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| Thread ID: 102961 | 2009-09-07 17:53:00 | Species 404-Not Found | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 807737 | 2009-09-07 17:53:00 | Google Algorithm Predicts When Species Will Go 404, Not Found (www.wired.com) Biologists have figured out the most efficient way to destroy an ecosystem — and it’s based on the Google search algorithm. Scientists have long known that the extinction of key species in a food web can cause collapse of the entire system, but the vast number of interactions between species makes it difficult to guess which animals and plants are the most important. Now, computational biologists have adapted the Google search algorithm, called PageRank, to the problem of predicting ecological collapse, and they’ve created a startlingly accurate model. |
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