In 2009 he and Pasquier were given a $488,000 grant (Canadian dollars) to "explore the boundaries" of the Metacreation project and the idea that machines could become composers if they were given enough data -- if they were fed, for example, hundreds of songs that their programmers personally enjoyed.
Among the examples Halstead showed me there were feeds that, for example, identified what devices and applications people are using to post to Twitter — there are 80,000 sources in all in this one — and a feed that aggregated all airline-related tweets, which can then be classified into different categories like questions, gripes, praise and so on.
The European Union, for example, does not allow animal remains to be fed to any food animal.
Not every state in the USA or province in Canada grows corn or makes corn a main cereal grain that is fed to cattle (for example).
Are orcas, for example, being fed less salmon and more smelt?
Increasingly, actionable results are being fed back to research participants, for example, in some population studies where new genomic techniques are used, with implications for the informed consent procedure [Knoppers et al., 2013].
For example, if you're fed up paying high prices for organic food, dig up your lawn and plant a beautiful vegetable and fruit garden instead.
Iamus is fed with specific information setting out, for example, which instruments have to be composed for and the desired duration.
For example, flies were fed a lousy diet, and over 30 generations they adapted so that they could develop better on that diet.
For example, biomass is fed to many continuous pilot-scale reactors by a pressurized screw feeder, also known as a plug screw feeder.
