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This is a greenhouse designed for arid coastal regions, and the way it works is that you have this whole wall of evaporator grills, and you trickle seawater over that so that wind blows through, it picks up a lot of moisture and is cooled in the process.
A radio device is controlling every step I take, and a sensor picks up my foot for me every time I walk.
But a young German doctor picks up Archie Cochrane's exercise book and says to his colleagues, "This evidence is incontrovertible.
But he looks at the pile of arrowheads, thinks they're a gift, picks them up, smiles and walks off.
And he picks which joint he wants to move with those chin switches.
It provoked tears as well as incisive questions about unarmed peace-keeping forces and the double-dealing of a Western society that picks its moral fights with commodities in mind.
He said, "Professor, I don't mean any disrespect by this, but when your mama picks up a butcher knife that looks bigger than you are, and chases you through the house screaming she's going to kill you, and you have to lock yourself in the bathroom and lean against the door and holler for help until the police get there," he looked at me and he said, "that's something you don't forget."
In this case, she picks up her phone, she can map food preparation at the kitchen island to a particular location of sunlight.
With the help of the locals and using just shovels and picks, I made my way.
It's got a little bit of basic common sense, goes and picks the objects.
So he reaches down instead on the ground and picks up five stones and puts them in his shepherd's bag and starts to walk down the mountainside to meet the giant.
He picks me and puts me on his shoulder.
He wraps it around my leg, picks me up a second time, walks me to a vehicle, and he's able to get me to medical attention.
So here the computer picks random syllables and puts them together so you have something sort of pronounceable, like "tufritvi" and "vadasabi."
So functional MRI picks up on that blood flow increase, producing a higher MRI response where neural activity goes up.
The moment a sound of a chainsaw is heard in the forest, the device picks up the sound of the chainsaw, it sends an alert through the standard GSM network that's already there to a ranger in the field who can in fact show up in real time and stop the logging.
What I do picks up where their job ends.
She picks up the phone, she calls the bank and says, "Fax me all of the accounts."
Now published alongside the first volume as a completed text, this second volume picks up where the original left off, only now Don Quixote and Sancho have become folk heroes.
If someone steps on them by accident or picks them up, they can explode.
And eventually some crow gets a bright idea: "Hey, there's lots of coins lying around from the first stage, hops down, picks it up, drops it in the slot, and we're off to the races.
If her owner picks up that leash, Maggie knows with a fair degree of certainty it's time to go for a walk.
Indeed, in the book "Superintelligence" by the philosopher Nick Bostrom, he picks up on this theme and observes that a superintelligence might not only be dangerous, it could represent an existential threat to all of humanity.
When we then find something very important, like the bones of a human ancestor, we begin to excavate it extremely carefully and slowly, using dental picks and fine paintbrushes.
OK, so a computer picks a specific item of data from memory, it sends it into the processor or the ALU, and then it puts the result back into memory.
But when it's moving back and forth, the retina picks up these changes.
Then, as the rocket dives down, velocity picks up again toward a maximum velocity and the rocket hits the ground.
Little picks on the legs, where she does her needlepoint, and leaves little loops.
It picks up on what you have watched and what people like you have watched, and infers that that must be what you're interested in, what you want more of, and just shows you more.
Experiments show that what the algorithm picks to show you can affect your emotions.
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