How to Use random walk in a Sentence

random walk

noun

• The attacker was not known to the victim and was a random walk-in to the store, LAPD said.
  — Stella Chan, CNN, 21 Jan. 2022
• Hoffman’s journey to the moon was something of a random walk.
  — Matthew Guerrieri, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2019
• The stable map is to these clusters as Brownian motion is to the random walk.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 July 2019
• How does that affect the number of blocks walked, and the random walk formula?
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 Aug. 2016
• This team identified a key geometry idea that unites some random walks and sets others apart.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2020
• Hosts Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway take you on a not-so-random walk through hot topics in markets, finance, and economics.
  — Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg.com, 24 Dec. 2020
• Every week, hosts Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway take you on a not-so-random walk through hot topics in markets, finance, and economics.
  — Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg.com, 19 May 2020
• The random walk of cars and their collision probabilities with planets concludes that there is just a six percent chance that the Tesla will collide with Earth in the next one million years.
  — Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 16 Feb. 2018
• Actually, a camera shake is very similar to a random walk.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 10 July 2019
• In mathematics, a concept known as the random walk describes a meandering path that is determined, at each step, by a random process, such as tossing a coin.
  — The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2021
• Biologists can use random walks to model how animals move and behave.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2020
• Lessman-Moss has been inspired partly by a weaving program that incorporated the mathematics of random walks.
  — Grant Segall, cleveland.com, 19 Sep. 2019
• Indeed, his book is a kind of random walk through the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy and engineering—all illustrated with winsome diagrams and twisted humor.
  — James B. Meigs, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
• This happens because, in each iteration of stochastic gradient descent, more or less accidental correlations in the training data tell the network to do different things, dialing the strengths of its neural connections up and down in a random walk.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2017
• Venture capitalists are forced to become political analysts, turning an endeavor of calculated risk-taking to a random walk down political gamesmanship.
  — Nina Xiang, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024