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jrtom ([personal profile] jrtom) wrote2007-06-13 08:25 am

predicting the outcome of a war

http://science.slashdot.org/science/07/06/12/2213233.shtml

I haven't read the paper yet...but I suspect that this is one of those cases in which the process of building a model obscures the fact that the inputs and objective functions are not well-defined.

Nevertheless I plan on checking this out at some point.

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