Sparta posted:

guys only a week left to fund this guys sorta idea for making a website of tabels

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1630905008/statpediacom?ref=category

he jus tneeds a third of a million dolles

Ian McLean posted:

Are you really that Mark from your profile picture?

mods namechange posted:

is this some kind of avant-garde trolling

Dr. Honked posted:

they should get youtube star boxxy to narrate their video

ZYNGA STOCK CRASHER posted:

Ian do you have any formal cs training?

Jonny 290 posted:

Ian McLean posted:

and then we optimize this thing: http://code.google.com/edu/parallel/mapreduce-tutorial.html eventually optimized it into this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover's_algorithm for most optimal database and search performance. Thinking in terms of endless possibilities, I suppose even that last search algorithm can be improved. That is if we can answer this question... http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=296126

Here is this guys answer: rrtucci

Posts: 6
I'll give you an analogy that might help you. Suppose you know a series that converges to a constant pi whose value you don't know a priori. Think of the Grover oracle as a subroutine that gives you only partial information about the series each time you call the subroutine. Your goal is to find the limit of the series. Grover's algorithm helps you to calculate that limit by calling the oracle fewer times than you would have to, classically.

By the way, here is a Matlab program ( http://qbnets.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/my-secret-life-as-a-captain-of-the-grovers-algorithm/ ) that I wrote of a more general version of Grover's algorithm(GA). This new version is more general in two important ways:

(1)It does not require that <s|t> be of small, where |s> is the starting state and |t> is the target state. (The original GA only works if <s|t> ~1/sqrt(N) )
(2)It converges with absolute certainty to the target state (The original GA converges only with a finite probability.)

mods namechange posted:

openpandora

Ric posted:

Hi Ian,

This is a great idea. There are many business uses for Statpedia and it will be a huge success.

I think you would definitely reach your original $300k funding target if you made a funding video featuring Angus 'Statto' Loughran.



Statto is the UK's foremost expert on statistics, and would add instant credibility to the project. Investors would come flocking.

Hiring Statto would add a small amount to your initial expenditure, but, as a businessman, I am sure you are familiar with the need to 'speculate to accumulate'.

N.B. he may look a little older now.

Ian McLean posted:

Update: http://statpedia.com/staging/week-1...rter%20Projects

Using Statpedia's high powered predictive analysis algorithms, the system was able to determine the output for October.

Ian McLean posted:

unixbeard said he would give me 10k if I shut up

Ian McLean posted:

Hey JawnV6 can I pm you to get further information about how to implement this thing.

maniacdevnull posted:

shrek im watch

ten dollar bitcoin posted:

I bet if one of us put in $19,000 it still wouldn't make it

0xB16B00B5 posted:

A 3 week retrospective on you stupid motherfuckers

Milkie Galore posted:

RIP Ian

Ian McLean posted:

P.S. That kickstarter photo was taken while studying at King's College at Cambridge during my Undergrad.

Ian McLean posted:

I was there in 2008.

tef posted:

oxford is poo poo

flyboi posted:

i was on a trip for work for a day like hell i'm going to bring along two pairs of nice clothes


besides i don't splurge on jeans because i switch between 2 pair and wear them out far too fast to justify the cost

Large Hardon Collider posted:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/592285363/elements-custom-playing-cards-by-jackson-dolan

Please give me money, but first, some compelling reasons why I shouldn't be designing anything:

Radio Paranoia posted:

i thought you weren't allowed to do porn on kickstarter

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/exiram/were-creature-transformation-videos