Quotes About Estimating

Now, I bow to nobody when it comes to estimating the influence of 'This Week.'

The method of estimating the potency of insulin solutions is based on the effect that insulin produces upon the blood sugar of normal animals.

I turned around on the Button Couch, estimating the tension had reached a level that could no longer justify complete privacy.

The general strategy was to be conservative when estimating when a book would be shipped, so that surprises would be positive—shipped sooner than the customer expected—rather than negative.

Many technical people consider estimating difficult; and indeed, at this stage, it is definitely as much art as it is science.

In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape.

Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles in the 2004 Nimitz Encounter.

organisers of weight-guessing competitions and advisers helping people to refine their guesses.

The process is called estimation, not exactimation. —Phillip Armour

Uncertainty in estimating viability is related in this way not only to the innate difficulty of predicting the future but also to power and interests.

So what can we do? The big idea is to make a model that lets us estimate the probabilities with which sequences should occur—even though we've never explicitly seen those sequences in the corpus of text we've looked at. And at the core of ChatGPT is precisely a so-called "large language model" (LLM) that's been built to do a good job of estimating those probabilities.

We have no reason for assuming the form of such a thing to be still partly dependent on blind mechanism, for with such confusion of heterogeneous principles every reliable rule for estimating things would disappear.

The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of the victim's cheque books.

She did not suspect that the Abbess was even there hovering about the house, herself estimating the stresses and watching for the moment when a burden harms and not strengthens.

The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.

So far, the results confirm the folklore: Programmers seem to be a bit more productive after they've done the estimate themselves, compared to cases in which the manager did it without even consulting them. When the two did the estimating together, the results tended to fall in between.

In 21 projects studied that same year, estimates were prepared by a third party, typically a systems analyst. The developers in these cases substantially outperformed the projects in which estimating was done by a programmer and/or a supervisor

Speculation does not determine prices; it has to accept the prices that are determined in the market. I ts efforts are directed to correctly estimating future price-situations, and to acting accordingly. The influence of speculation cannot alter the average level of prices over a given period; what it can do is to diminish the gap between the highest and the lowest prices.

You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live in a country which is incapable of estimating it.

A key tenet of agile estimating and planning is that we estimate size but derive duration.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.