"Look at this, I mean, just look at this," he said, stroking a pink and lavender lepidolite sphere he found at a mine in Portland.
The system correctly identified the mine-shaped sphere 90% of the time.
For example, seemingly innocuous information about persons, based on their activities in the public sphere, can be "mined" to create user profiles based on implicit patterns in the data and those profiles (whether accurate or not) can be used to make important decisions affecting people.
As soon as training begins, new agents are expected to start gathering clients and listings by mining what is known as their "sphere of influence".
Rekayasa Tambang Indonesia (RTI) meets the needs of clients - private and government-owned mining companies - in virtually every sphere of geological interpretation and modeling, mine design and engineering, and mining productivity improvement activities.
In The Hand that First Held Mine, she returns to the domestic sphere of her earlier novels, but with a meatier, more complex agenda.
Mines are no longer the simple spiked iron sphere that floats unseen in the path of an oncoming warship -- although it was just such a World War I-era mine that blew up the USS Samuel Roberts.
This year, the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO), a 1000-ton sphere of heavy water deep inside a nickel mine in Sudbury, Ontario, put the final nail in the coffin of the solar neutrino paradox.
It seems likely that this creature was the center of its own sphere of physical reality just as I was the center of mine.
The sphere is submerged within a 10-story cavity that was carved out of a nickel mine 1 1/4 miles underground and filled with 40,000 tons of ordinary water.
