At each subsequent stage, In P a i spawns off k In P a i copies of the remaining portion of the VN request to an appropriate set of InPs determined by LAP.
Selection is modeled so that an individual i spawns an expected number of offspring proportional to 1 + KF i, where K is a constant called the "selection scale" and F i is the fitness of individual i on a scale of 0 (unfit) to 1 (fit).
We're going to have dinner to talk about it.' And I thought to myself, man, what have I spawned here with this thing?
Others … well, some of the mail circumstances force me to deliver makes me feel fortunate that my job prevents me from subjecting the two campers I spawned to the same blunders, well meaning though they may be.
I spawned individual breeding pairs from both populations (n = 4 pairs from stream population, n = 8 pairs from reservoir population) in 40-L aquaria (i.e., one male and one female from the same population per aquarium) in a greenhouse at the Aquatic Research Facility at the University of Oklahoma, starting July 1 , 2009
"Out," he urges himself and us, "always out: my penchant is for opening, not closing, sentences (and parentheses — and em dashes, so that this I can spawn or take on other Is, to expand toward the size of the big starry X that is whatever is coming after this, but not have to reduce back to the previous state, to vanish back into its once and former singularity".
I did spawn a subversive.
But if it takes someone like McCartney to change a few people's narrow minds about hip-hop, the characters that exist in that world and the music it spawns, then I'm glad this collaboration happened.
Resolutely pro-choice myself, as a new mother I had a moment of looking down at the snuffling, purplish creature I'd spawned, and feeling an unwelcome idea form in my head: "If I love my baby so much, how can abortion be right?" This thought stayed with me and played on me until eventually I mentioned it to my own mum.
"I was spawned in this here lake," Mr. Vadas said.
