When faced with an incomplete picture, the brain works to complete the mental image by inferring the missing information.

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We are all eager to learn the details and should be careful about inferring too much at this point.

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The real beauty of it is the software, capable of almost instantly inferring a subject's motion, which is reflected by an onscreen avatar in a game.

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We inaccurately reinforce the insidious motherhood penalty by inferring that only women and mothers need special accommodations and everyone else is fine with the way work and life fit together.

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That Facebook is inferring Likes from the sharing of links, and, on top of that, not applying sentiment analysis to determine if those links are being shared for positive reasons, breaks these expectations.

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And the next thing we knew, there was, um, an article in the Financial Times, charting our Libor contributions and comparing it with other banks and inferring that this meant that we had a problem raising cash in the interbank market.

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