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Google great at guessing Nobel winners
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INQ staff not mentioned
Fri Jan 23 2009, 13:11
THE BEST WAY TO FIND OUT if someone is going to get a Nobel Prize is by using the same algorithm used by the search outfit Google.
Two US boffins Sergei Maslov and Sidney Redner used the Pagerank algorithm on a list of the most important publications in physics.
On the basis of 353 million articles published in Physical Review Letters from 1853 to 2003, they found that the top ten of the most cited articles were written by Nobel prize winners.
The one exception was Nicola Cabibbo. His studies were the basis of the research that led the Nobel Prize for Physics to Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa. µ
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Pity they've maked precious quantum difference to poor poor Schrödinger's Cat! I believe her name is Precious.
So we can now predict, with great certainty, the outcome of the 1981 Nobel Prizes. If anyone needs me I'll be down at the tote.
According to Google Translate 353mila is 353 thousand and not 353 million. That makes much more sense. Five articles a day is much more believable than 5000 per day.
This is a typo right?