Sentences with phrase «complex as a machine»

Ball points out that items as simple as a pad of paper or as complex as a machine repair can be equally important to a smooth operation.

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While Miscavige and his organization have held up the media complex as a valuable tool for spreading the message of Scientology and recruiting new members to join, the new facilities have received criticism from opponents of the religion — including some former members — who claim the complex is nothing more than a propaganda machine and a ploy to attract donations.

Based on a 3D image such as an MRI scan, Aspect's machine builds relatively complex organic structures out of a «hydrogel» embedded within cells taken from the body and grown in a cell culture.

What's more, though the machines can print complex shapes, the final product often isn't as good as a plastic part made with conventional technology.

«I am not yet finished; nor do I believe we are ever to have a perfect understanding of so complex a system as the global money machine.

The core idea behind creating golem network makes ideal for those who are more likely to execute intensive calculations for complex projects such as Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language processing and even machine learning to explore DNA.

Living things are not to be conceived as complex machines.

Similarly, in the early modern period, most people, including most scientists, saw the cosmos as a very complex machine that was obviously made by a powerful mind of enormous intelligence.

If the world is viewed as a complex machine, then the correlative doctrine of God is likely to be that of a creator who stands outside of his creation.

Unfortunately, some defenders of theism in the eighteenth century wedded themselves to this view of the complex machine and its maker and associated it with the view that such special forms of the machine as the human body came into existence fully formed in an aboriginal creation.

1Birch and Cobb do recognize that DNA is «analogous to a complex machine designed to respond differentially to diverse inputs» and «may be interpreted as the product of mechanism in the cell» (LL.

An actual machine, however, as part of the physical world is more complex than any good model.

The future of evolving material beings, both non-living elements and compounds, and living forms, would be completely defined, determined and inevitable: as blind and as pre-fashioned as the multitudinous parts and functions that define a complex electronic machine.

Descartes, for example, explicitly regarded human and animal bodies as complex machines.

Since the time of Descartes it has been popular to think of the human being as a complex machine.

Modernism developed on the basis of the Newtonian universe, conceived as a complex inanimate machine, operating in absolute space and absolute time according to its own internal laws, which were also believed to be eternal and absolute.4 Understanding this «natural world» was the key to everything; physicists set about uncovering the laws by which the physical world operates; Adam Smith looked for the natural laws by which the economy operates; Darwin thought he had discovered, in the law of natural selection, the origin of species.

Messages from the brain to my muscles cause them to contract in ways that result in the very complex movements of my fingers and arms as I sit at the machine.

Other complex machines exist in the contract packaging industry, such as the vertical form fill sealing machine.

Despite scientific critiques however, the brain development advice itself borrows from the language and authority of neuroscience to frame children's brains as technologically complex machines that need the correct inputs in order to attain maximum efficiency at a later time...

Macmillan contests, however, the oft - made charge that «the rigidity of the pre-war plans created doomsday machines that once set in motion could not have been stopped,» arguing that «complex as they were, railway and mobilization schedules could be and indeed were altered in their details every year» (p. 301).

It's that coherent quantum state, Bernien said, that allows the system to work as a simulator, and also makes the machine a potentially valuable tool for gaining new insight into complex quantum phenomena and eventually performing useful calculations.

They're a tough problem to crack because power grids, often described as the world's largest machines, are massively complex systems.

I have programmed computers since the first TRS - 80s came out in the late 1970s, and I thought it would be wonderful if I could build complex molecular machines as easily as I could write software.

Big Data thus presents complex challenges for software developers, as the necessary algorithms can only be created with the aid of specialist skills in a wide range of different fields, such as statistics, machine learning, visualization, databases, and high - performance computing.

«We tend to think of phages as nature's «nano - machines», self - assembling complex biological survival machines capable of replicating faster than any other biological agent,» said Dr. Hill.

In our May 2014 issue, Sridhar Kota, a professor of engineering at the University of Michigan and founder and president of the company FlexSys, published an article about his long - running campaign to take complex, multipart machines and redesign them as flexible, one - piece devices (subscription required).

New automatic fiber placement machines, however, can place composites in complex curves, creating what are known as tow - steered composite wings.

Hassabis also hopes that gaming AI could help improve machine intelligence in general: «Games are good testing environments — they are not too simple, nor are they as complex as the real world.»

But it shouldn't surprise us actually that thing [s] that emerge and evolve from complex processes come through, whether they're machines that humans are working with or whether they're biological life forms as well.

A group recently reported in ACS» Analytical Chemistry, however, that espresso machines can quickly and inexpensively perform some complex chemistry experiments, such as testing for harmful compounds in the environment.

Beyond these much - needed engineering advances, more research is required to expand the possibilities of brain - controlled machines to facilitate complex tasks and behaviors such as tool use and language production (without the use of a virtual keyboard).

I am always amazed to hear comments like «reduce calories and increase exercise to control your obesity» Correct me if I am wrong but as far as I know science has not discovered a «free will» organ in the body... and before you say the brain, remember that as far as neuro - scientists know it is just a very complex turing machine.

Tuck Stebbins, head of the gravitational astrophysics laboratory at NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center, described the detectors as the «most complex machines humans have ever built.»

The data analysis relies on special algorithms developed by Finkbeiner's team, as well as deep machine — learning in which computing systems can uncover complex signals in images.

As a partner of the European Consortium 3D - REPERTOIRE and coordinator of the Spanish Structural Genomics Consortium GENES, our group studies several protein complexes and molecular machines, some of which are related to the epigenetic control of gene expression.

A machine as complex as the Antikythera mechanism — used by the ancient Greeks, it is considered the world's first computer — remained unknown when elaborate clocks were being developed in Renaissance Europe.

During his time at Harvard, he solved the structure of a portion of this 20 - protein molecular machine that acts as scissors, a protein called ERCC1 and its complexes with interacting partner proteins, XPF and XPA.

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The complex topic remains an ongoing subject of interest for me and many of my clients, and following are some common questions I've been asked, as well as strategies I developed to help those who struggle to break through into fat burning machines.

Rogue Nation is a complex machine — filled with plot twists, character shifts and a truly epic Bond - like villain who has a big ticket target (the Prime Minister of England) that will leave him free to gather billions of pounds in funding to change the world as he sees fit.

It is only after hacker cult figure Morpheus agrees to show Tom «how deep the rabbit hole goes» that Tom, and we, learn The Ugly Truth: the surface of the earth has been uninhabitable for centuries, and all humans are spending their lives in a virtual reality construct, while a complex network of machines uses the electrical energy and body heat from their real bodies, which are stored in individual pods, as a fuel source.

Director Gavin Hood and screenwriter Guy Hibbert approach the material as if they were observing the workings of a complex machine.

«Black Mass» expertly details the twists and turns of this highly complex story, painting a vivid portrait of Boston's underbelly and its corrupt political machine, as well as exposing the worst scandal in FBI history.

«The origin of all this is part of a TV program that emerges in the US and that is called Jeopardy! For the first time, the winners of the contest were faced with a machine that understood natural language and was able to answer complex questions... IBM, after the positive result of this experience, saw that it was a very good way to export this technology to other environments, such as business.

After students have mastered the basics of the simple machines they can move on to the tool shed to see how these machines are combined to make more complex compound machines by exploring such familiar items as a wheelbarrow, stapler, and can opener.

Jim and Mike have always pushed the boundaries of material science in their builds, but with the new computer - laden factory speed machines leaving the big three today, builders are becoming more like software engineers than mechanics in many ways — and this isn't a trend that will ever change as OEMs look to build more refined, complex machines.

The Casino complex features a five star hotel, three restaurants, a cocktail bar, sports - bar, nightclub and of course a two level Casino open from 10 am until 5:00 am on weekends and 10:00 am until 3:00 am on weekdays, The Reef Casino has monthly sweepstake promotions with cash and prize giveaways as well as several electronic slot machines (pokies) and table games such as blackjack, roulette, mini and midi baccarat and unique games to the Casino.

As Ava, players must use their Energy Manipulation Tool (EMT) to transfer power from one object to another; powering up and taking control of artificially intelligent machines, manipulating giant structures and solving complex tasks — all set to a backdrop of a multi-layered narrative that challenges the player on what it means to be human.

Suitably fitting, as the Real Robot side of things always liked to place the machines as one part in a massive military - industrial complex, and the only thing better than kicking ass in a giant robot is kicking ass in a giant robot in command of ten more.

Like the rest of the industrial complex, however, CREO World has been overrun by deranged workers and all sorts of deadly machines, making the place such as dangerous as the rest of the CREO's facilities in the main game.