Sentences with phrase «random points of»

Not exact matches

Case in point: Birch Coffee's «ignition initiative» in which customers can take a sign from the wall of the store (samples include: «Ask Me What I Ate for Lunch Today» and «Ask Me About the Most Embarrassing Thing in My iTunes Library»), and place it in front of their table if they'd like to encourage random conversations with strangers.

While statistical margins of error are arguably not applicable to online panels / online studies of this nature, we have assumed that the same margins of error apply as if it were a true unweighted random probability sample with a margin of error of + / - 3.7 percentage points, nineteen times out of twenty.

I should first mention that these examples are just to present the point of random distribution and to prove the point that we never know when we'll hit a winner or loser.

Having explained what's happening to the economy by pointing at seemingly random / unpredictable events or citing unfathomable changes in «aggregate demand», the economist's second job is to recommend a course of action.

What seem at the moment to be nothing but random interruptions in the conversation could turn out to be the key to dealing with some problem — if we'd only take time to ask (and then listen) to why that came to mind, what stream of thinking points came together to connect the conversation to that point.

Its amazing satan has gained control of the entire world to the point where you can take a random man and claim that he is of «God» that he is «holy» The pope is nothing more than servant of satan.

So this is where I go back to the original article and my original point - if we are merely a random function of the universe, made for no real purpose in a universe which is destined to burn out and effectively die, why bother??

I'm at the point where I'm not looking for random hookups, but I do love each of my partners.

Here are my first random observations in search of a point:

For example, in criticising Dawkins, he points out that «If every step in the series [of evolution] occurs by chance... the end can not be ordered», apparently unaware that Dawkins does not view evolution as entirely random, but allows for a certain direction, provided by the mechanism of natural selection (p. 51).

The central problem with «intelligent design» — and one which Fr Stephen Dingley pointed out when he reviewed Behe et al.'s book in the March / April 2001 edition of the Faith magazine — is that it posits, justas happily as would neo-Darwinians, that the evolutionary process is a «random» and unguided one, alongside which they then place «intelligent causes,» as if they were competitors.

Feminists have pointed out that, although most women are of slighter build than most men, physique does not mean that women need be passive victims to every random male assault.

Some general points: I think we can all agree that there's a difference between any random group of, well, anyone versus a group of people openly acting as a hate posse such as klansmen in full klan regalia.

The Jesuit, Joseph Fessio, in a relevant letter tothe journal in January, clarifies this point: ««random genetic variations» are «foreseen» from God's point of view and have determinate causes.»

But at that point, the label of god becomes rather meaningless, same as when you apply it to some random dude.

Barr points out that randomness can exhibit higher - level order, but neo-Darwinians are not asserting the existence of a stochastic (random) mutational process.

As utterly improbable as it is, our only answer at this point is to say it's possible that all of those things just popped out of nothing via random combination of molecules»

That point of view essentially says one of two things, either «I am the master of my own fate» or «everything that happens is random».

I was also beaten by random girls for no reason, put into a dumpster, tied up in an abandoned rv by some sick teens who thought that was funny, almost raped by a man while walking down the street at the age of 17 but because I screamed he only made me jack him off (at knife point), almost raped at a friend of a friend's house when we just dropped in for a minute, was impovershed growing up, even to the point where we didn't have power in the middle of winter, had to sleep all in the same bed to stay warm and used our pantry as a refrigerator, lived (and I mean LIVED) with roaches for years no matter where we moved to, was a child during the time when we had our own civil rights movement here and went through a few horrible experiences at the time.

The specific areas chosen are from one point of view random and thus lacking an evident design.

My point is, I rarely make a dish exactly to the recipe due to lack of ingredients or some other random reason and this came out beautifully.

Well, I've managed to spend most of the post talking about my random views on farmer's markets when I really wanted to point out a couple of my favorite fall products — squash and apples.

They lose it in the middle of the grocery store, during your mommy and me class, and at any other random point during the day.

At that point I was really hoping I had a random disposable wipe because of course the dampness does help... but then ran through my mind all the chemicals, including alcohol... oh yeah, HAND SANITIZER (or hanitizer as my 3 year old calls it) to the rescue.

We therefore performed each simulation 2,000 times, drawing key parameters at random from triangular distributions covering the range of estimates available in the literature associating breastfeeding with maternal health outcomes, centered on the point estimate provided in the literature and a distribution width of four standard errors.

When my boys are approaching the random age of 12 months and people thought I'd «cut them off» I found great points and support online.

Like we won't find them again until we clean the whole damn house, which of course will have to happen at some point, because there are now 3 billion random toy pieces in the far reaches of my now trashed domain.

Some points will poke out more (the New York Times), others much less (some random dude's Twitter feed), but each of them projects some distance above the surface and demands our attention.

It must be something far more comprehensive than Ed Balls's five - point plan for jobs, which is not a long - term plan at all but a random package of short - term measures.

RANDOM STAT: Alarmingly the Tories had a 10 - point lead in Labour - held marginal seats, though take this with a pinch of salt as the sample size was only 186 people.

Touching your time machine down on Earth at a random point in the planet's history, roughly nine times out of 10 you would only find single - celled life or algae and would risk suffocation in the oxygen - starved open air.

Much of the book is like this — a collection of random walks from biblical starting points — and it leaves the reader feeling rather adrift.

When the team fed their results into a computer model, it suggested that great whites don't attack at random but from well - defined anchor points or lairs (Journal of Zoology, DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2009.00586.x).

«In a way, one must learn to see things from the molecules» point of view, considering forces such as random thermal motion that one would never consider when building an agricultural water pump or any other mechanical device.»

Dellavalle points out that most cancers are seen as the result of random, genetic mutations that unluckily allow cells to act cancerous.

If you hold the compass horizontal, the needle will do one of three things: point to the same spot as the last time you used it, spin slowly before stopping at a random point or point to anything magnetic that you happen to be wearing.

Rea's program then mates the poems by chopping them up at random points and recombining them, after which they are subjected to another round of voting.

«We have shown that we can manually direct the robots or give it a set of coordinates to get it from point A to point B, but our goal in this research is to enable the microrobots to navigate a course with random impediments blocking its way,» Kim said.

The company is now testing its algorithms to determine the best balance point between the literal results of the type returned by Google and random results.

«2 The book is in fact a seemingly random admixture of points that are right and relevant (but not new), points that are right but not relevant (and still not new), and points that are wrong.

The opposite of a regular network is a random network, with many arbitrary connections between points.

But orbital precession occurs only when two black holes have axes of rotation that point in random directions, and it disappears when the axes are both perpendicular to the orbital plane.

Daniel Haber, director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, said it is beside the point to focus on the specific percentage of cancer risk contributed by random errors, environmental factors and heredity.

The waves of data are added, and the interference pattern created by their overlap refines true peak signals into sharper points and flattens the random noise.

One point two micrograms of total RNA from each cell line was reverse - transcribed using random primers and the High - Capacity cDNA Synthesis Kit (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA).

At some point in the past, random mutations created a variant of one receptor gene, located on the X chromosome, producing two different receptor types.

The rapid pace of morphological evolution noted by Darwin along with Thompson's observations of topological conservation are not easily reconciled with the rates at which point mutations occur or with the sensitivity of complex organisms and their proteins to random point mutations.

To help us all remember this, we make a point to do random acts of kindness this time of year.

Be forewarned, if you practice regularly you may enjoy the benefits of handstands so much that you find yourself kicking your legs upside down at the most random points in your day — like at the office or grocery store.

Now I know that the story in that video may sound a bit embellished, and it is on purpose to get their point across, but it is based on a true story... I've also seen news stories of dozens of these types of informal experiments that random people have done over the years with popular fast food burgers that won't decompose even after years in their basement.