Word: randoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...harder to woo a [random] undergrad than 80 council members who are there all the time," Stewart said...
...visiting from Europe for the weekend. Two separate groups of students proposed that Billy join them on their trip to see The Game the next morning. Billy politely declines and lightheartedly advises them to not drink too much beer. Working as a security guard is more about fielding random queries than cracking down on crime. "Yeah, I get a lot of crazy requests," Billy remarks, "like the students who say, 'I know it's wrong, but could you do this?' The people who lock their clothes in somebody else's room, and then ask me to let them...
More interestingly, however, only 25 percent of the visitors correctly identified the entry as computer-written --a figure barely above that predicted by random chance. The computer's work was, to many, indistinguishable from that of the human authors. The standard method of judging whether a computer is conscious or not is whether it "acts conscious"--whether an observer would be unable to tell that its output came from a computer and not another human. Brutus.1 has by no means become a thinking writer, but if its product looks human to readers, it has somehow made up for whatever capacity...
...audit analyzed the contents of 32 trash bags selected at random from undergraduate residential buildings...
Oddly, only one quarter of the 44 interns selected in the last two years have been male, although Pavese says this is based on a completely random selection process...