Predictive text - good or evil?
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good good very good, stops me from thinking too hard, know some people that hate it though so each to their own i spose
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As Mark Twain stated: Predicting is a difficult task; specially when you predict future.\nObviously there is no such thing as a 100% reliable source.\nHowever, you can find relations, trends, etc. that can help you to take better-informed bets, but they will still be bets.\nYou can consider such things as P/E, cost structure stability, sales and/or/ net income growth, etc.\nAnd don't expect a 100% result. (if you achieve it , launch a fund)
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A condition or warning.
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It is intriguing. I have often thought about trying it, but it frankly scares me. I know there are things out there that I can't see...do I want to open myself up to them? I sure would be interested in hearing what you think as well. \n\nHere's a couple of cool sites on the topic:\nhttp://www.crystalinks.com/automatic_writing.html\nhttp://www.duke.edu/web/lit132/automatic.html
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I am in the tech business. The biggest challenge I face is customers that won't register my advice or predictions and then become difficult and/or won't pay when they don't follow my advice or my predictions come true. Sniffing these types of customers out sometimes offends otherwise good customers.
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Both require the use of sophisticated mental activities; they often require considerable analytical skills and data upon which to employ those skills.\n\nPrediction, however, is a bit on the chancy side: in trying to predict the outcome of an event, or the expected outcome of a cluster of events (say, sequential flips of a coin or rolls of a die or deals of a hand in poker) an intelligent predictor will offer a range of probable outcomes (eg.  you can expect an average of 50 heads per hundred coin flips, with about a 95% probability that it'll be between 40 and 60).  To infer is to begin at an observation, or with a defined set of assumptions, and to use logical rules to make your way to a conclusion that is logically inescapable, and as certainly true as your assumptions and as accurate as your chain of logic: no range of outcomes here!
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It's not. It's just a complicated algorithm of conditionals, or, a static forumula.
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Bad?\n\nj/k\n\nMost likely is titled\n\nSomething to talk about.
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Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually fallacious: a specious argument.
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ur preaching 2 th quire.\n\nSorry. I have asked and answered this question several times myself, and just can't seem to wrap my mind around what some of the others are saying.\n\nI have heard that the prevalence of this so-called SMS language is because the young minds on this site (and others) are so thirsty for information that they cannot take time to properly phrase their Q's or A's. I cry "shenanigans." Anyone with a full QWERTY keyboard in front of them has no excuse. \n\nI've also heard that this is an "evolution" of the language, and that if "ppl" understand what is being written, what's the problem? I've got to say that I have a hard time parsing some of the gibberish I read here, so what's the response to that?\n\nWithout clear communication the system breaks down. It's as clear as that. We need more emphasis on clearly getting our thoughts across using the standards that we have agreed on (English spelling and grammar).\n\nI can't say it enough times: I agree, I agree, I agree.\n\nLoved the book, by the way. I even gave a copy to my Dad for Christmas. The sound of irony was deafening.
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Its gibberish. Its used in graphic design or typesitting. Its "dummy" text. \n\nSee http://www.lipsum.com/
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Good news, bad news and worse news
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An academic study found that the assumption that currency prices follow a random walk is a better predictor than any of the most used models based on macroeconomic data.  Later studies (by my PhD Thesis advisor) show that there is some predictability in prices if you have information on order flow.\n\nBottom line -- unless you are a major investment bank with information on your customer's FX demand, you are better off flipping a coin to predict direction than using some model to project where prices are going.
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Of course sci-fi can be prophetic. Look at Jules Verne. On the other hand, reading a Robert Heinlein novel I was amused when the character when to make a ballistics calculation for his space ship and pulled out... a slide rule. I guess they missed a few things. Also, there have been a near infinite amount of predictions in science fiction. They can't all be wrong.
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A prediction is when you are predicting/ using information to try and anticipate what will happen next looking forward.\nAn inference is when you are drawing a conclusion about what the author thinks but isn't actually saying by reading between the lines.  For instance, if someone were to statements criticizing the current policies in Iraq, you might infer that they disapproved of the president's handling of the situation.  They didn't actually say it but you might draw that out of the other things they said.
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Excellent point, buddy.  It is often subtle and subliminal (word stucture and sentences).  Good job bringing this to the forefront.
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