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- Sell, on 10/12/2007, -4/+39Yet they can't get a date themselves.
- bsoric, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33How delightfully ironic.
- daRoach, on 10/12/2007, -6/+34Are you kidding? Nerd is the new black. Chicks are all about the nerds this season.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27"MIT is so fricking overrated."
Sounds like someone got rejected. - lnxaddct, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26erusan,
You're a troll. No matter what, every science related article you troll out your little "answers in genesis" site or something similar. Nearly every single one of your comments tries to force your thoughts and viewpoints on others (Even when its not related to religion, a.k.a this comment you just made). Stop trying to force your views on the rest of the world, stop trolling, and stop giving out information that is out of context (i.e. the MIT anecdote you just mentioned). Thanks. - AKBryant54, on 10/12/2007, -10/+28in soviet russia, book reads you!
- pushmouse, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18@erusan
It seems like you got your education from the Discovery Channel. - crilen007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Apparently they can get a date 10% of the time.
- phrak, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17There are MIT fanboys now?
What do they scoff at? Berkley? - dongiaconia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Hey cool, looks like I just found a use for the 'block' button on digg. yay.
- Toast1185, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14I think you got modded down because you didn't say anything about using data collection and analysis to determine the outcome of social situations. Instead you turned your comment into a tirade against MIT just because they were the ones that came up with this process.
- ripter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13@erusan
People bury your stupid post so you post it again?
Face the facts, nobody likes you. - RandomSkratch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Great, I just got a date with someone's computer in Chicago.
- SilverRocket, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Can you tell the difference between a sentence and a headline?
- hayseed, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15chicks dig my mirroring skills
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13erusan - have you EVER made a comment that wasn't modded down? Seriously - ever?
You must be an insufferable person to be around in real life. Did you get "accidentally left behind" on a lot of school field trips, as a kid? - dongiaconia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9It's like this: You go to a party, spend a few hours there, and then leave. You chose to be at the party for those hours. Then the next day you find out that right after you got there, all the doors were locked and all the windows bolted; just before you left they all become unlocked again. You chose to be there, but you couldn't have left if you wanted to, but you didn't want to.
That one made my brain hurt when I took Phil in college. - kloud213, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10thats the funniest thing i read. MIT fanboys scoffing at Berkley, thats awesome
- MikeCampo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Hmm seems like that erusan problem has been dealt with.. http://digg.com/users/erusan
- ricecold, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6You didn't get modded down because people were abusing the comment system...they modded you down because you decided to go off on a tirade like an idiot. What you had to say had absolutely nothing to do with the story besides the institution involved. Sounds like you've made quite a few friends here today.
- partyonaisle7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Okay, let's get some facts straight:
MIT is damn near one of the finest technology schools in the country. I guarantee that graduates from MIT are doing some of the most important work in companies all over the U.S., the stuff that keeps us above every other country in the world. Furthermore, the people MIT accepts...well let's just say the people MIT rejects are geniuses. There are also plenty of interesting projects going on at the MIT campus that certainly outrank anything anywhere else.
Not sure if this had to be said, but I figured I'd bring it up since no one else wants to mention the obvious to erusan : ) And the money they have? Comes from their enormous alumni-supported endowment. Getting beat by freshman? For every example of that I'm sure I could find you several where MIT students are at the top of their field.
(full disclosure: I don't go to MIT but I know people who do.) - tablatronix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+660% of the time, it works everytime
- honds, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I usually don't comment but I just have to say:
Nerds can get dates. I go to a nerd (read: engineering) college and any half way decent looking nerd has a good looking girlfriend. As one person said "Nerd is the new black."
I'm a nerd and I have been dating my current girlfriend for over a year and a half. Her last boyfriend was a "Jock" and he lasted a month and a half, go figure.
As far as MIT being over-rated:
My college did community service my freshman year and we cleaned up a park by the Charles River in Boston. We cleaned one side of the walk and MIT freshman cleaned the other side. They looked like they hadn't seen a shovel in their life. But that doesn't mean they all aren't very intelligent people.
As far as a computer reading people: I think it is an original and interesting use of computers. Not the most useful thing I can think of; but very smart thinking went into it, I'm sure.
I may be bias though. I am currently doing a work-study with MIT Lincoln Labs (a MIT owned research think tank). I'm a computer scientist. But hey, I still think they are smart people.
BTW: I forgot where I read it, but Computer Scientist and nerds in general are extremely more likely to NOT get be divorces. And many (if not most) of them get married pretty early in in life. - ZenKai, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6It can, in fact read you like a book, but only if you're oriented straight and printed clearly. The technology's actually quite old... It's called OCR.
- DBCubix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"MIT is so fricking overrated."
Whats the matter? Did MIT researchers reject -you- for a date or something? - chowsapal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5here's an algorithm for a dating site: the only thing that's really important is to check the referring url. if it's coming from slashdot or digg, don't allow them to make an account. 90% success rate guaranteed!
- aslagle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Hey guys! erusan's back! Guess I'll block you too...
- dongiaconia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Doesn't grade school still teach students that nearly all words in titles are capitalized? I believe 'the' 'a' and 'an' are not (unless they begin the title.) I'm sure there are others, but I didn't pay *that* much attention, the paste and construction paper was just too interesting.
- jdmce2002, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Also reminds me of another Asimov story,'Franchise' in which the voting rights of the entire country are transferred to a single individual by Multivac, the all knowing computer, which has refined poling to the point that a single individual can be sampled to accurately measure the sentiments of the entire nation. Written in 1955, this story is a chilling perspective on what life might be like in the distant future, 2008.
- DeathSun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah, it's called title case. It's how you're SUPPOSED to type it (though the "A"s should be lowercase).
- LocalScope, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Thats the first thing I thought of too. The term was psychohistory created by Hari Seldon of the Foundation series.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistory_%28fictional%29 - partyonaisle7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Lots of people have responded with intelligent arguments about how MIT kicks ass. If you're not gonna answer them I'm going to block you and then go get something to eat.
- Yuffie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Computers can read books?
- r00tus3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Finally, we're getting closer to realising that given enough information ANYTHING can be predicted. What does this mean for the illusion of free will?
- aznboi04k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2no. a computer can't even direct my phone call properly when i call their customer service line. i'll stick with hitting "0" until i get an operator.
- ByteGuerilla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2In Soviet Russia, erusan blocks me.
Fortunately though, I live in the U.K., so bye bye nutjob spam-tastic idiot. - JohnboiWaltune, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2^^^ erusan is back! Please ban this clown (again).
- mushoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Great now computers can mock my love life, ok, lack of it.
Hopefully they'll code the program to be nice and offer porn to guys like me. :(
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1 (bottom panel) - felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I'm bored with this erusan guy. He's moved from nutjob to spammer. Remember, folks, enough block/reports means ciao to the user's account...
- Snooper1989, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So now that they can almost sucessfully fore tell what would happen in a situation, how long until they can emulate your response in a certain situation. x.x
- Sukino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's actually a pretty interesting article.
Just think of all charismatic speakers who were and are able to fool millions of people. - JW00000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Seems like erusan got banned from digg, his profile isn't accessible anymore (http://digg.com/users/erusan ).
- moose_diggs, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Ya think they knew this crap would make it to the front page?
- bronstad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1there are some interesting applications for this.
people with autism (or visual impairment) tend to have problems reading social cues, so something like this could act as a social prosthesis
there are undoubtedly surveillance applications as well, but I can't predict what exactly. - funkytaco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'd say with 90% accuracy, that MIT scientist's don't date and aren't social, so how would they know?
I keed, I keed. ;) - dhuck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1getting married early in life isn't such a great thing, but otherwise - i think you're on target. if you think that just because you're a nerd you can't get a girlfriend, or whatever your preference is - then it's you that's the problem, not your nerd traits.
use some of your intelligence to learn proper hygiene, conversation, body language, etc etc. if you can learn to code, you can certainly learn how to make yourself appealing. - 500freestyle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1creepy.
- ZenKai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Step one: Post idiotic tripe that is irrelevant and unwanted.
Step two: Get dugg down.
Step three: Repost above tripe.
Step four: Get dugg down and then banned.
Step five: Create new account. Repeat.
Any chance of an IP ban? - nonchallant0819, on 03/30/2008, -0/+0This is a great story... found this one through http://www.google.com
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http://www.TopNotchCarpentry.com - kazoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I read Blink a story mentioned in this article. In the article it mentions how a scientist called Gottman, is described in Blink by using emotions as a prediction. Blink, the book, was about making subconscious judgements consciously (in the case of Gottman, he knew if a couple would work out after listening to a 5 minute convo).
Gottman analysed couples and then was able to predict the sucess of their marriage with a 5% margain of error (if I remember correctly). Part of what Gottman analysed was the tone, which this article also analyses. I think this article proves a decent point and elaborates on Gottman's research but is not as groundbreaking as it tries to be. -
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