And instead of relying on handwriting recognition that resulted in egg freckles all over the face of Newton, used the Graffiti system that forced a small learning curve on the user in the name of increased accuracy.
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For example, a car could gently increase the gas-pedal spring pressure when the speed is too high -- the navigation system knows how tight that upcoming curve is, remember -- or apply a light twist to the steering wheel if the car is drifting off course.
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Microsoft is widely criticized as being behind the curve on developing an operating system for tablets.
Anyone creating a CAPTCHA system is playing a game of staying ahead of the curve, meaning they develop methods that bots cannot solve until someone teaches them to.
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This means that the critical complexity (blue curve), which measures how much complexity a system can sustain without imploding, increases.
But we let our system -- a system designed for a different era -- fall way behind the curve of risk and innovation in this market.
And I dare say many of us, when faced with a school system that will put our children further and further behind the learning curve, would have a "by any means necessary" focus to ensure they had the best chance to succeed.
But we have the steepest yield curve that we've had in the last 40 years, and yield curve steepness is an overly simple sense a predictor of future bank system eagerness to lend.
Its near-spherical wheels spin on some complicated gimbal system, allowing it to hang a sharp left without describing anything as tedious as a curve.
Dr. ORSZAG: Well, the key to our long-term fiscal future is actually improving the efficiency of the health care system, and I think there's a lot that can be done there to bring - to bend the curve on health care costs.
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