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“Just stick to reverse-engineering,” was what I was told.

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The best ever computerized poker player was done by these guys, who were able to predict every single card held by every other player, and what the flop was going to be, based on reverse-engineering the random number generator.

Singularity Watch, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Q: Is something like genetic reverse-engineering theoretically possible?

An Interview with Greg Bear for Darwin's Children 2010

Nobody's reverse-engineering your models -- except as comic-relief for overworked spreadsheet jockeys who have watched you manufacture your prefabricated conclusions for years.

Richard (RJ) Eskow: Poor Standards: 4 Steps to Ending the Rating "Agency" Racket RJ 2011

With these two things in mind, evolutionary biological engineers not only analyse existing natural objects (possibly using reverse-engineering techniques) to conduct a forensic investigation, but instead of determining the reason why something failed, he/she is determining the reason why something worked: in this case, life.

A Modest Proposal (By a Somewhat Modest Engineer) 2009

They are cheap because they are knockoffs—"shanzai" is the local term—copied by reverse-engineering.

Asia's High-Tech Boom Is Good for Us, Too Nathan Myhrvold 2011

A year and a half ago, scientists at the Blue Brain Project in Switzerland announced they had successfully created an extremely detailed — down to the molecular level — model of the neurocortical column of a two-week-old rat … and that was just Phase 1 of their ambitious research effort aimed at nothing less than reverse-engineering the mammalian brain and recreating it in a computer.

Be safe out there! ewillett 2009

Furthermore, the Chinese, the unchallenged world champions in technology espionage and reverse-engineering, have not created anything new, but simply stolen German technology to build their high-speed rail lines.

China Planning to Connect High Speed Rail Lines To Europe | Inhabitat 2010

Some restaurant companies are reverse-engineering the cost of their product packaging, he says, tracing the price of every component.

Restaurants Test New Ways to Shop Julie Jargon 2011

Another interesting idea aimed at easing IAM deployments is to work IdM into SOA (service-oriented architecture), so software developers can avoid the chore of reverse-engineering for each application they are trying to write to.

Trends In Identity And Access Management 2010