"It's like looking for a needle in a haystack, " Miami-Dade Fire Rescue spokesman Lt.
Usually, he says, finding cheap growers is like the proverbial quest of a needle in a haystack.
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So finding a single gene in our DNA is like finding a needle in a haystack.
Take a deep breath -- that data isn't as much of a needle in a haystack as you may think.
In countries like Britain, which have a large population of asylum-seekers and illegal immigrants, seeking out militants can be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
The issue of course, is that there is so much private documentation, making the act of finding sneaky behaviour much like finding a digital needle in a haystack.
Splunk then allows that data to be sifted, sorted, summarized, and visualized so that you can find a needle in a haystack or look at the shape of the whole haystack.
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"Search is pretty amazing at finding that one needle in a haystack of billions of webpages, images, videos, news and much more, " said Amit Singhal in the firm's official blog.
And as we get better and better at building these expert recommendation engines, we may be able to turn the problem of finding a needle in a haystack, into finding a haystack of needles.
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Fama admits there is evidence of skill with a handful of active fund managers, but the odds of picking the right mix of managers are as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack.
To address the big data issue, governments must continue to develop and enhance their complex analytical targeting systems to scour the data for the proverbial needle in a haystack that would flag a suspicious shipment.
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In manufacturing, there is not always a universal naming and numbering system and so part sourcing on the web can often be like searching for the proverbial needle in a haystack. 3D search transforms this experience.
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Finding a lost wedding band in Times Square is like finding a needle in haystack only more difficult.
This method of testing new drug ideas against many thousand compounds - High Throughput Screening (HTS) - is likened to searching for a very small needle in a very large haystack.
Where it stands out from the crowd, or where it can be lost like a needle in the proverbial haystack?
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