They "complexify" the simple random walk model into an autoregressive model. From Wordnik.com. [The Reference Frame] Reference
They contextualize, narrate, synthesize and integrate -- they "complexify," then they simplify -- boiling psychological matters down to their essence. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
They might overlay multiple outlines and complexify the work that way. From Wordnik.com. [Of Genres and Sub-Genres] Reference
Once again, anything that might complexify the issue goes by the board. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference
That would complexify things, and besides, it would not be a Beijing Approved Frame. From Wordnik.com. [The Economist Giveth, and Taketh Away] Reference
He just claims over and over that some things will complexify in some way for some reason at some times. From Wordnik.com. [Another definition of ID - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The Zune is way too easy to use, we need to complexify things a bit, you know, to give users more control. From Wordnik.com. [I need a patron. Or a sponsor. Or something.] Reference
Technology has served throughout history to amplify, multiply, complexify, and accelerate human experience. From Wordnik.com. [Experiencing the Next World Now] Reference
You can dress them up as you will, you can complexify them as you will, but at bottom they are simply gambles. From Wordnik.com. [Hypocrisy, Thy Name is Gambling] Reference
In software development, we observe a similar tendency of planned systems to complexify until they collapse of their own weight. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
He then attempted to work out a causal theory of life that would explain the tendency of life to complexify and diversify (Sloan 1986). From Wordnik.com. [Evolution] Reference
It strives to complexify the heroic Romanticism with a darkness of tone that, at times, renders the worldscape almost existentialist in its aesthetics. From Wordnik.com. [Ethics and Enthusiasm] Reference
Here is an interesting example of isotopes used for local analysis, with much background and illustration of various factors that complexify the situation. From Wordnik.com. [My Prediction for dO18 at Bona Churchill « Climate Audit] Reference
But genuine transcendence is not anthropocentric -- animals have interiors that grow and complexify -- nor is it otherworldly, as interiors are inside of NATURE. From Wordnik.com. [Ross Robertson: The Inner Life: Nature And Transcendence] Reference
It strikes me that the affective responses of desire and fear complexify Delany's idea further and might well lead to more subjunctivities to throw into the mix. From Wordnik.com. [Modernism And Modality Links] Reference
This is to say that Art has an ethical imperative to adopt and integrate new aesthetic forms in order to complexify itself and increase its communicative capacity. From Wordnik.com. [More on Cultural Appropriation] Reference
If we grow and complexify a financial economy to a certain point, say through packed subprime mortgages, then at some point something happens and it all falls down. From Wordnik.com. [Pretty Green Lies] Reference
By the time the replicators had consumed a few hundred cubic feet of cometary nucleus, give or take, their interconnections would begin to complexify and their behavior would become more purposeful. From Wordnik.com. [Spin] Reference
And an electronic ecology does evolve in the Maelstrom as these snippets of code combine, detach, recombine, complexify, become self-replicating, until finally one of them becomes self-aware in an alien software sense. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
Some truths really are timeless or close enough to count, and it is often the voting masses and silent majorities that summon these truths when appellate judges, Fed bankers and assorted Ph.D.s begin to complexify them away. From Wordnik.com. [All Things To All People] Reference
But even if this is what you are looking for, it will not be found in Holt, because the only incrementalism in this bill are the steps being taken to further destabilize and complexify our election systems to the breaking point. From Wordnik.com. [The Neighborhood Penny Candy Shop and Why Holt (HR 811) Needs To be Fixed or Discarded] Reference
We might think that novel and flexible behaviours would cause problems, but we could theoretically complexify that control system as much as is required by evolution or learning, develop capacity for novel and flexible behaviours as a result of intricacy. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
Now, of course, I go back to the beginning, prune and enhance and simply and complexify and stamp out whatever inconsistancies I can find, and then, at last, turn it in, after which ... well, after which my editor will get back to me with more things that need reworking and rewriting. From Wordnik.com. [Book Give-Away Contest: Week 3 winner, final week begins!] Reference
If his later essay, on "The Laws of Race, as connected with Slavery," be on the whole less satisfactory, this is to be attributed, not to any want in it of the same qualities of thought and style as were displayed in his earlier work, but to the greater complexify and difficulty of the subject itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861] Reference
The book started with an article in The Atlantic Monthly, "The Coming Anarchy," and what I tried to do in the book was not so much to try to prove the article, but do what scientists often do, a mop-up operation: Go out and complexify it and make it more subtle and nuanced and even run away from your paradigm. From Wordnik.com. [The Ends of the Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the 21st Century] Reference
What do these texts add to our conversation, on Tuesday, about fact and fiction? do they clafity? complexify? the distinction?. From Wordnik.com. [Serendip's Exchange] Reference
Other people that adopt a realist expression of faith, but complexify it, are Andrew Perriman, Leslie Newbigin, and Marcus Borg. From Wordnik.com. [open source theology - Comments] Reference
That doesn't mean that the defenders of an extremely evil constitution wld not engage in personal atacks and try desperately to complexify the simplicity. From Wordnik.com. [Dissident Voice] Reference
This means that groups like People for Education shouldn't be against transparency and open data - they should be trying to complexify and nuance the discussion. From Wordnik.com. [Liblogs News Feed] Reference
We now know that the “law of complexity” says that some things should complexify themselves at some times by some unknown mechanism and that the “theory of creative evolution” means that the “intelligence” apparently inherent in all living things, which cannot be explained by any laws of physics even though it is “natural”, will protect us from all bad things and that medicine should be properly used to restore the “systems natural balance” so that this mechanism can act properly. From Wordnik.com. [An ever-deepening Egnorance - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
He said people sometimes see him as moving away from genre fiction and Michael Chabon as moving toward it, while he doesn't feel that way at all -- he still feels like the influences on his work are the same, and the genre writers who interest him remain the ones who complexify and question the traditions they inherit -- he could not, he said, write a sword-and-sorcery novel, as Chabon recently did, and he noted that Chabon has long been a much bigger fanboy than he, Lethem, ever was -- Chabon wrote unpublished science fiction novels before he wrote Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Lethem noted. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference
TCO, you’re still missing it, trying to complexify the surfacestations.org project. From Wordnik.com. [Hansen's Y2K Error « Climate Audit] Reference
1 The “Law of Complexity” states that some things complexify themselves at some times by some unknown mechanism for some unknown reason. From Wordnik.com. [Another anti-science court case finished - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
It seems the whole point of SETI and part of NASA’s mission is to in fact confirm the probability and inevitability of matter to complexify and lay to rest the idea that life is a special condition of matter, not intrinsic to it. From Wordnik.com. ["War of the Weasels" article in new Skeptical Inquirer - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Trying to complexify it is pointless. From Wordnik.com. [Consensus] Reference
Other people that adopt a realist expression of faith, but complexify it, are Andrew Perriman, Leslie Newbigin, and Marcus Borg. ". From Wordnik.com. [open source theology - Comments] Reference
Some very peculiar - ize and - fy combinations appear, e.g., interrogativize, insonify, sensize, complexify, utilitarianize, not to mention a plethora of weird compounds which, despite the author's insistence that the great majority are taken from documented citations, have the hollow ring of nonce, viz., to transhumanate, to racetaunt, to forecomprehend, to freezeframecopy, to jackiegleason. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1] Reference
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