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With every
handful
of the powder they throw into the air, their white saris slowly start to suffuse with color.
There are fewer than a
handful
of palu left on this island.
Anyhow, nobody would have followed them, except for a
handful
[of] men and women of conviction and courage.
But the recent developments in software-defined radio, rapid fabrication and the maker movement, make it so that it's possible for a team of teenagers working in my lab over the course of a
handful
of months to build a prototype radar.
And these people, a
handful
of people, have been working for 20 years, looking for particles that may or may not exist.
Our new goal should be that when every family thinks about where they want to live and work, they should be able to choose between at least a
handful
of different cities that were all competing to attract new residents.
I heard about 2,000 singers and pulled together a company of 40 of the most jaw-droppingly amazing young performers, the majority of whom were black, but there were a
handful
of white performers.
A huge, open expanse of waist-high grass cluttered only by a
handful
of crippled, abandoned structures and a few brave holdouts with well-kept homes.
But we only looked at a
handful
of individuals at this point.
But it's so little, it would be like putting a
handful
of chalk into every Olympic swimming pool full of rain.
If we were to take the model here, the diagram of that particular garden, and sort of transpose it onto our federal agriculture policy, we'd get this: billions of billions of dollars going to support just a
handful
of commodity crops with just that tiny little bit at the top for fruits and vegetables.
What I'd like to do now is share with you a very special
handful
of secrets from that collection, starting with this one.
The revenue of the top
handful
of companies in this space is over 39 billion dollars today.
A week later, a
handful
of people were there ready to rock and empower the people on the ground who wanted to change the world.
There are a
handful
of states that do that; Texas doesn't.
There were a
handful
of positions left open from the standard admissions process, and the night before they were supposed to open that for registration, thousands of people lined up outside the gate in a line a mile long, hoping to be first in line to get one of those positions.
Now, strangely, if instead of having a
handful
of planets, you had millions of objects or even billions, the problem actually becomes much simpler, and Einstein is back in the game.
My lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology focuses on spinal cord injury, which affects more than 50,000 people around the world every year, with dramatic consequences for affected individuals, whose life literally shatters in a matter of a
handful
of seconds.
If you squish a
handful
of snow to make a snowball, it gets really small, hard and dense.
We only have a
handful
of objects that even have an axis ratio bigger than five to one.
And today, there's a
handful
of the great, great grandchildren of these early Cold War machines which are now operated by private companies and from which the vast majority of satellite imagery that you and I see on a daily basis comes.
And I looked around and I saw this happening all around me, literally hundreds of individuals using a
handful
of voices, voices that didn't fit their bodies or their personalities.
So this was just for the
handful
of legislators in the House.
This was my moment to lean in, to push myself forward for what are really only a
handful
of the very top foreign policy jobs, and I had just finished a big, 18-month project for Secretary Clinton, successfully, and I knew I could handle a bigger job.
The beginning is now only a
handful
of years away, and I predict that autonomous vehicles will permanently change our world over the next several decades.
I'm one of the tiny
handful
of people who gets badly bent out of shape by the bad spacing of the T and the E that you see there.
It's interesting that the ants are using an algorithm that's so similar to the one that we recently invented, but this is only one of a
handful
of ant algorithms that we know about, and ants have had 130 million years to evolve a lot of good ones, and I think it's very likely that some of the other 12,000 species are going to have interesting algorithms for data networks that we haven't even thought of yet.
For example, we were stuck for a year trying to understand the intricate biochemical networks inside our cells, and we said, "We are deeply in the cloud," and we had a playful conversation where my student Shai Shen Orr said, "Let's just draw this on a piece of paper, this network," and instead of saying, "But we've done that so many times and it doesn't work," I said, "Yes, and let's use a very big piece of paper," and then Ron Milo said, "Let's use a gigantic architect's blueprint kind of paper, and I know where to print it," and we printed out the network and looked at it, and that's where we made our most important discovery, that this complicated network is just made of a
handful
of simple, repeating interaction patterns like motifs in a stained glass window.
Now, years ago, when I was working at YouTube, we were looking for ways to encourage more people to rate videos, and it was interesting because when we looked into the data, we found that almost everyone was exclusively using the highest five-star rating, a
handful
of people were using the lowest one-star, and virtually no one was using two, three or four stars.
Now, this may not look impressive, but this is what a revolution in physics looks like: a line predicting the brightness of a supernova 11 billion light years away, and a
handful
of points that don't quite fit that line.
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