Word: answering
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...child's play for the 3-lb. organ. Most important, unlike any conventional computer, the brain can learn from its mistakes. Researchers have tried for years to program computers to mimic the brain's abilities, but without success. Now a growing number of designers believe they have the answer: if a computer is to function more like a person and less like an overgrown calculator, it must be built more like a brain, which distributes information across a vast interconnected web of nerve cells, or neurons...
...make decisions, its maker trains it to recognize the patterns in any solution to a problem by repeatedly feeding examples to the machine. The computer responds to each example by randomly activating its circuits in a particular configuration. The trainer electronically reinforces any connections that produce a correct answer and weakens those that produce an incorrect one. After as many as several thousand trials, the computer activates only those circuits that produce the right answer. "It works just like a kid," says Farrokh Khatibi, senior product manager at AI Ware Inc., a 3 1/2-year-old neurocomputing company in Cleveland. "It learns...
Whatever happens, Black people have got to realize they don't need a leader. Leaders are happy to be leaders because they are in comfortable positions. Whenever anything concerning Blacks comes up, Jesse Jackson will be the one to answer...
What is that strange noise in the office next door? Answer: the sound of a Tupperware party in progress. The plastic food containers, which make a slight burrrp noise when resealed, are suddenly being shown and sold in all sorts of nontraditional places: on the job, in day-care centers, even at tailgate parties. In the past Tupperware was pushed exclusively at living-room gatherings of housewives, a successful marketing strategy devised by Inventor Earl Tupper not long after he dreamed up the product in the 1940s. But as more and more women joined the work force, the party calmed...
...speech that had a lilt and a majesty unlike any other he had given in his 16-month quest, Dukakis found the answer. "It is the idea of community," he said. "It is the idea that we are in this together; that regardless of who we are or where we come from or how much money we have -- each of us counts." Using the image of community as a contrast to the "cramped ideals" of the Reagan years, he challenged his listeners "to forge a new era of greatness for America...