Sentences with phrase «at the math of»

The unreality of this promise should be immediately apparent by looking at the math of exponential growth.

The point about unicorns was not directed at the math of the paper, but rather of the logic of Douglas.

With all this back and forth I don't see anybody actually looking at the math of the problem to understand the issues.

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Young Franco was a math wiz who interned at Lockheed Martin, but dropped out of UCLA during his freshman year.

Technologies like DreamBox, a math education software that's used in a number of classrooms across the US, adapts to each student's skill level and lets students learn at a pace best suited to their needs.

Never mind that at the time there was no market demand for this kind of product — STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) was nary an idea.

When she finished in January 1945, her calculus teacher showed her a flier soliciting women mathematicians to work at the University of Pennsylvania, where women were working as «computers» — humans who performed routinized math tasks — mainly calculating artillery trajectory tables for the Army.

During her undergrad at the University of Waterloo, she designed her own co-op program (there was no co-op option for her degree in math), alternating between school and work with each semester.

Some quick math tells us that means at least three years of solid education into how to do a job, but more likely, that figure is closer to five years.

Jim Maloney, CEO at UFS, is an ardent advocate of the Prevue, which consists of an hour - long test in the classic sense: there are words to unscramble, math problems, mental rotation tasks.

A math whiz from an early age, in high school he interned at O'Reilly Media, a publisher of technical books which also produces geeky events like Foo Camp and Strata.

OK — but can you really land a data science job without at least some sort of STEM (science, technology, engineering, or math) degree?

But be advised, with the expensive price of the products at Sephora, it's vital that you take the time to do the math.

At the suggestion of her principal, Corinne skipped fourth grade and took eighth grade math as a seventh grader.

Look at STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)-- if we focused on finding early indicators of high performers in our education system, then treated them differently as they progressed through school as potential Canadian innovators, by the time they got to Grade 12 and were thinking about university, they would be wildly ahead of the innovation curve.»

However, taking a closer look at the underlying math of the lottery shows that it's probably a bad idea to buy a ticket.

However, as we saw before Saturday's drawing, when the jackpot was $ 535 million, taking a closer look at the underlying math of the lottery shows that it's probably a bad idea to buy a ticket.

When the team looked at these numbers — average rate of improvement between third and eighth grade in math and reading — many schools that are traditionally thought of as «bad» suddenly seemed good.

Rare praise for the readability of a book about math from computer scientist Roger Antonsen: «I recently picked up Foolproof at a local bookstore in San Francisco, and I simply couldn't put it down!

It looked like a paper towel»), bake and frost 24 cupcakes at 1 a.m. for the class party at 8 a.m., try to make sense of third - grade math (just no), or switch lanes on the BQE while three kids argue to the death about which of them likes cheese the most (seriously, and it's me),» writes Kate Levkoff on the site.

, those with an anxious kid at home have a more immediate concern — how should I handle a child who is too fearful to enjoy a playdate, order a slice of pizza, or get through a math quiz without distraction?

When you see somebody and you think «God, they're just a math person» or «she's just a natural salesperson,» that's leaving things at a level of abstraction that makes it impossible to learn.

In 2011, a conversation at a monthly «ideas brunch» with Silicon Valley friends turned to the dearth of women in math - and - science careers and how to get girls interested in in science, technology, engineering and math (known as STEM) subjects.

At the most banal level, this is a question of math.

For those not good at math, that means that you are asking a lot of different people the same questions.

«A good financial strategist will cost at least $ 90,000 a year, so do the math,» says Steve Enright, president of SJE Partners, a Richmond, Virginia, HR consulting firm.

After all, it stands to reason that if you solve eight math equations in a first five - minute interval, that you should be able to solve at least eight more of comparable difficulty in a second five - minute interval.

And it was also several years ago that I suggested you take a look at a book on statistics written by a University of Toronto math professor.

«It is alarming that approximately 40 % (this is an astounding 300,000 students each year) of those who receive advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering and math at American universities are foreign nationals with no legal way of staying here even when many would choose to do so,» Dimon wrote.

Grant once studied a group of fundraisers at a phone bank where the turnover rate was 400 percent annually, «so the entire staff would quit about every two months if you do the math,» he says.

I'm the perfect example of this kid that was bad at science and math — I was actually bad at all of the subjects — and prove that, well, you don't have to be a genius.

However, the business, which teaches grade - school children the basics of math, already had 852 location at the start of 2017.

Moskovitz thinks we can, provided we start looking at the real costs of our work — that is, the long - term impact on employees and their ability to contribute meaningfully — rather than just doing the math on short - term metrics like revenue per man - hour, etc..

Where that money is likely to go is fairly easy to document with some simple math: Once a person goes on Medicare, the most common Medicare supplement plan they purchase, Patel explains, is Plan F at a cost of about $ 300 per month (costs vary depending where you live) per person.

«Vegas exists because people suck at math,» says one member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's infamous blackjack team.

The inventors, juniors and seniors at San Fernando High School in California, are part of a nonprofit organization called DIY Girls that aims to inspire girls to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.

The researchers, all business school professors out of Columbia University, Northwestern University, and the University of Chicago, set up a mock hiring experience in which managers were asked to select which job «applicants» they thought would perform best at a math task.

«Some of the people who get involved in financial advising come at it from a humanistic perspective — they want to make a difference — and some are awesome at math.

Few students from the bottom half of their class at Harvard pursued an education in science or math.

I did the math, and to be comparing apples with apples I took my hypothetical income after California taxes (I am paying higher rent for at least a part of my tax benefit after all) and I get to a post - tax / personal savings rate (excl.

However at a less competitive school, Hartwick College, many in the top third of their class earned math and science degrees and went on to successfully pursue careers in those fields.

It's important math, given that each of these folks is likely being paid at least a couple million dollars (out of management fees) over the life of a fund.

As they say, you do the math — that's $ 10 billion of asset fees not earned by AUM planners at the typical 1 percent per year.

Whether it was beating a friend at a video game (Street Fighter 2 on SNES comes to mind), playing sports (my favorite sport was basketball although I was always better at running track) or academic competitions (yes, I was a bit of a math nerd).

The problem here is the math — the number of people in the middle is too large to be paid out of revenues from higher taxes at the top.

Jim Gard, a math teacher at Stoneman Douglas High School, said in an interview that Mr. Cruz was a student in his class during the first semester of the 2016 - 17 school year.

Neal and Taylor's argument was rooted in math: there were more consumers than there were IT users, which meant that over the long run the rate of improvement in consumer technologies would exceed that of enterprise - focused ones; IT departments needed to grapple with increased demand from their users to use the same technology they used at home.

Brin studied math and computer science at the University of Maryland.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP)-- A small but growing number of science and math teachers aren't spending the summer at the beach or catching up on books, they're toiling at companies, practicing the principles they teach.

Using the current weight of a Tesla Model S battery pack at 540 kg per 90 kWh, we can do some simple math to estimate the Semi's batteries would weigh about 6,000 kg.