Word: approaching
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Paul praised Attorney General Janet Reno for her "no-tolerance" approach to anti-abortion violence. Paul said that when she received death threats for performing abortions, she was immediately put under Federal Bureau of Investigation protection...
...right thing to do last year. I don't think I'd take a similar approach this year," she says. Boycotting is "a pretty dangerous thing...
Driskell says that while she isn't "outraged" at Harvard's approach, she would have liked to see a stronger student voice in the process. In the era of e-mail, letter-writing--the only method of input open to all students--can be time-consuming...
Before we indulge these philosophical concerns, it's worth exploring just how intelligent and inventive machines are evolving. A powerful paradigm for emulating the creative process in a computer is to copy the ways of nature. One particularly compelling "biologically inspired" approach is actually to simulate the process of evolution inside the computer...
...Another approach is to create "neural nets"--simulated versions of neurons and their massive interconnections that, while highly simplified, are able to solve real-world design problems and come up with unexpected though still appropriate solutions. These and related methods are also used in computer programs that "automatically" create art, music and poetry. The results of emulating nature in this way can be surprisingly effective, often solving difficult engineering and other design problems. However, as a human inventor who routinely uses these techniques, I can report that I continue to feel that I am still in charge of the process...