To some degree, it's harder to imagine the worst thing than to statistically sort of figure out the middle band.

一定程度上，预测最坏的结果,要比以统计的方式预测出中间值更为艰难。

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I'm going to try and predict what the value is going to be. And then see if, indeed, I get what I predicted.

我会去预测结果值应该是怎么样的,并去看看它是不是，跟我预期的相同。

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The prediction here is that the candidates are going to be squeezed towards the middle.

预测最终结果是,候选人会被挤到中间立场

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Certain kinds of financial markets called "Prediction markets," which may, for example, predict the outcome of an election have been seen to be very accurate predictors, often better than pollsters can manage.

人们称这种金融市场为,"可预测的市场",举个例子来说,市场对某次大选结果的反应,比民调专家,还要更加准确

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So that means that we don't have to worry about things like wave functions when we're talking about Lewis structures, but because they're so simple to use and because they so often predict the electron configuration of molecules accurately, we end up using them all the time in chemistry, so it's very valuable to know how to draw them correctly and to know how to work with them.

因此这也就意味着我们在讨论路易斯结构的时候,不需要担心波函数之类的东西，但是由于路易斯结构不仅简单易用,而且用它来预测分子的电子排布,经常可以得到非常精确的结果，结果我们在化学中一直都在用它，因此知道如何正确地画出并运用,路易斯结构是非常有价值的。

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Important lesson, so that there would be some predictability in the results and I would have some, if you will, smoke test for knowing whether or not I was getting, my code seemed to be working.

这很重要，因为这样我就可以预测,结果会是多少了，如果你愿意，我们可以做烟气试验,来看我的代码是否工作正常。

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And we can just extrapolate in a straight line We before saw some examples where I had an algorithm to generate points, and we fit a curve to it, used the curve to predict future points and discovered it was nowhere close.

我们可以干脆用一条直线来描述它,我们之前看到在一些例子中,我用一个算法去生成一些点，然后用一条曲线对它进行拟合，然后用这条曲线来预测未来的点,最后却发现结果完全不对。

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