The Algorithm That Catches Serial Killers
November 28, 2017
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as posted by the channelThere are an estimated 2,000 serial killers living at large in the U.S. Now, a computer can help find them. Meet Thomas Hargrove, a retired news reporter who created an algorithm to spot serial killers in massive amounts of data. Read more on The Atlantic
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