«With a simple adjustment to the height and weight, the 3 -
D human model that we created can be used to forensically analyze the pose, stability and shadows in any image of people.»
Not exact matches
You are also not criticizing their operational
model or behavior, but simply stating the fact that their payments
have been delayed or nonexistent, says Michael «Dr. Woody» Woodward, professional coach and founder of
Human Capital Integrated.
Responding to those preferences, Betterment
has adopted a hybrid
model of financial advice incorporating both
human and automated advice into its offerings.
Despite expressing reservations in regards to entering the heavily regulated space, the company
has begun collecting anonymous genetic information from 175 volunteers in order to build a perfect
model of
human health.
Using an algorithm complete with 3 -
D human body
modeling, the company then makes a recommendation as to which of its mattresses is the best fit.
Economics is supposed to provide mathematical
modelling of
human behaviour, but the apparent divergence of economic theory from reality in recent years
has become a burr under Orrell's saddle.
Boston Dynamics
has produced a number of robots that mimic
human and animal movement, including Atlas, a humanoid
model that co-ordinates motion and balance using its arms and legs and can pick itself up off the ground when knocked over.
And I
would say that was because — this is just one example — the field of economics, for many years, did not incorporate the fact that
humans don't make decisions generally on a one - to - one level the way that their
models would predict.
Engineering students from the University of Illinois
have come up with a miniature
model of Elon Musk's hyperloop concept proving that the high speed
human transport system is feasible albeit on a scale of 1:24.
Vanguard's robo offering
has been highly successful, though their service is more of a hybrid
model and features access to a Vanguard
human financial advisor.
Humans are inventing faster and faster, and that does mean that the typical business
model is shorter lived than it
would have been before.
«I got really interested in trying to understand how we could
model human behavior through social media because there's residue of who we are in everything we do and here we
had lots of little behaviors that we could use to try to understand a little bit more about who you are.»
Companies that are descriptively software enterprises — Google, Facebook (on whose board I serve), Twitter, Airbnb, Pinterest, and many others —
have opened up
human connections, access to knowledge, and new business
models unforeseen before they existed.
Elon Musk's electric car company Tesla
has stopped production on their already delayed
Model 3 sedan and
has replaced their automated production robots with
human workers.
I
have shunned
human advisers all my life but the Robo firms
have professional data scientists and mathematicians focused full - time on building computer
models maximizing the efficiency of your investment allocations.
By abandoning traditional
models and processes and allowing augmented
human intelligence through our patented machine learning, Stratifyd
has enabled our customers to turn their unstructured and unused data into revenue opportunities.
A discount
model has emerged that is a hybrid of robo and
human advice giving.
A scientific
model can not
have a
human attribute - those are reserved for
humans.
As I stated in my original article, prior to conducting experiments with
human cells, ANT - OAR techniques
would need to be rigorously tested in animal
models to establish a procedure that guarantees with reasonable certainty that an embryo is not generated.
I mean, I know the Freudian superstition
has been largely discredited since those heady days — his results were falsified, his psychotherapeutic sorcery doesn't work, and so on — but that doesn't alter the extraordinary hold his
model of
human motives still
has over people's imaginations, or the bibulous excitement his ideas once inspired.
The dominant
model has been monarchical; the classical picture employs royalist, triumphalist metaphors, depicting God as king, lord, and patriarch, who rules over and cares for the world and
human beings.
In becoming a
model, it
has engendered wide - ranging interpretation of the relationship between God and
human beings; if God is seen as father,
human beings become children, sin can be seen as rebellious behavior, and redemption can be thought of as restoration to the status of favored offspring.
At least in the king - realm
model,
human beings appear to
have some freedom since they are controlled only externally, not internally.
Human welfare
would suffer a genuine loss were adoption of the more formal professional counseling
model to displace pastoral initiative.
Using
human experience as a
model to depict the nature of reality, Whitehead argues that every actuality (i.e., every actual event)
has both a present subjective immediacy and a past objectivity.
We live in an age whose chief moral value
has been determined, by overwhelming consensus, to be the absolute liberty of personal volition, the power of each of us to choose what he or she believes, wants, needs, or must possess; our culturally most persuasive
models of
human freedom are unambiguously voluntarist and, in a rather debased and degraded way, Promethean; the will, we believe, is sovereign because unpremised, free because spontaneous, and this is the highest good.
That said, the case
has been made that if the Christian god exists, then «God should be detectable by scientific means simply by virtue of the fact that he is supposed to play such a central role in the operation of the universe and the lives of
humans», with the conclusion that» [e] xisting scientific
models contain no place where God is included as an ingredient in order to describe observations.»
So a magical all - powerful being living in some fantasy world in the clouds created the earth, placed a modern day man and woman on the earth from whom all
humans are
modeled in a fantastical garden 4.5 billion years ago, allows «good» people to live in a cloud kingdom where everyone who
has ever died lives (like a Florida retirement community in the sky), and sends «bad» people to a fiery pit of despair for all eternity.
If there is a basic thesis, it is that Whitehead
has used the concept of the electromagnetic field in physics as a
model for
human experience (PW 125/134, 183/201; RL 285).
An evidence of the notion of «shades» or «degrees» in the complexity of world -
human - God relationship is
modeled in the way Christ
has been perceived in Indian Christian Theology.
For example,
human experience
has internal temporality, but it does not follow that concrescence
has internal temporality; to assume that an abstraction
has all the features of the original
model is to commit the fallacy of misplaced concreteness.
Surely an unplanned blunder on Newsweek's part, but a blunder nonetheless (perhaps worse in the long run exactly because it was unconscious and indicates not deliberate discrimination but a naive lack of sensitivity) A balance of exceptional
model elders with equal numbers of average everyday folk
would provide a more accurate picture of the aging as they really are, with their very
human combinations of merits and faults.
Using the Deuteronomic Creed as
model, Dalit theology can construct the historical Dalit consciousness which
has to do with their roots, identities and struggle for
human dignity and «for the right to live as free people created in the image of God.»
Human beings
have a basic feeling of existential lack which leads them to look to a
model who seems to possess a greater fullness of being.
The
models often used to describe this
have been unsatisfactory, to be sure: talk of «substance»
has led to much confusion and misunderstanding, as
has talk of the union of wills or the association of divine /
human consciousnesses.
Debate over this issue remains prominent among process theologians to this day and will be discussed more fully in the second part of this paper, but it should be remarked here that Hartshorne
has consistently attempted to envision God, in this and in some other respects, after the
model of the
human person.
For instance, ours is a society obsessed with the adversarial
model of
human relations, and we
have bought into it.
Although we
have limited ourselves in this chapter to the discussion of dialogue within the Church, we must not forget that Vatican II also used the term «dialogue» to refer to communication with separated Christians, 10 with non-Christians and atheists, 11 with the entire
human family, and with the world.12 This aspect deserves our attention even more than the use of the dialogue
model for exchanges within the Church.
The fact that
human beings persist in behaving «irrationally and uneconomically», in terms of the market
model, does not, they claim, invalidate that
model: we simply
have not yet learned to appreciate the benefits of competition.
Process thought provides a different
model of
human beings, one that, if accepted,
would have quite different consequences for public life generally.
It
has indeed been a strange perversion of the theological mind to employ for our picture of God the «
model» which we find most reprehensible when we see it in
human form.
By coming at once to the primitive
model and rejecting all
human inventions, the Church was to be at once released from the controversies of eighteen centuries, and the primitive gospel of salvation was to be disentangled and disembarrassed from all those corruptions and perversions which
had heretofore delayed or arrested its progress [Memoirs of Alexander Campbell, by Robert Richardson (Lippincott, 1868 - 70), Vol.
Once this ultimate structure of divine -
human communion
has been actualized in the life of Christ, tried, purged, and refined in the crucible of the Way of the Cross, and given the double - sided efficacy to which we
have referred subsequent to the events of Resurrection and Pentecost, the new aeon is present with a power and certainty as great as the size of God and the constancy of the divine love — that is to say, as great as a process - relational
model of real contingency in the divine - worldly ecosystem will allow, given God's excellence and pre-eminence within that ecosystem.
And for most of the last three - hundred - and - fifty years this effort to ground all
human knowledge
has focused upon the physical sciences; indeed, «since the period of Descartes and Hobbes, the assumption that scientific discourse was normal discourse and that all other discourse needed to be
modeled upon it
has been the standard motive for philosophizing.»
... Rather, God is that - without - which - there -
would - be-no-evolution-at-all; God is the atemporal undergirder and sustainer of the whole process of apparent contingency or «randomness,»... «We can apply this same
model to the problem of divine providence and
human cultural evolution,... we can think not deistically but trinitarianly and incarnationally of God.
A
model which portrays divine initiative
would limit the use of a
model which portrays
human response, and vice versa.
McIntyre holds that the «psychological
model» avoids these dangers and
has been explored in the light of modern insights concerning selfhood; but it
has usually ended with a merely
human Christ.
These events then become, and naturally, a self - appointed
model which enables us to be articulate about what
has been disclosed... So a qualifier like «infinite» will work on a
model of
human love until there dawns on us that particular kind of family resemblance between the various derivative
models which reveals God — God as «infinitely loving».
An interesting study of christological
models has been written by John McIntyre.4 The «two - natures
model» (which he takes as a single complex
model involving both divine and
human natures)
has dominated Christian thought, but it
has a number of limitations; it is tied to the Aristotelian categories of substance and attribute, and it tends to view the incarnation as the assumption of an abstract
human nature rather than the personal individuality of a particular man.
But I
have never been more confident than I am now of the potential there is for the church to
model the richness and quality of inter-personal
human relationship.