Those squishy ideas are also the leaps of understanding that turn its output into insight.
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Obviously, start-ups are risky business and often require huge leaps of faith and passionate drive when the odds are against you.
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Not all of the engine's leaps of logic hit the mark, however.
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Claims to the contrary are leaps of faith and defy historical experience.
She tells us, for instance, that the 17th-century astronomer Johannes Kepler was a quiet, introspective fantasizer whose mind moved by leaps of intuition.
And they've made two remarkable leaps of their own -- back to hand-drawn animation, although with elaborate computer assists, and away from talking-creature cuteness.
Losing him at such a young age makes me wonder what other breakthroughs and leaps of faith he would have made in the coming decades.
Because as powerful as computers are, nothing matches the intuition, pattern-matching skills, and leaps of insight that humans are capable of when it comes to solving problems.
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But that logic requires some enormous leaps of faith.
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Arrange the message in 73 rows of 23 numbers, and you get a picture painted in bits. ( Click here to see the decoded Arecibo message.) It was a novel approach, but the message was hidden, and it depended on aliens making leaps of logic in order to decipher it.
"We're realizing that we have to take small leaps instead of big leaps, " says City Manager Steve Sugg.
Its design and engineering teams were leaps ahead of all others in incorporating the latest technological possibilities into a package that could fit in your hand.
Perhaps, if a financial institution sacrificed gains in the bubble by replacing reliance on judgment and numbers with more accommodation of uncertainty, then it would have come out of the crisis leaps and bounds ahead of the competition.
During the 14 months of our Take Two series, I've received virtual mailbags full of e-mails from listeners, with stories chronicling exciting changes, scary leaps and reversals of fortune (some up, some down).
And another, as a pod of dolphins leaps and dives through the fast current of the narrow channel.
One of the answers that leaps to mind in terms of investments in African agriculture was conveyed recently in a speech by David E.
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Although the majority of buildings have made leaps and bounds in terms of energy efficiency, the same cannot be said for the growing number of gadgets and gizmos plugged into the wall sockets of those buildings.
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While many would now query cricket's association with the Stanford organisation, when it comes to the running of major sporting events, it has been leaps and bounds ahead of anything that has previously been put on in the Caribbean.
The other, bursting in bright, sharp, joyful color, leaps straight out of last month.
Software programmers, game creators and webmasters are always quick to take advantage of leaps in processing power to add richer features.
The more energetic squat jump and the pronograde take off were each utilised to initiate about a quarter of the total number of leaps.
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The dance stems from the skill and agility of capoeira fighters, who improvise leaps to the electrifying sound of steel orchestras and bands.
Amazon.com is just one example of a company growing by leaps and bounds in the real world because of its presence in the virtual one.
On the one hand, of course your heart leaps because you're re-entering the world of freedom - and Jeffrey will be very pleased to be doing that.
He's talking about waves of creative destruction--where huge technological leaps lead to ripping out billions of dollars of old gear and replacing it with billions in new gear, which Matthews is ever ready to sell.
If neither of these items apply to you, as enjoyable as the soundtrack is, nothing leaps out as the type of affair that will woo you to either the series or the tumultuous love affair that is Japanese imports.
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His most dizzying leaps had a way of falling short of a safe landing.
Well, some of the leaps in the below video make me a bit dizzy.
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Those films took giant leaps in the art of technology, but with "Polar Express, " Zemeckis gets an A only for effort.
The white matrix of blocks leaps into life, wowing the young audience.
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