“supercomputer predicts revolution”

September 26, 2011

HERE.

The graph showing a dip in tone in articles about Egypt just before the revolution is interesting.

I’m far more skeptical about the boast that the computer “predicted the location of Osama bin Laden to within 200 km.” I think any one of us could have predicted the location of bin Laden to within 200 km, so that’s not much of a test. He was obviously either in eastern Afghanistan or somewhere across the border, and that part of Pakistan just isn’t wide enough for 200 km to be a very hard-edged target.

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