Precision
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We've mapped the afterglow with spectacular precision, and one of the shocks about it is that it's almost completely uniform.
It is mainly trying to identify with
precision
what is the right question.
Breeders there developed a rice variety carrying the Sub1 gene using another genetic technique called
precision
breeding.
The virgin queen is sedated and then artificially inseminated using this
precision
instrument.
And the goal is to block out the starlight to incredible
precision
so that we'd be able to see the planets directly.
People wiggle a lot and getting these variations identified with very high accuracy, both in
precision
and recall, is tough because that's what it takes to get a professional coach to believe in you.
The mirrors are cast and they're cooled very slowly, and then they're polished to an exquisite
precision.
And so, if you think about the
precision
of these mirrors, the bumps on the mirror, over the entire 27 feet, amount to less than one-millionth of an inch.
It's what allows us to have the
precision
that we will have.
So, what does that
precision
buy us?
Extraordinary
precision.
And the basic idea is that we fly aerial robots through orchards, and then we build
precision
models of individual plants.
That's just going to lose you a bunch of money, because poker is a game of probabilities and precision, and so you have to train yourself to think in numbers.
And they leverage the dexterity of our hands in order to manipulate things with much more
precision.
And in the not so distant future, the machines built with the
precision
and flexibilty of the human eye may even enable it to surpass its own evolution.
At the heart of these variations are two terms often used interchangeably: accuracy and
precision.
Your
precision
improves with more finely incremented tools that require less estimation.
The story of the stolen crossbow was one of
precision
without accuracy.
The variation with the shaky hand was one of accuracy without
precision.
You can probably get away with low accuracy or low
precision
in everyday tasks.
Factories and labs increase
precision
through better equipment and more detailed procedures.
However, investments in
precision
can take us beyond what was previously possible, even as far as Mars.
While we ultimately strive for accuracy,
precision
reflects our certainty of reliably achieving it.
But curving the ball with the
precision
needed to both bend around the wall and back into the goal is difficult.
So it's thanks to the combined efforts of generations of engineers, material scientists, and quantum physicists that this tool of incredible power and
precision
can spin in the palm of your hand.
But thanks to improving technology and precision, these objects with limited access and unreliable longevity are now being replaced with standards based on universal constants, like the speed of light.
And I worry that the trend towards personalized and
precision
medicine, looking for biological or genetic targets to better tailor treatment, may inadvertently cause us to lose sight of the big picture, that it is the daily context, where a person lives, grows, works, loves, that most importantly determines population health, and for too many of us, poor health.
So we started developing a technology that will allow him with nuance, with precision, with control, and despite his physical disability, to be able to do that, to be able to perform his piece of music.
And he was saying that with Kepler's extreme precision, it could actually detect alien megastructures around stars, but it didn't.
E.B. White once wrote of commas in The New Yorker: "They fall with the
precision
of knives outlining a body."
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