Word: predictabilities
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...After today's draw, Kramnik said his confidence was restored but that he couldn't predict the match's outcome. "The result will, to a large extent, be based on luck," he said "It depends on so many factors, even the way that I sleep. The computer doesn't feel any pressure at all, and therefore has a real psychological advantage - I need to think really deeply about what I will do in the final game. It is difficult to prepare for this last fight, because the computer can play in so many different ways...
...would be interested in seeing evidence that pre-enrollment could predict enrollment,” said CUE member Michael Mitzenmacher, an associate professor of computer science...
According to faculty members on CUE, departments do not currently have any standardized way to predict class size, but Mitzenmacher and CUE member Rohit Chopra ’04 said they thought a math or computer-based algorithm might be able perform this function—with or without early registration...
...Nobody really likes to staff on the weekends, but I don’t mind that much. Sometimes we get more business. A lot of people come by on Saturday. But there’s not really a pattern. It’s hard to predict. This Saturday night I was a big nerd. I had a lot of homework. I was saying to my co-staffer how it’s nice to staff on Saturday because you have an excuse to do work. You’re down there for 12 hours—you?...
Courses most likely to be lotteried may actually have preregistration estimates that are inflated, while small courses not expecting more than a handful of students might be bombarded by the masses. The Core office, which administers some of the largest courses at Harvard, is now able to predict enrollments with surprising accuracy based on when the course was last offered, how many students may still need to fulfill the specific requirement, and how many other courses are offered in that area. University Hall can also provide predictions to faculty members. Whether those faculty members choose to listen to them...