{"id":122,"date":"2004-05-26T10:59:05","date_gmt":"2004-05-26T15:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/?p=122"},"modified":"2007-04-24T15:11:10","modified_gmt":"2007-04-24T20:11:10","slug":"worlds-greatest-predictive-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2004\/05\/26\/worlds-greatest-predictive-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s greatest predictive tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People do some fancy stuff with MATLAB to predict future events &#8211; from what the stock market will do next to determining if a design change will allow an airplane to meet performance specs.  These capabilities are amazing, but sometimes you just need a simple answer, and you need it quick.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s one source I&#8217;ve always turned to when I really need help making a tough decision &#8211; my trusty <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Magic_8-Ball\">Magic 8 Ball &reg;<\/a> !  Thanks to Scott Copeland, I can now access this oracle of wisdom without taking my hands off of the keyboard.  <a title=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/loadFile.do?objectId=1452&amp;objectType=file (link no longer works)\">Magic 8 Ball<\/a> gives you answers, and it gives them to you fast.   Never mind that they might not be right &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&reg; Magic 8 Ball is a registered trademark of Mattel, Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People do some fancy stuff with MATLAB to predict future events &#8211; from what the stock market will do next to determining if a design change will allow an airplane to meet performance specs. &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2004\/05\/26\/worlds-greatest-predictive-tool\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}