lon3st4r – wastedmonkeys http://wastedmonkeys.com Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:22:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.2 Predicting Flu, The Google Way http://wastedmonkeys.com/predicting-flu-the-google-way/ Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:22:50 +0000 http://wastedmonkeys.wordpress.com/?p=564 Google.org has apparently, figured out a way to predict the flu, upto two weeks faster than the CDC. The prediction is based on observing trends across geographies for search terms like “flu”.

Read the article: Google Flu Trends

]]> Monkey Business http://wastedmonkeys.com/monkey-business/ Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:33:46 +0000 http://wastedmonkeys.com/2007/01/21/monkey-business/ Adam Smith, the founder of classical economics, was certain that humankind’s knack for monetary exchange belonged to humankind alone. “Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog,” he wrote. “Nobody ever saw one animal by its gestures and natural cries signify to another, this is mine, that yours; I am willing to give this for that.” But in a clean and spacious laboratory at Yale-New Haven Hospital, seven capuchin monkeys have been taught to use money, and a comparison of capuchin behavior and human behavior will either surprise you very much or not at all, depending on your view of humans. From NY Times.

Monkey Business

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