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  2. Future of mathematics - Wikipedia

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    The progression of both the nature of mathematics and individual mathematical problems into the future is a widely debated topic; many past predictions about modern mathematics have been misplaced or completely false, so there is reason to believe that many predictions today will follow a similar path. However, the subject still carries an ...

  3. Newcomb's paradox - Wikipedia

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    Causality issues arise when the predictor is posited as infallible and incapable of error; Nozick avoids this issue by positing that the predictor's predictions are "almost certainly" correct, thus sidestepping any issues of infallibility and causality. Nozick also stipulates that if the predictor predicts that the player will choose randomly ...

  4. 2011 end times prediction - Wikipedia

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    On the weekend of May 21–22, the Family Radio headquarters was closed with a note stating, "This office is closed. Sorry we missed you!" [ 59 ] The Family Radio network remained on the air during May 21 and May 22, mostly broadcasting its normal schedule of programming, but with no mention of the rapture and without the usual replays of ...

  5. Odds - Wikipedia

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    While they have useful mathematical properties, they can produce counter-intuitive results: an event with an 80% probability of occurring is four times more probable to happen than an event with a 20% probability, but the odds are 16 times higher on the less probable event (4–1 against, or 4) than on the more probable one (1–4, or 4–1 on ...

  6. A Treatise on Probability - Wikipedia

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    Keynes had also noted in Chapter 21 the limitations of 'mathematical expectation' for 'rational' decision making. [ 67 ] [ 68 ] Keynes developed this point in his more well-known General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money and subsequently, specifically in his thinking on the nature and role of long-term expectation in economics, [ 69 ...

  7. Wigner argues that mathematical concepts have applicability far beyond the context in which they were originally developed. He writes: "It is important to point out that the mathematical formulation of the physicist's often crude experience leads in an uncanny number of cases to an amazingly accurate description of a large class of phenomena."

  8. Las Vegas Grand Prix prediction and F1 betting tips: Title ...

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    Las Vegas Grand Prix betting tips. Max Verstappen fastest lap and race winner - 9/1 William Hill. Las Vegas Grand Prix betting preview. Max Verstappen sits on the precipice of his fourth Formula 1 ...

  9. Prediction - Wikipedia

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    In a non-statistical sense, the term "prediction" is often used to refer to an informed guess or opinion.. A prediction of this kind might be informed by a predicting person's abductive reasoning, inductive reasoning, deductive reasoning, and experience; and may be useful—if the predicting person is a knowledgeable person in the field.