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to haphazard
adjective
Random; chaotic; incomplete; not thorough, constant, or consistent
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"We failed to implement our laws effectively on urban development, which led to haphazard urbanisation.
The uncoordinated and sometimes contradictory thinking at the top was soon reflected at the community level leading to haphazard, half-baked projects filled not with a united purpose but with jealousy, unhealthy competition and suspicions.
A1 Shoddy Cosmetic Surgery Doctors have traced recent medical problems among New York City Latinas to haphazard cosmetic surgery conducted in the Dominican Republic and arranged through local beauty salons.
Known for their signature blend of ethnicity and exoticism, Takada's designs incorporated bright and breezy floral and tribal prints with experiments on volume and tailoring, mixing swatches of garish remaindered fabrics with grey flannel trousers and white cotton shirts, in an aesthetic that owes as much to haphazard layering as it does to the couture tradition.
While all the previously mentioned methods depended on parameter estimation (e.g., generative probabilities, Gaussian parameters, or coefficients of separating planes), kNN uses no such parameters it is nonparametric; however, finding a suitable measure of proximity or similarity can be challenging, and errors due to haphazard local data point configurations in feature space are hard to avoid.
I think even most aid workers would agree, if pressed, that cash transfers to the people who (by definition) need money above all else are vastly preferable to haphazard aid projects, which may or may not help, and/or supporting corrupt governments / bureaucratic multilateral institutions.
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The concept of Life from the start, according to its founder, Henry Luce, was to replace haphazard picture taking and editing with the "mind-guided camera".
But no one is calling for Facebook to be haphazard with the creation of these algorithms.
Crafting law, especially a constitution, is legally complex; unless there is a systematic way to translate haphazard citizen suggestions into legalese, the results are disastrous.
Decisions appear to be haphazard.
The move has reignited the debate over Facebook's censorship policies, which many have found to be haphazard in their execution.
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