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The good news is random people apparate from nowhere, put out the fire and leave without expecting payment or praise.
I was trying to think of the right model to describe this form of random acts of kindness by geeky strangers.
Many people think of it primarily in terms of charity, random acts of kindness.
It mimics perfectly all the rituals that we will find in offices: rituals of entry, rituals of exit, the schedules, the uniforms in this country, things that identify you, team-building activities, team building that will allow you to basically be with a random group of kids, or a random group of people that you will have to be with for a number of time.
And I find this one really extraordinary because the rete pattern is completely symmetrical, and it accurately maps a completely asymmetrical, or random sky.
So here I get this call from this random guy that's having an experience that's being influenced by people at some social distance.
So you can wait for the Second Coming, which is a random number between one and 500 million.
Michael Sandel: At random.
This is the equivalent of a gorilla giving birth to a chimpanzee, then to an orangutan, then to a baboon, then to any random great ape within its lifetime.
It's these random few people.
The chances of getting so many of those vertical columns where every species has a C or every species has a T, by random chance, are infinitesimal.
I believe in randomness, and one of the reasons I believe that is because me becoming a diplomat was random.
But they were random things.
But things don't just diffuse in human populations at random.
In the dotted red line, we show what the adoption would be in the random people, and in the left-hand line, shifted to the left, we show what the adoption would be in the central individuals within the network.
The friends of randomly chosen people have higher degree, and are more central than the random people themselves.
Because now, with this idea we can take a random sample of people, have them nominate their friends, those friends would be more central, and we could do this without having to map the network.
We took 1,300 randomly selected undergraduates, we had them nominate their friends, and we followed both the random students and their friends daily in time to see whether or not they had the flu epidemic.
So the random group is in the red line.
Now, in addition to that, if you were an analyst who was trying to study an epidemic or to predict the adoption of a product, for example, what you could do is you could pick a random sample of the population, also have them nominate their friends and follow the friends and follow both the randoms and the friends.
Well, some other scientists have estimated what would happen if you took a 30 percent random sample of these 1000 people, 300 people and immunized them.
You get one of these ballot forms at random, and then you go into the voting booth, and you mark your choices, and you tear along a perforation.
Eight random people are gathered together on an abandoned vacation resort island off the coast of Massachusetts.
The main hero from the first Jack Frost is in the shrinks office blurting out random rhymes about Jack Frost.
Special mention must be made of the chop shop editing, as many scenes seem to have been spliced together in random order.
It is full of random and empty plot twists that add nothing but aimless action, such as a trip by the protagonists to a ghost town where the villains (unexplainedly) follow them.
From the beginning i literally lost interest immediately when 2 women are just making tea and then suddenly she points out there is random water coming from under the door, then bam a full on flood through the route of the house its hard to believe they didn't notice the rising water level outside or at least heard it.
Beatty's antics, although acted quite well, just seemed too random and illogical.
The cab driver himself (though well played, considering) runs through emotions seemingly at random, from sarcastic to sympathetic to raging lunatic to apathetic.
The acting is what you'd get if you chose people at random off the street.
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