configuration
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These methods repeatedly guide a system toward configurations that reduce error, step by step, much like moving downhill across a landscape.
From Science Daily
The company discussed a new configuration for the bearing assembly in the letter, according to the NTSB, but the plane maker didn’t prohibit installations with the prior configuration.
Jablansky said potential customers have created more than 10 million different configurations of a Slate truck online.
From Los Angeles Times
Magnetic confinement devices—whether the doughnut-shaped tokamaks used in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project or the linear configuration pursued by TAE—rely on intricate magnetic fields to hold the plasma together.
Ayanna Howard, a roboticist and dean of the Ohio State University’s engineering school, said that the human hand, five fingers and all, isn’t “necessarily the optimal configuration” for a robot.
From MarketWatch
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