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My first thought: "Finally I'm interested in applying at Google, if it involves using my captain's license!" My second thought: "Meh, the job interview probabl
by justanother 13y ago
My first thought: "Finally I'm interested in applying at Google, if it involves using my captain's license!"
My second thought: "Meh, the job interview probably involves writing a breadth-first search algorithm to search for known pirates in the graph of nearby ports."
- Johnie 13y agoNo, you mapreduce the Pirate search. Send out 100 workers to check on the nearby ports and see which ones come back. You need to think at Google scale.
- pilsetnieks 13y agoOr you can be sneaky. Put out some irresistable, yet covert job offers for pirates in the necessary ports, and see where the applications come from.
- yeukhon 13y agoJust send in 100 journalists and 99 of them will come back.
- Johnie 13y agoOr put a "Report a Pirate" bounty and crowdsource it.
- jyz 13y agobut how do you confirm the validity of the reports
- yk 13y agoThere are two types of reports, fraudulent ones and real ones. The fraudulent ones will come from everywhere, while the real reports come only from pirate infested harbors. Therefore just subtract the mean report density and what remains should be random fluctuations around zero plus the real reports. So if a harbor has more than some threshold of reports, then it is pirate invested.
- pilsetnieks 13y agoAt this point in the discussion, you could probably correlate it with the number of the letters "R" in the reports. Because we all know that it's the pirates' favorite letter.
- mctx 13y agoMechanical turrk?
- noir_lord 13y agoI think a depth-first search would be more useful for a floating data center :).