I don’t know if this was posted but is very interesting :8:
Once a upon a time…
Man was very inquisitive and very interested about predicting the weather. It was a very important issue in getting it right (mostly for agricultural reasons). Man used omens and divination to predict weather. Later on they found a more accurate way of predicting the season with the formations of the stars.
Fast forward to the year 2010 and man have come very far and developed new ways and technologies in predicting the weather. Even with our current technology, with the super computers we have, predicting the weather still isn’t 100% accurate. Hence, the saying; “Since when was the weatherman correct about the weather!”
Rewind a little, with the introduction of the computer. Man celebrated on how this technology would help in predicting the weather. The computer can calculate tedious data in hours instead of days. Man saw a great potential and went straight to work, developing the computer to help him in predicting the weather.
As with any endeavor, it was faced with setbacks and failures. You see, Man found out that the computer wasn’t as consistent as he hoped it would be. The results were slightly better, but nowhere close enough to acclaim that there was a consistent measurable result… or reliability.
So, they invited the great minds, experts in the field and anyone else who wanted stand up to the challenge. They invited people to write a code for the computer to predict the weather (of course the winner would receive a prize).
There were thousands of code that were written and developed for the computer, but it did not produced the significant results. There were codes that took into account hundreds of variables, some codes took advantage of major variables, the codes ranges from the simple code to the very complex code that seems out of this world. But the results… the results were below the median, meaning that the odds were the same as tossing a coin (heads or tails) in predicting the weather.
But there was one code which was the winner… It produced a more consistent result and it out-classed all the other codes in performance. The result of the code produced way above the median, giving good reliability, but… it wasn’t 100% correct. It was more of like 60%-70% correct, while the rest of the codes were producing only 10%-35%.
To the everyone’s surprise it wasn’t a complex code… It was a simple code, nothing more… Actually, the code contained only 1 line of coding:
[B]Code:
“Tomorrow’s weather is similar from Today’s weather.” [/B]
[B] If yesterday was a buy, then today is a buy.
If yesterday was a sell then today is a sell. [/B]