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- avataros, on 04/05/2009, -1/+38And it shall be known as "Schrodinger's Search" You feel lucky and unlucky at the same time. Until you hit that button.
- sodoh, on 04/05/2009, -1/+11Quantum porn. o_O
Changes when you observe it. - digjam, on 04/05/2009, -0/+8I will pretend I understood what they were saying and say..." That was a brilliant article!'
- diggerman32, on 04/05/2009, -0/+7"Physics joke... Don't hear enough of those."
- adamwho, on 04/05/2009, -0/+7There is nothing intrinsically quantum mechanical about the algorithm described...
The title of the article is just hype to get press.
BTW, there is no such thing as quantum mathematics. - sirmasterboy, on 04/05/2009, -0/+6What can't quantum mechanics improve?
- dsmx, on 04/05/2009, -1/+7The chances of the digg community scoring.
- bigpun, on 04/05/2009, -0/+4Any half decent SEO company already knows that the important keywords should appear frequently and higher in the page. I thought this was an element of the page content structure that Google already takes into account?
- flaminglips, on 04/05/2009, -0/+3for those who didn't bother reading the article and are asking what's the difference, here's the money quote:
"The new method gauges the importance of words in a document based on where they appear, rather than simply on how often they occur." - NathanielJ, on 04/05/2009, -0/+3How does this have anything to do with the selection algorithm? The selection algorithm tells you how frequently a word/number appears in a list/document, while what is being done here is rather compare not just frequencies but location within the document as well.
It's hardly groundbreaking, sure, but I don't see how it's similar at all to the selection algorithm. - mrmontrose, on 04/05/2009, -1/+4 I am a Physicist and I loath articles like this.
- cambob76, on 04/05/2009, -0/+3MATHEMATICAL < mathematical
- dsmx, on 04/05/2009, -2/+5Or would it? How would you know it wasn't changing when your not observing it?
- mrfizzle, on 04/05/2009, -0/+2Wait, so they didn't use math before to pick the best matches?
- scuba7183, on 04/05/2009, -0/+1luck + (-1)(luck) = 0
- NathanielJ, on 04/05/2009, -1/+2So basically they use the eigenvalues of matrices to determine how good a particular search result is, like Google has been doing for almost 10 years now?
- dsmx, on 04/05/2009, -1/+2Surely it's not a feeling though you would be both lucky and unlucky at the same time?
- armakaryk, on 04/05/2009, -1/+2i'm stating to think that quantum mechanics is the new nuclear power. remember in the 50s when they were talking about everything being improved by nuclear power, cars, airplanes, ships, even the household refrigerator. basically the future is gonna be alot less awesome than we think.
- TSK05, on 04/05/2009, -1/+2mathematics or mechanics? Or both..
- elwoodblues, on 04/07/2009, -0/+1I've just read the source paper "Level statistics of words: Finding keywords in literary texts..." and the maths made my head swim.
Could someone translate the maths into pseudocode for those of us not having PhDs? - DirtyVicar, on 04/05/2009, -0/+1I just had a quantum pizza. I'm gonna go get some quantum water.
Hey, this "quantum" word really spices up everything, not just articles! - DaNuKaSAN, on 04/05/2009, -0/+1Pure and Applied Math majors rule the world...if they have enough imagination anyways...
- lear, on 04/06/2009, -1/+1sweet! do it up.
- kaosethema, on 04/06/2009, -1/+1umm, yeah... *scratches head*
dugg? - Verugan, on 04/09/2009, -0/+0Yeah like I want to be transferred into someone else's body everytime I search the Internet...
- Fossilmaitress, on 04/23/2009, -0/+0It is more string theory, which isn't my thing, but nicely done
- LisbethJ, on 04/05/2009, -1/+1geek humor love it :)
- jeferykusnadi, on 04/06/2009, -1/+0This article looks promising..
F.Y.I. there ain't such thing as quantum mathematics. The title is wrong I agree with adamwho - thephysicist, on 04/05/2009, -1/+0quantum mechcanics FTW
- inactive, on 04/05/2009, -6/+4We would not need quantum mathematics in the first place if smoking marijuana was legal.
- poprocksandsoda, on 04/05/2009, -4/+2Don't see much difference in this than a selection algorithm which has been around for decades.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_algorithm
Or any number of linear equations used to normalize datasets:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_equation
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