Word: predictabilities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fortunately, [Tarantino's] films come from avoice that speaks honestly, respectfully anddoesn't always say the same thing," he said. "Ithink that people like to be mystified and not beable to predict what is coming next in a film...
This could be especially true of disadvantaged students, who routinely score much lower on these tests. "If you give me the income tax returns of all the students being tested," says Kitty Kelly Epstein, who teaches education at California's Holy Names College, "I could predict how they would score and save millions of dollars." Well-off New York City parents hire tutors to give their kids a leg up, while poorer students depend on the goodwill of teachers generous enough to tutor them after school...
...simply passing out a new problem set, Piel decided to use game theory, one of the primary topics studied in ESS, in order to subtly frighten students who might have felt tempted to glance at the lifted answer key. In a biological context, game theory is used to predict the optimal behavior or adaptive strategies of animals in a competitive environment while also having to account for the probability of alternative strategies in the neighboring environment. Piel wrote a creative game theory word problem that would apply to the classroom situation and e-mailed the problem to every...
...were definitely looking for big things for James going into the season, but you can never predict a national title," Coach Peter Mandeau said. "His great talent and athletic ability, combined with his work ethic and determination, have paid...
...English speaker uses 40 different sounds, called phonemes; the Dragon system used our training session to predict how I would say each of those sounds. Finally, I dumped in a few columns of "vocabulary builder" so the software could learn some of the peculiar phrases I use, such as "trainshouters" and "Bust-A-Move." Everything checked out. "My guess," said Gervais, "is that just by being more conscious of how you speak, you'll improve your accuracy...