The Perils of Prophecy

The impact on governance is all too predictable.

(d) Unpredictability of forecasting

Just as we can't predict what one molecule in a gas will do it's hopeless to predict a single molecule yet we can predict the properties of the whole gas, using thermodynamics, very accurately.

What it is is intelligence is defined by prediction.

And that somehow, prediction leads to intelligent behavior.

It's the same thing here. We can't predict any particular project, but the result of this whole worldwide, chaotic, unpredictable activity of competition and the evolutionary process of technology is very predictable.

Under some conditions, individual behavioral aberrations cancel one another out, making crowds more predictable than individuals.

The online discussion followed a predictable flow.

(b) Breadth, stability, predictability and collectability of revenue

Committing to pledge funding in a more predictable manner

Material foreseeable risk factors

Financing for rehabilitation is unpredictable.

H. Establish clear and predictable priority rules

To make sure that national planning is substantiated by more predictable funding, we would encourage donors to make predictable multi year pledges.

But predicting how nature works is a very risky game.

Regulators proved unable to forecast and prevent the crisis.

He performed research demonstrating that his theories could predict behavior.

And I should say, I think this is a rather modest prediction.

Forecasting is the way of saying what will happen and then explaining why it didn't.

After all, the good of democratic structures is their predictability.

Traffic that is never ceasing and never predictable

Recurrence intervals of these events are neither regular nor predictable.

It is impossible to predict an exact prognosis during pregnancy or the neonatal period.

The availability of supplementary funds is unpredictable and impermanent.

What is most alarming is that this crisis is predictable and preventable.

They are predictable, widely known and consistently enforced, without discrimination.

Committing to pledge funding in a more predictable manner

Facilitate enforcement of creditor's rights in a predictable and efficient manner

Unpredictable human psychology also plays a role.

Self reported family histories, by contrast, proved very accurate in predicting the disease.

After his recovery, Carlos became wild and unpredictable in his behavior.

Therefore, this approach will provide stable, predictable and growing levels of funding.

Unpredictable situations made management very complex.

The Nobel laureate economist Robert Lucas has argued that the crisis was not predicted because economic theory predicts that such events cannot be predicted.

Governments could not provide the Organization with a stable and predictable flow of financial resources unless they were certain that their assessed contributions would also be stable and predictable.

Indeed, the best analysts know that forecasting the performance of any country's stock market substantially means forecasting how well the government wants stock market investors to fare in the current political environment.

Thus, popular secondary structure prediction methods like Mfold and Pfold will not predict pseudoknot structures present in a query sequence they will only identify the more stable of the two pseudoknot stems.

The alternative is collapse, unpredictable and merciless.

In a rational, predictable world, such an outcome might produce stability.

Their idea of romance centers on its opposition to staid values and predictability of bourgeois life.

These different models have predictable implications for international economic policies.

Such an approach should ensure predictability, transparency and accountability.

Six months later, I can only confirm that prediction.

Admittedly, it is not an easy task to predict how justice will unfold.