Then, the deck is reshuffled using the Fisher-Yates shuffle algorithm with the random numbers generated from the Mersenne twister algorithm that was seeded with a hash of the combined server seed and client seed.
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What interests me here is the idea that small amounts of stuff, with the right algorithm, can unfold into something large and wonderful.
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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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But two folks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology may have cracked the code with an algorithm they're saying predicts -- with 95 percent accuracy -- the topics that will trend in the next hour and a half.
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The promise is that, with the aid of a special algorithm, the band will help you sleep better, wake up happier and nap more effectively.
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The tool will collect data and start populating a shadow Twitter account with a daily tweet that the algorithm determines match the person's habits and interests.
The Beats Pill is the first product to be fully integrated with the company's patented Beats Audio algorithm and also features exclusive speaker modules to provide the highest quality portable listening experience.
Yes, Google essentially controls the search results with its algorithm and could potentially use its position to affect other companies.
The cause of the dispute: After Taobao modified its sorting algorithm to favor those sellers with the highest ratings from buyers, some retailers cried out because their online storefronts no longer showed up near the top of search results.
He eventually came up with an algorithm that showed him the path to realizing his goal.
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With the help of an error correction algorithm trained users were able to reach 37 words per minute, researchers said.
Ms. Heller said the community will contract to possibly half its size, with the help of a "secret algorithm" designed to determine which members to reinvite.
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.
Two months later they come up with a new compression algorithm that makes the picture much better.
First, Messrs Brin and Page came up with what was for some time the best algorithm for searching web pages.
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.
To address the concern, PatientsLikeMe developed an algorithm that matched 149 patients taking lithium with at least one other ALS patient on the site who didn't take the drug.
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Neil Sazant, president of Sagamore, reacted with a mix of admiration and concern to the algorithm.
The successful algorithm application must work with each of several different camera systems and varying lighting conditions within each environment.
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Hitachi's version "scrambles data using a password-generated key" as the data is written, and then descrambled with the key as it is retrieved using the highly-touted Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm.
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Matt Cutts, the engineer charged with reworking Google's search algorithm, articulates his mission differently.
As you have read, the site aspires to automate the client-agency matching game with a proprietary algorithm.
Courts have previously rejected patents on diagnostic methods that involve testing a patient and then running the results through an algorithm to come up with a diagnosis.
The markets that do the sort of high volume, low margin trades that would be affected by an FTT are the foreign exchange (FX), futures, options and stock markets (with special reference to high frequency trading of the often demonised computer algorithm type).
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.
As she explained in an October 19 interview, in college, Phelon ran a start-up with her sorority sisters that built an algorithm to help people choose the content and keywords for press releases.
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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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Hendrik Lenstra, of the University of California, Berkeley, discussed with the assembled company one way to simplify and speed up Dr Agrawal's algorithm.
Google usually likes to do everything by the algorithm, but in this case that could overload the movie with extras, or throw in questionable content.
From this, as with Khan Academy, it can begin to hone its adaptive algorithm and learn from the big data set about what works best and for whom.
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