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Foreknowledge

Prediction - Informed or uninformed guesses regarding future events


Abdullah Shaukat Chaudhry

2005 Azad Kashmir Earthquake and Hurricane Rita's prediction drew him to the attention of the western world.

Alec Gallup

The company brought statistical random sampling methods to improve the accuracy of polling, with one of the firm's early triumphs being the successful prediction that Franklin D. Roosevelt would be re-elected in the 1936 presidential election, rebutting surveys that had predicted a win for Republican challenger Alf Landon.

Autoreplace

Autocomplete, Word prediction software, to make it easier and faster to spell and write.

Biskit

building on the library, a set of programs for solving specific tasks, for example, the automatic prediction of Protein structures by Homology modeling or (an attempt at) the prediction of Protein complex structures through flexible Protein-protein docking

Computational Resource for Drug Discovery

GDoQ: GDoQ (Prediction of GLMU inhibitors using QSAR and AutoDock) is an open source platform developed for predicting inhibitors against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.Tb) drug target N-acetylglucosamine-1-phosphate uridyltransferase (GLMU) protein.

DataDetective

DataDetective does this by offering a broad spectrum of data analysis techniques, such as associative memory prediction, clustering, decision trees, fuzzy matching, but also basic statistics, graphs and geographical visualization.

Dead by X-Mas

"Dead By X-Mas" has since been thought to be as a prediction of drummer Razzle's death who died in a car crash on 9 December 1984.

Debkafile

The site's operators, in contrast, state that 80 percent of what Debka reports turns out to be true, and point to its year 2000 prediction that al-Qaeda would again strike the World Trade Center, and that it had warned well before the 2006 war in Lebanon that Hezbollah had amassed 12,000 Katyusha rockets pointed at northern Israel.

Doomsday argument

Additionally, it should be considered that because Carter did present and describe his argument, in which case the people to whom he explained it did contemplate the DA, as it was inevitable, the conclusion could then be drawn that in the moment of explanation Carter created the basis for his own prediction.

If that is the appropriate reference class, Carter defied his own prediction when he first described the argument (to the Royal Society).

Environmental Research Institute of Michigan

Research from ERIM provided technology for military surveillance, as well as information and models for better prediction and understanding of floods, fires, agricultural crops and remotely sensed information, including studies of the Bering Glacier.

European empire

in current usage, a term for the Eurosphere emphasizing a prediction of growing influence of Europe in the 21st century

Faustino Rayo

García Moreno's prediction was correct; he was assassinated exiting the Cathedral in Quito, struck down with knives and revolvers, his last words being: "¡Dios no muere!" ("God does not die!").

Fleeting expletive

On November 19, 2011, during a live taping of ESPN's College GameDay at the University of Houston, College football analyst Lee Corso said, "Ah, fuck it" before he put on the headwear of Shasta, the University of Houston Cougars' mascot, demonstrating his prediction that the Cougars would beat the Mustangs of Southern Methodist University.

George William Gordon

George William Gordon is mentioned in the song "Innocent Blood" by the reggae band Culture and in the song "Silver Tongue Show" by Groundation "Give Thanks and Praise" by Roy Rayon and "Prediction" and "Born Fe Rebel" by Steel Pulse and "Our Jamaican National Heroes" by Horace Andy.

Hank Goldberg

A graphic then soon appears with Goldberg's prediction as to which NFL team will win the game, and with an indicator (generally a checkmark V) as to which team will cover the spread.

Hector Camacho vs. Edwin Rosario

Sports reporter Rafael Bracero travelled to New York to make a documentary about the fighters and the fight, and even former BSN basketball star Fufi Santori, a self-declared not fan of boxing, got caught in the fight's hype, making a prediction on television on the day of the fight.

Historism

He differentiated between both phenomena as follows: The term historicism is used in his influential books The Poverty of Historicism and The Open Society and Its Enemies to describe “an approach to the social sciences which assumes that historical prediction is their primary aim, and which assumes that this aim is attainable by discovering the 'rhythms' or the 'patterns', the 'laws' or the 'trends' that underlie the evolution of history”.

IBM 701

In early 1954, a committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff requested that the two machines be compared for the purpose of using them for a Joint Numerical Weather Prediction project.

KXEN Inc.

InfiniteInsight has been designed to allow the prediction of a behavior or a value, the forecast of a time series or the understanding of a group of individuals with similar behavior.

Maliseet Vocabulary

The book includes an introduction by Professor William F. Ganong of Smith College, who refers to the book as the first work in the field, and asserts that (as of 1899) the young people of the Maliseet "care nothing" for their language and culture, and that the conditions making the book possible were rapidly slipping away with the passing of the (then-) present generation, although this prediction has fortunately not been borne out.

Mark 9

This could be a prediction that came true if you take into account John's Revelation of the Second Coming while he was on the island of Patmos.

NGM

Nested Grid Model, a now-discontinued numerical weather prediction model

Patrick Joseph Hartigan

The refrain We'll all be rooned from his poem Said Hanrahan has entered colloquial Australian English as a jocular response to any prediction of dire consequences arising, particularly, from events outside the interlocutor's control.

Peter Guy Wolynes

In 2000 he moved to the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego as the Francis Crick Chair in the Physical Sciences at UCSD and in addition to continuing his work on many body chemical physics, protein folding and structure prediction, he is also studying stochastic aspects of cell biology.

Phylogenomics

When Jonathan Eisen originally coined phylogenomics, it applied to prediction of gene function.

Positive outcome bias

Valence effect, a bias in prediction in which people overestimate the probability of good things happening to them.

Prediction interval

Alternatively, in Bayesian terms, a prediction interval can be described as a credible interval for the variable itself, rather than for a parameter of the distribution thereof.

Prediction market

In John Brunner's 1975 science fiction story The Shockwave Rider there is a description of a prediction market that he called the Delphi Pool.

Richtmyer–Meshkov instability

R. D. Richtmyer provided a theoretical prediction in "Taylor instability in a shock acceleration of compressible fluids", Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 13, 297-319 (1960).

Robert P. Schumaker

Robert P. Schumaker is an American academic best known for creating the AZFinText textual financial prediction system and is also a Sports Data Mining expert.

Route of the Borgias

In the Church of San Nicolás, of which the Pope Callixtus III was rector before becoming Pope, in the door that overlooks to the square of San Nicolás, is remembered with tiles the prediction of Saint Vincent Ferrer according to which Alfonso de Borja would become Pope and then will canonize him.

Soft error

Isaac Asimov received a letter congratulating him on an accidental prediction of alpha-particle RAM errors in a 1950s novel.

Storm glass

Cecil Adams performed informal experiments with a storm glass and found that the success of prediction was no better than random probability.

The Heavenly Body

Based on a story by Jacques Théry, with a screenplay by Michael Arlen and Walter Reisch, the film is about the beautiful wife of a professorial astronomer who becomes convinced that her astrologer's prediction that she will meet her true love will come true.

The Last Days of the Late, Great State of California

This is in accordance with a fictional prediction by the real life psychic Edgar Cayce.

The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne

Eventually Fionn organises a boar hunt near Benbulbin and Diarmuid joins, in spite of a prediction that he will be killed by a boar.

The Search for Santa Paws

However she went on to say that the film was predictable and a little clichéd, but that kids would enjoy it and that the film adds to the "spirit of Christmas".

Top quark

Kobayashi and Maskawa won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for the prediction of the top and bottom quark, which together form the third generation of quarks.

Trilogy Time

The newspapers in the trilogy time predictions have Al Gore, Howard Dean, and Dennis Kucinich as US presidents, in 2003, 2006, and 2009, respectively while in the 2015 prediction, George W. Bush would serve a third term.

Uchūsen: Cosmo Carrier

When the moon departed from its usual orbit sometime in the year 1999, Nostradamus' prediction finally become true.

Vassilis Papazachos

He was an ardent opposer of Panayotis Varotsos and the VAN method for earthquake prediction, which he called "the greatest science joke of the century".

Wang Yuanji

Wang Yuanji's prediction came true later as Zhong Hui started a rebellion in 263 after helping Wei conquer its rival state Shu Han.

Weather Machine

During its daily two-minute sequence, which includes a trumpet fanfare, mist, and flashing lights, the machine displays one of three metal symbols as a prediction of the weather for the following 24-hour period: a sun for clear and sunny weather, a blue heron for drizzle and transitional weather, or a dragon and mist for rainy or stormy weather.

Wisdom of the crowd

Scott E. Page introduced the diversity prediction theorem: "The squared error of the collective prediction equals the average squared error minus the predictive diversity".


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