Sometimes these pictures seem just like smudges that you can only gradually make out -- or that you can't, the ones you fail to decipher simulating how, after staring at somebody too long, the person's face seems to evaporate.
When character recognition software fails to decipher a word scanned in a book — when the page is yellowed or the letters are smudged, for example — Mr. von Ahn's project makes it part of a captcha.
The danger is that they fail to decipher any meaning in this explosion of information and perspective, that they end up going around in circles, and that they are left - like those suspiciously well-preserved characters from that daft American TV series - utterly, utterly lost.
These experiences helped her sketch the predicament Reno faces as she tries, and often fails, to decipher the social codes of 1970s SoHo, as well as the haute-bourgeois Northern Italy of her boyfriend's family and the underground protest scene in Rome.
What is more, many of the studies that have investigated the potential effects of chronic stressor exposure on visceral obesity have failed to accurately assess body fat distribution, making an accurate characterization of its effects difficult to decipher.
In spite of concentrated efforts devoted to decipher the mechanisms underlying CSC chemoresistance and to design targeted therapeutics to these cells, proteomics has failed to unveil molecular signatures capable of distinguishing between malignant and non-malignant stem cells.
There, applying solely his mind and logic, he deciphered a key part of the German military code that others, equipped with a model of the German Enigma encrypting machine, had failed to break.
The team failed to fill 11 small gaps in the q region, says Ian Dunham, whose team at Sanger did a large part of the sequencing, because the DNA was too difficult for current sequencing technology to obtain and decipher.
In our experimental model, it is not yet possible to decipher whether NK cells from patients fail to respond to the cytokine cocktail (that is, IL-15 plus IL-18) used to favor their response to PAMPs and whole bacteria, or fail to respond to the microbial products themselves, or fail to respond to both.
