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Beat me to the k5 connection. But Mindpixel consistently demonstrated an inability to translate his claims into anything remotely resembling reasonable thought.
by boredguy8 19y ago
Beat me to the k5 connection. But Mindpixel consistently demonstrated an inability to translate his claims into anything remotely resembling reasonable thought. There's a now-lost-forever post in which he claims to have predicted a terrorist attack. http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2006/8/21/121745/650?pid=128#135 http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2006/8/21/121745/650?pid=12... certainly sums up the silliness.
- Alex3917 19y agoI think the general consensus was that he was a really intelligent and creative guy, but he lacked the discipline to sit down and spend 20 years proving his theories. I remember the post you are talking about though. Supposedly he used a Bayesian filter on real time Google searches to predict two gas station bombings in Baghdad. It's a shame that story didn't get front paged, it was kind of interesting even if it was made up. It's really weird though going back and reading my conversations with him on K5. I'm sure a lot of people here probably knew him though; it would be almost impossible not to have had a conversation with him if you were a regular social news user circa 2000. The guy posted constantly on Slashdot, K5, Joel on Software, Usenet, etc.
- boredguy8 19y agoThat's not at all accurate. He was looking at queries that hit GAC and /post facto/ saw a correlation. Not exactly brilliance, imho.
- Alex3917 19y agoIf true, this Slashdot comment is also telling: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=424396&cid=22117930 http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=424396&cid=22117930
- llimllib 19y agoHere he is writing the story of stealing the shotgun at the sports store: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/4/21/23239/2881 http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/4/21/23239/2881 , I remember this story vividly. EDIT: oh, they link to that later.