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  • abbreviation Doctor of Fine Arts

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  • abbreviation deterministic finite-state automaton

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Examples

  • After months in the studio working on a new record as well as releases on his label DFA,

    Caught in the Crossfire - Articles 2010

  • LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy isn't the first name you'd associate with radio-friendly rock, but he liked Philadelphia's Free Energy enough to sign them to his label DFA and produce their album.

    Culture | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy isn't the first name you'd associate with radio-friendly rock, but he liked Philadelphia's Free Energy enough to sign them to his label DFA and produce their album.

    Culture | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • Dignity For All. DFA is a new campaign for a poverty-free Canada.

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  • Dignity For All. DFA is a new campaign for a poverty-free Canada.

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  • Dignity For All. DFA is a new campaign for a poverty-free Canada.

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  • Unlike the AMA, which has been steadily loosing power and currently represents “maybe 20% of physicians in this country,” DFA is “a grassroots organization” putting forth the views of “thousands of physicians” rather than “a small group of organizers.”

    Wonk Room » Rebutting AMA, Doctors Speak Out In Support Of A ‘Robust Public Option’ 2009

  • But I am certain that if DFA is looking at this race, it is a tight one.

    Joe The Nerd Ferraro: Lunchtime with the DFA. Joe The Nerd Ferraro 2010

  • Fruit-fly learning and subsequent behaviour could be represented by such a neural network, but a neural network that can be trained to behave like a DFA is hardly considered to be the epitome of freely-willed behaviour.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Gordon McCabe 2009

  • Dignity For All. DFA is a new campaign for a poverty-free Canada.

    June 2009 2009

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