He claimed that after reading a couple of paragraphs he could instantly discern whether the writer was a woman or man.
A 5-year-old had instantly discerned a rule that I recognized only after Dr. Gopnik explained it to me.
He pounded across the parking lot and instantly discerned Becky in her green uniform, another person with her.
He was bright, quick-witted, with a ready apprehension of the things around him and an ability to observe closely, so that, for instance, when I placed a crab, a scorpion, and a spider on a tray before him he was able instantly to discern the relationship between them and apply the correct family, genus, and species names I'd taught him.
This is not to say that what we might call outsiderness can be instantly or infallibly discerned, or that there will ever be unanimity about what it looks like or what it means.
One of the most important, given the level of automation used by attackers, is using AI techniques such as machine learning to discern normal access patterns, and to instantly spot anomalies (such as a login from an unusual location or a suspect data download that could signal a breach), and remediate the situation in real time.
It's not immediately easy to discern.
It was impossible for the pathologist who conducted the autopsy to discern which bullet was fired first, but either would have killed her almost instantly, because both caused massive brain damage.
"If someone says they had a fun time at the weekend robbing a tramp and pooing themselves, you instantly know if they're your kind of person – you start discerning everything about them.
It is instantly recognizable, one of his scenes of iconic Americana, and yet a discerning eye may see hints of some personal turbulence behind its placid facade, said the author of a forthcoming biography.
The additional pixel density makes an instantly observable difference, even if it should technically exceed the ability of the human eye to discern, if you buy the rhetoric around the original Retina display tech.
