Predicting the future of Twitter's trending topics is, as of right now, an impossibility.
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Shiller was among the few who were prescient in predicting the housing crisis in 2007.
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Similarly, not long ago many bond market gurus were predicting the end of high bond prices.
Predicting the path of a swine flu outbreak is next to impossible, public health officials say.
The competitions range from predicting the progression of HIV to forecasting travel times on Autralian freeways.
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Predicting the future growth of the industry means predicting which way politicians will lean.
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But predicting the shifting emotions of tens of millions of people is no easy task.
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Predicting the future is never easy, and it's particularly difficult in the fast-paced world of videogames.
Needless to say, predicting the weather with greater precision would provide prodigious money-making opportunities.
This week, Ryan is only predicting the Jets will do the best they can.
Because these three bestselling science fiction writers have been accurately predicting the future for years.
When it comes to Apple, listening to analysts estimates are as good as predicting the weather.
Bloggers began predicting the imminent demise of Flip, along with single-purpose video cameras in general.
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And it looks like those predicting the imminent demise of PCs may be off base.
To be sure, no one is predicting the end of the 30-year bull market in bonds.
"We're pretty good at predicting the weather a couple of days in advance, " Smith says.
Of course predicting the future regarding future collectibles is a daunting challenge at best.
The move was a colossal blunder and had many predicting the early death of Netflix.
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Ms. Greenly provided data for predicting the increase and deciding whether to use another drug.
Historically, predicting the future sales of compounds in clinical development is difficult to do.
Users try to accumulate the highest score by predicting the scores of Premier League games.
We already rely on statistical models to do everything from flying our airplanes to predicting the weather.
Many within the utility networks in CA are already predicting the 33% target will not be met, possibly.
Here was his son Steve, predicting the most amazing things about the economy--which later proved to be true.
It was Hatton's second loss in a 47-fight career and many pundits are predicting the 30-year-old will retire.
One week before the 2006 elections, I was still predicting the Republicans would maintain control of the Senate.
So the once unthinkable cuts are now real, and the public isn't predicting the end of the world.
In short, predicting the true sources of systemic risk in advance of their actual failure is probably impossible.
But prior semifinal routs don't do a better job than tournament seeding in predicting the outcome of finals.
Taped to the desk of each participant were five envelopes, each predicting the outcome of the successive flips.
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