How to Use probabilistic in a Sentence

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• In the 1960s Paul Erdős developed what came to be called the probabilistic method for answering questions about graphs.
  — Quanta Magazine, 17 Mar. 2021
• An eighth qubit, in some probabilistic combination of states 0 and 1, is then swapped with one of the particles from the left SYK model.
  — Natalie Wolchover, Quanta Magazine, 30 Nov. 2022
• But as Pearl sees it, the field of AI got mired in probabilistic associations.
  — Kevin Hartnett, The Atlantic, 19 May 2018
• This requires thinking of the structure of a particle and what can be found within it as probabilistic in nature.
  — Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 30 Aug. 2022
• This probabilistic argument is widely known, but no one has been able to extend it to a complete proof of the conjecture.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 Sep. 2020
• Outside the realm of games, accurate probabilistic thinking is a rare skill.
  — Maria Konnikova, Wired, 23 June 2020
• This ties into maybe the most interesting thing for me in your paper, which is the concept of probabilistic thinking.
  — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 27 Apr. 2021
• The team used a probabilistic reversal test, where a participant was shown two stimuli (A and B).
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Jan. 2023
• That flies in the face of quantum physics, because results are probabilistic, not definite.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 23 Aug. 2021
• Like weather forecasts, good infectious disease forecasts are probabilistic and will be wrong some of the time.
  — John Drake, Forbes, 18 June 2021
• One of Erdős’s most notable contributions was to something called the probabilistic method.
  — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2024
• Engineers can build probabilistic models for patterns of pixel colors from one frame to the next.
  — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 Sep. 2022
• His method of proving these mathematical ideas is called probabilistic, and it’s been used in many ways in the decades since Erdős popularized it.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2023
• In the case of its bridge A.I., the rules of the game were hard-coded into the software and human expertise was used to validate the probabilistic decisions the software developed.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2022
• Shooting basketballs is certainly a probabilistic problem, so Wighton had to choose the distribution that would lead to the most shots per game.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 22 Apr. 2020
• In the probabilistic language the agency uses to describe the season ahead, there is a 60 percent chance of an above-normal season, and just a 10 percent chance of a below-normal season.
  — John Schwartz, BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2020
• How does our predictable everyday world emerge from the hazy, probabilistic rules of quantum mechanics?
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 12 Sep. 2019
• The app is powered by a probabilistic reasoning system using Bayesian methods, one of the core concepts for computer science and AI.
  — Stephanie Cain, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2024
• Now the literal million-dollar question is: How far can these probabilistic methods go?
  — Charlie Wood, Wired, 4 July 2021
• Because of the probabilistic elements, their proof only works for large enough hypergraphs — those with more than a specific number of vertices.
  — Quanta Magazine, 5 Apr. 2021
• Instead of spending on a baseball player because of the way his swing looked, for example, teams crunched numbers to make probabilistic decisions based on data and win more games with less money.
  — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2022
• Our results provide a clear, if probabilistic, estimation of the extent to which users of Tor engage in either form of activity.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 30 Nov. 2020
• Relative changes within probabilistic models can just be used to get some idea of shifting trends over time, in response to events like debates, outrageous statements and WikiLeaks.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 Oct. 2016
• Humans have a difficult time with probabilistic thinking, Wachter said.
  — Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY, 27 May 2021
• Erdős cracked many stubborn math problems with the probabilistic method, including a more general version of our mixer problem.
  — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2024
• One, known as probabilistic event attribution, is used to estimate how much human behavior has contributed to the odds of a certain kind of event occurring, such as a heat wave.
  — Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
• This was a way to create a probabilistic multiphoton emitter.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2022
• Qubits are probabilistic combinations of two states, labeled 0 and 1.
  — Quanta Magazine, 12 Nov. 2020
• The generative AI is devised with a probabilistic and statistical underpinning which pretty much guarantees that the output produced will vary each time.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• The ultimate import of much of this work is that humans are themselves randomly fluctuating particles whose behavior, in aggregate, can be forecast by probabilistic methods.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024