tantalising

Not to mention the allure of the tantalising glimpse ... always leave them wanting more!

But when there is a boring patch, the meaningful/meaningless question is tantalising.

Now I just throw all those ideas into a drawer and ignore them, tantalising as they are! I second the importance of having such a drawer.

The work is tantalising evidence for something else going on. Which certainly warrents follow up work.

It sounds like another one of those tantalising might-have-beens. One of my retirement projects will be to write an OS as it should be, given what we have learned from decades of research and use.

It's just that it's often a tantalising possibility which people in other professions are less tempted by. As you say, though, if you want to get anything done, you have to resist the temptation.

I know that these companies are trying to be 'stealthy' or 'mysterious' or 'tantalising' or whatever, but it just plain fails. Something is very wrong if you don't have anything so say about what you're doing.

It seems tantalising for the compiler to also protest when return values of type error are not assigned to anything. An obvious inconvenience being that use of fmt.

That is tantalising. These mice were mono-colonized with E. coli, whereas both mice and humans normally have a diverse gut flora.

I find there whols onchip radio research very tantalising for future chip to chip communicatons with regards to production costs of servers. Fun times, and as a consumer I'm happier we now have a race on our hands.

For me though, they were important problems to solve because few other lesser mainstream / alternative shells addressed those problems and thus they became all the more tantalising problems to solve. In Fish's case, they might be lower priority jobs.

I need to put this through its paces a bit more than putting 'Hello World' in A1 - but it raises the tantalising prospect of a bunch of R and VBA work turning into a bunch of R and Python work.

Namely, "Nonetheless, just occasionally, science has dropped tantalising hints that this spooky extra ingredient might be real." Furthermore, Point #2 attacks the use of thought experiments as a means of understand the Hard Problem.

We have increasingly tantalising glimpses into the contributing factors behind pain phenomena such as phantom limb pain, and complex regional pain syndrome. But we haven't pieced the puzzle together quite yet.

There is even tantalising evidence that an earlier human, Homo erectus, deliberately etched a zigzag on a shell on Java some 500,000 years ago. “The ability of humans to produce a system of signs is clearly not something that starts 40,000 years ago.

When I posted, I believe it was “LHC machine finds tantalising hints of new physics”. I remember that seemed oddly redundant, like an “ATM machine”. Current title for the article is showing as “Machine finds tantalising hints of new physics”, but a search is also coming up “LHC machine challenges leading theory of physics”.

The reason that that is, or was, a tantalising prospect is that when humans construct correct programs using informal proofs, they are using the same very simple abstractions over and over again. Therefore a system to automatically transform specifications to programs or whatever need not have all the troublesome properties of completeness and such like and may, in fact, be quite tractable.

> All of this suggests a tantalising alternative to both the medical professional’s and the layperson’s view of therapy: that what happens between client and therapist goes beyond mere talking, and goes deeper than clinical treatment. The relationship is both greater and more primal, and it compares with the developmental strides that play out between mother and baby, and that help to turn a diapered mess into a normal, healthy person.