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Title: Supercomputer predicts revolution
Post by: Clive on September 11, 2011, 12:51

Feeding a supercomputer with news stories could help predict major world events, according to US research.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14841018

Title: Re: Supercomputer predicts revolution
Post by: Rik on September 11, 2011, 16:01

AKA self-fulfilling prophecies... ;)

Title: Re: Supercomputer predicts revolution
Post by: Clive on September 11, 2011, 18:10

Indeed.  Sam has to shoulder some of the responsibility for the downfall of the human race.  :o

Title: Re: Supercomputer predicts revolution
Post by: GillE on September 11, 2011, 18:11

Aw, come on guys.  This isn't just any old computer - it's a supercomputer!

 ::)

Title: Re: Supercomputer predicts revolution
Post by: Rik on September 11, 2011, 18:20

Does that mean it can leap tall buildings in a single bound? ;)

Title: Re: Supercomputer predicts revolution
Post by: Simon on September 11, 2011, 18:29

And not fall off a horse?  :o:

Title: Re: Supercomputer predicts revolution
Post by: Rik on September 11, 2011, 18:30

 ;D

Title: Re: Supercomputer predicts revolution
Post by: GillE on September 11, 2011, 18:44

Or, as Albus Dumbledore put it in Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince:

"being — forgive me — rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger."

Title: Re: Supercomputer predicts revolution
Post by: Simon on September 11, 2011, 19:20

;D

Title: Re: Supercomputer predicts revolution
Post by: sam on September 13, 2011, 13:04

My laptop is a supercomputer. Really the term doesn't mean much.

Title: Re: Supercomputer predicts revolution
Post by: Simon on September 13, 2011, 14:35

Mine bloody isn't!

Title: Re: Supercomputer predicts revolution
Post by: Rik on September 13, 2011, 16:28

 ;D

Title: Re: Supercomputer predicts revolution
Post by: sam on September 13, 2011, 22:40

Quote from: Simon on September 13, 2011, 14:35

Mine bloody isn't!

but it really is.

Title: Re: Supercomputer predicts revolution
Post by: Simon on September 13, 2011, 22:50

I sat there for a whole hour last night (while watching Dragon's Den), waiting for it to complete a .NET Framework update.  There's nothing on it, it's just exasperatingly slow.

Title: Re: Supercomputer predicts revolution
Post by: GillE on September 13, 2011, 22:56

Quote from: Simon on September 13, 2011, 22:50

There's nothing on it, it's just exasperatingly slow.

Are you talking about the laptop or the programme?

Title: Re: Supercomputer predicts revolution
Post by: Simon on September 13, 2011, 23:11

The laptop.  I just think it's underpowered.  It was only a cheap Acer.

Title: Re: Supercomputer predicts revolution
Post by: GillE on September 13, 2011, 23:20

Ah.  I thought that perhaps the conversation had moved on ;) .

Title: Re: Supercomputer predicts revolution
Post by: Clive on September 13, 2011, 23:34

Can't you get more RAM for it?   :dunno:

Title: Re: Supercomputer predicts revolution
Post by: Simon on September 13, 2011, 23:47

Probably, Clive, but to be honest, I hardly ever use it. 

Gill, I'm out. ;)

Title: Re: Supercomputer predicts revolution
Post by: Rik on September 14, 2011, 10:12

I couldn't decide either, Gill. :)

Title: Re: Supercomputer predicts revolution
Post by: sam on September 14, 2011, 15:12

what OS? If its Vista that'll be it.

Title: Re: Supercomputer predicts revolution
Post by: Simon on September 14, 2011, 19:29

Yup. ::)

I might actually put a Linux version on it, to sew how that runs.  I'd need to clear some stuff off it first, though. 

Title: Re: Supercomputer predicts revolution
Post by: sam on September 14, 2011, 20:49

just try it off a cd and see if its faster!  :laugh:

Title: Re: Supercomputer predicts revolution
Post by: Simon on September 14, 2011, 22:38

 ;D