Sentences with phrase «of kludges»

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

That's where a lot of the kludge comes from, in both disciplines.

Not exact matches

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).

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.»

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.

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.

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» 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).

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.