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Company / Computer Technology that can predict virtually anything

INRM

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I heard this briefly on the news a few minutes ago.

Anyone know about this. It's some kind of company with I presume a type of computer software and equipment that can allegedly predict virtually anything.

Does anyone have any more information here?
 
Yeah, I heard about it. The scientist who built it asked it: what will I be doing tomorrow morning? The machine calculated all night and then said: You'll be sitting waiting for my answer.
 
Johnnyfive (for example) can explain why two examples of this equipment can not possibly predict the stockmarket.

If it started getting everything right, then the market would start following it, and the other copy would predict this too, and you end up in a chaotic oscillation between the two (if anyone acted on the information).

Jim
 
jimbob said:
Johnnyfive (for example) can explain why two examples of this equipment can not possibly predict the stockmarket.

If it started getting everything right, then the market would start following it, and the other copy would predict this too, and you end up in a chaotic oscillation between the two (if anyone acted on the information).

Jim
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Good Grief! I've never thought of predictive woo from the POV of Control Systems Theory!

What if you added True Prediction (as opposed to learning algorithms, neural nets, etc.) to a loop? You'd not only be chasing the current signal, but a future signal!

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Well, I'm just posting what I heard on the news...

I don't know how the supposed idea works.

Tony L
 
Was it the latest Blue Gene (IBM) supercomputer?
 
INRM said:
Anyone know about this. It's some kind of company with I presume a type of computer software and equipment that can allegedly predict virtually anything.
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That's trivial. The point is: can it predict something correctly?

Herzblut
 
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