With so many PSP titles that I’d previously missed now available for download, I’ve had the chance to sample quite a few games I had no idea existed. Mercury Meltdown is one I’ve been playing with between other games. Its take on puzzle solving invites a more casual series of visits, sometimes because the real science experiment at work is the game’s ability to test my patience.
But I keep coming back to it, largely owing to the physical attributes at work, which I would call delightfully “wiggy”, and the game does come across as forgiving despite the high expectations a more respectable score than my current one demands.
In the spirit of spreading the experiment, we’ve got some codes to giveaway courtesy of Ignition Entertainment. For your chance to check the game out, simply leave a comment on this post that tells us something science-y by Sunday December 27, 11:59pm EST. Science wasn’t my best subject, so anything will do, it’ll probably be news to me.
We’ll pick 4 winners at random the following morning and offer up download codes to occupy the rest of the holidays.
Naive Bayes classifiers offer a relationship between fragments of evidence E_i, a prior probability for a class P(H), and a posterior probability P(H|E):
For numeric features, a features mean and standard deviation are used in a Gaussian probability function:
Simple naive Bayes classifiers are called “naive” since they assume independence of each feature. Potentially, this is a significant problem for data sets where the static code measures are highly correlated (e.g. the number of symbols in a module increases linearly with the module’s lines of code). However, Domingos and Pazzini have shown theoretically that the independence assumption is a problem in a vanishingly small percent of cases.
Of course, the images were killed. Pretend these equations are in that comment:
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Mercury is used in thermometers, barometers, manometers, sphygmomanometers, float valves, and other scientific apparatus, though concerns about the element’s toxicity have led to mercury thermometers and sphygmomanometers being largely phased out in clinical environments in favor of alcohol-filled, digital, or thermistor-based instruments. It remains in use in a number of other ways in scientific and scientific research applications, and in amalgam material for dental restoration. It is used in lighting; electricity passed through mercury vapor in a phosphor tube produces short-wave ultraviolet light which then causes the phosphor to fluoresce, making visible light.
My email is pac-man_2010@hotmail.com if you want to send me the code !!
I remember MM. It did look intersting and I remember thinking how people should be confused with the other MM. Marble Madness.
Mercury is the smallest and innermost planet in the solar system!
Thanks for entering everyone, codes are in the mail!