Infer
verb
To understand or make a conclusion about something from information that one has.
From her smile, he inferred that she was happy.
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- infer from
- infer that
verb
In logic, to derive as a conclusion from facts or premises.
We infer from specific evidence to a general law.
Often appears as...
- infer a conclusion
- infer from evidence
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Formal
verb
To guess, speculate or surmise.
From his silence, she inferred that he did not agree with the plan.
Often appears as...
- infer a meaning
- infer an intention
verb
To hint, imply or suggest.
Are you inferring that I'm not capable of doing the job?
Often appears as...
- infer a suggestion
- unintentionally infer
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Colloquial
verb
To understand or make a conclusion about something from information that one has.
From her smile, he inferred that she was happy.
Often appears as...
- infer from
- infer that
verb
In logic, to derive as a conclusion from facts or premises.
We infer from specific evidence to a general law.
Often appears as...
- infer a conclusion
- infer from evidence
Usage tips
Formal
verb
To guess, speculate or surmise.
From his silence, she inferred that he did not agree with the plan.
Often appears as...
- infer a meaning
- infer an intention
verb
To hint, imply or suggest.
Are you inferring that I'm not capable of doing the job?
Often appears as...
- infer a suggestion
- unintentionally infer
Usage tips
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Context Clues
When you infer, look for context clues in the surrounding text that hint at the underlying meaning or conclusion.
His frown, plus the stormy weather, made her infer he was in a bad mood.
Pro Tip 2/2No Clear Statement
Use 'infer' when conclusions are not directly stated, requiring interpretation of the available information.
The empty fridge led them to infer that their roommate had eaten everything.
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Chris Urmson: How a...
to avoid some of the difficulty. But we actually have a much deeper understanding of this. We could take all of the data that the cars have seen over time, the hundreds of thousands of pedestrians, cyclists, and vehicles that have been out there and understand what they look like and use that to infer what other vehicles should look like and other pedestrians should look like.
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Should you trust your...
Research in social psychology suggests that we're quick to form lasting impressions of others based on their behaviors. We manage to do this with little effort, inferring stable character traits from a single behavior, like a harsh word or a clumsy step. Using our impressions as guides, we can accurately predict
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Ken Goldberg: 4 lessons...
Now we take those human demonstrations -- they're all noisy and imperfect -- and we extract from them an inferred task trajectory and control sequence for the robot. We then execute that on the robot, we observe what happens, then we adjust the controls, using a sequence of techniques called iterative learning.
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What AI is -- and isn't...
Normally, in game playing, you would really write down all the rules, but in AlphaGo's case, the system looked over a million games and was able to infer its own rules and then beat the world's residing Go champion. That is exciting, because it relieves the software engineer of the need of being super smart,
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Dark Universe 101 PIPE...
The existence of dark matter can be inferred based on its gravitational pull on the visible universe. According to some scientists, this force is what prevents stars within galaxies from drifting away. Dark matter may have also played a role in the creation of the cosmos.
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Where are all the...
are unidentified. We can't simply infer they're spacecraft. You can still have some fun playing with the idea aliens are here. Some say a summer civilization did colonize the galaxy and seeded Earth with life others, that we're living in a cosmic wilderness preserve --
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The design of the...
and showing you some of the designs that we have in nature. And so, I have my first slide to talk about the dawning of the universe and what I call the cosmic scene investigation, that is, looking at the relics of creation and inferring what happened at the beginning,
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Earth's mysterious red...
But this measure can be unreliable. In contrast, chlorophyll fluorescence is a direct measure of photosynthetic activity. It can help us infer how much oxygen is being released and how much carbon is being absorbed in a given system.
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The new generation of...
and the infer strong very as normal that s nowadays what working in nowadays that is always disagreement people are view you know but I encourage the technology team to provide more choice more
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We're building a...
In the physical world, we live with those limitations. In the digital world, though, persuasion architectures can be built at the scale of billions and they can target, infer, understand
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Chris Urmson: How a...
to avoid some of the difficulty. But we actually have a much deeper understanding of this. We could take all of the data that the cars have seen over time, the hundreds of thousands of pedestrians, cyclists, and vehicles that have been out there and understand what they look like and use that to infer what other vehicles should look like and other pedestrians should look like.
Video examples
Should you trust your...
Research in social psychology suggests that we're quick to form lasting impressions of others based on their behaviors. We manage to do this with little effort, inferring stable character traits from a single behavior, like a harsh word or a clumsy step. Using our impressions as guides, we can accurately predict
Video examples
Ken Goldberg: 4 lessons...
Now we take those human demonstrations -- they're all noisy and imperfect -- and we extract from them an inferred task trajectory and control sequence for the robot. We then execute that on the robot, we observe what happens, then we adjust the controls, using a sequence of techniques called iterative learning.
Video examples
What AI is -- and isn't...
Normally, in game playing, you would really write down all the rules, but in AlphaGo's case, the system looked over a million games and was able to infer its own rules and then beat the world's residing Go champion. That is exciting, because it relieves the software engineer of the need of being super smart,
Video examples
Dark Universe 101 PIPE...
The existence of dark matter can be inferred based on its gravitational pull on the visible universe. According to some scientists, this force is what prevents stars within galaxies from drifting away. Dark matter may have also played a role in the creation of the cosmos.
Video examples
Where are all the...
are unidentified. We can't simply infer they're spacecraft. You can still have some fun playing with the idea aliens are here. Some say a summer civilization did colonize the galaxy and seeded Earth with life others, that we're living in a cosmic wilderness preserve --
Video examples
The design of the...
and showing you some of the designs that we have in nature. And so, I have my first slide to talk about the dawning of the universe and what I call the cosmic scene investigation, that is, looking at the relics of creation and inferring what happened at the beginning,
Video examples
Earth's mysterious red...
But this measure can be unreliable. In contrast, chlorophyll fluorescence is a direct measure of photosynthetic activity. It can help us infer how much oxygen is being released and how much carbon is being absorbed in a given system.
Video examples
The new generation of...
and the infer strong very as normal that s nowadays what working in nowadays that is always disagreement people are view you know but I encourage the technology team to provide more choice more
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We're building a...
In the physical world, we live with those limitations. In the digital world, though, persuasion architectures can be built at the scale of billions and they can target, infer, understand
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Hannah Fry
English Mathematician
You can harvest any data that you want, on anybody. You can infer any data that you like, and you can use it to manipulate them in any way that you choose. And you can roll out an algorithm that genuinely makes massive differences to people's lives, both good and bad, without any checks and balances.
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Maryanne Wolf
American Educator
Deep reading refers to a whole continuum of processes that include some of the most important things about thinking and how we connect thought to what we read - critical analysis, analogical reasoning, how we infer from the text, how do we take another's perspective.
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Isaac Newton
English Mathematician
The hypothesis of matter's being at first evenly spread through the heavens is, in my opinion, inconsistent with the hypothesis of innate gravity without a supernatural power to reconcile them, and therefore, it infers a deity.
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Charles Inglis
Canadian Clergyman
If notwithstanding, a Rebellion of the same Kind now afflicts this Country, we should not infer that this Institution is useless, or should be laid aside; but just the Reverse.
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Lauren Groff
American Novelist
Bigger stories are made out of longer acquaintance with fact and character, but I also love the tiny stories in which almost everything has to be inferred and imagined.
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Carolyn Porco
American Scientist
Motive may be inferred only when the stimuli in the agent's environment are open to view and the influences leading an agent to a particular action can be evaluated.
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
German Scientist
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
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Heidi Hammel
American Scientist
By monitoring auroral activity on exoplanets, we may be able to infer the presence of water on or within an exoplanet.
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Peter R. Grant
American Scientist
We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.
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David Draiman
American Musician
We are a metal band, period. To me, the 'nu' part infers some sort of a rap influence.
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Hannah Fry
English Mathematician
You can harvest any data that you want, on anybody. You can infer any data that you like, and you can use it to manipulate them in any way that you choose. And you can roll out an algorithm that genuinely makes massive differences to people's lives, both good and bad, without any checks and balances.
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Maryanne Wolf
American Educator
Deep reading refers to a whole continuum of processes that include some of the most important things about thinking and how we connect thought to what we read - critical analysis, analogical reasoning, how we infer from the text, how do we take another's perspective.
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Isaac Newton
English Mathematician
The hypothesis of matter's being at first evenly spread through the heavens is, in my opinion, inconsistent with the hypothesis of innate gravity without a supernatural power to reconcile them, and therefore, it infers a deity.
Quote examples
Charles Inglis
Canadian Clergyman
If notwithstanding, a Rebellion of the same Kind now afflicts this Country, we should not infer that this Institution is useless, or should be laid aside; but just the Reverse.
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Lauren Groff
American Novelist
Bigger stories are made out of longer acquaintance with fact and character, but I also love the tiny stories in which almost everything has to be inferred and imagined.
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Carolyn Porco
American Scientist
Motive may be inferred only when the stimuli in the agent's environment are open to view and the influences leading an agent to a particular action can be evaluated.
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
German Scientist
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
Quote examples
Heidi Hammel
American Scientist
By monitoring auroral activity on exoplanets, we may be able to infer the presence of water on or within an exoplanet.
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Peter R. Grant
American Scientist
We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.
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David Draiman
American Musician
We are a metal band, period. To me, the 'nu' part infers some sort of a rap influence.
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