It was also about being selected to participate in this — it wasn't some random blanketing of people.
A small campfire had been set up by a pond, and next to it they'd erected a calico tent carpeted with random tartan blankets.
But he says the charge that Customs are abusing their powers is wrong: "Customs," he says, "never stop at random, they never do blanket searches.
In many cases, an employer isn't allowed to conduct random drug tests or blanket drug tests.
In addition, new phobias develop at seemingly random intervals, such as a temporary fear of blankets at the end of the season 5 episode "Mr. Monk Gets a New Shrink".
While I don't want my kid erupting in tears over not getting that Batmobile toy on a random Saturday, why would I burden him with a blanket statement that he should never cry over anything?
This follows from the measure-preserving nature of coupled dynamical systems, which implies that internal states, external states – and the Markov blanket that separates them – possesses something called a random dynamical attractor.
Functional would best describe it – and random, if you consider the occasional sales of trombones and horse blankets.
"If it were happening due to random chance, you would have to somehow explain how we've wrapped an extra blanket around the planet and it isn't trapping heat," she said. .
Extended families occupy domains demarked by blankets, children in erratic orbit; wizened old men sleep curled on random ledges; kitchen staff rush from cabins where vats of hot water bubble on gas rings.
Furthermore, the heuristic search strategy in Markov blanket methods can avoid the time-consuming training process as in SVM and random forests.
