This is the most common shuffling technique in Asia and other parts of the world, while the overhand shuffle is primarily used in Western countries.

It is quite common in casino poker rooms for dealers to use this method upon introducing a brand new deck, which are packaged in ranked order by suits, before shuffling it by some other means ( i. e., a riffle shuffle or shuffling machine ).

Other common ad-hoc algorithms try to emulate manual shuffling with poor success: the permutations they produce are usually far from random and the running times are poor.

Although historically " manual " randomization techniques ( such as shuffling cards, drawing pieces of paper from a bag, spinning a roulette wheel ) were common, nowadays automated techniques are mostly used.

* Musical chairs is a common party game, and a colloquial expression to describe people shuffling from seat to seat, or around different locations.

The common toad usually moves by walking rather slowly or in short shuffling jumps involving all four legs.

These issues are common in neural networks that must decide from amongst a wide variety of responses, but can be dealt with in several ways, for example by randomly shuffling the training examples, by using a numerical optimization algorithm that does not take too large steps when changing the network connections following an example, or by grouping examples in so-called mini-batches.

In a common technique of acoustic measurement, acoustic signals are sampled in time, and then presented in more meaningful forms such as octave bands or time frequency plots.

The most common bead weaving technique requires two passes of the weft thread.

* Tissue Expander-Breast implants This is the most common technique used worldwide.

The DIEP flap and free-TRAM flap require advanced microsurgical technique and are less common as a result.

* Strumming is a less common technique in classical guitar, and is often referred to by the Spanish term " rasgueo ," or for strumming patterns " rasgueado ," and uses the backs of the fingernails.

This technique is much newer than the others on this list, but very common in Cajun Country

The fact that large and interesting classes of non-compact spaces do in fact have compactifications of particular sorts makes compactification a common technique in topology.

In linguistics, the comparative method is a technique for studying the development of languages by performing a feature-by-feature comparison of two or more languages with common descent from a shared ancestor, as opposed to the method of internal reconstruction, which analyzes the internal development of a single language over time.

It used to be common for the hands to be interlocked with the fingers extended towards the water, but a different technique has become favoured during the last few decades.

The polymerase chain reaction ( PCR ), a common laboratory technique, employs such artificial synthesis in a cyclic manner to amplify a specific target DNA fragment from a pool of DNA.

A resin backing was used on the film, which rendered the film too opaque to allow focusing through the back of the film, a common technique for many cameras of that era.

The most common form of fresco was Egyptian wall paintings in tombs, usually using the à secco technique.

The name " frame problem " derives from a common technique used by animated cartoon makers called framing where the currently moving parts of the cartoon are superimposed on the " frame ," which depicts the background of the scene, which does not change.

* cpuinfo falsification, a lowest common denominator technique to provide backwards compatibility in computing

A common technique used to find out where the gene is expressed is to attach it to GUS or a similar reporter gene that allows visualisation of the location.

A common laboratory instrument that uses this technique is a Fourier transform infrared ( FTIR ) spectrometer.

Whether these works can be accurately called " murals " is a subject of some controversy in the art world, but the technique has been in common use since the late 19th century.

A technique common in cut scenes of video games, scripting consists of giving precise directions to the game engine.

Electroplating is a common surface-treatment technique.

RISC used a technique called register windows to improve performance of these very common tasks, but this limited the maximum depth of multi-level calls.

** One common technique just blocks all interrupts for the duration of the critical section.

The most common way of producing optical phase conjugation is to use a four-wave mixing technique, though it is also possible to use processes such as stimulated Brillouin scattering.

To present a widescreen movie on such a television requires one of two techniques to accommodate this difference: One is " letterboxing ", which preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio, but is not as tall as a standard television screen, leaving black bars at the top and bottom of the screen ; the other more common technique is to " pan and scan ", filling the full height of the screen, but cropping it horizontally.

Poetry in Persian life is far more than a common ground on which -- in a society deeply fissured by antagonisms -- all may stand.

Before merging them into a common profile it is well to remember that their separate careers were extraordinary.

This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.

Harold Clurman is right to say that `` Waiting For Godot '' is a reflection ( he calls it a distorted reflection ) `` of the impasse and disarray of Europe's present politics, ethic, and common way of life ''.

However, it is important to trace the philosophy of the French Revolution to its sources to understand the common democratic origin of individualism and socialism and the influence of the latter on the former.

But it is the need to undertake these testaments that I would submit here as symptom of the common man's malaise.

As symptomatic of the common man's malaise, he is most significant: a liberal and a Catholic, elected by the skin of his teeth.

What is the common man's complaint??

But what a super-Herculean task it is to winnow anything of value from the mud-beplastered arguments used so freely, particularly since such common use is made of cliches and stereotypes, in themselves declarations of intellectual bankruptcy.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

They all have this in common: the earth is situated near the center of the deferent.

But that one should superimpose all these charts, run a pin through the common point, and then scale each planetary deferent larger and smaller ( to keep the epicycles from ' bumping ' ), this is contrary to any intention Ptolemy ever expresses.

Now this concern for the freedom of other peoples is the intellectual and spiritual cement which has allied us with more than forty other nations in a common defense effort.

A common meeting ground is desirable for those nations which are prepared to assist in the development effort.

Conventional images of Jews have this in common with all perceptions of a configuration in which one feature is held constant: images can be both true and false.

If art is to release us from these postulated things ( things we must think symbolically about ) and bring us back to the ineffable beauty and richness of the aesthetic component of reality in its immediacy, it must sever its connection with these common sense entities ''.

In the wide range of experiences common to our earth-bound race none is more difficult to manage, more troublesome, and more enduring in its effects than the control of love and hate.

`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.

To obey the moral law is just ordinary common sense, applied to a neglected field.

British common sense is proverbial.