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So this patient is in their 50s, so we can actually give them a very precise estimate of what their risk for prostate cancer is.
To answer questions like, how is it that, from a brief encounter, we're able to make an estimate of how trustworthy another person is? Mimicry's believed to play a role, but how?
And that's actually a conservative estimate.
I work on it for the opportunity to teach and mentor extremely brilliant students, because I deeply believe that teams of hypertalented, hyperdriven, hyperpassionate young people can solve most of the challenges facing the world, and that providing the observations required to estimate sea level rise is just one of the many such problems they can and will solve.
There's the availability heuristic, which basically means we estimate the probability of something by how easy it is to bring instances of it to mind.
We fuse that information with a GPS unit to get an estimate of the location of the car.
Now people estimate it's created about a half a billion dollars, or will create about a half a billion dollars, in tax revenues for the city.
And what it really says, and what you want to estimate, is the probability of different beliefs given your sensory input.
Now it does depend on how you measure it, of course, but one estimate has put the drain at 250 million dollars per day.
So you can actually estimate the population size based on the diversity of the genetics.
But when you ask newlyweds about their own likelihood of divorce, they estimate it at zero percent.
We asked them to estimate their likelihood of experiencing different terrible events in their lives.
So in fact, this is a pretty accurate estimate of the number of planets in our galaxy, just in our galaxy, by the way, and I remind the non-astronomy majors among you that our galaxy is only one of 100 billion that we can see with our telescopes.
Well, even taking the pessimistic estimate, that it's one in a thousand, that means that there are at least a billion cousins of the Earth just in our own galaxy.
We estimate risk using a mental shortcut called the "availability heuristic."
A conservative estimate tells us there are more than 27 million people enslaved in the world today.
If you include Internet telephony, you might be able to push this number up to six or seven percent, but it's nowhere near what people tend to estimate.
Astronomers estimate that little asteroids like that come about every hundred years.
And to know how old she was when she died, what you do is you do an informed estimate, and you say, how much time would be required to form this amount of teeth, and the answer was three.
With computer vision, I can estimate where the cars around me are, sort of, and where they're going.
If we halved that number, one estimate is it would create a net gain to the U.S. economy over 10 years, of nearly a trillion dollars.
According to one estimate, the Gates Foundation has already saved 5.8 million lives and many millions more, people, getting diseases that would have made them very sick, even if eventually they survived.
We can use mathematical models to estimate the force that I'm applying to the quad.
And the fact is, millions is a gross estimate, because we don't really know how many kids die each year of this.
It took him, by his estimate, "three years of Sundays."
Now, if that estimate is correct, that would make believing stress is bad for you the 15th largest cause of death in the United States last year, killing more people than skin cancer, HIV/AIDS and homicide.
There's one estimate which suggests that in the United States, two thirds of the land which was once forested and then cleared has become reforested as loggers and farmers have retreated, particularly from the eastern half of the country.
We estimate that just the electricity bill for running this data center is going to be in the tens of millions of dollars a year.
And our estimate for a trip like that is it would cost around 40 dollars, which you can really build a business around.
The NSA was previously asked by Congress, was there any ability that they had to even give a rough ballpark estimate of the amount of American communications that were being intercepted.
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