Hence, any time we see anything remotely resembling a pattern, we assume there must be something non-random causing it.

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At the risk of oversimplifying, this is the lack of noticeably non-random fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background spectrum measured by Planck.

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And AgigA Tech makes so-called non-volatile Random Access Memory (RAM) that helps people store and retrieve rapidly changing data far more quickly than the slow-poke disk drive technology that keeps data centers humming.

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So if 80% of households in one tract return their census forms, the census-takers will call at random on half of the non-responders.

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"While Defenders has always recognized that professional control of wolves that prey on livestock is a necessary evil, allowing random, non-selective take through public hunting and trapping is a poor wildlife management decision, " warned Nina Fascione, Defenders of Wildlife associate director of species conservation.

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Both ATLAS and CMS have seen a number of these predicted patterns often enough to pique interest, but not (yet) often enough to constitute proof that they came from Higgses, rather than being random fluctuations in the background of non-Higgs decays.

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Poll any random group of HDTV owners about what non-HD station they wanted in high-def and you'll get two stations more than any other: Sci-Fi and FX.

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To do this, he and his team took a random sample from the corpus, checked what proportion were non-words and extrapolated that to the whole lot.

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By exploring the beach, the player can discover random but resonant objects, each of which, upon inspection, reveals a brief, non-interactive scene.

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