After scientists repeatedly failed to piece together the structure of a protein-cutting enzyme from an AIDS-like virus, they challenged the gamers to produce an accurate model of the enzyme which they did in three weeks.
"Because the honey bee brain is smaller and more accessible than any vertebrate brain, we hope to eventually be able to produce an accurate and complete model that we can test within a flying robot, " said Dr Marshall.
She has found that her model is accurate in predicting cancer progression in 350 patients, including 30 still undergoing treatment.
By using a discovery platform they were able to use a combination of SQL, text, statistics, and time-series analysis to get a more accurate customer churn prediction model.
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In 2011, Foldit players needed only 10 days to produce an accurate 3-D model of the Mason-Pfizer monkey virus, a protease whose structure had stumped scientists for 15 years.
Enter the OrcaM, an Orbital Camera System capable of producing an accurate, digital 3D model of objects up to 80cm (about 31.5 inches) wide and weighing up to 100kg (around 220lbs).
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It turns out that the Soccernomics model was the most accurate for the tournament.
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"A model is only as accurate as the assumptions that go into it, " said Scott Bosse, a fisheries biologist at Idaho Rivers United.
Studio executives could, she says, also make more accurate predictions by exploiting inside knowledge and tuning her model using industry rules of thumb.
But a model of a system (even an extremely accurate one) is not the system itself.
Scientist Rosh Ranasinghe, associate professor at UNESCO-IHE and TU Delft, has now succeeded in developing a new model that is able to produce much more accurate projections.
This change to the win probability model made our Champions League projections a little more accurate.
Or, to be more accurate: the market shifted to a click-based engagement model to a fan-based engagement model.
The most important learning has been the need to build a rigid financial structure and business model where the dash board is always 100 percent updated and accurate and that the out come can never be better than the quality of our MFI partners.
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Problem is, if every bank is pricing its own holdings to a model, there is no way of knowing whether the marks are accurate until everyone lays all the cards on the table.
The scientists involved in the project say the results coming from the spectrometer -- which are much more accurate than in past experiments -- are consistent with a fairly basic dark matter model, Flack said.
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For all the glitz, glamour and hype surrounding Beckham and his even more famous (if the market research is accurate) wife Victoria Adams, aka Posh Spice, the Galaxy are getting a model pro, not a prima donna past his prime.
Yahoo tested its model against the results of the last 10 presidential elections and found that it was accurate 88% of the time, with a 3% margin of error.
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Where appropriate, the observations from this model are compared to the likelihood of outcomes held by bookmakers as it is assumed they have relatively accurate models to ensure they stay profitable and odds are publicly available.
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