Often, it takes many thousands of generations to create control programs that do a good job of completing the task given to a robot.

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Familiarity brings comfort, and starting the conversation is the hardest part in completing the important task of advance care planning.

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After completing the unscrambling task, the students took several tests of self-control.

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The handlers either gave both monkeys an identical reward (a slice of cucumber) or gave just one of the monkeys the much preferred reward of a grape for completing exactly the same task.

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The Labour government faces a more difficult task in completing its reform of the welfare state in its second term of office.

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Though there are fewer Abels than Munros, the task of completing them is a more complex task.

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The court said that if the assembly expired without completing its task, then fresh elections should be held.

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Dan and colleagues performed most of their experiments in India, where the financial rewards they gave for successfully completing a task could really represent a small fortune for a respondent.

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