I missed my teammates, and the rush of competition, and the excitement of learning new tricks, and the certainty of being Chloe the Gymnast.
New findings from UC Berkeley psychologists suggest that feedback, rather than hard evidence, boosts people's sense of certainty when learning new things or trying to tell right from wrong.
I think the concept of dying to self/ego is really about dying to certainty, and learning to live anew by grace.
Certainty prohibits learning, curiosity fuels change".
Everyone at Imber is trying to figure out how to lead a meaningful life amid the disintegrating ethical certainties of a secular society – "learning to be good", in the words of Charles Arrowby, the antihero of The Sea, the Sea, though they're an infinitely nicer bunch than anyone in Murdoch's rebarbative Booker prize-winning novel.
Why bother with promoting general utility indirectly once we have learned to promote it directly with certainty of success?
Instead, in desperation, the government is going to cling ever more tightly to the old certainties of pointless rote-learning of a few chosen subjects that are deemed – in Nicky Morgan's word – to be "hard", on the basis that if they're hard, they must be good.
Maticzka and colleagues developed the graph kernel-based GraphProt, and applied it to learn motifs from CLIP-seq data [ 118], producing motifs that were highly predictive of binding: the certainty of predicted motifs for PTB correlated with measured RBP affinity.
If C learned the message by eavesdropping and observed B's response, he could deduce the key and thereafter impersonate A with certainty of success.
the certainty of the critique.
