Grueskin argues that "one of the things engineers want to do is find practical, intractable problems society is facing and help come up with ways to solve those problems".
Deolalikar was saying, in essence, that there will always be some problems for which we can recognize an answer without being able to quickly find one — intractable problems that lie beyond the grasp of even our most powerful microprocessors, that consign us to a world that will never be quite as easy as some futurists would have us believe.
MDRGPU is a software package for this emerging computing platform that enables human geneticists to tackle analyses previously found to be intractable.
The neuropathological findings within the foci of cortical dysplasia found in severe intractable epilepsy include pronounced dyslamination of the neocortex, neuronal dysmorphism and massive enlargement ('giant' neurons), gemistocyte-like 'balloon cells' [ 47].
An analytical description of this highly complex but local motion in backbone dihedral space was found to be intractable, but the simple model implemented by the B ACKRUB tool (Davis et al., 2006) very closely approximates the low-energy plasticity thought to actually occur in vivo.
He had some success with it, although he always found oil painting an intractable medium, and pure abstraction a stretch.
The sad truth is that movies about presidents constitute perhaps the worst genre in the history of the medium, which shouldn't be surprising, since the muses of poetry, dance, music, theater -- you name the art -- have found the subject equally intractable.
9 Studies have found it useful for intractable epilepsy.
12 Boshuisen et al, 20 in a study performed on children with intractable epilepsy, found that AED withdrawal did not affect long-term seizure outcome but may unmask incomplete surgical success sooner, identifying children who need continuous drug treatment.
