Nontrivial

While it's what engineers call a nontrivial problem, making a car drive itself is ultimately just a matter of engineering, and will sooner or later become a reality. ❋ David Alpert (2010)

Narayana Kocherlakota noted recently that the Fed would need to sell a "nontrivial" amount of its holdings, such as $15 billion to $25 billion a month, to return its balance sheet to precrisis levels. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"nontrivial" in the sense that it wasn't easy to accomplish. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That is surely a nontrivial gap, but it also means that three quarters of religious Americans approve of divorce in at least some circumstances. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

Matt seems to be just blowing off the near-term risk of large bank failures in his commentary on these issues, but the risk of something like a double-dip recession makes the near-term risk of large bank failures nontrivial. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Well, it seems pretty clear that should these changes occur in any nontrivial fashion, you would have to duck to get out of the way of the ensuing economic boom, regardless of the uncertainty. ❋ Clifford S. Asness (2011)

If it could do that, it would be reading a mind in a nontrivial sense. ❋ Michael Chorost (2011)

In fact, “one tiny portion” is an inappropriate term — “nontrivial region” would be a better choice. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You may question the assumption of randomness all you want, but the theory makes a nontrivial prediction that is born out experimentally, so the standard model of Brownian motion is generally accepted. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A true observation, no doubt, but one that needs refinement to be nontrivial. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One can't make any nontrivial and really wise investments 30 years in advance because there will surely be many changes in the world that will have a more dramatic impact on the evaluation of the quality of such an investment than the topics we talk about today. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It's just that which food may be a nontrivial problem. ❋ Markgritter (2009)

There is thus an urgent need to find some nontrivial topics on which America and China can work together and so rediscover the win-win logic that prevailed during the Age of Optimism. ❋ Gideon Rachman (2011)

You may question the assumption of randomness all you want, but the theory makes a nontrivial prediction ❋ Unknown (2009)

It's a particularly good existence proof that sex between consenting adults can have nontrivial external costs. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As to the nontrivial difference between 3% and 2%, the fact that 2% both has been the historical rate on T-bonds for the last 75 years and is the rate currently projected by the market, and how ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

I would be very surprised two years from now if there were four or more players that had nontrivial market shares. ❋ Steven Russolillo (2011)

Because the Z flag is the only flag that is a nontrivial function of X, there is a delay of 1 after the ALU output becomes valid in order that the Z flag is valid. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This prosecution suggests that there is a current variation of Buddhism that has a nontrivial following and that is quite nasty. ❋ Unknown (2010)