Given that it can be a daunting task to read and comprehend the quality control benchmarks in full, there are other avenues that one can pursue on the road to high-quality measurement.
My habit of reading began as a strict task, to read for 30 minutes.
Moreover, a remote map task also competes for the local disk bandwidth with all running local tasks, as the remote task needs to read the data block located on the local disk.
WHEN Paul Grimes, the originator of the Practical Traveler column, turned it over to me 14 years ago, he said the most important task was to read the fine print on everything -- tickets, insurance fliers, tour brochures, guarantees.
Again, the Reducer's task is to read the input tuples, and produce as output one final set of tuples of the form 〈t i,v〉.
The participant's task was to read the target word aloud as quickly and as accurately as possible.
The participants also received instruction forms with all the tasks to read along with the observer.
Ammon Shea set a task for himself: to read the Oxford English Dictionary, all 59 million words, in a year -- the equivalent, Nicholson Baker notes, of one John Grisham novel a day.
It covers a wide range of tasks: asking pupils to read the poem and answer questions demonstrating comprehension; an unscrambling words task; and an activity getting them to think about what animal images they would create for a poem.
As this was intended to be a conceptual rather than a knowledge-based task, participants were asked to read the problems and explicitly instructed that they were not to solve them.
