Word: leape
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...small details right, like the look of the onboard conference room (President Clinton arranged a tour for Harrison Ford and director Wolfgang Petersen), but much else is imaginary. That really cool presidential escape pod? The real plane has nothing like it. The parachute deck from which passengers leap to safety? Air Force One doesn't have such a deck. It doesn't even have parachutes--they can't work in a 747's slipstream. The gun locker right near the press area? No way. But who knows--maybe an escape pod is in Bill Clinton's future. A White House...
...allusiveness, is captured in the canny words that appear at the end of The X-Files' credit sequence: "The truth is out there." The point is made more succinctly by the pins sold at the Enigma UFO Museum that read, simply, BELIEVE. What we are talking about is a leap of faith...
...LEAP OF FAITH...
...notice that this ole world isn't spinning like it used to? To keep clocks in synch the National Institute of Standards and Technology will add an extra, or leap, second on June 30. Atomic clocks use a length of a second that doesn't represent the long-term slowing trend, so they're a teeny-weeny bit fast. Says NIST spokesman Collier Smith: "We stop the hands of the clock long enough for the world to catch...
...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 mix of brute force and heuristics...