But Kaggle has packed crowdsourcing with a creative punch by applying the collaborative method to, of all things: data-science.

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So Frakt has been applying the scientific method to health care.

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Or look at Google: Larry Page and Sergey Brin came up with their famous search algorithm by applying the ranking method used for academic articles (more citations equals more influence) to the sprawl of the Internet.

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My proposal with this fellowship will use the novel method of applying an electric field gradient instead of chemical substitution to induce charge carriers in large gap insulators, and thereby create new superconductors.

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The second method is far more destructive, and deletes the data by applying an over-current to the NAND flash memory which physically destroys them.

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