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I would not stone them, they tried, it doesn't work well, they can fix it or scrap it. At least they tried to use their technology for something positive this t

I would not stone them, they tried, it doesn't work well, they can fix it or scrap it. At least they tried to use their technology for something positive this time. It's one thousand times better to fail when trying to predict the flu epidemics than successfully using technology to bomb weddings.

rm999 13y ago
>It's one thousand times better to fail when trying to predict the flu epidemics than successfully using technology to bomb weddings. That's a pointless and irrelevant comparison. There's a cost to false positives, e.g. creating more vaccinations than necessary; fortunately I don't think the CDC or any other government organizations made any policy decisions based on Google Flu. As a person who works with a lot of data, I think applications like Google Flu have a lot of potential to do a lot of good. But it sounds like Google wasn't properly rigorous in their experiments if Google Flu is such a failure.