So we ask very limited questions, which is why we brag about how accurately we can predict the future.

我们研究的问题是非常有限的,正因如此我们才敢自豪地说,我们能非常精确地预测未来

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And then we try and get our simulation to match the past, and hope that that will help it predict the future.

尝试让仿真程序能和这一部分实际数据相符，并且希望它能够帮我们对未来进行预测。

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So, we are now going to do one standard problem where we will convince ourselves we can apply this formulas and predict the future given the present.

我们接下来将去研究一个标准问题,通过这个问题,我们能让自己相信,我们能利用这些式子,根据现状,预测未来

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The plan, every time, is to predict the future given the present.

无论何时,我们的做法都是根据现状来预测未来

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So the question is, "What do you mean by predict the future?

所以问题在于,什么叫预测未来

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By "Present," We mean-- we will pick some part of the universe we want to study and we will ask, "What information do I need to know for that system at the initial time, like, right now, in order to be able to predict the future?"

我们所说的"现在",意思是,我们会选取客观世界某一部分来进行研究,然后我们就会问,我们需要什么信息去了解,初始时刻的系统,比如现在,进而能使我们能够预测未来呢

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And we can just extrapolate in a straight line We before saw some examples where I had an algorithm to generate points, and we fit a curve to it, used the curve to predict future points and discovered it was nowhere close.

我们可以干脆用一条直线来描述它,我们之前看到在一些例子中,我用一个算法去生成一些点，然后用一条曲线对它进行拟合，然后用这条曲线来预测未来的点,最后却发现结果完全不对。

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