Jordan, working from his arts background, has become proficient at soldering the tiny circuits in the flight controller.
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NASA has become proficient at running the station, largely eliminating breakdowns like clogged toilets, balky cooling systems and crashing computers.
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Of course the skills necessary to master Mordhau require dozens of hours to build on to even become proficient at the game.
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Healthcare professionals are in a unique position to help identify and rescue victims, but we need to become proficient at identifying the signs.
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If Twitter were to become proficient at eliminating the bots on its platform, the service's worth to advertisers and investors would likely take a considerable hit.
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The social media platform has become proficient at banning accounts that recruit for and promote ISIS, suspending some 235,000 extremist accounts from its service as of August.
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I could not have become proficient at the piano had I not locked myself in practice rooms for hours at a time over many years while studying at music camps and schools.
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Small children would practice stick-fighting in order to hone their skills in combat and to become proficient at protecting cattle, the prize of their tribe, from other men or from hunting animals.
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In the past few years, artificially intelligent systems have become proficient at a startling number of tasks, from reading cancer scans to piloting a car to summarizing a sports game to translating prose.
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If you want to become proficient at ad-hoc pickling, we suggest that you invest in a Costco-sized bottle of white distilled vinegar, as used here to pickle these fresh-from-the-garden carrots.
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"You see how difficult it is to complete those operations and how much time it takes to become proficient at it," Kevin Duda, a space systems engineer at Draper who has been developing the "Take Me Home" button, tells The Verge.
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The marlinspike may be a separate tool or one item on a pocket knife. Sailors who become proficient at knot tying, splicing, and sewing using the marlinspike are said to have mastered marlinespike seamanship, earning them the right to be known as marlin spikes or marlinspike seamen.
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The Retail Banking Academy offers access to the CRB qualification via eLearning with a series of interactive modules and analytics solutions that continuously adapts to the candidates’ performance, facilitates critical reasoning and provides continuous coaching and feedback to help you become proficient at the core curriculum and enhance your retail banking training.
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Audubon's room was brimming with birds' eggs, stuffed raccoons and opossums, fish, snakes, and other creatures. He had become proficient at specimen preparation and taxidermy. Deeming the mining venture too risky, with his father's approval Audubon sold part of the Mill Grove farm, including the house and mine. He retained some land for investment.
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For missions to the ISS, each astronaut is required to become proficient at one hundred or more experiments. During training, the scientists responsible for the experiments do not have direct contact with the astronauts who will be carrying them out. Instead, scientists instruct trainers who in turn prepare the astronauts for carrying out the experiment. Much of this training is done at the European Astronaut Center.
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Gould practices and teaches aikido, which is featured prominently in his books 7th Sigma and Helm. The young protagonists of both books become proficient at the martial art and eventually embrace it as a full lifestyle. His scuba diving hobby informed scenes in his novels Greenwar and Blind Waves."Green Dreams, with Explosions"; interview of Laura J. Mixon and Steven Gould by Jayme Lynn Blaschke.
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In each episode Ferriss attempts to become proficient at a particular skill in a short amount of time using his personal methods with the help of experts within the field. Episodes featured skills including surfing, professional poker, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, parkour, and foreign language learning, among others. Although 13 episodes were produced, only a portion were shown on television. Ferriss stated on his blog in March 2014 that he'd "been fighting hard behind the scenes" to gain the rights to distribute the show to fans digitally.
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It was at age thirteen, in 1960, that Westerfield became best friends with Hall of Fame and Discraft founder Jim Kenner. They began playing Frisbee in high school. Daily they would experiment with new ways of throwing and catching the Frisbee, this would later be called "playing freestyle". In the sixties, when the Frisbee was still considered a toy used just for recreation, there wasn't a reason to become proficient at throwing a Frisbee, no Frisbee professionals to emulate or disc sports tournaments to compete in.
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By age 15, he had acquired the skills to play guitar by ear, and within a couple or years he had become proficient at playing the piano. Verdi enrolled in a music college, where he would eventually become a guitarist and principal songwriter for Watford-based rock/pop outfit Paraya (later reforming as The Toys). After writing and producing the debut-album, Verdi landed the group a management deal. He left the band in May 2004 to pursue a career as a producer/songwriter.
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It was an 0-4-0 saddle tank, which had been built in 1875 for use as a contractor's engine, and had been refurbished by the manufacturer. A maintenance contract for the wagons lapsed in 1900, as the men at the works had become proficient at repairs. In parallel with the construction of the works, trunk sewers were built to convey sewage from the city to the works. These was a major programme of expansion to the sewer network in 1910, to ensure that it could cope with the expected volumes of effluent produced.
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In Chapter 3, Criteria of Experience, Dewey delves more deeply into defining what constitutes experience for educational purposes and introduces the concept of directionality on the "experiential continuum". He argues growth can happen in an undesirable direction, as with that of burglars who become proficient at their professions. In this chapter, Dewey also raises questions about the built learning environment and critiques how traditional schools are insular environments rather than interacting with the world, which would promote an understanding of the world and provide a context. Dewey posits that everything must have a context to be able to draw from it and have it be educational.
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Infants use form similarities and differences to develop concepts relating to objects, and this relies on multiple trials with multiple patterns, exhibiting some kind of common property between trials. Infants appear to become proficient at this ability in particular by 12 months, but different concepts and properties employ different relevant principles of Gestalt psychology, many of which might emerge at different stages of development. Specifically, infant categorization at as early as 4.5 months involves iterative and interdependent processes by which exemplars (data) and their similarities and differences are crucial for drawing boundaries around categories. These abstract rules are statistical by nature, because they can entail common co-occurrences of certain perceived properties in past instances and facilitate inferences about their structure in future instances.
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The Experimental Assembly of Structures in EVA and the Assembly Concept for Construction of Erectable Space Structures, or EASE/ACCESS, were a pair of space shuttle flight experiments that were performed on STS-61-B, on November 29 and December 1, 1985. The purpose of the experiments was to study how quickly astronauts would become proficient at assembling space structures during extravehicular activity, and how quickly they would become fatigued, and to explore various construction and maintenance techniques. In particular, researchers studied the applied moments of inertia arising in the manual assembly of a large space structure. EASE was a project of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and the Space Systems Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (later at the University of Maryland), while ACCESS was developed by NASA's Langley Research Center.
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Third, he would never hesitate before pulling the trigger but would pull it the instant the gun was seated against his shoulder and his cheek, making a controlled snap-shot. (If he delayed the shot and tried to track the washer and align his gun with his conscious mind, he could never become proficient at this type of shooting.) Fourth, the student never once looked at the gun barrel; instead, he stared at the flat washer until he pulled the trigger, and then he focused upon the flight of the BB he had shot to see where it would go in relation to the washer. And fifth, McDaniel would cock the BB gun for the student for each shot, so as to avoid tiring the student and spoiling his concentration. It was not enough for the student merely to perceive the flight of the aerial target; he had to focus and concentrate solely upon it for McDaniel's training program to work.
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It is difficult to establish exactly how many different Chinese characters are in use today; the new HSK, a widely used proficiency test for Standard Chinese as a second language, tests over 2,600 different characters, whilst in 1988 the People's Republic of China published the List of Commonly Used Characters in Modern Chinese which contains 7,000 different characters. In Japan, where a smaller set of characters are in general usage, the Japanese Ministry of Education prescribes the teaching of 2,136 kanji in primary and secondary school in a list called the jōyō kanji, meaning "regular-use Chinese characters". Chinese character literacy in both China and Japan is taught by rote memorization, where schoolchildren become proficient at writing characters by writing them by hand repeatedly. As a result of people becoming less reliant on handwriting and more willing to use computer input methods, they are no longer exposed to the necessary reinforcement to retain the ability to write the characters.
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