should be informed in part by the preferences of those who commissioned it, as well as the topography of the space and the surroundings, but instead of a rich variety of products it becomes routine to get a Frank Gehry-inspired building on every block.
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Algorithm will provide an aid for clinicians, but we are still a long way from replacing them.
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Roth has used modified forms of this same algorithm to design matching systems for Boston's public school system and for placing medical school graduates with residency programs.
The government wants vendors to develop encryption software that includes a key recovery mechanism whereby the government could get access to the algorithm to decode a message for law enforcement purposes.
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Now customers simply answer some straightforward questions, and the Lands' End algorithm works out their perfect fit for them.
Adam Cahan, a Yahoo senior vice president, said in an interview on Monday that Mr. D'Aloisio was an "exceptional" talent and that Yahoo did "extensive" testing of Summly's algorithm, or mathematical formula, for condensing news articles.
In fact, the F8500 delivers the same brightness levels and eight times the black expression of regular LED TVs, thanks to new luminance enhancements and Samsung's proprietary Deep Black Algorithm and Real Black Pro II for improved black expression.
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