Students drew district lines under several competing scenarios, including maximizing African-American representation, maximizing Democratic representation, and maximizing Republican representation.
It required a memory good enough to assess the intentions of fellow members, to predict their responses, from one moment to the next; and it resulted in the ability to invent and inwardly rehearse competing scenarios of future interactions.
Michael Vassar, summit host and president of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI), reduces the future to two competing scenarios: "Either you and everyone you love are going to be killed by robots; or you are going to live forever".
There are at least two competing scenarios: (i) multiple vortices sit on each of the antidots at a higher matching period and (ii) there is nucleation of vortices at the interstitial sites at higher matching periods.
Similarly, competing scenarios are anathema to bureaucrats whose careers are threatened by answering questions like, "What would it take for this estimate to be dramatically wrong?" -- which translates to, "What arguments can you give me that undermine your own recommendations?" To change this culture, we need an interagency working group that can organize scenario planning for a new era.
Analysis of new specimens of fossil peripatids exquisitely preserved in 100 million year old amber from Myanmar – dating between the two competing scenarios – have allowed Ivo de Sena Oliveira and Ming Bai (who are joint first authors of a new study) and colleagues, to offer a solution to the mystery.
In small gatherings in the Yellow Oval Room of the White House residence and even aboard Air Force One as he took New York Democrats to his wife's formal nomination for the Senate race, he has offered lectures about competing scenarios of what America's dealings with China may look like in 2025.
HGT-genes produced detectable conflict during gene and species tree reconciliation and this conflict was evaluated to be a result of HGT rather than gene duplication and loss (two other competing scenarios for gene family evolution), as evaluated by RANGER-DTL (ver. 1.0) software20.
Where they should be expanded is difficult to model because of competing scenarios on how rainfall will change, so the majority of irrigation investments should be made after 2030, the study said.
