Futurology

Hi Georgie! I would like to share some news and my grand plan I wish to execute in Kindred! :) I am at the final phase of wrapping up my thesis. I have a full complete draft now, which will need some iterations. But I am happy that the largest step before my defense is taken. We have got a place to rent in Toronto very close to the office. My wife got her transfer from Ottawa, too. So, we are in our moving phase toward the great city of Toronto! I am extremely excited to be greatly empowered

2 Visual Soccer Analytics: Understanding the Characteristics of Collective Team Movement Based on Feature-Driven Analysis and Abstraction This paper[3] proposes a novel visual analysis system for interactive identification of soccer patterns and game situations that are of interest to a sports analyst. It does this by building on a pre-existing data-driven system and improving it by adding semantic features defined along with a soccer domain expert. The new application provides visualizations to

2018 ERCOT Long-Term Demand Forecasting Approach prepared by London Economics International LLC December 21st, 2017 Background On December 15th, 2017, ERCOT released its annual System Planning Long-Term Hourly Peak Demand and Energy Forecast report for the region for 2018. The report presents methodology, assumptions, and the data used to conduct the forecasting. ERCOT bases the forecast on econometric models describing ERCOT’s hourly load as dependent on the number of premises in various customer

Futurist-The William Gibson William Gibson, the writer of the essay, “The Net Is a Waste of Time” presents various views regarding the net. He has compared the net with the wooden box (television). Just like the television has evolved from the stage of showing nothing but “snow” to something more. He has predicted that the net will also evolve into something greater and bigger. He creates the idea in the reader’s mind that the net is in its early stages during 1990’s and will evolve into something

In the average American household what is one piece of furniture that is in several rooms, huge, and in the center of the room? The television of course! In Jerry Mander’s The Four Arguments to Eliminate Television, where 30 years ago, he expressed that television will impact every aspect of today’s world. The author hits the target spot on about society now through his insightful predictions on the incorporation of business into television as well as the harmful effects of television on the human

13.1 Positives aside, our team has to look at the negatives while making forecasts using the past three months of subscription data. Forecasts for the prior year were inaccurate because spending used for telemarketing was not always consistent. To make accurate forecasts our team has to take these variables that were not always consistent into consideration. All factors have to be taken into account before future forecasts can be made. Making future projections using three months of data

What is Happiness? People travel through life with what seems like a single goal: to be happy. This may seem like a selfish way to live, however this lone objective is the motivation behind nearly all actions. Even seemingly selfless deeds make people feel better about themselves. That warm feeling experienced while doing charitable acts can be described as happiness. But what is authentic happiness? There is an endless possibility of answers to this question, and man seems to be always searching

Spike Jonze’s film “Her” showcases a human named Theodore and an operating system called Samantha falling in love with one another. The film raises awareness about how humans use too much technology, and how it’s time-consuming. “Her” also reveals the future relationship humans have with technology, which in the film’s case shows a positive effect on people. Although technology can be time-consuming and lower one's attention span, future technology can ultimately have a positive effect on people

Neural Networks in Finance 2600 Words By Maria L. Vicente University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo QBA 362 Fall 2016 Introduction Predictions are an important component of determining the financial progress of a business. Business decisions rely on forecasting techniques to predict things such as price movements or overall success in markets. In the attempt to forecast market predictions, it must be assumed that future occurrences may be partly based on present and past data (Abu-Mostafa

Predicting the future may be far fetched but in books they seem to be able foreshadow things that happened in that book's future. This is evident in the book Feed by M.T. Anderson. Feed predicted three major things; environmental problems, the advancement of technology, and they way we advertise and how it affects us. Feed predicts many things that are happening today. Feed predicts the environmental problems we have to day. Though Feed has a lot of environmental problems, we do share a few