Sentences with phrase «by randomness of»

While the overall acoustic effect is similar from sphere to sphere as the speed of rotation remains constant, the sound produced by each is distinct, affected by the randomness of its movement.

Be surprised by the randomness of Octodad's flailing or express your own sense of humor by making Octodad do silly things.

«So how is collective motion of bacteria controlled by randomness of the medium?

That's bound to turn around, if only by the randomness of one - lost records.

Top - down selection leads to increased complexity, enabled by the randomness of lower - level processes, an intriguing thought.

Not exact matches

By leaching out some of the randomness of traditional online dating, Hinge emphasizes dating over hook - ups.

To produce the randomness, Ouroboros does this by a secure, multiparty implementation of a coin - flipping protocol.

Since that time, he has written a long - form essay broken into three books: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, and Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder.

«Fooled by Randomness - I consider it one of the most important books an investor can read.»

Risk is randomness in which events have measurable probabilities, wrote economist Frank Knight in 1921 in Meaning of Risk and Uncertainty.1 Probabilities may be attained either by deduction (using theoretical models) or induction (using the observed frequency of events).

1 Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, 2nd ed., (New York: Thompson Texere, 2004), 61.

I could grab plenty more ICO fundraise charts but hopefully by now you've caught my drift: while ICO raises are sort of similar in that we usually see an initial rush of investors that gradually tapers off, with a little boost just before the sale ends, the initial two week - period of the Ethereum pre-sale looks more than merely typical, there's very little randomness in it — it looks perfect.

But when any scientist «explains» any event or series of events by appeal to randomness or chance, he is not doing science.Randomness has no inherent intelligibility.

The ultimate randomness of the Universe and all its bodies flying about via the process of «gravity» shows quite clearly that if you get in the way of gravity as it exists in the outer region or by chance we will get hit by something huge is NOT a good design.

The apparent randomness as well as the struggling and unpredictable meanderings that science sees in evolution, and which have caused so much theological controversy, are just what we should expect if the world is in some way left to be itself by the non-interfering goodness of a self - emptying God.

Some scientists have so struggled with the extreme improbability of the conditions for life resulting from randomness that they go so far as to dream up theories of parallel universes to explain the problems presented by simple math on the likelihood of random chance.

there's really no room for the concept of an independent entity possessed of «will» in a worldview shaped by cause and effect; the only place for «will» to retreat to is the zone of true randomness, of complete uncertainty, which means that truly free will as such must be completely inscrutible [sic]... Statistical laws govern the decay of a block of uranium, but whether or not this atom of uranium chooses to fission in this instant is a completely unpredictable event — fundamentally unpredictable, something which simply can not be known — which is equally good evidence for the proposition that it's God's (or the atom's) will whether it splits or remains whole, as for the proposition that it's random chance.

If you mean that we counter creationists arguments that evolution runs counter to the second law of thermodynamics by saying that that law only applies to heat transfer and randomness in a closed (gaseous) system, well, that is true.

If all is to be conceived by analogy with our human nature, then either Spinoza is right and the eternal, immutable essence of the cosmic soul necessitates everything in the cosmic body, and there is no chance, randomness, or genuinely open alternatives either within the world or as between this and other possible worlds; or there is freedom both in our decisions and in God's.

All of this randomness of the universe, you know the one with the rules that seem to complement each other so well... almost like it was designed... but wasn't because you know it was randomly created... by nothing...

When we look at the very basis of all science (that is quantum physics and the math which underlies it) we see that everything truly is governed by randomness and probabilities, not by determinism.

It's regional fairy tales put into impressionable minds by parents and elders and the rest is just the randomness of human nature.

It is the combination of randomness and the winnowing process called natural selection that is offered as an answer by neo-Darwinists.

Claiming that we falsify reality if we divide it into mind and matter, into living and non-living, he said: «consciousness (which we take to include thought, feeling, desire, will etc.) is to be comprehended in terms of the implicate order, along with reality as a whole».7 Thus the randomness of sub-atomic elements may be linked with the creative freedom exercised by human consciousness.

While affirming that there is randomness and chance in the universe, process thought is not a form of indeterminacy in the typical way the word is used, referring to reality being constituted by discreet causally unrelated entities.

by focusing on results (which come with a degree of randomness that bites everyone at some time) as opposed to play.

To find out if that was the case, he teamed up with John Goutsias, Ph.D., professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering, to find a way to measure this controlled type of randomness, scientifically termed epigenetic stochasticity, by using the information - theoretic concept of Shannon entropy.

Feinberg, who is also a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Public Health at The Johns Hopkins University, suspected that this variation might be an adaptive feature by which built - in epigenetic randomness would give some cells an advantage in rapidly changing environments.

The freak accident highlighted Florida's vulnerability to sinkholes, and the seemingly sheer randomness of death by earth.

Next month, in Part 2, we will consider how randomness rules our lives through the metaphor of «the drunkard's walk,» well elucidated by physicist Leonard Mlodinow of the California Institute of Technology in his new book of the same title.

This was originally developed by physicists to quantify lost energy in mechanical systems, such as a steam engine, but entropy can also be used to measure the range or randomness of a system.

Entanglement is not possible in classical physics, so the nature of the system must be governed by quantum randomness.

But a paper in today's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is upsetting the conventional wisdom about randomness by showing that some of these numbers are far more predictable than expected.

Change on the Earth is the result of both, the first step being dominated by randomness, the second by necessity.

This myth reflects a general misunderstanding of entropy, the term used by physicists to describe randomness or disorder.

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Engage removes the randomness factor of online dating by providing a social networking platform that allows your friends to be your matchmaker, as well as a voting system to rate the behavior of Engage community members.

Maybe the entire album is a meme itself, a grand existential joke critiquing the all - conquering rise of Internet culture by parodying its overwhelming randomness.

It did amuse me and I enjoyed the randomness of it, but at almost 3 hours long, I feel it should have been cut down by about an hour and I would have enjoyed it more.

-- «Amadeus» (1984): This was not a Mozart biography but a meditation and speculation on the randomness and cruelty of genius, featuring irrepressible, over-the-top performances by Tom Hulce as Mozart and F. Murray Abraham as Salieri, his rival.

Taleb (2005, 2007, 2012) within his books on financial markets and system dynamics Fooled by Randomness, Black Swan and Antifragile argues that our incapability to forecast in environments subjected to extreme events including a lack of the awareness of this state of affairs means that certain experts are claiming to tell the truth while in fact they are not.

Multiple imputation has the benefit of imputing missing values, however, because it creates multiple values for a given imputation, it reintroduces randomness, avoiding over precision that is caused by standard imputation.

For readers, the story of an unremarkable, and only slightly rebellious, teenager brings home the crude randomness of the destruction suffered by many and refreshes our sense of bewilderment.

Scientists currently believe that this randomness is genuine, not just caused by a lack of information.

Trend following price action is an alternative to participating in the randomness of trying to make buy and sell decisions by calculating fundamental valuations in the hopes that the market will agree at some future date.

It includes randomness, restricted by two forms of mean reversion.

From your 50 % odds based on randomness then you will attempt to get the odds in your favor by going in the direction of the predominant trend in your time frame.

The assumption has made Nassim Taleb, the writer of Fooled by Randomness, rich.

With security prices available on a minute - by - minute basis, the run - of - the - mill investors focus on analyzing randomness — allowing themselves to become happy or sad over short - term price fluctuations that are disconnected from whether they were fundamentally right in their investment analysis.

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