Whether the scanners are adopted more widely and how they are used, will likely be prime topics of discussion at congressional hearings expected early next year.

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How likely are all the inputs, are they all equally likely, or are they going to depend on other things? And that may depend on the user, so you can't kind of get at that.

他们大致相同么？,他们依赖于其他事情么？,输入也跟用户有关,因此你没法完全得出结果来。

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For example, in the late 1990s, if you were to ask a question--I'm hypothesizing -how likely is it that the Dow will be over 10,000 by the year 2008?

例如,在90年代末,假如有人问你这样一个问题,道指在2008年底前,突破万点大关的可能性有多大

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"We also looked at the part of the brain called the hippocampus which is very important for forming the sort of memories we make everyday,you know, when you have to remember a pin number or you have to remember how to get somewhere, and the hippocampus, if it's a good size that means you are less likely to develop Alzheimer's,"

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PROFESSOR: Great question. So the question is, how do you choose an algorithm, why would I choose to use a pseudo-polynomial algorithm when I don't know how big the solution is likely to be, I think that's one way to think about it.

教授：问得好，所以问题是，你怎样选择算法，为什么当我,不知道解决方案会有多大的时候,我要选伪多项式算法呢，我想这是一种思考问题的方式。

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and I don't know how to phrase this in a politically correct way, but the parents of ugly kids are likely to themselves be ugly people and maybe what they're finding is just ugly people are more violent than good-looking people.

我不知道怎么用不会引起政治争论的话来说，但丑小孩的父母往往也长得丑,也许这个研究的发现是长得丑的人,比长得好看的人更粗暴。

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