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		<title>My Prediction About Psychic Octopus Paul</title>
		<link>http://mariusbancila.ro/blog/2010/07/07/my-prediction-about-psychic-octopus-paul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marius Bancila</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a football fan you must have heard about the octopus called Paul that has predicted the outcome of all Germany&#8217;s matches at the World Cup 2010. She lives in the Sea Life Aquarium in the western city of Oberhausen. Before each match she was given two jars with a mussel and a national [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you&#8217;re a football fan you must have heard about the octopus called Paul that has predicted the outcome of all Germany&#8217;s matches at the World Cup 2010. She lives in the Sea Life Aquarium in the western city of Oberhausen. Before each match she was given two jars with a mussel and a national flag inside. And every time she picked the mussel from the jar with the flag of the correct winner. Yesterday she <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/europe/10521867.stm">picked Spain over Germany</a>.</p>
<p>Now, I want to make a prediction about her current and next predictions: she got the result of tonight&#8217;s match wrong, Germany will win. And then, she&#8217;ll have to chose between Netherlands and Germany and will pick the Netherlands. Now, the prediction is not that much about who wins (it doesn&#8217;t matter actually who wins), <em>it&#8217;s about how Paul makes the picks</em>.</p>
<p>How did I do this prediction? Well, I see patterns. <img src='http://mariusbancila.ro/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' />  And here is Paul&#8217;s prediction pattern. She is giving two jars, arranged by the teams order:<br />
<strong>Germany</strong> &#8211; Australia<br />
Germany &#8211; <strong>Serbia</strong><br />
Ghana &#8211; <strong>Germany</strong><br />
<strong>Germany</strong> &#8211; England<br />
Argentina &#8211; <strong>Germany</strong><br />
Germany &#8211; <strong>Spain</strong></p>
<p>She&#8217;s picking left, right, right, left, right, right. The next match will be between Netherlands and Germany and she will pick left, thus Netherlands.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s see how good I am with predictions.</p>
<p>UPDATE: OK, psychic Paul was right once again. <img src='http://mariusbancila.ro/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' />  But I still predict that it will pick left, thus, Uruguay for Germany&#8217;s next match.</p>
<p>SECOND UPDATE: so Paul has picked Germany over Uruguay, and Spain over Netherlands. That completely ruins my prediction. <img src='http://mariusbancila.ro/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Operating System &amp; Web Browser Statistics</title>
		<link>http://mariusbancila.ro/blog/2007/09/10/operating-system-web-browser-statistics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marius Bancila</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The w3counter.com site published several statistics based on 33 milion unique visits to 5664 sites. The statistics refer to the operating system, web browser, country and screen resolution of the visitor. The king of kings of operating systems is Windows XP with 83,48%, followed by Windows 2000, Max OS X and Windows Vista. Linux and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The w3counter.com site published several statistics based on 33 milion unique visits to 5664 sites. The statistics refer to the operating system, web browser, country and screen resolution of the visitor. The king of kings of operating systems is Windows XP with 83,48%, followed by Windows 2000, Max OS X and Windows Vista. Linux and Windows 98 have both 1.34% percent. In terms of web broswers, the leader is IE 6 with 47.01%, followed IE7 with 19.19% and Firefox 2.0 with 17.51%.</p>
<p>You can see the whole charts here: <a href="http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php">http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php</a>.</p>
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