Sentences with phrase «benchmark as a gauge»

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Schroepfer said that Facebook took 3.5 billion Instagram photos, adorned with people's hashtags to describe them, and was able to «produce state of the art results» on the popular ImageNet computer - vision benchmark, used by AI researchers as a gauge of their project's effectiveness compared to others.

As a result, the CSI 300 Index and the SSE 50 Index, the two major gauges of mainland - listed larger companies, now trade at the highest levels relative to the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Although these are just benchmarks, they do serve as a helpful guideline to gauge your progress.

While the VIX Index itself is a gauge and is not investable, Cboe offers the following VIX - related benchmark indexes (all shown in image above) that are designed to serve as benchmarks for hypothetical investable performance over more than a decade.

Investors have been clamoring for airlines to rein in capacity growth as a way to turn around declines in that benchmark revenue gauge.

i like podolski and do nt think wenger has ever really got the best out of him but even at his best he is no longer a top flight player... we need to sell him and bring in someone who can really add to the level of our attack... and carvalho is now a benchmark for gauging wenger «s ambition... the lack of proper defensive cover is one reason our attacks have become much less threatening as players do nt want to overstretch knowing what «s not behind them... i am pretty confident we will beat besiktas (a team that would be hanging around the bottom of the epl if not lower) but the fact that we are in this position again speaks volumes for the way the club is run and managed

As a result, it provides the best benchmark so far for gauging when Homo sapiens originated in Africa, evolutionary geneticist Carina Schlebusch of Uppsala University in Sweden and her colleagues conclude.

As part of its «Benchmark Best Practices» series, COACHE surveyed faculty at its member institutions — more than 200 colleges and universities across the United States — about the effectiveness (or ineffectiveness) of mentoring both on and off campus, while also gauging the adequacy of existing support at individual schools.

By using the S&P STRIDE indices as a benchmark, those who adopt retirement income provisions into an IPS receive an appropriate yardstick against which they can gauge their progress.

Alpha, often considered the active return on an investment, gauges the performance of an investment against a market index or benchmark which is considered to represent the market's movement as a whole.

Because of how popular 5/1 ARM mortgages are among homeowners who plan on selling rather than paying off their full mortgage, we set five years as a useful benchmark to gauge the value of refinancing.

By using an approximate time - weighted rate of return (such as the Modified Dietz method), investors will be better able to gauge their performance relative to index benchmarks.

The benchmarks serve as long - term performance gauges.

While French impressionists and great modernists from the late 19th and early 20th centuries remain a benchmark for gauging the current market, high - caliber contemporary art is closing the price gap, as shown by this week's lively sales, marketing experts at Sotheby's and Christie's said.

That missing radioactivity, originating as fallout from atmospheric nuclear tests during the 1950s and 1960s, routinely provides researchers with a benchmark against which they can gauge how much new ice has accumulated on a glacier or ice field.

An array of coastal benchmarks must be surveyed periodically to allow stable benchmarks to be identified and used as a reference for the tide gauge.

As part of our testing we run tablets through a range of benchmarks to gauge how they compare with rivals.

Unfortunately, it's hard to gauge the accuracy of its PCMark benchmark results, as the Oppo R9s turned in a score that would make even the most high - end flagship handsets on the market kneel before it.

While one partner may use the frequency of sex to gauge how he or she is loved and valued, the other may have intimacy as the benchmark.