cyc
1 Americannoun
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With that, George and Gil were called over to the cyc wall, where they posed in various configurations.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 21, 2016
The CYC dates to the early 1920s, started by boat owners from the Los Angeles Athletic Club and other yacht clubs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2023
For the last 24 years, Dakoske Koslu and her family have been dedicated members of the CYC, whose clubhouse is a few miles away from their home in Playa del Rey.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2023
The first message she read simply stated, “The CYC is gone.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2023
But programs like CYC and Cog, not chess machines like Deep Blue, currently define the cutting edge of applied artificial intelligence--the 40-year effort to build machines that think.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But CYC, with its ability to make commonsensical leaps of logic, can connect a request, say, for pictures of "happy people" with the caption, "A man watching his daughter learn to walk."
From Time Magazine Archive
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