In quality improvement work, many initiatives small or large often happen simultaneously, and it can be hard to discern one from the other.
What if we had software that was quick and nimble, able to discern one speaker from another on the fly?
In front of an estimated 30,000 spectators, most of whom could not discern one rider from another or even see more than a fraction of each ride, the South African Grant Baker, 32, stroked into one of the biggest and best-shaped waves of the hourlong final to take home the Mavericks Surf Contest's $30,000 first-place check.
The screen is so densely packed with pixels that, for all intents and purposes, it is "pixel-free". In other words, with 458 pixels per square inch, that's so dense that the human eye can't actually discern one pixel from another, creating a seamless, realistic image.
Although no one really knows (and the monkeys are unlikely to tell us) whether one circle felt like sandpaper and another felt as smooth as glass, Mango and Nectarine quickly learned to discern one circle from another to complete a task and get their reward: a sip of juice.
Policymakers would need the patience and humility to discern one AI application from another.
One needs to resort to the pictograms heading each section to discern one angelic voice from another, breaking the reader's connection to the story and slowing the momentum.
It was hard to isolate chemicals when they always come mixed together, and impossible to discern one artificial fragrance from another.
It's hard to discern one sex/drug/booze story from another, but I can say without a doubt the most memorable and difficult interview of my life was with Jim Bates for Big Brother in 2002.
Abundance differences in protein isoforms, degradation fragments, or post-translational modifications may serve as biomarkers for early detection of breast cancer, but it is impossible to discern one protein species from another when proteins are digested before separation.
He wrote his own account of the episode, in "Pryor Convictions": After free-basing without interruption for several days in a row, I wasn't able to discern one day from the next. . . .
