The best way to see whether a fire-forecasting system works or not is to simulate a fire whose outcome is already known, and see whether the model correctly predicts what happened.

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Computers might not be the best place to simulate a live philosophy seminar, but they are terrific places to teach people how to use and program computers.

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With Wii tennis, "it's so hard for you not to move and simulate your tennis strokes, " said Antonio Galvan, a program manager at an Erickson facility in Naperville, Ill.

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It was a ploy of theirs to pretend not to understand, to frown and simulate confusion because, in any conversation, it was convenient sometimes to appear to be at a loss.

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The scientists used a powerful computer model to simulate how a liquid released at the spill site would disperse and circulate, producing results that are not dependent on the total amount released.

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