"You'd figure cyclists would have learned their lesson, but that's not always a smart assumption," said Dick Pound, an I.O.C. member and the former chief of the antidoping agency.
This Disney Research project produces high-quality results from just a handful of sensors by making some smart assumptions about how the body works.
The multi-institutional project (PDF), due to be presented at CVPR in Salt Lake City, combines depth data with smart assumptions about how a body is shaped and what it can do.
We never seem to have enough tools to deal with new threats and malware that are sprouting on a daily basis, and there's not enough data to make smart assumptions and decisions (or in some cases, too much data and too many false positives to find the real threats).
This family of Bayesian methods unfortunately still remain unemployed in the field due to the need for smart assumptions on parameters' prior distributions and their costliness in calculation of bulky integrals despite promising effort regarding the second obstacle [ 15, 16].
Two scenarios of (sub urban development in 2030 are explored, representing current trends and smart growth assumptions, using the land change model GEOMOD.
Uncritical commentaries often portray evolution as a ladder of progress, leading towards bigger, faster, and smarter organisms, the assumption being that evolution is somehow driving organisms to get more complex and ultimately more like humankind.
Perhaps the stimulus held its own because the public, in defiance of Washington's condescending assumption, was smart enough to figure out that the government can't create jobs without spending and that Bush-era Republicans have no moral authority to lecture about deficits.
"The Invention of Love," itself the invention of a smart romantic, proceeds on the assumption that the sharpest spear ever to transfix Housman was his love of Moses Jackson.
That sounds odd, but it's a smart move based on the assumption that the rapid melting of Arctic sea ice caused by climate change will someday make the area more accessible and commercially more attractive.
