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One day, a friend of mine, to bug me, brought a picture and said, "What is the roughness of this curve?"
In particular, it could invent things like a curve which fills the plane.
A curve's a curve, a plane's a plane, and the two won't mix.
And so here I introduce something, the set of rivers of a plane-filling curve.
We need to take what we've learned in private, voluntary standards of what the best producers in the world are doing and use that to inform government regulation, so we can shift the entire performance curve.
So, as all of you probably know, the classic way of thinking about this is the diffusion-of-innovation, or the adoption curve.
And at the very beginning, not too many people are affected, and you get this classic sigmoidal, or S-shaped, curve.
And the reason for this shape is that at the very beginning, let's say one or two people are infected, or affected by the thing and then they affect, or infect, two people, who in turn affect four, eight, 16 and so forth, and you get the epidemic growth phase of the curve.
There are fewer and fewer people who are still available that you might infect, and then you get the plateau of the curve, and you get this classic sigmoidal curve.
On the left-hand panel, again, we have the S-shaped curve of adoption.
The slope of the epidemic curve is approaching now, in November.
I guess that to buck the curve and offset all the 1/10's it will get.
Every curve in the plot was in view from a mile away!
The whole goth/cult thing was unnecessary and a desperate attempt to throw a new curve into the Halloween equation.
The movie followed a descending curve from good to ordinary to bad to ludicrous by the time it concluded.
I'm grading this film on a curve, in other words, it isn't the greatest film that has ever been made but it does exactly what it set out to do.
I figured out whodunnit by the half way mark but the ending was a curve ball.
Staying true to the comic and providing a low learning curve gives this game something not seen in most action cartridges today.
The soccer equivalent of an unhittable curve ball in baseball.
I saw this movie after i saw Blue Crush and other of Michelle's movies, i thought she had a bleak future in this business.I was extremely wrong after watching her performance in "Girlfight" i was amazed in the way she captures the emotion of one a fighter, but also a warrior.In this movie the way she confronts her father about the treatment of her and her brother, the way she conveys anger when getting hit.Her characters learning curve in the movie of she cant always put up a wall and hide from love, or that just because she has power she wont win.I believe this role was fit perfectly for Michelle even though she had no prior experience, the director saw talent, I criticize myself for not seeing the talent in her.
She doesn't try to hide her feminine side at all including having a tailor made, curve hugging Musketeer uniform.
I am grading on a curve, but this movie was surprisingly good and faithful to the D&D theme.
If horror films were graded on a curve and categorized into five year intervals, then I would say Dark Ride was average in comparison to what we've been getting out of Hollywood.
They tried to throw a curve by having the obvious suspect actually be guilty.
Presumably there was a learning curve before the company attained its peak of vulgarity.
Cornell Woolrich (whose novel BLACK ALIBI was the impetus for this film) was definitely ahead of the curve on this one and the Lewton approach (to suggest rather than to show; to imply rather than indulge) fits, if you'll pardon the allusion, like a glove... Woolrich and Lewton were both on the same wave length, and THE LEOPARD MAN comes highly recommended.
The director throws the audience a couple of curve balls, but they come off as more pretentious than nifty.
The main draw to this one was to see Linda Carter (Wonder Woman) out of that curve hugging outfit with her chest free to grace the screen.
Even reviewers who really liked this movie did not fully understand this; like most really great art, it is ahead of the curve.
Although Walt Disney was producing exceptional cartoons circa 1930, Warner Brothers (through Leon Schlessinger Studios) was way behind on the curve.
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