Put another way, how well can it predict our successes, academically or professionally, and what variables may matter more?
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The quizzical thing about history is that we rely on it to predict events and when it repeats itself it is ho hum and uninspiring.
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Oftel, the telecoms regulator, says it cannot predict how demand in certain areas will change.
Doctors check it to predict whether patients are at risk for heart attacks and strokes.
Experience does not necessarily teach you how to face the unpredictable, nor does it always predict high performance.
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Additionally, with the use of the barometric measurement, it can predict the onset of foul weather (rain generally).
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It can predict where the empty powder sacks landed when Maximilian's executioners threw them away after loading their muskets.
The weather department will release its second forecast in June, when it will predict region-wise rainfall expectations, Mr. Rathore said.
And given box-office figures from the first week, it can predict subsequent domestic and overseas performance much more accurately than that.
By continuously assessing their performance, it can predict when engines are more likely to fail, so that customers can schedule engine changes.
The discount chain discovered it could predict buying patterns down to every last store shelf, thanks to data gleaned daily from its checkout scanners.
It can predict whether a person will stop for just five seconds, 35 seconds, or more than a minute, with an accuracy of about 80%.
The Vale of Glamorgan council says it regularly inspects this coastline but it admits it cannot predict the livelihood of rockfalls as that is something that occurs naturally.
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Analysing historical data and using it to predict future trends.
And although tens of thousands of deaths have not materialised, it does predict that 4, 000 people will eventually die from cancer attributable to exposure from radiation leaked from the plant.
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The FBI document says the information would be used to help it to predict the likely actions of "bad actors", detect instances of people deliberately misleading law enforcement officers and spot the vulnerabilities of suspect groups.
According to Lawson, iKNowU technology main advantage over London-based SwiftKey, its main competitor and market leader, is that as you type, it can predict phrases and long strings of words, instead of just word per word.
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If it does become successful, I can predict it will fall under its own weight.
In order to claim powers of uncanny prophesy, for at least a while, I think I owe it to the law of averages to predict it here in black and white, so that I can get levelled.
It is hard to predict how much it will matter.
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It does not predict the final vote, nor does it measure a possible surge for Moussavi, which many believe occurred in the final weeks.
However, since it effectively reduces the tax burden on the middle class and not the wealthy I predict it will not meet with much approval by main stream Republicans.
On the face of it, a warmer world might be expected to create more storms, and some climate models predict it will.
It is difficult to predict what will prevail, but it is not an organizationally driven thing any more.
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Daniel Schultz, the FDA's chief device regulator, says new medical devices don't need the large-scale exhaustive trials of the drug industry because it is easier to predict the behavior of a machine than it is to track the chemical interactions of a new drug in the body.
The oddities of Japan's party system make it hard to predict what this means.
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This makes it straightforward to predict when the cycle will swing from downturn to upturn.
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We predict it will be very useful for traveling around each port of call.
On the other hand, investing in all three of them makes it difficult to predict returns.
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We are finding it impossible to predict what, if anything, we will get from any particular school.
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