no it's not flying
The Sea Shepherd folks have just announced a new boat to combat the scientific whaling ships in the Antarctic. The boat can speed up to 50 knots, and it is going to be used to disrupt Japan’s whaling ships by intervening the harpooning process. The design of the ship would make [...]
As promised in a prior post, I’ve finished the data entry for the Kuchikomi (クチコミ総選挙) election predictions. The Kuchikomi election prediction algorithm was created by hottolink (ホットリンク) and it is based on internet chatter (口コミ). The algorithm parses through information on the internet from mass media to blogs on individual politicians and parties to produce a prediction percentage based on historical data. You can I guess think it as a souped up Google [...]
Here is a comparison of election predictions by various outlets of this past election. The top part of the table only shows prediction results for only the single district seats and the bottom part of the table includes the proportional representation [...]
Couple days ago, soon-to-be Japanese Prime Minister Hatoyama Yukio announced an aggressive stance on combating climate change. He is vying to cut CO2 emissions by 25% by 2020 respect to 1990 levels. [...]
