When you are searching a list to see whether it has an element, you don't randomly probe the list, hoping to find whether or not it's there.

当我们在一个数组中,寻找目标元素的时候,我们不会随机的调查数组来看。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It couldn't have been a very complicated algorithm because it basically paired people up randomly on the campus.

这个算法不是很复杂,基本上是给校园里的人随机配对。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It's as though I've walked across the stage like this realized, damn, it was the guy over here or rather I found the smallest element here who beat out number 2 over here so I can now put number 1 into place and recall that it didn't matte if I punted whoever was standing here 'cause they were given to me randomly anyway.

这就像是我这样走过讲台,然后才发现要找的人在那儿,或者说发现了最小的元素,那么就可以将1号放在正确的位置,而在这儿的是谁并不重要,因为他们本身就是,随机的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The physicalist says we don't need to appeal to anything as extravagant as a soul in order to explain the fact that bodies don't just move randomly, but they move in purposeful ways that are controlled.

物理主义认为,我们并不需要诉诸任何,像灵魂那样夸张的东西来解释,为什么肉体不会随机乱动,而是在控制下进行的有目的的活动

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Good, so even if everyone in the number-- everyone in the room didn't choose randomly but they all chose a 100, a very unlikely circumstance, but even if everyone had chosen 100, the highest, the average, sorry, the highest two-thirds of the average could possibly be is 66 2/3, hence 67 would be a pretty good choice in that case.

好的,如果每个人,教室里的每个人不是随机选择数字,而是全选了100,这好像不太可能,但如果每个人真的都选了100,就是最大的书,那平均数,抱歉,平均数的2/3会是66又2/3,此情况下67应该是个不错的选项

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