In one, called "The Caddy, " you are asked to calculate yardages to flagsticks while simultaneously clicking on virtual golf clubs in a bag that need "cleaning" on random time schedules.
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Patients tend to sign up for clinical trials when arthritis is at its most painful, he adds, and improvement in a trial may simply be random improvement over time, he says.
So I went back and tried the campaign for the 3rd time with random online marines.
Through the research you're bombarded by myriad influences: anything from snapshots that someone took to anecdotal stories in magazines of the time to random pictures that spark an idea or association in your head.
Most of the time you were fighting random alien creatures or mercenaries working for an absent character that only appeared a few time.
The good news is they can take less time than the random ball-whacking many golfers are already doing.
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They partnered with Modern Survey, which sends out a survey to a random sample of full-time, adult US workers to learn how they feel about their relationship with their managers.
Husky Chat aims to bring back the past-time of chatting with random strangers.
For some in the working class here--the random cab driver, small-time actor, bellhop--Slim's fat-cat wealth is reason enough for suspicion.
In a twist on conventional consumer-fraud suits, Myers also wants publisher Random House to pay consumers for the time they spent reading the book.
To the dismay of active equity managers, the ranks of the random-walk converts are swelling all the time, especially in the United States where passive managers now handle most of the shares in public-sector pension funds.
Experience shows, however that random shifts in sentiment will narrow these discounts over time.
It can be a generosity of time or spirit, a simple and random act of kindness.
Pretty much a random walk in the short term most of the time too.
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Most people, Lanier contends, simply don't have the time to wade through the piles of random information, so they choose crowdsourced and often sub-par content provided by Google or Wikipedia.
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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Even if you hold a random lottery, potential winners still need to take the time to enter.
As a bonus, the random code's continuous signal provides precise information about the time.
Even the force of a hurricane, which at least has a long wind up and warning time, can't match the explosive and random fury of a tornado's touchdown and destruction.
To begin, the researchers collected a random sample of actual applications from entrepreneurs seeking commercial loans for the first time.
Schneider needed a model that could take into account the nonobvious and sometimes random variables that affect the efficiency of thousands of drivers over weeks of time and at a high level of detail.
Rand said its long list of random numbers, first published in 1955, is one of its all-time best sellers.
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Yes, over smaller time windows, some of the strategies showed better performance than a random investment, but over the long run those differences mostly went away.
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The biggest problem for us, aside from some instabilities and a random reboot, was lag when navigating through menus and an atypically long load time to get Angry Birds running.
At the time I felt I could trust Google more than I could trust some random startup or app with my data.
In practice this means that biotech investing is less random, where learnings can actually be applied to evolution of the investment model over time.
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In other words that if the occurrence of something is abnormally high or abnormally low simply because of random variation, the statistical chances are that it will be much closer to the average the next time you measure it.
Well, hurricane strikes are actually a really poor measure of hurricane activity, since whether major hurricanes hit land or stay out at sea or hit some other country is pretty random (the only metric that is worse is hurricane damage numbers, which are biased over time and geography with large variations in coastal development value).
Hence, any time we see anything remotely resembling a pattern, we assume there must be something non-random causing it.
But prices of DRAMs (dynamic random access memory chips) have continued to fall and there are few signs of demand picking up any time soon.
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