Now there was a bold prediction, something like saying that France Telecom would someday catch up with.
The product itself will be further developed as well, with the next focus on test score prediction — something in which half a dozen test prep companies in India and China talking with Kidaptive are now interested.
It becomes easier to ask if it's really in our best interest to trust predictions regarding something that's inherently unpredictable.
Most informed predictions go something like this: if the several thousand Ethiopian troops withdraw by January, as they recently said they would, the 3,000 or so African Union peacekeepers in Somalia could soon follow, leaving Somalia wide open to the Islamist insurgents who have been massing on the outskirts of Mogadishu, the capital.
In the case of identifying a particular object, an image recognition neural network would break down and look at different features such as the shape, color and surface of the object, and, through trial and error, and subsequent back-propagation to tweak the algorithms, eventually narrow down its predictions to something accurate.
Moreover, turning these suspicions into testable hypotheses, and evaluating our theoretical predictions, is something that can only be achieved with a molecular approach.
The first thing to do is to clearly state the goal of the modeling: is the aim to organize data emerging from high-throughput experiments, to test a particular hypothesis, to uncover the basic mechanisms driving some phenomenon, to evaluate the feasibility of an intuitive argument, to make specific predictions, or something else?
While most other details at launch proved to be flawed, maybe this prediction was something that Murdoch got right.
Inglewood finished with a dark prediction: "Unless something radical and imaginative is done... Squirrel Nutkin and his friends and relations are going to be toast".
"I'll make a prediction about something — I think the phone-hacking thing Murdoch is involved in... is going to be investigated, and it will be found that it's been going on here too," said the documentary film-maker.
