We have corporate challenges where everybody who has signed up gets put on a team at random, so you get to meet new people and try and succeed.

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To do this, he and his team took a random sample from the corpus, checked what proportion were non-words and extrapolated that to the whole lot.

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Norvig pays a small team of contractors to just do random searches all day to test the Google engine, in the hope of teaching it to learn on its own.

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With a fresh bracket for each round, the random format means that a no-name team with some good fortune can advance deep into the tournament before having to face one of the game's behemoths.

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