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Kaposvár a Wired-benenön

Whenever sports and numbers meet, the Moneyball question inevitably arises: Is it possible to use big data sets to find undervalued players? Alagappan believes it is.

He isolated the 40 players in the “scoring rebounder” section who best epitomized that group. At the top were the stars you might expect: Carmelo Anthony and Amare Stoudemire of the New York Knicks, along with Nowitzki and the Los Angeles Lakers’ Paul Gasol. But lesser-known players like Marreese Speights of the Memphis Grizzlies and the Lakers’ Devin Ebanks produced statistically similar per-minute results. Even better, where Anthony’s salary averages around $18.5 million per year, the Lakers are paying Ebanks about $740,000.

Another inevitable question: Could Ayasdi’s software have predicted the success of Knicks rookie Jeremy Lin? Alagappan concedes Lin’s college stats wouldn’t have suggested or predicted Linsanity, but he did create a similarity network to identify those players most similar to Lin in college. Three names emerged from the 3,400 analyzed: DeMarcus Cousins, who the Sacramento Kings picked fifth overall in the 2010 NBA draft; Alec Burks, picked 12th in 2011 by the Utah Jazz; and Nik Raivio, a University of Portland guard currently playing ball in Kaposvar, Hungary.

The lesson? For teams who buy into this new classification of players, the next Jeremy Lin might be in Hungary, awaiting your call.

Hogy néha egy (nagyon) jó hírt is

Magyarra fordítják az internetes iskolát

Szedlák Ádám|2011. 09. 12., 10:47|Utolsó módosítás: 2011. 09. 12., 11:16|

eszközök:

Önkéntesek fordítják le a Khan Academy internetes oktatóoldal előadásait. A csapat még épp csak elkezdte a munkát, ám a szorzótáblát vagy a helyiértékeket már meg lehet tanulni az oldalról.

Az internet egyik legnagyobb oktatóanyagokat tartalmazó portálja egyszerű családi korrepetálásként kezdte. A kis Nadiát az unokabátyja, a pénzügyi elemzőként dolgozó Salman Khan kezdte matematikára tanítani a Yahoo Doodle internetes jegyzetfüzetének segítségével. A leckékről videókat is készített, amelyeket a YouTube-on osztott meg. A videók óriási népszerűségre tettek szert, az állását a tanításért feladó Khan pedig hamarosan a Colbert Report tévéshow-ban és az NPR amerikai közszolgálati rádióban mesélt az addigra Khan Academy névre keresztelt projektjéről. Eddigre az oldalon már nem csak matematika-, hanem fizika-, biológia- és történelemleckék is voltak.

A Khan Academy még 2009-ben megkapta oktatási kategóriában a Microsoft Tech Awardot, Bill Gates pedig a 2010-es Aspen Ideas fesztiválon bevallotta, hogy maga is használja gyermekeivel az oldalt. A Khan Academy működéséhez szükséges tőkét magánszemélyek adományaiból és a Google kétmillió dolláros támogatásából teremtették elő.

Értelem és érzelem (vagyis gratula)

Final Rankings

Congratulations to this term's winner, Gábor Melis! Whereas the Google AI Challenge has traditionally been dominated by entries written in languages like C++, Gábor has solidly taken the top spot with an innovative algorithm. His entry is one of just 33 submissions written in Lisp, and is entitled bocsimacko. Congratulations Gábor!

A big congratulations also goes out to the runners up, _iouri_ and Slin-.-, as well as all the finalists in the top 100. With over 4600 submissions received, securing a spot in the top 100 was no easy task!

On behalf of Google and the University of Waterloo Computer Science Club, we would like to thank everybody who took part in the Google AI Challenge. This term was the best yet, with more than 4600 working entries submitted by people from 112 different countries. Thank you!

We would also like to thank all the people who generously volunteered their time and mad skills to make the Google AI Challenge happen.

Here are the complete final rankings. These rankings are based on the Elo rating system. Click on any player's name to see their game history. If you crave more interesting statistics and rankings, check out the country rankings and organization rankings. Also check out this cool forum thread for tons of the most interesting game replays!

Score--> Wins--> Losses--> Draws-->
RankUsername Country Organization Language Elo Score
1 bocsimacko Hungary Other Lisp 3765
2 _iouri_ Canada Other C++ 3565
3 Slin-.- Sweden Lund University Java 3524
4 _Astek_ Poland Other C# 3501
5 jimrogerz United States Microsoft C# 3500
6 Accoun Russian Federation Other C++ 3498
7 george United Kingdom Other C++ 3494
8 GreenTea Ukraine Dnipropetrovsk National University Java 3489
9 asavis Ukraine Other Java 3480
10 bix0r4ever Germany Other Java 3476

Na ez egy jó hír magyarokról

Hungarian Designers Debut Stringbike, a Chain-Free Bike

By Mark Brown

Bicycle designers from Hungary have revealed the Stringbike in Padova, Italy, a bike design that drops the common chain in favour of a wire and pulley system.

While it might seem like a complicated answer to a non-existent problem, the Hungarian creators assure that their symmetric system lends itself to an extra level of comfort and efficiency.

Typical bikes, of course, have a chain and gears on just one side of the bike. The Stringbike creators, at bike manufacturing company Schwinn Csepel Zrt, write that “asymmetry has been the source of lots of problems”. However, other than slipping chains and oily jeans, they’re mostly “unnoticeable” problems, until you’ve tried a symmetrical system first hand.

The new design’s mechanics are considerably more complicated than the traditional chain, and is possibly best left to the video (embedded below) to explain. In the most basic terms, the movement of the pedal forces a swinging arm to move about its shaft, pulling a taught cable around a pulley system. With each push, the task is swapped from the left side to the right.

The Stringbike offers up a few extra advantages over its chain-driven predecessor. The pedal system can be replaced with different discs for separate purposes, for example. Racing and touring could use different shaped and sized parts, to alter performance and function. Plus, the rear wheel can be removed in seconds, for portability.

You’ll also have no grease or oil to deal with, but it doesn’t look like you’ll be able to fix this quite as easily as replacing a knackered chain. The official website mentions that while you will be able to take it an appropriate service location, you can repair a Stringbike at home. Although, that would presumably be the least of your worries if a fast-moving, taught, metal wire lashed off its piston next to your leg. Ouch.

He shot the server, but he did not shot the database

Drunken mortgage worker shoots computer server

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Prosecutors say a drunken Utah mortgage company employee opened fire on the firm's computer server, then called police and told officers someone stole his .45-caliber weapon and shot the server.

Joshua Lee Campbell has been charged with felony criminal mischief and three misdemeanors: carrying a weapon while under the influence, lying to police and public intoxication.

Investigators said Tuesday that the 23-year-old Salt Lake City man called police on Aug. 12 and claimed a man stole his gun and fired into the $100,000 computer server owned by RANLife Home Loans.

But investigators say they determined Campbell returned to the office late at night after drinking at an evening concert and he shot the server. Police say Campbell told them he was mugged, assaulted and drugged by a mystery man.

Az ÉV híre PONT

Néhány epizód erejéig júliusban újra feltűnik a Barátok köztben Fodor Zsóka – erősítette meg a hírt a sorozat szóvivője, Böjte Piros, aki hozzátette, a karaktert szellemként írták vissza. A csatornahű Fodor Zsóka örömmel vállalta a felkérést, és bármikor eleget tesz egy újabbnak, de mint mondta, napi szintű munkával már nem terhelné le magát, ugyanis az elmúlt évtizedek kötöttségei után végre maga oszthatja be az idejét.

A Bors feldobta a hírt [1], hogy Magdi anyus visszatér a Barátok köztbe, mi meg lecsapjuk, mert tényleg. Böjte Piros, a sorozat szóvivője a Velvetnek elmondta, a pletykás takarítónő karaktere néhány epizód erejéig júliusban ismét látható lesz a Barátok köztben. Miután azonban Magdi anyus karaktere elhalálozott [2], igen korlátozottak a forgatókönyvírók lehetőségei, ezért biztosra vehető, hogy szellemként látjuk viszont.

Zooey Deschanel to play the first computer programmer

Zooey Deschanel to play the first computer programmer

by Jeffrey VC on April 19, 2010 · View Comments

zooey deschanel up for new role

Zooey Deschanel is known for her offbeat roles. Not one to disappoint, she is in talks to play Ada Lovelace in Enchantress of Numbers, according to Production Weekly’s Twitter feed. The film is about a young lady who created the first computer algorithms about a hundred years before computers ever existed. Ada Lovelace married a mathematician and wrote notes on his analytical engine. From what I gather, she foresaw the computer revolution long before it actually happened.

Wrost typoch

Penguin cookbook calls for 'freshly ground black people'

Publisher destroys 7,000 copies of The Pasta Bible after 'silly mistake' causes outrage

Walnut tagliatelle

Disclaimer ... this plate of tagliatelle contains no 'freshly ground black people'. Photograph: Martin Argles

A recipe for tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto has proved a little too spicy for Penguin Australia, after a misprint suggesting that the dish required "salt and freshly ground black people" has left the publisher reaching for the pulping machine, rather than the pepper grinder.

It's a one-word slip that only came to light after a member of the public got in touch, and which has sent all 7,000 copies of The Pasta Bible at Penguin's warehouse to be destroyed, an exercise which head of publishing, Robert Sessions, told the Sydney Morning Herald would cost $ 20,000.

There are, as yet, no plans to recall copies that have made it into stores, which according to Sessions would be "extremely hard". He was "mortified that this has become an issue of any kind", adding that "why anyone would be offended, we don't know".

Sessions defended proofreaders for letting through a misprint that he suggested came from a spell-check program, explaining that since almost every recipe in the book calls for black pepper at a on each page it was an error he considered "quite forgivable". He went on to attack those who might complain about what he called a "silly mistake" as "small minded".

Meanwhile, the clean-up operation continues, with the publisher releasing a rather more emollient statement on its website offering sincere apologies "for any offence this error may have caused readers", and suggesting that proofreaders "would have been concentrating on checking quantities, a common source of error in cookbooks". Penguin also offered to "willingly replace a copy of The Pasta Bible owned by anyone who feels uncomfortable about having a copy of the book in their possession".

Speaking to the Guardian this afternoon, Sessions was unwilling to add to his earlier remarks, explaining that he had "nothing further to say", and referring to the Penguin website.

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