The pair checked NASD regulations and discovered that there were no rules preventing this, so they created software and a network of personal computers that would simulate a giant electronic limit order book.
Artificial Intelligence is still a long way from being able to simulate a specific individual, but recreating the limited slice of personality reflected in a Twitter feed is an interesting place to start.
The scientists used a powerful computer model to simulate how a liquid released at the spill site would disperse and circulate, producing results that are not dependent on the total amount released.
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For a start, it takes his computers ten minutes to simulate a minute's worth of inferno.
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The best way to see whether a fire-forecasting system works or not is to simulate a fire whose outcome is already known, and see whether the model correctly predicts what happened.
Rooms have infrared sensors that detect body heat, so that staff don't accidentally walk in on guests, and there's a virtual golf club in the basement that lets you simulate a round on 50 of the world's most famous courses.
His first effort with IBM will be to simulate a single rat neurocortical column.
To safely simulate a pull-up, the Thera-Band is first wrapped around a pole or bed post.
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In tests designed to simulate a range of heartbeats, enough electricity was generated to power a pacemaker.
While it may take a human years to accumulate these experiences, a computer can simulate millions of them in seconds.
To simulate a pushup, you can lie on the floor with a piece of band wrapped behind you at the shoulder blades.
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Researchers using computer models have found it difficult to simulate a global climate fitting these conditions, and have also suggested a hotter world as a whole.
Computers might not be the best place to simulate a live philosophy seminar, but they are terrific places to teach people how to use and program computers.
You would need to upgrade Mr. Squiggles from a hamster to a pet Ox and sleep on him for 8 hours a day for a decade to simulate this negligible exposure.
Simulate a day-to-day task during the interview process.
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If you are in a dedicated home theater this can be less important, but since many living rooms prevent optimal speaker placement, having the ability to adjust the level of a speaker or add a delay to simulate distance can be critical.
The point of Break Out, other than to force the uncommitted to panic and quit, is to simulate a chaotic environment, and teach the class how to remain focused and calm while relying on each other, despite the most miserable and stressful conditions.
One idea would be to start with a protein in a random configuration, and then to simulate its folding for a short period.
She has created a software program that uses data from magnetic resonance imaging scans to simulate how fast a patient's brain tumor is likely to spread.
To teach Baxter a new job, a human guides its arms to simulate the desired task, and presses a button to program in the pattern.
The full-scale 1, 900 square foot house sits inside a steel cage rigged up with 60 pressure boxes which can simulate the effects of a Category 5 hurricane (see photos).
The Chaos Pad can simulate that a whammy bar, a foot pedal, or any other hardware can do.
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This kind of transmission uses a pulley system to simulate gears and is usually more efficient than traditional automatic transmissions.
"It's a powerful thing to simulate before you act, " says Ms. Kylen.
It has also acquired for the ISS two microscopes and a centrifuge that can simulate the gravity on, say, the moon or Mars.
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Blue Gene could simulate heating a protein, to see how stable it is, or could apply random mutations to a protein, to see how its ability to fold is affected.
We'd say the big problem -- and not a small problem for game developers, to be sure -- is the fact that true 1-to-1 tennis gameplay would be a major undertaking to simulate.
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This level of structural detail allows a computer to mimic the behaviour of each and every muscle fibre, and thus to simulate the heart as a whole.
Global Hawk can pick out objects as small as a truck with its synthetic aperture radar, which uses the plane's flight path to simulate the curve of a radar dish several hundred meters long.
By introducing a little high-tech, stores can simulate the control and self-empowerment men crave after a long day of PowerPointlessness.
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