Weekly Episode Blog

Charlie works to find an extremely rare comic book that was stolen during a deadly robbery at a comic book convention.

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In this episode, a high-profile heiress is kidnapped by a group intent on attacking her father. Don and the team try to save her before its too late.

The math….
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Charlie talks in this episode about modeling species in an ecosystem. “Think of a pond. A pond is a healthy ecosystem where predator and prey are in balance. However, if an outside predator is introduced then the ecosystem changes. An evolutionary algorithm highlights abnormal alterations…and locates the source of a problem.” The FBI is responding to an apparent murder of someone playing a Massively Multi-player Online Role Playing Game. Charlie likens the behavior of game players to animals in the ecosystem. “We could develop an evolutionary algorithm that searches the games history for abnormally aggressive activity.” Amita adds “That’s true. People aggress in video games in similar ways.”
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In this episode, Charlie continues to anxiously await the release of his new book as well as his first book signing. Of the many thoughts that occupy his mind are concerns over how to sign his name and how long it will take to sign his name. Should he use an initial for “Charles,” or should he use “Charlie”? Will writing his full name take too long? In his own words “I could use an adaptive algorithm adjusting the variable of time per person. Three hours, less than 1,000, but greater than…I better bring a stopwatch.” It sounds like Charlie is obsessing over this point just a bit too much.
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