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Optical character recognition units then only operated usually on one font, but by using charge-coupled device flatbed scanners and speech synthesizers, he developed a machine that could read any font.
This is tiny when expressed in familiar units, because it's equal to something like 10 to the minus 22 grams, but it is large in particle physics units, because it is equal to the weight of an entire molecule of a DNA constituent.
It has shrunk because our instruments enable us in part to measure smaller and smaller units of time, and this in turn has given us a more granular understanding of the material world, and this granular understanding has generated reams of data that our brains can no longer comprehend and for which we need more and more complicated computers.
Der Spiegel, from Germany, leaked more information about the operations run by the elite hacker units operating inside these intelligence agencies.
Now, if neurons are the functional information processing units of the brain, then the owners of these two brains should have similar cognitive abilities.
We call them cryptic social units.
And we applied this technique to many of the other systems on the satellite as well, and day by day, our design evolved from CAD to prototypes to production units.
And he sold about 60,000 units of fermented bean curd.
This brought some benefits but also one particular drawback: a spacing system that only provided 18 discrete units for letters to be accommodated on.
If I were doing this same job today, instead of having 18 spacing units, I would have 1,000.
So you have these physical objects that represent police, fire and rescue, and a dispatcher can grab them and place them on the map to tell those units where to go, and then the position of the units on the map gets synced up with the position of those units in the real world.
I joined the Israeli army just after the first intifada, the first Palestinian uprising, and I served in one of the hard-minded, toughest, aggressive infantry units, and I got the biggest gun in my platoon.
Companies tend to scale up vertically by centralizing operations in big factories and warehouses, but if you want to be agile and deal with immense customer diversity, you need to scale out horizontally using a distributed supply chain with smaller manufacturing and distribution units, like Grameen Bank has shown.
So what you're listening to, so this is your motor units happening right here.
So right here, these are the motor units that are happening from her spinal cord out to her muscle right here, and as she's doing it, you're seeing the electrical activity that's happening here.
So we have about 45 of these action units, and they combine to express hundreds of emotions.
Teaching a computer to read these facial emotions is hard, because these action units, they can be fast, they're subtle, and they combine in many different ways.
So these are all the different action units.
That is a lot of deaths, and yet, the chances are good that you don't feel at risk, that you imagine these people were hospital patients in intensive care units or nursing home residents near the ends of their lives, people whose infections are remote from us, in situations we can't identify with.
On the side facing the street it's much more normal, except I slipped a few mansards down, so that coming on the point, these housing units made a gesture to the corner.
The "but" in that sentence belies the inflexibility of the units, one fixed and fictional entity bumping up against another.
These self-regulating, semi-autonomous units give rise to self-regulating, semi-autonomous units called organs, and these organs coalesce to form things called humans, and these organisms ultimately live in environments, which are partly self-regulating and partly semi-autonomous.
And in our smallest units of life, our cells, we carry all the information that's required for every other cell to function and to replicate.
That's why I began investigating the most secretive and experimental prison units in the United States, for so-called "second-tier" terrorists.
The government calls these units Communications Management Units or CMUs.
The Bureau of Prisons describes CMUs as "self-contained housing units."
Our whole number system depends on being able to change units.
There are two ways to change units.
When we compose units, we take a bunch of things, we put them together to make a bigger thing, like a dozen eggs.
Other examples of composed units include a deck of cards, a pair of shoes, a jazz quartet and of course, Barbie and Ken make a couple.
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