Word: somewhat
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...tasks for which they were originally designed. In his idealized computer, the same memory units that held data items, such as numbers or text, also held the step-by-step instructions that would allow the machine to be programmed to perform any task. Von Neumann persuaded the I.A.S.'s somewhat skeptical board of trustees to allocate $100,000--quite a sum in 1945--to build the MANIAC, the first in a series of early Von Neumann machines that included the JOHNNIAC (at Argonne National Laboratory) and the IBM 701, one of the progenitors of IBM's enormously profitable mainframe lines...
...strictly impossible, he had invented a purely conceptual device--now known as a Universal Turing Machine--that provided the logical basis for the digital computer. And whereas Wittgenstein's dream of a universal ideal language for expressing all meanings had been shattered, Turing's device actually achieved a somewhat different sort of universality: it could compute all computable mathematical functions...
...party scene." The top floors of PfoHo [were] always able to have great parties...because they were a few more steps away from the security guard." In the Quad of yore, "House administrators supported these rooms as social leaders," according to Doak, implying that administrators may have been somewhat more lenient with regards to these rooms' parties...
...PROCESS. A somewhat tedious process, inter-House transferring requires potential transfers to fill out several forms and find a "host" blocking group in a desired House. A blocking group's hosting eligibility is determined by the presence of open spaces in that group, which may arise from a blockmates leave of absence or an originally sub-16 person group. Once affiliated with their new House, however, transfers are not forced to move out upon the return of the individual whose "slot" they temporarily assumed...
Unfortunately, no such secure blocking mechanism for seniors has ever been implemented. Even if we retain a friend or significant other or roommate or two, all of us who are graduating this spring must face the fact that we will, by and large, soon find ourselves in somewhat randomly assigned homes where it will be incumbent upon us to meet the upperclassfolk and deal amicably with whatever neighbors we might have. Our destiny is sealed. As Weiss has posited, we are all floaters...