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He said, "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future."

So we can be empowered and take responsibility and make predictions about them.

It wouldn't be fair to end this talk without putting myself on the line and making some predictions.

The black line represents predictions for phosphorus reserves.

We're not going to ever recreate a whole human in these chips, but what our goal is is to be able to recreate sufficient functionality so that we can make better predictions of what's going to happen in humans.

There's a great phrase that Sherwood Rowland, who won the Nobel Prize for the chemistry that led to ozone depletion, when he was accepting his Nobel Prize, he asked this question: "What is the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true?"

And this enabled us to do a really interesting kind of analysis, because it allowed us to compare the predictions of people, say, 18 years old, to the reports of people who were 28, and to do that kind of analysis throughout the lifespan.

So that's another fancy, academic way of saying that false theories can make true predictions.

Well, why? Well the answer is because it made lots of predictions that came true.

The Ptolemaic system enabled astronomers to make accurate predictions of the motions of the planet, in fact more accurate predictions at first than the Copernican theory which we now would say is true.

It will improve our lives, but there are problems that we need to be conscious of, and the first one is the idea that we may be punished for predictions, that the police may use big data for their purposes, a little bit like "Minority Report."

In both of these cases, not only were the predictions more accurate, but they generated new insightful science.

What we need to do is assess psychological theories by seeing what predictions they make, whether that is that listening to Mozart makes you smarter, that you learn better when information is presented in your preferred learning style or whatever it is, all of these are testable empirical predictions, and the only way we can make progress is to test these predictions against the data in tightly controlled experimental studies.

And once AIVA gets good at those predictions, it can actually build a set of mathematical rules for that style of music in order to create its own original compositions.

CA: So that succeeded despite all predictions at the time.

And I thought to myself, well, that's well outside my lifetime, and a much greater figure than the predictions for oil.

Shehu: And from there we will be able to, hopefully, make better predictions and then we compare it to the graph and also make some predictions.

So were Mendeleev's predictions right?

But when the scenarios, the predictions came in 2007, it became a real issue for us.

CA: Now, those predictions are, I think, that by 2100, sea levels are forecast to rise perhaps three feet.

These predictions are in excellent agreement with observations by the WMAP satellite of the cosmic microwave background, which is an imprint of the very early universe.

That personal experience with the use of race in genetic testing got me thinking: Where else in medicine is race used to make false biological predictions?

What I'm going to argue today is that having good judgment, making accurate predictions, making good decisions, is mostly about which mindset you're in.

And that can tell you things like where malaria might spread, and you can make predictions with it.

And Yogi Berra used to say, of course, that it's very tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

Now, the testing ground of most predictions in medicine is populations.

I told you that in medicine, we test predictions in populations, but I didn't tell you, and so often medicine never tells you that every time an individual encounters medicine, even if that individual is firmly embedded in the general population, neither the individual nor the physician knows where in that population the individual will land.

These predictions strike me as arrogant.

I personally have a lot of issues with political polls because I think the role of journalists is actually to report the facts and not attempt to predict them, especially when those predictions can actually damage democracy by signaling to people: don't bother to vote for that guy, he doesn't have a chance.

But this work is not about predictions.

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