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  • Well, by “trivial” I mean “trivial when someone else has already written a really solid algorithm for brute-forcing a ciphertext with a probability-weighted wordlist, and you can just use their code.”

    Solution to the Fringe Glyph Cipher 2009

  • According to Hansson (2003: 306), usually the following criterion is applied: ˜... a risk is acceptable if and only if the total benefits that the exposure gives rise to outweigh the total risks, measured as the probability-weighted disutility of outcomes™.

    Philosophy of Technology Franssen, Maarten 2009

  • An act's expected utility is a probability-weighted average of its expected utility according to the dependency hypotheses that candidate causal models represent.

    Causal Decision Theory Weirich, Paul 2008

  • This means that the utility of a mixture of potential outcomes is defined as the probability-weighted average of the utilities of these outcomes.

    Risk Hansson, Sven Ove 2007

  • Buried among the more than 1,000 pages in that report was a slide showing probability-weighted scenarios for mobile operating systems:

    Original Signal - The best of Web 2.0 2010

  • Among them are regulations that prohibit innovation on the grounds of the mere possibility of harm - as advocated in the more extreme interpretations of the precautionary principle - and safety regulations that are based upon mistaken estimates of the expected (probability-weighted) negative value of the events against which they guard Dissenting views

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • CBO’s estimate of $25 billion in costs over the 2009–2010 period reflects a probability-weighted average of how large those injections might need to be, including zero as a potential outcome.

    Director's Blog » Blog Archive » Federal Financial Assistance for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac 2008

  • EPCOR estimated the fair value using a probability-weighted discounted cash flow approach based on the assumed credit ratings and potential ratings actions on the applicable new notes under the ABCP restructuring, observable interest rates and credit spreads for estimating future interest payments and applicable discount rates, the cost of margin call facilities, the cost of the restructuring, estimated recovery periods based on the estimated lives of the underlying assets associated with the new notes and ranges of recoverability based on publicly available default statistics for credit-rated entities.

    unknown title 2009

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