At the table that Sunday, after watching me for awhile, he pointed to a bottle of sparkling red polish and spread his fingers for me to paint his kernel-sized fingernails.
Cinepolis de Mexico CEO Alejandro Ramirez, who runs the country's largest (and world's fourth largest) movie theater chain, says that if there is a tax of even 2percentt on the popcorn that he buys from the United States, he'll be forced to switch suppliers to get his kernels cheaper. .
Johnson's stepfather has symptoms of Alzheimer's, and seeing his decline as Johnson puts it, "watching him lose his humanhood"—has motivated his work with Kernel.
In that story the philandering hero has a casual affair that imperceptibly becomes the love of his life, a "kernel" hidden from the world of his public self.
We thank Alexander Ihler for sharing his code for kernel density estimation, Korbinian Strimmer for sharing his code for covariance estimation, Rajarshi Guha for SPE code, and Brendan Frey for sharing his code for Affinity Propagation.
A friend got him to the hospital, where his stomach was pumped; the experience became the kernel of his one-act play Exorcism, which was believed to have been destroyed until a copy was found and published last year.
Beginning about 1991, Linus Torvalds, a Finnish computer science student, started his own open-source program to develop a UNIX-like kernel, which his project eventually named Linux.
Although the details of Maimon's answer to this problem remain obscure, the kernel of his position can be found in his analysis of what it is to be a finite cognizer.
And until now, not doing the conventional thing has been essential to his appeal: ignoring the venomous glare of the media is the kernel of his authenticity.
The kernel of his message was this: I believe that we can be better.
