Word: method
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...student said, "The secret to success in Mirko's course is to get the project done while he's not looking. Otherwise he poses too many questions that you can't resolve." And Mirko supposedly teaches by the Socratic method--he asks questions until you come to his conclusions...
...even his own words, and still less those of his cataloguers who speak of "interplay of space and void" are inadequate when they come to his work. They cannot delineate a method of work, or describe the shape of a from...
...closest advisors said it was a mistake to reveal my method of prognostication before the end of the season. No, I said, Ivy League people are for the most part ethical; there'll be no trouble. And so, as you remember, last Saturday, I told...
They, the people who train you in the method and dangers of parachute jumping, attempt to make you forget all this...
...thorniest problem is the eye; for in order to analyze a visual scene a great deal of knowledge about the physical world is needed--knowledge that computers have barely begun to acquire. The method used here is to scan with a camera a scene containing light object on a dark table. The varying light intensity is expressed as logarithms which direct successive scans until a fairly sharp idea of the objects' boundaries are obtained. After many steps an accurate two-dimensional mapping of the scene is completed and translation into three-dimensional models begins. Knowledge from many levels must interact...