And, in fact, this idea can be used not just to predict epidemics of germs, but also to predict epidemics of all sorts of kinds.

Chinese astronomers were able to precisely predict eclipses.

Now if I asked you to predict one more letter, what do you think that would be?

So we could deliberately erase some symbols, and we can ask it to predict the missing symbols.

However, scientists are not as skillful at predicting the intensity of tropical cyclones.

No scientist could predict that in 2007, suddenly, what could be crossing a threshold.

Because what that question assumes is that our external world is predictive of our happiness levels, when in reality, if I know everything about your external world, I can only predict 10 percent of your long term happiness.

And if you have a serious theory, you should be able to predict when Google is going to go bust.

From his results, Rutherford developed a model of the atom that was similar to the solar system, known as Rutherford model.

In an age of cyber warfare and drones, the end of R2P or humanitarian intervention is hardly foretold.

If I give you the letter Q and ask you to predict the next letter, what do you think that would be?

What we found was that the computer was successful in 75 percent of the cases in predicting the correct symbol.

I mean, we're used to having science let us predict things, but something like this is fundamentally irreducible.

Oh, I've been here before. And when you've been here before, this happened next. It allows you to predict the future.

If the ancient Greeks had found out about seasons in Australia, they could have easily varied their myth to predict that.

And I got really good at predicting how many body bags you would need for the people who were going to die in these camps.

By the 1st century BC, during the Hellenistic period, the Greeks had begun to develop their own mathematical schemes for predicting the positions of the planets.

Reading Iranian English language blogs in the months and weeks leading up to the 2005 presidental elections, it would have been hard, if not impossible, to predict that Ahmadinejad would win.

Weather forecasting is the application of science and technology to predict the state of the atmosphere for a future time and a given location.

Weather forecasting is the application of science and technology to predict the state of the atmosphere for a future time and a given location.

It makes less sense that an emotion that was built to prevent me from ingesting poison should predict who I'm going to vote for in the upcoming presidential election.

Scientists include theoreticians who mainly develop new models to explain existing data and predict new results, and experimentalists who mainly test models by making measurements though in practice the division between these activities is not clear cut, and many scientists perform both tasks.

Some military historians and the German participants who wrote about it after the war, including von Manstein, make no mention of blitzkrieg in their characterization of the operation.

Human Proteome Folding Phase 1 The first project launched on World Community Grid was the Human Proteome Folding Project, or HPF1, which aims to predict the structure of human proteins.

We can't predict, necessarily, what will happen in evolution, but we can learn some of the rules of the game, and that's really what we're trying to do.

Predicting whether a comet will become a great comet is notoriously difficult, as many factors may cause a comet's brightness to depart drastically from predictions.

Geomorphology seeks to understand landform history and dynamics, and predict future changes through a combination of field observation, physical experiment, and numerical modeling (Geomorphometry).

He claims that it is just 'bad science', seeking to find explanations which are appealing or eloquent, rather than those that are of use in predicting natural phenomena.

I perform a series of ghoulish experiments on food in this case, trying to calibrate a mathematical model so that one can predict exactly what the internal cooking times are.

And the idea that you could see things inside of a crystal ball and predict the future or a television set, where it's sort of like a magic box where anything can appear.

As a writer, I can tell you that a big part of writing fiction is learning to predict how one event in a story will affect all the other events, and fear works in that same way.

If we know what that set point is, we can predict fairly accurately when you will be in flow, and it will be when your challenges are higher than average and skills are higher than average.

The Hund Mulliken approach or molecular orbital (MO) method is less intuitive to chemists, but has turned out capable of predicting spectroscopic properties better than the VB method.

I'd like to talk about a way of thinking about technology trends that I call my grand unified theory of predicting the future, but it's closer to a petite unified theory of predicting the future.

It means that when we look at people and see a person from Africa and a person from Europe or Asia, we cannot, for a single position in the genome with 100 percent accuracy, predict what the person would carry.

Mendeleev was not the first chemist to do so, but he was the first to be recognized as using the trends in his periodic table to predict the properties of those missing elements, such as gallium and germanium.

The question arises whether there might be some deeper reality hidden beneath quantum mechanics, to be described by a more fundamental theory that can always predict the outcome of each measurement with certainty if the exact properties of every subatomic particle were known the entire system could be modeled exactly using deterministic physics similar to classical physics, a la Laplace's demon.

And this is the new paradigm, which we gathered two, three years back, recognizing that our old paradigm of just analyzing and pushing and predicting parameters into the future, aiming at minimalizing environmental impacts, is of the past.

Though Kepler took a dim view of the attempts of contemporary astrologers to precisely predict the future or divine specific events, he had been casting well received detailed horoscopes for friends, family, and patrons since his time as a student in Tübingen.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita uses mathematical analysis to predict such messy human events as war, political power shifts, Intifada ... After a crisp explanation of how he does it, he offers three predictions on the future of Iran.

This is an assessment by the Central Intelligence Agency of the percentage of time that the model I'm talking about is right in predicting things whose outcome is not yet known, when the experts who provided the data inputs got it wrong.

Using these data they developed arithmetical methods to compute the changing length of daylight in the course of the year and to predict the appearances and disappearances of the Moon and planets and eclipses of the Sun and Moon.

Treo creator Jeff Hawkins urges us to take a new look at the brain to see it not as a fast processor, but as a memory system that stores and plays back experiences to help us predict, intelligently, what will happen next.

Regions of DNA sequence that have the characteristic patterns associated with protein or RNA coding genes can be identified by gene finding algorithms, which allow researchers to predict the presence of particular gene products and their possible functions in an organism even before they have been isolated experimentally.

And the current state of the art in predicting an epidemic if you're the CDC or some other national body is to sit in the middle where you are and collect data from physicians and laboratories in the field that report the prevalence or the incidence of certain conditions.