Sentences with phrase «when whittled»

Hinton, a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence, has always wanted to understand the rules governing when the brain beefs a connection up and when it whittles one down — in short, the algorithm for how we learn.

With more than 200 films to their credit, there are almost too many directions you can take when whittling down the best in Hammer horror.

When you whittle down the size and scope of a book project into something more bite - sized and manageable, it makes the planning process a cinch.

You will have a hard time selecting your favourite but when whittling it down be sure to add Villa Lua onto your list, this is one not to be missed!

Not exact matches

'' [Private insurers] are willing to retain more of the risk when you have federal NFIP coverage in place,» Whittle says.

When it took weeks for the campaign to vet volunteers in Texas who wanted to canvass in nearby states, Brady proposed a streamlined online interview format that the campaign adopted, whittling the approval process to a few days.

And when I finally got a pocketknife, the first thing I set out to do was whittle a whole army of disciples carved out of soap.

Eventually the group was whittled down to the pair, who later married and settled in an old farmhouse outside of Cincinnati, affectionately dubbed «Nowhere Farm,» where they spend their time when they aren't touring.

By Laura Sayre Originally posted on April 1, 2003 Every stop on the tour of Leo and Diane Whittle's organic kiwifruit orchard is enjoyable, but the last is the most spectacular: that's when Leo takes you up the steep hill... Continued

When behind, he was content to whittle away at the boats ahead rather than gamble.

Let me say this — the Playoffs get everyone's competitive juices flowing — especially when the field whittles down to just 4 Teams.

It can be a process to whittle your thoughts down from a conversation such as, «When you get the ball, look up, get up the field quickly and make a strong pass» to «look, go, pass.»

True, Spieth had whittled his own lead down from five shots through nine holes to three with back - to - back bogeys on Nos. 10 and 11, but the shock heard «round Augusta came when he splashed first his tee shot and then his third strike into the brook.

There were some changes in that time, such as when there was an extra pre-qualifying session to whittle down the field before the main session, but it was largely the same: two sessions, one on Friday, one on Saturday, low fuel, sticky tyres, fastest driver on pole.

Antonio Di Natale was this week named in Italy's provisional 30 - man World Cup squad and if, as expected, he retains his place when Marcello Lippi whittles his group down to 23, it will be the first time that the 32 - year - old Udinese captain has been selected for football's showpiece event.

It's when this is finished that I know whether I need to remove a bit more wood here and there and put in wing detail, so the whittling begins again, followed by more sanding.

When you're away from home, there's no other distractions that require your attention, so take advantage of that and try to whittle down that sleep deficit!

When the Assembly speakership opened up for the first time in a generation, a handful of contenders for the office was quickly whittled down to one: Assemblyman Carl Heastie of the Bronx.

The Senate map was whittled down somewhat on Tuesday when Nassau County lawmaker David Dennenberg dropped his bid to run for an open seat after it was revealed in a lawsuit his former employers were accusing him of defrauding them out of $ 2 million.

And yet, somehow, each year, it's something that falls out of the budget when final priorities are whittled down in negotiations.

«Initially when I started reading about the referendum it seemed very clear that we as a host community were going to have a yay or nay vote about whether or not a casino would be sited here, and as I just heard the answers in this meeting this evening, that's clearly not the case,» said Whittle.

When the Democratic field is whittled down to just three candidates — de Blasio, James, and Stringer — de Blasio's support reaches 47 %.

When the group is whittled down to just Democrats, 41 percent agreed with the mayor on transit funding, and 38 percent sided with Cuomo.

Microbiologists were just starting to characterize the bacterial immune system that scientists would eventually co-opt and name CRISPR when Venter's team began its effort to whittle life down to its bare essentials.

When these criteria were applied, the authors whittled down a list of 4,510 genes with mutations in at least one sample to just 1, and that gene was MYH3.

The following remedies are fantastic to have on hand for when you cut yourself whittling in the shelter, get bitten by a zombie, pull a muscle running from a zombie, or burn yourself making a fire to cook your dinner.

When choosing an outfit for Valentine's Day I whittled it down to two — I eventually went with the Clemens en August black dress, but this J by Jasper Conran red dress is a more colourful alternative.

Whether for party or professional looks, when paired with a tucked - in, slightly blousy top, this bottom whittles your waist.

When you take these tests, you are able to further whittle down your match pool.

Even when you've whittled profiles down to the ones that say they are Christian, it's still no small feat to determine which ones are committed to their faith and which ones are not.

Or at least come «bake - offs» time when the these two branches whittle down the competition with screenings of clip reels of the work in question.

This wouldn't be so bad if they had earned the right to beat you, but when you spend a lot of time slowly whittling them down through some clever strategizing, it feels undeserved to keep getting knocked out just for taking your time and being careful.

When Judy and Peter track down Sarah Whittle (Bonnie Hunt), in the hopes of more information about the game, they find the grown woman is still suffering from the events of her childhood.

Rinku Singh (Suraj Sharma) and Dinesh Patel (Madhur Mittal), the prospects, are really nothing more than a MacGuffin when one whittles the story down to its core.

Since the play's running time was whittled down by more than an hour, the screenplay packs a lot of material into a relatively tight 2 hours and 10 minutes, but Wells and Letts aren't afraid to indulge when they feel it necessary.

For example, the mentors students meet at this conference often offer to read their applications when it comes time to look for a job, or ask pointed questions to help them whittle their big - topic dissertation to a more manageable, bite - size piece.

In the late 1980s, Whittle had earned a reputation for blending the sacred — education — with the profane — business — when he launched Channel One, a TV program produced by and for teens that delivered 10 minutes of news with 2 minutes of commercials to classrooms across the country.

Chris Whittle's projection for 2030 is an elaborated echo of the 1990s, when for - profit education - management organizations (EMOs) proposed a mission and rationale for transforming American education.

For sure, the Kia Optima does have its problems, and those advantages it does have are whittled away when you start looking at competitors that don't stray too far from the Kia's MSRPs.

Yet when your entry pool is 5,500 entries from scores of amazing authors and publishers, whittling that number down to 300 is darn near impossible.

When our mental functioning is whittling away and our mind becomes a lame duck, perception does not form the context anymore and all connections on the social chessboard are conked out.

When I got home, I looked at a short story I'd written a year or so ago, tried to whittle it down to 1000 words, and began sweating bullets.

When I first started writing, I figured revising a book was like sculpting: you'd start with a huge, misshapen lump of stone, and you'd whittle away at that stone until you had the equivalent of Michelangelo's David.

Trian has been whittling down its stake in Kraft since last year, when Kraft made a hostile bid for Cadbury.

But they do whittle down the amount of home equity that will be left for you or your heirs when you eventually die or move out.

At a time when many Canadians» pensions are being whittled away, and the Canada Pension Plan is being fine - tuned to encourage more people to work until 70, it's difficult to understand how MPs can continue to wallow in a system that gives them ultra-safe, inflation - protected pensions beginning at 55.

«Whittling down guesses or extrapolations from limited observations by a factor of 10 or even 100 does not make these estimates any more credible, and the fact that they are the best available data is not sufficient to justify their use when the consequence may be extermination for cats... What I find inconsistent in an otherwise scientific debate about biodiversity is how indictment of cats has been pursued almost in spite of the evidence, and without regard to the differential effects of cats in carefully selected, managed colonies, versus that of free - roaming pets, owned farm cats, or truly feral animals.

It was hard for me to whittle this list down to five, because the Bahamas has so much to offer when it comes to wildlife encounters.

While Wang once again will take on foes from a first - person perspective, shooting from afar with a variety of weapons or use a blade to cut them to pieces from up close, enemies this time around have health bars that whittle down when they take damage.

The battles are nothing special, but when you do have to fight, you are not faced with an insane amount of HP to whittle away.