This week, in honour of Israeli Independence Day, the Israeli news site called Haaretz posted a list of 66 Israeli women of note. For our assigned blog this week, we are supposed to write about one of them. I picked a lady named Dr. Kira Radinsky, who is a researcher at Technion Institute of Technology. What's special about her that caught my eye is that she has developed a (surprisingly plausible) algorithm to predict future global catastrophes. This caught my eye, because I love anything that has to do with the future and/or past... Basically anything that's not now. Not only that, but upon reading about her, I immediately thought of a certain algorithm in a certain book by a certain author (John Green), which is seen below.
This is the algorithm that the character Colin in the book An Abundance of Katherines developed to accurately predict how a relationship (theoretically any relationship at all) would go.
Of course, the only thing the two algorithms have in common, is that they are meant to predict the future. The one by Dr. Radinsky is of course much more important that the one by Colin. In fact, her discovery could be invaluable, assuming that it works 100% of the time. So far, apparently it has been successful a few times. I'm all in favour of her continuing her work in this, as it could very well save lives.
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