Sentences with phrase «predictions about future events»

John Nielsen - Gammon: «science doesn't work by making predictions about future events, for the most part; it makes predictions about observable aspects of the world, things detectable in the present.

But there are also similarities in that both the climate and returns on financial assets are complex, chaotic systems about which making predictions about future events are fiendishly difficult.

Ever after, Darbyism served as a powerful antidote to infidelity, for it seemed to show that the Bible's predictions about future events invariably proved true.

Here is what I did take away from the book, which I think is a valuable insight: The Book of Revelation is not just a prediction about future events which will happen during the Tribulation and Millennium, and therefore, has little - to - no impact on our lives today.

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Readers are cautioned that these forward - looking statements are only predictions and may differ materially from actual future events or results due a variety of factors, including, among other things, that conditions to the closing of the transaction may not be satisfied, the potential impact on the business of Accompany due to the uncertainty about the acquisition, the retention of employees of Accompany and the ability of Cisco to successfully integrate Accompany and to achieve expected benefits, business and economic conditions and growth trends in the networking industry, customer markets and various geographic regions, global economic conditions and uncertainties in the geopolitical environment and other risk factors set forth in Cisco's most recent reports on Form 10 - K and Form 10 - Q.

Oppenheimer and his co-authors use a technique known as «structured expert judgment» to put an actual value on the uncertainty that scientists studying climate change have about a particular model's prediction of future events such as sea - level rise.

As such, executive function is integral to our conscious experience of the world as prior knowledge is integrated into the current «state of play» to make predictions about likely future events.

Another approach is to create contests where entries attempt to make predictions about fixed future events, and the model with the best collection of predictions (by whatever metric is used by the contest) wins a considerable prize.

I prefer the view that events such as the Trump lunacy, the 2017 UK Parliamentary Election and Brexit should teach us about the foolishness of making predictions about the future; more than likely we will be wrong.

Our blockchain - based prediction market proves how a prediction market can work with an oracle marketplace to not only bring real - world data onto the blockchain but to allow developers and speculators to arrive at a consensus about future events, as well.»

Due to all the focus on male blockchain stars, at public events it's common to see Buterin deflecting pleas for messianic predictions about the future as he struggles to speak with peers who are actually working on open source projects.

Wikipedia says «Predictive analytics encompasses a variety of statistical techniques from modeling, machine learning, and data mining that analyze current and historical facts to make predictions about future, or otherwise unknown, events».

Gottman has been criticized for describing this work as accurately predicting divorce, when generally this work involves simply fitting statistical models to a data set, not making predictions about events in the future.