Well, I knew the UT supercomputers were good. After all, we have peered into the origin of life, probed biofuel barriers, helped design drugs and done myriad other things with them. But I didn't know they were capable of predicting revolutions. Apparently so, according to this BBC report on data mining with the UT SGI Altix "Nautilus" machine.
"S'ils n'ont pas d'ordinateur, qu'ils mangent de la brioche!":
Ah ! Fun !!! Asimov's "psychohistory" coming of age.
ReplyDeleteThe painting is actually more likely referring to the "Revolution de Juillet" in 1830 rather than *the* revolution of 1789 (clothing style and the tricolor flag - unknown in 1789), while the "brioche" statement was from Marie Antoinette in 1789.
Anne O'Nymous
Or maybe the 1848 revolution (we had so many)...Not 1789 tho.
ReplyDeleteAnne O'Nymous