Sentence examples for world prediction from inspiring English sources

In a turbulent world, prediction is difficult and long-range planning of limited value.

In particular, it is tested on twelve UCI classification datasets, a facial recognition problem, three real world prediction problems (2 chaotic time series of geomagnetic activity indices and wind farm power generation data), two synthetic case studies with constant and nonconstant noise variance as well as k-selector and linear programming problems.

I learned the following scientific practices in this course: Explanation, activity, data, real world, prediction, model and discussion/argumentation.

Famously, William Miller's end of the world prediction based on a little-used Jewish calendar left many of his followers disappointed.

Projections are that by 2025, the urban population will represent more than two-thirds of the world population, and the current rate of urbanisation is much higher in developing countries than in the developed world; predictions indicate that by 2020, most of the mega cities 1 of the world will exist in developing countries (World Bank 2007).

I don't actually believe any of these "End of the World" predictions, but I am grateful for them.

They were on the move, looking for a receptive church for Camping's end of the world predictions.

I am reminded of an epic Simpsons episode, "Thank God, It's Doomsday," where Homer discovers that his end of the world predictions were off because he miscalculated the number of people at the Last Supper.

The Camping saga has reminded many of the most famous case of a failed end-of-world prediction in American history, that of the Millerites.

And the window of opportunity is closing for best-of-the-century lists and end-of-the-world predictions.

Chris Landriau Brooklyn, Jan . 2 2010 To the Editor: Thank you for the witty and erudite reminder from Denis Dutton that we seem hard-wired for end-of-the-world predictions.