mispredict

We misremember how happy we've been in the past, we mispredict how happy we'll be in the future (his section on futurism should be mandatory reading for every science fiction writer and tech journalist).

Boing Boing 2007

Humans mispredict their emotions after decision making

August 17th, 2007 2007

As the happiness researchers Tim Wilson and Daniel Gilbert have put it, "People routinely mispredict how much pleasure or displeasure future events will bring."

The New Yorker Elizabeth Kolbert 2010

Numbers Everyone Should Know L1 cache reference 0.5 ns Branch mispredict 5 ns L2 cache reference 7 ns Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns Main memory reference 100 ns Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns Send 2K bytes over 1 Gbps network 20,000 ns Read 1 MB sequentially from memory

Recently Uploaded Slideshows longhao 2010

- Installers still can't understand junction points, and mispredict the amount of free space I have.

ActiveWin.com Headlines 2009

To not internalize this more deeply is to miss investment opportunities, grossly mispredict the future, and be utterly unprepared for massive, sweeping changes to human society.

linkfilter.net - fresh links 2009

To not internalize this more deeply is to miss investment opportunities, grossly mispredict the future, and be utterly unprepared for massive, sweeping changes to human society.

linkfilter.net - fresh links 2009

People mispredict children’s futures all the time, and not everything can be determined.

Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011

People mispredict children’s futures all the time, and not everything can be determined.

Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011

Professor Gilbert, whose research examines why people so often mispredict what will make them happy, says, "Science has revealed three important facts about happiness: You can't be happy alone; you can't be happy all the time; you can be happier than you are.

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