Sentences with phrase «modelling the world from»

In personal accounting, you are modelling the world from your own perspective (which is the opposite of the Bank's) and so your bank account is an Asset which will increase with a Debit.

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Topics which he has tackled range from looking at the latest models to hit the car market to analyzing ground - breaking moments in the technology world.

While you might recognize model Karlie Kloss from the pages of Vogue and runways all over the world — or from her popular YouTube channel — you might not know that Kloss's other love is computers and coding.

Last year, Ulman and his team met with UT about designing its new cancer center from scratch to create a model of care for hospitals and clinics around the world.

For example, the first short - term goal might be to figure out the startup's business model, the next might be to get customers to use or pay for the product, and the third to expand success from one market to five around the world.

And drivers will soon have more options to choose from, as the world's major auto manufacturers plan to roll out dozens of new electric models over the next decade.

The fact that investigators and officials are fairly confident that the debris is from a Boeing 777 is significant because MH370 is the only missing plane in the world of that model.

Through interviews with more than 20 people, the FT has gleaned details about the project's scope and current status, including learning that Dyson is considering excluding its world - leading «solid state» battery technology from its debut model.

Under Gupta's guidance, Mitacs has worked with 60 universities and more than 6,000 companies to solve real - world challenges — from building better tools to locate lung tumours to modelling the spread of forest fires.

If not, here's a demo from the world's worst fitness model (who isn't supposed to be wearing shoes but hey, I was at the gym.)

Musk writes that the Model 3's design tolerances, which refers to the variations in gaps and panels from one vehicle to another, will soon be the best of any vehicle in the world.

«If you have this mental model, this typical stereotype that people from the world of entertainment are superficial or that they don't get it, he couldn't be more different.

Novartis (nvs) chief Joe Jiminez has been touting a pricing model that incorporates drugs» real - world outcomes for years, stressing the importance of placing patients before profits; Regeneron (regn) head honcho Len Schliefer had some tough words for fellow panelists from Eli Lilly (lly) and Pfizer (pfe)(who argued that media reports about their own continued reliance on price increases to drive revenues is misleading) during Forbes» event.

The San Rafael, Calif., company's AutoCAD design software is used by designers the world over to model everything from office furniture to buildings to aircraft components.

Several Thai politicians who attended the Boao Forum for Asia, a kind of China - centered version of the World Economic Forum in Davos, noted that, in recent years, some of the discussions at Boao had shifted from a kind of general talk of globalization and its impact in Asia to more specific conversations about some of the failings of Western economic models exposed by the global economic crisis, and whether China's type of development might be less prone to such risks.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

Hawkers Model Volleyball Tournament, in its eighth year, featured top modeling agencies as well as some of the top professional volleyball players from across the world, competing in a coed beach volleyball tournament Feb. 17 - 18 in Miami Beach.

As Matt Sweetwood eloquently concluded, «If there is one thing I learned from my parents» experience in constantly having to reinvent their store and dramatically revise their business model, it's the transformational concept that the time to reinvent yourself is when you're at the peak, not when the world has changed around you and you're desperately scraping to survive.

There are a wide range of model estimates from which to choose, each capturing different aspects of the ways in which the world works in reality.

Its location in the heart of New York, a short distance from the New York Stock Exchange, has since became a hub for Bitcoin in the large city and a model for other community efforts around the world.

About Global Accelerator Network The Global Accelerator Network (www.globalacceleratornetwork.com) consists of almost 40 high quality independently owned and operated organizations from around the world that utilize a mentorship - based startup accelerator model.

To achieve this, we help visionary NGOs, funders, and governments learn from and adapt the Living Goods model around the world.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

This is a three - day program for entrepreneurship faculty from around the world to learn how to teach entrepreneurship via the Lean LaunchPad approach (business model canvas + customer development) and bring their entrepreneurship curriculums into the 21st century.

It's easier to copy a model than to make something new: doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar.

Code / Commerce is a series of intimate, one - night events where you'll hear from digital - native retailers and payments companies upending existing business models, and brick - and - mortar giants like Target adapting their playbook for an increasingly mobile - first shopping world.

Supported by its world class real - estate capabilities, this model allows Starbucks to identify targeted solutions for environments that can benefit from an integrated service model.

Being present in such diverse industry, the blend of expertise from financial services and technology who could marry knowledge of both these worlds with high tech solution and a scalable business model was a must have.

His ground breaking research on complex systems modelling of debt - deflation was awarded the eminent Revere Award from the Real World Economics Review, describing Keen as the economist «who first and most clearly anticipated and gave public warning of the Global Financial Collapse and whose work is most likely to prevent another GFC in the future».

«Our unique investor - led model is given a boost with access to new opportunities from the world's leading angel groups, while our investors will be excited by this unprecedented deal flow.»

As the second - largest economy in the world, China is interested in transforming its growth model from investment - driven to consumer - driven, and some investors might wonder how the devaluation will affect consumption.

Banking and Monetary Statistics 1914 - 1941 (1,400 +) Data on the nominal term structure model from Kim and Wright (6 +) Historical Federal Reserve Data NBER Macrohistory Database (2,000 +) Penn World Table 7.1 (4,400 +) Penn World Table 9.0 (3,800 +) Recession Probabilities Weekly U.S. and State Bond Prices, 1855 - 1865 Economic Policy Uncertainty Sticky Wages and Comovement (3 +) A Millennium of Macroeconomic Data for the UK (9 +)

It is a lesson taught by modeling the perpetual entertainment that comes from delight in the Lord and the world he has given us.

We build up a simplified model of reality by making assumptions about how the world works, and then we try to assume everything away apart from that specific issue we are focusing on.

But at least she gets this right: «Brideshead mattered so much to Evelyn because he put so much of himself into it: his distance from his father, his sentimental education of Oxford, his early love affairs, his initiation into the aristocratic world of the Lygons [model for the novel's Marchmain family], his conversion to Roman Catholicism, his abortive love affair with the Army....

In the monarchical model, God is distant from the world, relates only to the human world, and controls that world through domination and benevolence.

Quite apart from that crisis, however, responsible theology ought to be done in the context of contemporary science and were it to take that context seriously, models underscoring the closeness, not the distance, of God and the world would emerge.

Again, we may notice that the model used to picture God in much popular religious talk, and in some theological talk too, was borrowed, as Whitehead noted in his Modes of Thought (Free Press, 1968, p. 49), from «the characteristics of the touchy, vain, imperious tyrants who ruled the empires of the world.»

As Christians we are called to be distinct from the rest of the world, to model something to the rest of creation.

They tend to regard their models and theories developed from a limited set of data in the actual world as having a value and truth that can then be applied to that world.

Do we model and encourage within the life of the congregation (not to mention the wider world) ways of dealing with conflict, with enemies, that neither shy away from addressing problems forthrightly nor simply cut off or separate those with whom we disagree?

Hence, as theology models itself on the other academic disciplines, it is thoroughly insulated from information about what is happening to the natural world.

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.

We are familiar with the mistake of trying to force from these abstract models every feature of the world they are modeling.

Jay W. Forrester, professor of management at MIT whose sophisticated computer modeling of social and environmental issues led to the Club of Rome report on «The Limits of Growth,» sees the political and economic stresses in the world as caused by the necessary transition from worldwide growth to equilibrium.

In other words, we find it difficult if not impossible to move from the model of deity as primarily substantial being, existing in and of itself, to the model of deity as genuinely participant and really affected by what goes on in His world.

We model ourselves unconsciously on the view of the world derived from the so - called Newtonian universe.

Another thing absent from the economists» model is the natural world.

This would explain the increasing mathematical sophistication of the economic models from the «political economy» of Adam Smith to the marginal analysis of Marshall in the nineteenth century, and the complexmathematics of modern economics, but at a cost of decreasing relevance to the real world.

The model for thinking of the nonhuman world is taken from stones and machines, and living things are hardly mentioned.