inference
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Many of the new startups are developing chips tailored for inference, including the U.K. startup Fractile and SambaNova.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
"It is earned through transparency, verification, and a clear distinction between fact, inference, and speculation."
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
"This corresponds to the neuroscientific distinction between changing one's own predictions, perceptual inference, and the attempt to make the world conform to them, namely active inference."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 1, 2026
As inference takes over, Nvidia’s competitors see an opportunity to edge into this giant and fast growing market.
From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026
“Your inference is that he left a line behind, then replaced it with that new one—exhibit B, right there in your hand—replaced it when he got back to the docks.”
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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They can analyze data and make predictive inferences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
However, if a tenant is late or misses a payment, it shows up as “no data available” on a credit report, which Dempsey said lenders and future landlords can draw negative inferences from.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 2, 2026
The commission said this was "a salient reminder to the commission not to jump to conclusions and the dangers of drawing adverse inferences from events unknown".
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2025
Hawley has a penchant for poetic concepts, literary references, political inferences and out-of-the-mainstream ideas that may not always make perfect sense, but his ambition shows through.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2025
Let me end, then, with a couple of additional bad inferences which are further suggestive of the role that innumeracy—in the guise of fallacious logic—plays in pseudoscience.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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The Language of Standardized Tests, List 4
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The Scientific Method
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