Now, 30% doesn't automatically trigger precipitation icons, and a more complex algorithm decides when the company signals wet weather, with a goal of removing the wet bias.
Airlines would also need to factor passenger weight into their ticket pricing schemes, which would make an already-complex algorithm even more complicated.
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The scheme also cannily manipulated Google's algorithm to drive more users to the malware-hosting sites.
Perhaps Google could open up about its algorithm a little more, and perhaps more education of the public is needed.
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Now, of course, the company consists of a lot more than its page-rank algorithm, which could easily be duplicated elsewhere.
Although nobody likes to see unflattering reviews, right now, quantity means more than quality in the local search algorithm.
The company's algorithm draws on information from more than 100 databases and social networks, looking at an array of variables such as users' locations and the number of personal connections.
More recently and much more famously, Silver has put his algorithm-based models to use in the political field, launching the blog FiveThirtyEight.com and correctly predicting the winner in 99 out of 100 total states in the past two presidential elections.
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Though these changes can go unnoticed by a person with a disease, relatives and friends more often pick up on it, but a computer algorithm that detects nuances of speech and subtle changes could detect abberations with much greater frequency.
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Next up, there's Quick Touch Panel, an algorithm that detects and analyzes finger gestures to make the panel more responsive.
Or look at Google: Larry Page and Sergey Brin came up with their famous search algorithm by applying the ranking method used for academic articles (more citations equals more influence) to the sprawl of the Internet.
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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