haystacks

* A.I. systems that uncover the needles in haystacks of data, from software bugs to hidden genes.

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For the food: the day before the party some of the students and I made small cookies called haystacks (recipe to follow).

Well Fed Network 2009

But, such wishful thinking leads nowhere; it amounts to the problem of simultaneously finding a million diamonds in a million multi-ton "haystacks" of identical looking cubic zirconia, and doing it quickly, thank you.

"None of us is as smart as all of us." Steven Barnes 2008

She used butterscotch chips and coconut and dry chow mein noodles and called them "haystacks".

N is for... Sara 2007

The expansion area includes additional coral reefs (patch, pur and groove, and deep and wall), unusual "haystacks" of elkhorn coral, barrier reefs, sea grass beds, and sand communities, as well as algal plains, shelf edge, and other supporting habitats not included within the initial boundary.

Proclamation On Buck Island Reef National Monument Clinton, Bill, 1946- 2001

“But we’re essentially looking for needles in haystacks.”

Matthew Yglesias » Too Much Information 2009

But we’re essentially looking for needles in haystacks.

Matthew Yglesias » Too Much Information 2009

But we’re essentially looking for needles in haystacks.

Matthew Yglesias » Too Much Information 2009

Acronyms like "NIMD: Novel Intelligence from Massive Data" win budget dollars by promising the impossible, all the while vacuuming up and storing non-relevant personal data into hundreds of burgeoning intelligence databanks -- electronic haystacks with few or no findable needles.

Coleen Rowley: Could WikiLeaks Have Helped Thwart 9/11? Coleen Rowley 2010

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