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It's a text adventure, which is the old-school adventure game format, where you're exploring, going north, east, south and west, picking up items and using them.
Actually, Chris, I was going to pick you for this, but instead of picking you, can you hop up here and pick a victim for this next experiment?
Algorithms picking your next job sounds a little bit scary, but there is one thing that has been shown to be really predictive of someone's future success in a job, and that's what's called a multimeasure test.
This disguise is so convincing that male bees land on the orchid and try to have sex with it, picking up pollen as they go.
Despite their middle age, if you've been following the themes of this conference or the entertainment industry, it's pretty clear that one has been picking on the other.
I'm wondering how long we can all stand it without picking up our phone and turning the flashlights on.
What if the system that we do not understand was picking up that it's easier to sell Vegas tickets to people who are bipolar and about to enter the manic phase.
They could do this, and you'd have no clue that's what they were picking up on.
He had tried to see whether you can indeed figure out the onset of mania from social media posts before clinical symptoms, and it had worked, and it had worked very well, and he had no idea how it worked or what it was picking up on.
It's an algorithm picking what it thinks that you might be interested in and maybe not find on your own.
And I'll tell you why we're picking crop plants to do the work for us when I get to that part of my talk.
"Crime and Punishment" was conceived and completed the following year, picking up on many of the same themes.
Well, she and I went blackberry picking.
And he played his bluegrass style of music, but near the end of the concert, he played the old timing style of banjo picking that came from Africa, along with the banjo.
There were about a hundred black folks out there picking.
So he gave us each a cotton sack, about 10 feet long, about that big around, and we started picking.
We sat there all day picking cotton, without complaining, without crying, while they sang things like: "Oh, Mary, don't you weep, don't you moan" and "Wade in the water," and "I done done," "This little light of mine."
But that day in the cotton field out there picking, when those people started singing, I realized I was in the very heart of real music, and that's where I've wanted to be ever since.
They're picking up a giant floppy disk made of cardboard.
I mean, it's about picking battles big enough to matter but small enough to win.
Because we're using escalators to move people, all of these trusses are picking up diagonal loads.
In this case, it was picking up bones and creating a tool, using it as a tool, which meant that apes just, sort of, running around and eating and doing each other figured out they can make things if they used a tool.
Now, our machines in the lab are not particularly good at picking out this sort of signal; it's quite complex.
So it's in this context that when the US government was picking a typeface to use after World War II for new maps and new projects, they picked Futura.
Adults and children are incredibly effective at picking up values from these subtle behaviors.
And, as he picks up a product, the system can recognize the product that he's picking up, using either image recognition or marker technology, and give him the green light or an orange light.
The greatest sin you can commit in daycare is picking up your kids late.
And across the street, a happy slave life, in the form of 150 Southern black performers, picking cotton, singing and dancing minstrel shows in a recreated antebellum attraction called Old Plantation.
And we're still picking up pieces of the Challenger.
And in that process that's going to morph from being just for diseases, to being for lesser vulnerabilities, like risk of manic depression or something, to picking personalities, temperaments, traits, these sorts of things.
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