Press release - Oulu, Finland, 1st of April, 2010. Ten years ago it was only seconds at best that were predicted by simple dead reckoning algorithms. Neural networks, fuzzy logic and Moore's law have taken care that the prediction can be extended to periods of over 24 hours.
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1st of April, 2010 - Oulu, Finland. Today Intel
revealed a next generation prediction algorithms that take
advantage of many exciting technologies. With the aid of neural
networks, fuzzy logic, and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) it
is now possible to overcome the magical 24 hour limit in prediction
techniques.
The prediction techniques are commonly used in networked
multi-user virtual worlds, where connection from client to server
to another client can take several seconds in bad cases. The client
in the other end may need to predict what the other client is doing
and show the result of this prediction to the user. A simple
technique to achieve this is called "dead reckoning", where speed
and direction of the movement of a remote party is kept steady.
(More info can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_reckoning)
"The old technologies were bad in guessing more than a few
seconds worth of future", says Mr. Lapper from Intel Labs, "The
quantum leap now allows more than 24 hours of prediction, and the
extensive studies show that more than 95% of the outcome is valid
at the end-point."
The code is open source can be downloaded at http://rexxed.com.
The process of prediction is very computationally intensive and
requires 72 hours of time from a bunch of high end quad core
workstations. The parallel universes included in the computation
are increased towards the end exponentially and the algorithms
benefit from using a lot of computers simultaneously.
This technology has enormous real life earning potential. Think
about how people can start to predict lottery results, stock
prices, and tomorrow's news and use the information to accumulate
personal wealth - to just name a few interesting applications.
Maxping says...
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effort of making the calculation time shorter than 72 hours. Please
donate 5$ to me (here's my donate button) and when we get a big
enough botnet to run the calculations, we will donate part of the
generated income back to you. The need is about 2000$, and the
payback is going to be more than 1000 times that. We guarantee to
pay back 5000$ for every 5$ donation made to us. The deadline for
the payback will be at the 1st of April, 2011.
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