We may carry this sequence one step further and say that at seventy he was a poet at the height of his powers, wanting only the impetus of two tragedies, one personal, the other national, to loose those powers in poetry.

The essential characteristic of an optimal policy when the state of the stream is transformed in a sequence of stages with no feedback was first isolated by Bellman.

It was a succession of picture-images passing through his mind: the same ones, different ones, in no apparent sequence, in no logical succession.

Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.

In On Fate Alexander denied three things-necessity (), the foreknowledge of fated events that was part of the Stoic identification of God and Nature, and determinism in the sense of a sequence of causes that was laid down beforehand () or predetermined by antecedents ().

The general consensus in the scientific community, however, was to associate this type of complexity with Kolmogorov, who was concerned with randomness of a sequence, while Algorithmic Probability became associated with Solomonoff, who focused on prediction using his invention of the universal a priori probability distribution.

The gag was often at his own expense, as in the above 1951 sequence showing Capp's interaction with " fans " ( see excerpt ), or in his 1955 Disneyland parody, " Hal Yappland.

The resulting sequence, " Jack Jawbreaker Fights Crime !," was a devastating satire of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's notorious exploitation by DC Comics over Superman.

The first was a movement away from the sequence dances towards dances where the couples moved independently.

The term octet was defined to explicitly denote a sequence of 8 bits because of the ambiguity associated at the time with the term byte.

In 1961, Lorenz was using a numerical computer model to rerun a weather prediction, when, as a shortcut on a number in the sequence, he entered the decimal. 506 instead of entering the full. 506127.

In 1957 Harry Trask was a young staff photographer at the Traveler when he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his photo sequence of the sinking of the SS Andrea Doria in July 1956.

The so-called shotgun sequencing technique ( which was used, for example, by The Institute for Genomic Research to sequence the first bacterial genome, Haemophilus influenzae ) does not produce entire chromosomes.

Beechcraft was not Beech's first company, as he had previously formed Travel Air in 1924 and the design numbers used at Beechcraft followed the sequence started at Travel Air, and were then continued at Curtiss-Wright, after Travel Air had been absorbed into the much larger company in 1929.

Claudius II was the first of a sequence of military emperors ( the so-called " Illyrian emperors " from their main ethnic origin ) who restored order in the empire in the late 3rd century.

A new sequence was introduced on 28 March 2005, designed and created by Red Bee Media and directed by Mark Chaudoir.

Bolzano's proof relied on the method of bisection: the sequence was placed into an interval that was then divided into two equal parts, and a part containing infinitely many terms of the sequence was selected.

The following formulas can be used to update the mean and ( estimated ) variance of the sequence, for an additional element.

A variant of this sequence alignment is used in the sequencing process itself.

If the convention B < sub > 1 </ sub >=− is used, this sequence is also known as the first Bernoulli numbers ( / in OEIS ); with the convention B < sub > 1 </ sub >=+ is known as the second Bernoulli numbers ( / in OEIS ).

The cutaway shot does not necessarily contribute any dramatic content of its own, but is used to help the editor assemble a longer sequence.

Arpoador beach, where surfers used to go after its perfect waves, comes in the sequence, followed by the famous borough of Ipanema.

This sequence is used primarily in the United States, partially in Canada, and a few other countries.

The checksum algorithms that are most used in practice, such as Fletcher's checksum, Adler-32, and cyclic redundancy checks ( CRCs ), address these weaknesses by considering not only the value of each word but also its position in the sequence.

DNA from five demographically different individuals was used by Celera to generate the sequence of the human genome ; one of the individuals was Venter himself.

There is a close connection between machine learning and compression: a system that predicts the posterior probabilities of a sequence given its entire history can be used for optimal data compression ( by using arithmetic coding on the output distribution ), while an optimal compressor can be used for prediction ( by finding the symbol that compresses best, given the previous history ).

* Digraph ( computing ), a two-character sequence used in computing to enter a single conceptual character

However, because literal strings are so commonly used in programming, Euphoria interprets double-quote enclosed characters as a sequence of integers.

Evolution originally was used to refer to an orderly sequence of events with the outcome somehow contained at the start.

In France, there was Lettres persanes ( 1721 ) by Montesquieu, followed by Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse ( 1761 ) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Laclos ' Les Liaisons dangereuses ( 1782 ), which used the epistolary form to great dramatic effect, because the sequence of events was not always related directly or explicitly.

Thus, knowing the students ' level on a developmental sequence provides information on the kind and level of knowledge they can assimilate, which, in turn, can be used as a frame for organizing the subject matter to be taught at different school grades.

Cross-cutting was also used to get new effects of contrast, such as the cross-cut sequence in Cecil B. DeMille's The Whispering Chorus, in which a supposedly dead husband is having a liaison with a Chinese prostitute in an opium den, while simultaneously his unknowing wife is being remarried in church.

In contrast to the linear style used in the Pauline epistles, John's thought moves in loops or circles forming a slowly advancing sequence of thought.

He wrote that courtship in both cultures used approximately 30 steps from " first eye contact to the ultimate consummation ", but that the sequence of the steps was different.

Since every sequence of real numbers can be used to construct a real not in the sequence, the real numbers cannot be written as a sequence — that is, the real numbers are not countable.

They used a cell-free system to translate a poly-uracil RNA sequence ( i. e., UUUUU ...) and discovered that the polypeptide that they had synthesized consisted of only the amino acid phenylalanine.

In 1936 Hubble produced a classification system for galaxies that is used to this day, the Hubble sequence.

On 31 May 2010, the Coronation Street opening sequence was given a revamp.

The clip is incorporated into the series ' opening credit sequence from the third season onward.

Another version is the Collector's Edition, a two-disc set featuring a remastered transfer with a 5. 1 audio track, two commentaries ( one by John Carpenter and Kurt Russell, another by producer Debra Hill and Joe Alves ), a making-of featurette, the first issue of a comic book series titled John Carpenter's Snake Plissken Chronicles, and a ten-minute deleted opening sequence.

The portly Hung is shown fighting Lee in the opening sequence of the movie and Chan shows up as a henchman when Lee is discovered inside Han's underground lair.

The finished version of the film was significantly different from the original screenplay drafts as Bruce Lee revised much of the script himself, including having written and directed the film's opening Shaolin Monastery fight sequence.

Initially, the opening sequence included all five characters from the original film, but, in an effort to save time and money, all but Ash and Linda were cut from the final draft.

In the opening sequence of the first game, the Four Freedoms are displayed in text version as a splash screen at the opening of the game, with a fifth freedom added: The freedom to protect the other four — by any means necessary.

The opening sequence ( including shots of the Plassey ship wreck ) were filmed over Inis Oírr – the smallest of the Aran Islands.

While the rest of the series does not do this as much as the first, there are still a few cases that it happens, such as the opening sequence of Resident Evil 4.

* The name and opening sequence to the popular American animated sitcom Futurama was derived from the exhibition.

The company replaced the opening with a generic credit sequence, using footage from Son of Godzilla.

* Deleted: The opening credits sequence.

* There is a feature on the DVD simulating the Omega 13, by reversing the opening sequence to the main menu.

Occasionally, an image is deliberately windowboxed for stylistic effect ; for example, the documentary-style sequence of the film Rent suggest an older-format camera representing the 4: 3 aspect ratio, and the opening sequence of the Oliver Stone film JFK features pillar boxing to represent the 1960s era 4: 3 television footage.

Other defining recordings include " Sugar Town ", the 1967 number one " Somethin ' Stupid " ( a duet with her father ), the title song from the James Bond film You Only Live Twice, several collaborations with Lee Hazlewood such as " Jackson ", and her cover of Cher's " Bang Bang ( My Baby Shot Me Down )", which features during the opening sequence of Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill.

The opening sequence of the story revolves around a war between the planets Garissa and Omuta, both of which claim ownership of a tremendously valuable set of asteroids called the Dorados.

Although only a minor hit when first released, when used in the opening sequence of the movie Blackboard Jungle, a year later, it really set the rock and roll boom in motion.

Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien's acclaimed drama Three Times ( 2005 ) is silent during its middle third, complete with intertitles ; Stanley Tucci's The Impostors has an opening silent sequence in the style of early silent comedies.

This speculation was fueled in October 2004 when the official website startrek. com posted an opening credits sequence in which Scott Bakula recites a modified version of the famous speech, ending instead of with the gender-specific ' man ' or the gender-and species-neutral ' one ' but rather the species-specific ' human ', accompanied by " Archer's Theme ", the instrumental used as the closing credits music for the series.

The draft script's opening sequence took place on the solar observatory with two Rosencrantz and Guildenstern-influenced characters talking shortly before the Romulans ' attack ; Next Generation writer Jeri Taylor suggested that the opening should be something " fun ", leading to the switch to a holodeck promotion-at-sea.

Though strictly a commercial product, Peckinpah's creative touches abound throughout, most notably during the intricately-edited opening sequence when McQueen's character is suffering from the pressures of prison life.

Davis and Panzer were unhappy with Peckinpah's version, which included a grossly distorted opening sequence of two characters making love.