After developing the computational algorithms that predicted the historical order in which the senses of a word have emerged, the team tested
these predictions against records of English over the past millennium using the Historical Thesaurus of English, a large database in which each of a word's many senses is marked for its date of emergence into the language.
Not exact matches
October 17 —
Predictions that Tottenham Hotspur would break the Premier League's 10 - year attendance
record in their clash
against Bournemouth fell 2,600 fans short with Spurs only filling 81.67 % of Wembley Stadium (73,502 was the official attendance figure) for their clash with Burnley.
Predictions: Juventus has started the season with 100 %
record at home in the opening 5 league games but they have been underwhelming
against the bigger sides and Napoli will be aware of that.
In comparing their computational
predictions against the actual historical
record provided by the Metaphor Map of English, researchers found that their models correctly forecast about 75 percent of
recorded metaphorical language mappings over the past millennium.
In order to understand how El Niño responds to various climate forces, researchers test model
predictions of past El Niño changes
against actual
records of past ENSO activity.
Similarly, it can be useful to benchmark climate models
against the observed
record to establish some sort of reasonable initial state for future
predictions.
DeBuys finds that things will be fine for the 3.5 million people who currently depend on this water for daily use as long as (1)
predictions of climate change models prove groundless, (2) the kind of droughts documented by tree rings and other
records of past climate disruptions don't occur, and (3) the cities of central Arizona don't grow so much that they consume their agricultural buffer, their main protection
against uncertain years ahead.
Once people see the
record of the past as an estimate or more precisely as a
PREDICTION of what should have been recorded, then the next step is clear: create your estimates (predictions) with a reduced dataset, and then test your prediction against held
PREDICTION of what should have been
recorded, then the next step is clear: create your estimates (
predictions) with a reduced dataset, and then test your
prediction against held
prediction against held out data.