So Random House must have been heartened that Mr Frazier's new book entered the New York Times bestseller list at number two.
Because they're so random, your life turns into a nightmare.
Things that are so random and quirky that as a writer, I know how hard that stuff is to invent, and it really had the ring of truth to it.
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The flight disruptions this week "have been so sporadic and random, " Mr. Duell said.
It then spins the wheel again, to tweak the first tree ever so slightly, at random.
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We are so scared of the random that we create disciplines that try to make sense of the past--but we ultimately fail to understand it, just as we fail to see the future.
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.
Tau, like pi, has infinitely many digits arranged in an apparently random order, so it's impossible to use them all.
Public-health officials already conduct random sampling, so getting the participants to name a few friends too should not be onerous.
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.
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.
Follow the break for the epic demo, and pay special attention to the white model when the rep pulls it out -- the back was supposed to be stylized Morse code that reads "I love Friday nights, " but apparently they ran out of space, so it's now just random dots on a cover.
These then arrange themselves in a completely random order, which is mathematically so difficult to replicate it's known as PUF (physically unclonable function).
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They even built a tool, dubbed Chaos Monkey, that causes random things to fail in their infrastructure so they can learn to avoid outages like this one.
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If those 42% of people are anything like me, that so-called boredom now arrives sooner than the random thoughts that can lead to self-reflection, creativity or just a few seconds of nothingness.
There is, in essence, no data other than the categories and the random number stored in the system and so it's impossible to know (or indeed reverse engineer from that) who you are or where you've been.
Sickly myelin, however, is mushier, so the water in it tends to move around at random.
I'm talking about new initiatives like biological passports, random tests, research into new substances and so on.
The "random juxtapositions" that urban theorists claim are so crucial to the vitality of cities, is also wonderfully present on the Net.
She also described an idea for a remote-controlled torpedo: A radio transmitting directions and a receiver implementing them would be synchronized so that their frequencies could be changed simultaneously in a random manner.
Instead of trying to eliminate this, he said, it should be embraced to produce so-called "stochastic processors" that are subject to random errors.
So if you pick an observation by a single observer at random, it will frequently be of the expanding universe, which has far more observers.
"We don't like it when our brand shows up next to something random, which has been our experience on the Web so far, " says mtv's digital media head, Nicholas Rockwell.
So I went back and tried the campaign for the 3rd time with random online marines.
They can still stalk you at random hours, and you can stalk back if you feel so inclined.
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Google also plans to opensource the mobile applications, so independent developers can build their own versions, or other services with random numbers.
This concept is so central and core to the company, that it offered cash to random math geeks who might help them improve their formula.
Both are subject to random storms that can come up quickly and require clear thinking so that you make the right decisions to navigate them successfully.
The basic argument of the first group is that the stock market is largely efficient so the only way an investment manager can beat the market is through random chance.
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