### inference:

Entailment
* is inference
* logical relationship that occurs when one meaning entails another.

### inference:

Statistical inference
* can be hard, e.g. electromagnetic radiation.
* combines methods of descriptive statistics with the theory of probability.
* deals with drawing conclusions about populations based on samples.
* involves, among other things, hypothesis testing.
* is based on two applications of a randomization technique, bootstrapping
  - the conclusions one can draw from that data
  - used to draw conclusions and to identify the best system
* provides a formal link between economic theory and the world
  - sociological theory and social experience
* starts with hypothesis testing.

Type inference
* is the problem of finding a typing for a given term, if possible.
* process of constraint satisfaction.

Inflection
* are grammatical changes in number, person, mood or tense and plurals.
* evolve naturally as an integral part of a language.
* finds the inflection point of a curve.
* is deviation
  - the addition of a morpheme to a root or word in order to change meaning or nuance

### inflection:

Pluralization
* can lead to democratization and democracy.
* is inflection

### information gathering:

Strategic intelligence
* includes information on nuclear weapons, such as tests and new deployments.
* is information gathering

### information gathering | undercover work:

Espionage
* are criminal acts
  - spying
* crime under the legal code of many nations.
* involves the use of basic, effective methods.
* is often part of an institutional effort by a government or commercial concern
  - performed before attempts to develop domestic technology
  - punishable by death in Iran
  - the use of illegal means to gather information
  - threatened today, as never before, by technology
  - undercover work
* revolves around the many different forms of betrayals of trust.
* valid threat to the intellectual property of a company.

### information gathering | undercover work | espionage:

Corporate espionage
* can steal trade secrets.
* is all too common in today's workplace
  - highest in consumer products
* threat to any business whose livelihood depends on information.

Economic espionage
* booming business-and a growing threat to America's economic security.
* direct threat to the economic security of the United States.
* is as old as greed itself.

Industrial espionage
* denotes the illegal gathering of business data, information and trade secrets.
* differs from economic espionage.
* enables companies in the spy ring loop to secure orders.
* has a long and notorious history.
* is the secret collection of proprietary business information.
* occurs in the private sector.
* takes many forms.

### information management:

Multiplexing
* allows the transmission of multiple communications over a single line.
* is information management
  - now a common technique for increasing the efficiency of ground-based telescopes
  - signal processing
  - used for data, voice and a combination of both
  - where each column of LEDs is activated for a short time followed by the next column
* means allowing multiple connections to use the same transmission
  - transmitting multiple conversations on the same frequency at once
* occurs when more than one ball is in a hand at a time.

Information quality
* improves processes to prevent defective data from being created.
* is quality data produced at the source.

### information specialists:

Administrative assistant
* are information specialists.
* play vital roles in American business, government and industry.
* to join teams.
* work with managers in various departments of an organization.

### inhabitants:

Philistine
* are inhabitants
  - much better organized than scientists
* common man
* do less harm than most ideologically motivated people.