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It's plausibly a random sample from this population.
And if you can reach into a box at random and pull out things that squeak, then maybe everything in the box squeaks.
You [probably won't] pull three blue balls in a row at random out of a yellow box, but you could randomly sample just one blue ball.
And if you could reach into a box at random and pull out something that squeaks, maybe everything in the box squeaks.
The other is that you have to realize that it is a random access medium, and you can, in fact, branch and expand and elaborate and shrink.
That's one kind of use of random access.
To paraphrase a description in the book, he says: At the molecular level, living organisms have a certain order, a structure to them that's very different from the random thermodynamic jostling of atoms and molecules in inanimate matter of the same complexity.
How on earth could you trade looking at that, and see something that wasn't just random?
CA: But any one anomaly might be just a random thing.
JS: Any one anomaly might be a random thing; however, if you have enough data you can tell that it's not.
A random stranger walked past, looked at me and he smiled.
In many local regions, however, the energy may settle by random chance into a stable state, stopping inflation and forming bubble universes.
First, tell me just a detail: the name of the hotel is not a random name.
Now, if these were random doodles or decorations, we would expect to see a lot more variation, but instead what we find are the same signs repeating across both space and time.
If light were made of tiny, solid balls, then you would expect that some of the particles from Beam A would crash into some of the particles from Beam B. If that happened, the two particles involved in the collision would bounce off in random directions.
Instead, random genetic mutations cause some giraffes to be born with longer necks, and that gives them a better chance to survive than the ones who weren't so lucky, which brings us to "survival of the fittest".
All that happens is that random genetic mutations cause the organisms carrying them to behave or develop in different ways.
He'll draw one at random, and he'll make the band follow the instructions on the card.
If there are many ants in a small area this will happen more often causing them to respond by moving in more convoluted, random paths in order to search more thoroughly.
Shortly after a carbon dioxide molecule absorbs an infrared photon, it will fall back to its previous energy level, and spit a photon back out in a random direction.
When Milner gave him a random number, he managed to remember it for fifteen minutes by repeating it to himself constantly.
A similar effect happens with random sequences of sound.
People will rate random sequences they've heard on repeated loop as more musical than a random sequence they've only heard once.
We could come up with an extremely complex algorithm using random number generators, chaotic functions, and fuzzy logic to generate a sequence of musical notes in a way that would be impossible to track.
Well, instead of organisms, we can start with an initial population of musical phrases, and a basic algorithm that mimics reproduction and random mutations by switching some parts, combining others, and replacing random notes.
Is it something more than a system of interconnected neurons developed by biological algorithmic processes and the random experiences that shape our lives?
His practice shots still cluster around the apple but in a random pattern.
In other words, your dreams might be a random screen saver your brain turns on so it doesn't completely shut down.
In fact, just before, African scholars had collected a random assortment of old books and left them out for the terrorists to burn.
Of course, suspect identifications aren't as random as coin tosses, but they're not as clear cut as telling apples from bananas, either.
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