Sentences with phrase «kludges all»

It's the oversimplification or parameterization of complex processes and other kludges in GCM's necessary to get the programs to run without blowing up and in a finite amount of time that are the problem.

This results, as shown in my posting above, in distributions that are not at all «lifelike», and in results that have to be forced into a semblance of «lifelikeness» through a variety of kludges.

GCMs are also the very best way to fudge away obvious discrepancies between reality and diagnosed sensitivity using kludges like unconstrained (and purely assumed!)

This agreement is accomplished through each modeling group selecting the forcing data set that produces the best agreement with observations, along with model kludges that include adjusting the aerosol forcing to produce good agreement with the surface temperature observations.

In all these cases, crude kludges (approximations) are used.

The problem with depending on rooting to get ICS updates is that, as Vibrant users learned the hard way, without an official update, drivers for the hardware won't exist, and any third party ROMs will have to be hacks / kludges.

At the low end are open source tools and a bunch of kludges.

(A rear wing was rejected because engineers consider them kludges and, as Ferrari chairman Luca di Montezemolo declares after helicoptering in to Fiorano from nearby Bologna, «I find them vulgar.»)

The US health care system is made up of kludges that no one has the actual authority to fix.

Not JUST to scale, or to improve it - but because the code you write when you're in a hurry is kludges all the way down.

But it remains a kludge in progress: In April, the administration delayed until 2015 the rollout of the state - run exchanges that will allow employees a wider choice of coverage options, and in July it pushed back, also until 2015, the launch of the employer mandate (forcing businesses with 50 or more employees to buy coverage or pay a penalty).

He had to kludge something together, because his Fox News employer wouldn't issue IDs to the news team.

Rather than solve this problem honestly, Congress and businesses have come up with a kludge that addresses the problem in an unprincipled way.

it appears nature is a kludge and likes to conserve it's energy rather then create new protiens, neurotransmitters etc...

Mobile music is another kludge that needs a usability rewrite.

He is, in short, a good man in an emergency, but even that is not enough to rescue the klunky kludge at work here.

The term comes out of the world of computer programming, where a kludge is an inelegant patch put in place to solve an unexpected problem and designed to be backward - compatible with the rest of an existing system.

A «kludge» is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as «an ill - assorted collection of parts assembled to fulfill a particular purpose... a clumsy but temporarily effective solution to a particular fault or problem.»

The Ricardo setup looks like a kludged up add - on but it might weigh less.

But if it's a completely unique vehicle you are looking for, something with massive power and brawny looks, this strange kludge will put a smile on your face.

The soft - top makes the Evoque convertible look like a kludge, but good engineering keeps the ride quiet.

I'd far rather look through many hundreds of stock photos and find one that fits perfectly with a book's message than to attempt to kludge together a cover from a few images I could get an exclusive on at some high price or to attempt to take one myself, with all the complications that can involve, particularly that of finding models.

This is a kludge, but it's a useful one.

The ability to run Windows apps is its only good point and it looks good in theory, but you really do need to use the keyboard and trackpad to do it — so why would anyone wanting to run Windows applications buy this kludged assortment of clip together bits with a second rate keyboard and trackpad, low battery life, and semi-stable parts as opposed to a proper ultrabook laptop?

Pouring your heart and soul into a manuscript, then spending an hour on a free, terrible cover that you kludged yourself — with poor photoshop skills — is like devoting months of hard work to your diet and the weights at the gym, then going to the beach in dingy, grease - covered auto shop coveralls.

I never could make Fantastic Contraption work the way it was intended to... good thing I could usually kludge a way that wasn't expected, at least in the early going.

Though this theme isn't exactly new (even for games), Alien: Isolation's commitment to retro - future kludge makes every attempt to progress an anxiety - inducing fight against the technology that holds us hostage.

Simply subtracting one from the denominator of the Wien approximation to achieve this is a really crude kludge that just happens to work but has no physical justification other than Planck's mythical oscillators.

It's a crude kludge used to estimate a complex relationship without any way of determining its effectiveness.

the «kludge» argument that the IPCC using indirect modelling makes their argument «circular» doesn't have evidence to back it up.

The proposition to be proved (# 7) is assumed in premise # 3 by virtue of kludging of the model parameters and the aerosol forcing to agree with the 20th century observations of surface temperature.

The «kludge argument» originates from observations of the STS researchers (I think this paper covers it farily well; see also Serendipity; those guys have some interesting things to say about model inter-comparisons too).

Since one twiddles or tunes certain poorly constrained historical parameters and poorly understood microphysics (doesn't «tune» sound more harmonic than kludge?

In short, I think although the uncertainties are there, as you correctly point out, the limited information you give can be misleading and the «kludge» argument that the IPCC using indirect modelling makes their argument «circular» doesn't have evidence to back it up.

The data doesn't seem to support such claims, the models seem kludge atop kludge.

That will serve as a kind of carbon price — a crude, kludged, economically suboptimal carbon price, but a carbon price nonetheless.

And the better we understand how our wonderful yet kludge - ridden, Rube Goldberg engine works, the better we — as individuals and as a society — can harness it to navigate toward a more objective understanding of the truth.

Neither do kludged up climate models with untold degrees of freedom which can't be verified or validated.

# 449 Inspired by # 24, DWP # 449 / # 451 asks a pointed question: are the GCMers using a kludge to tune out LTP?

At this point, the only validation are about some global conservation laws (that you mention have to be kludged in sometimes — no good) or experimental validation (that I consider very lacking from what I have seen).

All standardization is a mathematical kludge necessitated by growth geometry and sampling method (radial increment at two points — it would be preferable to know the volume of tissue added each year and its allocation amongst the various tissue types).

I think it would be too soon for them to try to kludge it again so Richardson et al will have to bide his time or think of something else.

A lot of critics say this law was never designed for dealing with carbon dioxide, that in some ways Obama is resorting to it as a sort of kludge because Congress couldn't pass a climate bill in 2010.

I have the nasty suspicion that convection is so highly parameterized that it amounts to a kludge.

On this basis, the question you should perhaps be posing to yourself is not whether there is a kludge to reduce the impact of volcanic forcing (it is not necessary to postulate one to explain the data), but why the reduction factor is not even larger.

Further, kludging and neglect of ontic uncertainty in the tuning can result in a model that is over - or under - sensitive to certain types or scales of forcing.

Willis, AFAIK there is no deliberate kludge related to volcanic forcing in CMIP5 models.

But I think it is done that way for practical reasons, not as a kludge to reduce volcanic efficacy.

This method — writing a document and then turning around and submitting all your links to a third party — still has a kludge - y feel to it, but until we figure out a better way for the Internet as a whole to deal with the vanishing links problem, this is probably the best bet for the profession.

The National Post has put an awful lot of kludge into your browser for the sake of a relatively few words by Chris Selley.