Thesaurus / speculate

speculate

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Erosion may have partly worn away what was originally a circular earthwork, the researchers speculate.

DRONES FIND SIGNS OF A NATIVE AMERICAN ‘GREAT SETTLEMENT’ BENEATH A KANSAS PASTUREBRUCE BOWERSEPTEMBER 10, 2020SCIENCE NEWS

However, some of those people also speculate Apple may have plans to build a bigger ads business of its own.

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In the face of sustained hardship, which has the potential to encourage dangerously high levels of cortisol, a weak stress response — that is, producing less cortisol — could be “nature’s way of preserving the brain and body,” Gunnar speculates.

PUBERTY CAN REPAIR THE BRAIN’S STRESS RESPONSES AFTER HARDSHIP EARLY IN LIFEESTHER LANDHUISAUGUST 28, 2020SCIENCE NEWS

Scientists have to speculate, which could go one of two or three ways, or maybe some way they haven’t seen yet.

HOW PSEUDOSCIENTISTS GET AWAY WITH IT - FACTS SO ROMANTICSTUART FIRESTEINAUGUST 28, 2020NAUTILUS

So a weak stress response could be “nature’s way of preserving the brain and body,” Gunnar now speculates.

PUBERTY MAY REBOOT THE BRAIN AND BEHAVIORSESTHER LANDHUISAUGUST 27, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTS

Some are even speculating he sees it as his “October surprise.”

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Ever since the platform left the chronological feed behind and moved to the algorithmic feed years ago, marketers, content creators, and users alike have been speculating on what exactly determines which posts make it to the top.

HOW TO OPTIMIZE FOR THE INSTAGRAM ALGORITHM IN 2020JULIA MIASHKOVAAUGUST 19, 2020SEARCH ENGINE WATCH

Ever since OpenAI first announced GPT-2, people have speculated that it was vulnerable to abuse.

A COLLEGE KID’S FAKE, AI-GENERATED BLOG FOOLED TENS OF THOUSANDS. THIS IS HOW HE MADE IT.KAREN HAOAUGUST 14, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW

Intriguingly, the researchers speculate that with enough well-designed training environments, the approach might yield a general-purpose reinforcement learning algorithm.

DEEPMIND’S NEWEST AI PROGRAMS ITSELF TO MAKE ALL THE RIGHT DECISIONSJASON DORRIERJULY 26, 2020SINGULARITY HUB

Although the team didn’t directly observe fluids moving underground, the scientists speculate that beneath the fault zone lies a reservoir of groundwater that previously had been sealed off from the zone.

MACHINE LEARNING HELPED DEMYSTIFY A CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE SWARMCAROLYN GRAMLINGJUNE 18, 2020SCIENCE NEWS

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bellicose

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