Additionally, the chance of a random search term correlating with the ILInet data in all ten regions is considerably less than the chance that a random search term can correlate with the data for single location.
He would ask one student to use a random-number generator to produce a list of random numbers, all between 1 and 10.
Meeting someone via the web is also safer, they argue, than trying to pick up a date at random in a bar.
Perhaps swan sightings will occur more often than a random distribution around a mean would suggest.
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Imagine that a man walks up to you and tells you this: He will pick a public company at random from a very select group.
Every student lives with the anxiety of losing her work to a spontaneous computer meltdown or a random disappearance of a document they swear they saved.
Fate next pointed Brian in a new direction through a random party conversation with a scientist who specialized in tracking bears.
However, independent tests showed the device has no better than a random chance of finding a golf ball, much less a bomb.
What if you could perform fraud-detection analytics across all of your transactions in real time, instead of across just a random sampling of only a few percent of all those transactions?
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Wander along the main thoroughfare with people from all over the world, through clouds of scented tobacco smoke, past tacky souvenir shops for tourists that trade right next to bulk foodstuff shops for locals, and stop at a random cafe table for a spot of sweet black tea and people watching.
Each one is stuffed with several hundred tiny glass spheres or shards, of random size and glued in place in a random pattern so that each token, which can be inserted in a credit card, is unique.
If you type "fun facts" into the Google.com search box, you get a random piece of information using a wide variety of sources.
Bowie appeared in series two of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's programme Extras in 2006 where a random encounter with Bowie in a pub ends with Bowie at a piano singing a song - Chubby Little Loser - which ridicules Gervais' character Andy.
That is why, rather than reacting to each thing in front of their nose in a random fashion, CEOs derive a single abstract strategy from an analysis of all the information available about the company, the market, the suppliers, and the competitive and economic environments, organized toward a single purpose: Maximization of long-term shareholder wealth.
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Random sounds a little like guess work or luck or something other than head to head competition on the field.
The show centers around flash mobs, the phenomenon when a bunch of seemingly random people in a public place suddenly start putting on a coordinated dance show. (For an example see a clip from Modern Family at the bottom of this post.) Fox will premier the show as a special on March 31st after American Idol.
Ten winners were chosen at random from all of the entries using a random number generator.
"This does not appear to be a random shooting in the dark, but a very focused shooting with an intent to kneecap to make it look like a Mafia killing, " said Deputy District Attorney David Conn.
"The photo booth is always a draw, stuffing as many random people in a tight space as possible -- I think the record is seven -- and taking goofy group shots, " said Austin.
In late December of 2011, while browsing the Internet, I came across an article about a random reporter who obtained the email address of a famous billionaire by conducting a simple Google search.
Even so, they know what any professional interrogators will tell you: A disarming smile, a few seemingly random questions, and a monitoring of body language are far more likely to detect terrorists than brusque treatment and formulaic questions.
Sussex Police do not believe his Mr Polding's death was a random attack or linked to any hate crime as a result of his sexuality.
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And when we asked her if she was convinced that it was not a random cluster of the kind we would expect in a place the size of Britain, she was emphatic.
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"By building understanding I think we can get away from the idea that mental illness in young people is primarily a moral problem or a random disaster and try and move understanding more toward a rational direction, " said Prof Bullmore.
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When Chris failed to return her calls years ago as a college freshman, she punched in a random number from his cellphone call list, reaching a girl in his dorm who woke him up and ordered him to call his mom, Ms. Berardi says.
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One idea would be to start with a protein in a random configuration, and then to simulate its folding for a short period.
Such decisions are therefore rational, as opposed to a reaction to a random event, because traders believe the existence of momentum is a reason for the stock price to rise higher.
For example, a seemingly random conversation I once had with a museum curator slowly and freely evolved into a TV offer.
Creating the currency union was not a random act of collective economic suicide, but was in some senses a rational or even noble project that was either premature or too late.
By changing the frequency of a radio transmission many times a second, causing it to leap around in an apparently random fashion, a radio signal could be made almost impossible to intercept.
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