Word: predictors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Marsden promptly posted Scotti's data on the Harvard Center's Website, making them available to other astronomers. In early March, those data and newer observations by two Japanese amateur astronomers and a Texas scientist were fed into the Harvard Center's number-crunching orbit predictor, which spat out the 30,000-mile "miss distance" that led Marsden to make his dramatic announcement...
...branch predictor unit anticipates the most likely path the instructions will take, thus getting a head start on the work...
...around me, people murmured that I must be patient, that modern medicine would make it happen in time. But I lacked the fortitude--optimism? attitude of surrender?--required for indefinite treatment. Within months, even the act of entering a pharmacy and purchasing an ovulation-predictor kit had become a painful trial. As the disappointments accrued, each procedure felt less a celebration of potential life than a small death...
...millenarian fuss is not attributable to any one thing. But one of its sources has long fascinated me: the prophecies of Nostradamus. Nowadays, every pulp television program on the millennium seems to place this enigmatic 16th century French citizen at center stage. He is touted constantly as the predictor of the Kennedy assassinations, Saddam Hussein, Hitler, AIDS and just about everything else. Finally, my curiosity compelled me to sit down and read his main work, Les Propheties...
...debate they are renewing stretches back decades ("ages and ages," sighs chief College Board researcher Howard Everson). Some point out that high school grades are a better predictor of college success than SATs. Others argue that the test favors not just whites but boys. An entire advocacy group called FairTest exists almost solely to generate press releases that chip away at the SAT's encrusted position in American education...