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Algorithm predicts next to die on Game of Thrones
By Walbert Castillo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Fan favorite Tyrion Lannister is still here, still glowering. (Photo: Macall B. Polay, HBO)
All men must die. It’s a fact of life and of Game of Thrones.
Figuring out who will die next in the world of the Westeros just got a little bit easier, thanks to a group of computer science students from Technical University of Munich, The Guardian reports.
The students developed an algorithm to predict which character will be killed off next — just in time for the premiere of the 6th season this Sunday.
The program, cleverly named “A Song of Ice and Data,” calculates GOT characters’ chances of dying by taking 24 factors into consideration, such as age and lineage. The character most likely to die next, they say: Spoiler Alert! Click to view...
You can dig deeper into the students’ algorithm here.
Fan favorite Tyrion Lannister is still here, still glowering. (Photo: Macall B. Polay, HBO)
All men must die. It’s a fact of life and of Game of Thrones.
Figuring out who will die next in the world of the Westeros just got a little bit easier, thanks to a group of computer science students from Technical University of Munich, The Guardian reports.
The students developed an algorithm to predict which character will be killed off next — just in time for the premiere of the 6th season this Sunday.
The program, cleverly named “A Song of Ice and Data,” calculates GOT characters’ chances of dying by taking 24 factors into consideration, such as age and lineage. The character most likely to die next, they say: Spoiler Alert! Click to view...
You can dig deeper into the students’ algorithm here.