Sentences with phrase «better idea of the scale»

While this bullet point is attractive on its own as it shows leadership qualities, when paired with the next bullet point it helps employers get a better idea of the scale of information that the applicant works with.

Not exact matches

There's a great deal to be gleaned from people who have actually done what you're hoping to do rather than from newbies who are inventing their «careers» as they roll along, hoping at the same time to get their businesses built and scaled before they run out of time, cheap money or good ideas.

Effective altruism has been called «altruism for nerds,» and revolves around the idea that quantitative approaches can be used to determine the best possible use of resources — time and money in particular — to maximize the good those resources can do for humanity on a global scale.

It wasn't hard to figure out that each of the items corresponded pretty closely to one of the four scales on the Predictive Index (dominance, extroversion, patience, and precision), so I had a much better idea of how to cheat this time.

«We are a nation founded by immigrants, and our ability to remain competitive globally depends on seeking out and investing in the best ideas and talent regardless of origin,» says Kate Mitchell, co-founder and partner at Scale Venture Partners.

The use of a prototype site — a scaled - down working model of the finished product — for pre-launch testing is always a good idea.

Take it from AlphaGo creator Demis Hassabis: Games «are useful as a testbed, a platform for trying to write our algorithmic ideas and testing out how far they scale and how well they do and it's just a very efficient way of doing that.

Canada does well at coming up with ideas and making them work, Elgie said, but it's not so good at commercializing those ideas and scaling up production, often because of a lack of available capital.

«The role of philanthropy here is not to be the primary funder, but rather to fund pilots, to fund new ideas, to let people — it's always the educators coming up with the ideas — to let them try them out and see what really works super well and get those to scale,» Gates said while delivering a keynote address at a Cleveland schools conference, according to the Post.

If you are in an industry that is challenging to scale, one where your risk of failure is super high, it may be a good idea to start looking into other opportunities.

At its heart is the idea to make the most of the scale of the North, by better linking it together through transport improvement, creating one single economy that can compete on the global stage.

Fascinated with the idea of building better AI systems by incorporating visual intelligence, Kunda and her graduate students set about identifying the building blocks of visual thinking, experimenting with object rotation, scaling and combining.

«One thing we've been able to show is that using VLF measurements in a network like HAMMA can give us a better idea of the location of different - scale processes that occur during initiation,» Dr. Bitzer said.

The idea was to target three issues with traditional meat farming: protect animals from inhumane conditions and eventual slaughter; reduce the environmental damage of large - scale livestock operations; and give humans healthier meat and better food security.

I think it's good to have an idea of where your weight's at from a starting point, but remember weights on scale, can not look at the quality of the weight.

In these cases (and the above cases as well), the only real way to get an accurate idea of exactly how many servings you are eating is by weighing your food out on a food scale.

This is yet another piece of evidence that using the bathroom scale to measure successes and failures is never a good idea.

Yes, ostensibly, this is a good idea, but ultimately, it shuts out the small local entrepreneurs who originally had the idea of offering organic clothing in the first place, but who can not compete with the economies of scale enjoyed by H&M.

This time out, things are essentially all on a larger scale, with director David Twohy trying to create a kind of space opera; somewhat inevitably, critical backlash was large and it ended up not seeming such a good idea after all.

What's more, Nintendo and Monolith Software thought it would be a good idea to have a major large - scale JRPG early in the lifecycle of the Nintendo Switch.

This idea of using what one has to better those around is taken to a much grander scale, and it makes the film feel so much more powerful than your typical film.

If Korea uses its famed skill of rapidly adopting new trends and ideas to scale innovations like the flipped classrooms in Busan about which I have written and other forms of blended learning that escape the factory - model of education, then perhaps some praise from President Obama would be well deserved.

Schools can choose from a computing workshop at KS3 or KS4, which enables students to see how digital images can be manipulated for effect, as well as design and technology workshops for KS3 or KS4 which explore the scaling up of ideas.

For a ruthless government that doesn't mind the temporary reputational damage caused by a U-turn, if you float ideas of revolution that meet resistance, up the stakes to full - scale Armageddon and suddenly revolution seems a whole lot better by comparison.

In Where Good Ideas Come From, Johnson identifies the seven key patterns behind true innovation, examining great ideas from Darwin to Google to illustrate how to promote innovation on the scale of our everyday lIdeas Come From, Johnson identifies the seven key patterns behind true innovation, examining great ideas from Darwin to Google to illustrate how to promote innovation on the scale of our everyday lideas from Darwin to Google to illustrate how to promote innovation on the scale of our everyday lives.

«The role of philanthropy here is not to be the primary funder, but rather to fund pilots, to fund new ideas, to let people — it's always the educators coming up with the ideas — to let them try them out and see what really works super well and get those to scale.»

Anyway, these aren't full scale photos of the car - just teasers - but it does give us a better idea of what to expect when the car makes its debut sometime next year.

Also, just to give an idea of how thing and light it is, well the bigger Galaxy Tab 2 is all of just 8.6 mm while tipping the scales at 595 only.

More economies of scale for the eReader business, exchange of ideas and technology that help us all be better digital booksellers, and our being able to bring new capabilities to a very successful retail coalition.

At last week's seminars, we road - tested the idea that, early in the market here, we might be better to support a single digital warehouse to get economies of scale and, perhaps, a more united marketing voice.

That's a good idea; as companies get huge, diseconomies of scale set in.

Take close - up photos of slight imperfections — ideally next to a ruler to show the scale of them — so buyers can inspect them, as they're more likely to buy if they have a good idea of what the flaws are like and may leave you good feedback for your honesty.

Think of an idea that scales well, either by creating something once that can be used millions of times, or that can be easily outsourced to others for the work, leaving you free to work on the business.

Staff was effectively dedicated to making our stay memorable - from the ease of checking in, a clean extremely comfortable well appointed room, quick valet service as well as occupying an ideal location close to all that's important in Palm Beach.AND the bartender has great drink ideas supporting really good food reasonably priced in an elegant restaurant All in all, a GREAT PLACE, on a scale of 1 to 10, our experience was an 11.

Players would be matched up against competitors from within their territory, and Capcom would have a better idea of how to manage things on a more global scale for the future.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

It also gives us some idea of just how optimal the core code is, how well it scales across different hardware - and perhaps provides some insight into whether the upclocked CPUs in PS4 Pro and Xbox One X might be able to handle 60 fps gameplay.

He is renowned for being one of the first artists to make the radical gesture of taking the canvas off the stretcher and hanging it directly on the wall in works such as Purple Octagonal 1967, as well as making provocative sculptures such as Third Rope Piece 1974, the intimate scale of which directly responds to traditional ideas of monumental art.

Inspired by the idea of an imagined society in which psychotherapy is a freely available drop - in service, Johnson's installation of large - scale paintings, hanging plants, Persian rugs and four wooden day beds questions established definitions of the art object and its limitations, as well as the relationship between individual and shared cultural experience.

Her ideas about surface, scale, and color are not only daring; they presaged the work of artists as varied as Barnett Newman, Milton Avery, Mark Rothko, Morris Louis, and Mary Heilmann, as well as Color Field painting, Lyrical Abstraction, and contemporary postmodern abstraction.

Her work references both the transformative effects of photography as well as the sculptural relationship of objects to the body, alternating between an association with objects that are intimate, wearable or ornamental and an idea of scale that verges on the architectural or monumental.

Best known for her unique installations and immersive public projects, Fernández explores ideas of the figure in the landscape, the natural world, the extremes of scale, as well as the act of looking.

I note how the Web can greatly facilitate the dissemination of best practices or great ideas just as agricultural extension services have done — but on a global scale:

Something I think we really need, though, is some kind of large scale public art that, in real time, gives us some idea of how well we are doing in implementing the plan.

And, since the system function (H) is likely to be dependent on time scales, thinking in the frequency domain seems a good idea (especially in modeling studies where F can be speficied in known forms), though we must also anticipate complication due to essential nonlinearity of the system.

About 1980ish, some old ideas like the greenhouse effect were brought out of mothballs and re-examined with new tools and techniques; simultaneously several researchers and theoreticians released their notes, published, or otherwise got together and there was a surprising consilience and not a small amount of mixing with old school hippy ecologism on some of the topics that became the roots of Climate Change science (before it was called Global Warming); innovations in mathematics were also applied to climate thought; supercomputers (though «disappointing» on weather forecasting) allowed demonstration of plausibility of runaway climate effects, comparison of scales of effects, and the possibility of climate models combined with a good understanding of the limits of predictive power of weather models.

The spectacular failure of Solyndra is a good object lesson in what happens when someone jumps the rails and go from bright idea to commercial scale without passing through this time - tested paradigm.

If you're interested in a solar electric system for your home and you live in a state with good incentives, it's always a better idea to act sooner rather than later — programs run out of funding, are designed to scale back over time, or reach their megawatt - capacity goals eventually, and if you wait too long you might find yourself stuck without access to those funds.

The majority of «good ideas» turn out to be lemons and so an adequate period of testing and scale - up is needed.

Sometimes the best way to get an idea of the scale of something is to change the context.