And rather than having to be trained by each user the system appears to generalise well.

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Mr Hilton seems less willing to generalise, summarise, or prioritise, more keen to pack in the detail.

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"We noted that a few violations happened, but please don't generalise that intolerance has increased in Indonesia, " he said.

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By repeatedly shaking the tin, removing a single chocolate, noting its type, and then replacing it, it is possible to generalise about the contents of the whole tin.

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There are plenty of studies on isolated programmes on both sides of the Atlantic on particular policy interventions, but it is hard to generalise from them to national strategies.

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Attempts to generalise are complicated further by the fact that hedge funds are actually a collection of different investment strategies (see article) rather than a coherent asset class.

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To generalise wildly, there are two ways to control fertility: to have children quickly and then use contraception to stop having more, or to space out births, leaving longer intervals between each.

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Though it is an interpretative stretch, that pattern of connection might reduce a person's ability to generalise (since disparate data are less easily integrated) and increase his ability to concentrate (by drawing together similar inputs).

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Another possibility is to generalise the House of Representatives' proposal for American medical research and allow the traditional journals a limited period of monopoly say six months after which they have to make all taxpayer-funded content available free online.

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It is important not to generalise.

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