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...clubs have inherited the difficulties that come with the kids wanting to party. They were never intended to function that way," he added...
...fact that Harvard wrote to all of our alumnae without telling us that they were going to do it is a strange way to function," she says...
...infection. In observational epidemiologic studies, vitamin A-deficient women were at increased risk of transmitting HIV infection to their babies compared with women who had sufficient levels of vitamin A. In a number of studies, poor status of vitamin A and other vitamins were associated with lowered immune function, possibly leading to a higher risk of transmission of the virus...
Interestingly, programmers have reacted to this law of diminishing returns to faster processing by reintroducing heuristics into the computer's algorithm. Grandmaster Joel Benjamin spent a year "training" Deep Blue for its match with Kasparov. What did Benjamin do? He helped the programmers refine Deep Blue's evaluation function to incorporate human "feeling" about how good a position is and he helped Deep Blue zone in on the kinds of moves a human grandmaster would intuitively leap to analyze. Of course, Deep Blue relies primarily on brute force, and it is still very much an open question what the optimal...
Sullivan (1856-1924) was America's first great modern architect. It's a curious twist of fate that, having written hundreds of thousands of words about architecture, he should be known to most people today by one phrase: "Form follows function." It became the motto of all functionalist designers, but it doesn't represent Sullivan's own ideas at all. He wasn't antidecoration. He was, rather, one of the greatest designers of decorative detail, in an age that excelled in it. But he insisted on the primacy of the main masses. Both this and the love of inventive detail...