Predictability
noun
The qualities of being expected based on previous actions or known facts.
The predictability of a routine helps a child feel safe.
Often appears as...
- high predictability
- low predictability
noun
The characteristic of being able to be accurately forecasted or predicted.
In statistics, predictability refers to how well a model can forecast future outcomes.
Often appears as...
- predictability in data
- predictability analysis
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Technical
noun
The property of being able to be calculated beforehand.
Program predictability is necessary in real-time systems where tasks must be completed within specific time frames.
Often appears as...
- program predictability
- task predictability
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Technical
noun
The qualities of being expected based on previous actions or known facts.
The predictability of a routine helps a child feel safe.
Often appears as...
- high predictability
- low predictability
noun
The characteristic of being able to be accurately forecasted or predicted.
In statistics, predictability refers to how well a model can forecast future outcomes.
Often appears as...
- predictability in data
- predictability analysis
Usage tips
Technical
noun
The property of being able to be calculated beforehand.
Program predictability is necessary in real-time systems where tasks must be completed within specific time frames.
Often appears as...
- program predictability
- task predictability
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Comfort
Predictability in daily life often implies stability and can provide emotional comfort to individuals.
The predictability of my morning coffee session is soothing.
Pro Tip 2/3Routine Importance
Stressing predictability highlights the importance and benefits of maintaining routines.
Her routine's predictability made time management much easier.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Implication
Sometimes can imply boredom or lack of excitement due to the absence of variation.
The predictability of the movie's plot made it less intriguing.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Comfort
Predictability in daily life often implies stability and can provide emotional comfort to individuals.
The predictability of my morning coffee session is soothing.
Pro Tip 2/3Routine Importance
Stressing predictability highlights the importance and benefits of maintaining routines.
Her routine's predictability made time management much easier.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Implication
Sometimes can imply boredom or lack of excitement due to the absence of variation.
The predictability of the movie's plot made it less intriguing.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Comfort
Predictability in daily life often implies stability and can provide emotional comfort to individuals.
The predictability of my morning coffee session is soothing.
Pro Tip 2/3Routine Importance
Stressing predictability highlights the importance and benefits of maintaining routines.
Her routine's predictability made time management much easier.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Implication
Sometimes can imply boredom or lack of excitement due to the absence of variation.
The predictability of the movie's plot made it less intriguing.
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The Future of Weather...
So then if the trajectories of the balls are very close to each other, that means you either have a very good model, or there's a high level of predictability in that hurricane track, or both. These are called spaghetti plots. And it's essentially just deterministic guidance overlaid with a bunch of ensemble guidance.
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Do schools kill...
Nobody has a clue, despite all the expertise that's been on parade for the past four days, what the world will look like in five years' time. And yet, we're meant to be educating them for it. So the unpredictability, I think, is extraordinary. And the third part of this is that we've all agreed, nonetheless,
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Why it's so hard to make...
In fact, it's the predictability of our psychological foibles that allows us to design strategies to overcome them. Forewarned is forearmed. In fact, behavioral economists often use precisely the same behavioral reflexes that get us into trouble and turn them around to help us,
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Maybe the best robot...
We let them entertain us. Most important, we make them indicate that they are aware of our presence. Marco, you're standing on my foot! Sorry. They'll be conscious of our fragile frame and move aside if we got too close, and they'll account for our unpredictability
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What is Blue Planet...
doing very good and meticulous research but the unpredictability is I think is exciting what I'm going to be doing in this series is the live shark diving sharks are probably my greatest fascination and their conservation my greatest passion the opportunity to
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Didier Sornette: How we...
that is this not related to the black swan concept you have heard about frequently? Remember, black swan is this rare bird that you see once and suddenly shattered your belief that all swans should be white, so it has captured the idea of unpredictability,
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Computing a theory of...
Things with rules as simple as these can do it. Well, this has deep implications about the limits of science, about predictability and controllability of things like biological processes or economies, about intelligence in the universe,
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Is our climate headed...
less predictability, and most importantly, less hospitably to human life. The hypothetical models that mathematicians study in detail may not always look like actual situations, but they can provide a framework and a way of thinking
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The quantum world and...
Channel's fault small changes and predictable systems can lead to huge consequences and unpredictability it's a phenomenon called chaos or the butterfly effect and it's pretty common in our world but what about the world of a
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A Creator-Led Internet,...
And one of those lessons was how important stability and predictability were to publishers. No publisher can build a business on a platform that's too volatile, and no business should be entirely reliant on any one platform.
Video examples
The Future of Weather...
So then if the trajectories of the balls are very close to each other, that means you either have a very good model, or there's a high level of predictability in that hurricane track, or both. These are called spaghetti plots. And it's essentially just deterministic guidance overlaid with a bunch of ensemble guidance.
Video examples
Do schools kill...
Nobody has a clue, despite all the expertise that's been on parade for the past four days, what the world will look like in five years' time. And yet, we're meant to be educating them for it. So the unpredictability, I think, is extraordinary. And the third part of this is that we've all agreed, nonetheless,
Video examples
Why it's so hard to make...
In fact, it's the predictability of our psychological foibles that allows us to design strategies to overcome them. Forewarned is forearmed. In fact, behavioral economists often use precisely the same behavioral reflexes that get us into trouble and turn them around to help us,
Video examples
Maybe the best robot...
We let them entertain us. Most important, we make them indicate that they are aware of our presence. Marco, you're standing on my foot! Sorry. They'll be conscious of our fragile frame and move aside if we got too close, and they'll account for our unpredictability
Video examples
What is Blue Planet...
doing very good and meticulous research but the unpredictability is I think is exciting what I'm going to be doing in this series is the live shark diving sharks are probably my greatest fascination and their conservation my greatest passion the opportunity to
Video examples
Didier Sornette: How we...
that is this not related to the black swan concept you have heard about frequently? Remember, black swan is this rare bird that you see once and suddenly shattered your belief that all swans should be white, so it has captured the idea of unpredictability,
Video examples
Computing a theory of...
Things with rules as simple as these can do it. Well, this has deep implications about the limits of science, about predictability and controllability of things like biological processes or economies, about intelligence in the universe,
Video examples
Is our climate headed...
less predictability, and most importantly, less hospitably to human life. The hypothetical models that mathematicians study in detail may not always look like actual situations, but they can provide a framework and a way of thinking
Video examples
The quantum world and...
Channel's fault small changes and predictable systems can lead to huge consequences and unpredictability it's a phenomenon called chaos or the butterfly effect and it's pretty common in our world but what about the world of a
Video examples
A Creator-Led Internet,...
And one of those lessons was how important stability and predictability were to publishers. No publisher can build a business on a platform that's too volatile, and no business should be entirely reliant on any one platform.
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Khaled Hosseini
Afghani Novelist
My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness in life, want their life to have a sense of security and predictability, who want to belong to something bigger than them, who want love and affection in their life, who want a good future for the children.
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John Updike
American Novelist
Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.
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Matt Lauer
American Celebrity
My mother is a strong woman. Her strength comes from being tested by life's unpredictability. It comes from soldiering on for her children, even when she might rather have given up. I know it hasn't always come easily, but I also know it's her greatest gift.
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Joel Edgerton
Australian Actor
Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.
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Lauren Groff
American Novelist
The darkest period of my life, so far, arrived the summer I was pregnant with my eldest son. The future was growing in me with all of its terrifying unpredictability, and I found myself anxious, unable to work and woefully at sea.
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Jane Smiley
American Writer
I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.
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William J. Clinton
American President
In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever.
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Joshua Sasse
British Actor
I think there are always people that you meet in your life that scare you a little, but not because of the terror in their eyes so much as their unpredictability.
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Leonard Mlodinow
American Physicist
I think the fun of following the movie box office and stocks is very similar to the fun of sports - all three combine passion and unpredictability.
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M. Jayachandran
Indian Composer
In any art, unpredictability is the delightful factor.
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Khaled Hosseini
Afghani Novelist
My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness in life, want their life to have a sense of security and predictability, who want to belong to something bigger than them, who want love and affection in their life, who want a good future for the children.
Quote examples
John Updike
American Novelist
Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.
Quote examples
Matt Lauer
American Celebrity
My mother is a strong woman. Her strength comes from being tested by life's unpredictability. It comes from soldiering on for her children, even when she might rather have given up. I know it hasn't always come easily, but I also know it's her greatest gift.
Quote examples
Joel Edgerton
Australian Actor
Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.
Quote examples
Lauren Groff
American Novelist
The darkest period of my life, so far, arrived the summer I was pregnant with my eldest son. The future was growing in me with all of its terrifying unpredictability, and I found myself anxious, unable to work and woefully at sea.
Quote examples
Jane Smiley
American Writer
I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.
Quote examples
William J. Clinton
American President
In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever.
Quote examples
Joshua Sasse
British Actor
I think there are always people that you meet in your life that scare you a little, but not because of the terror in their eyes so much as their unpredictability.
Quote examples
Leonard Mlodinow
American Physicist
I think the fun of following the movie box office and stocks is very similar to the fun of sports - all three combine passion and unpredictability.
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M. Jayachandran
Indian Composer
In any art, unpredictability is the delightful factor.
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