Sentences with phrase «of sanity check»

So, as a sort of sanity check, perhaps you could produce a comparison for pre-1980 data between TOBS adjusted average temps and Tmin (unadjusted) temps.

This is more of a sanity check than anything else.

That was the kind of sanity check I was hoping for.

Says Meehl, «It's kind of a sanity check.»

Not exact matches

And, you can still sanity check many of the advisor's recommendations by running what if scenarios in a detailed online calculator.

I needed to wake up, check his breathing, feel his chest move and the warmth of his skin for my own personal sanity.

There is something about making lists by hand, writing things down, and checking items off one by one that increases one's» sense of accomplishment each day but also preserves our sanity.

Cuomo, meanwhile, took another shot at the city shelter system that he has characterized as dirty and dangerous, saying that opting to sleep on cold city streets rather than checking into the shelters is a «sign of sanity.»

Check it out for tips on how to navigate through the usual graduate school muck without losing a great deal of sanity.

Reno plays it straight, the one sane character in this whole messed up situation, struggling to keep his sanity in check, as Clouseau recklessly misses every clue in the book and Dreyfuss piles complication after complication on a straight - forward race to get the Medal of Honour.

The Meganes also all seem quiet in isolation but this sort of arbitrary impression should be sanity checked when we can experience this French hatch back - to - back with the likes of the Golf or even Hyundai i30.

When parked, I used it to check my email while out combing the wilds of Oregon, and it provided reasonable download and upload speeds, and it'll likely be a sanity - saver when the kids want to stream Netflix on their tablets.

It's easy because they're the ones wearing the guarded, concerned looks, subtly checking me out for signs of sanity, as if at worst I might be right on the edge of snapping and at best might need some soothing and comfort.

This is possibly where you rope in your greatly put - upon group of friends again, to get them to sanity check and tell you if the negative review has a point you're missing.

If you're looking for a rule of thumb, I can add a few — but they're sanity - check guidelines, not real answers.

Apply a sanity check to flood maps — some of them are unrealistic.

If you're traveling during the holidays and don't already have a co-branded credit card for your airline of choice, applying for one before the holidays will save you money and sanity by granting you priority boarding, and free checked bags for your whole family.

Cove Energy (COV: LN): With the share price doubling in the past 3 months, and two bids on the table, valuing Cove might be a good sanity check of my asset based approach.

If you're traveling during the holidays and don't already have a co-branded credit card for your airline of choice, applying for one before the holidays will save you money and sanity by granting you priority boarding, and free checked bags for your whole family.

Fail the check and you lose a few points of Sanity.

While this can be difficult when you are on a limited timeline, it gets easier when you really pursue a quality over quantity approach with your content, whereby you've got more of your eggs in one basket, and you are constantly sanity checking what you're working on.

One of the ways that we sanity check our content plan is to talk about it, a lot.

Schutz continues her explanation with her perception of achieved sanity, «There is this sense that you always need someone else to check reality with.

As tamino points out, there are lots of ways that people like Houston and Dean who want to fool themselves can do so when their goal is to get a particular result rather than do a correct analysis and thus they don't do any sort of sanity - checks on their results.

For people who accept AGW (durrrr basic physics) the demonstration that you can «explain» the temperature as a function of 2 parameters (in out our case) or 9 parameters (in your case) stands as a good sanity check of what we already know to be the case.

Personally, I view the curve exercise as a sanity check of sorts.

The simplest of synthetic tests serve as sanity checks.

But I've learned that when you're working with data, you do a sanity check to make sure what you get out is a better version of what went in, not completely different.

Dave Springer says: May 8, 2011 at 8:08 am Ira: As a sanity check you should do this calculation for the moon which receives exactly the same amount of solar radiation as the earth system and there's no atmosphere or water to complicate the situation.

As a sanity check you should do this calculation for the moon which receives exactly the same amount of solar radiation as the earth system and there's no atmosphere or water to complicate the situation.

During my long career as a nuclear engineer, I got into the habit of doing a «back of the envelope» calculation of my own as a «sanity check» on other's results.

So before talking about the earth as an approximate black body, which we can't measure because it ain't one with a dynamic ocean / atmosphere wrapping it, you have to do a sanity check and see if your black body calculations agree with the measured temperature of the moon which actually is an approximate black body.

In my «sanity check» I assumed that the Earth Surface emissivity was sufficiently high that, for all intents and purposes, I could use the black body model in the Carleton spreadsheet to estimate the temperature of the Surface absent the Atmospheric «greenhouse effect».

Well, Richard, I too have difficulty accepting some of the truths of physics, but, after questioning them and doing a «sanity check» I sometimes have to accept them.

I never claimed that my «sanity check» was more than just that, a way for a system engineer to double - check the rationality of the more exacting calculations of the supoosed experts.

Thus, while the Sun is not exactly a black body, it is OK to assume it is for this type of «sanity check» exercise.

«Tyranny of the BlackBerry: Lawyers discuss a sanity check Main Your blawg: Next best thing to a Supreme Court appointment for lawyers?»

We've got a round of up links and info to help you check your legal - related apps, and your sanity.

The Department Heads and Practice Group Leaders provide the ultimate «sanity check» for the Managing Partner and Management Committee, i.e., are their broad goals and desired results realistic and achievable given the expertise, personnel, personalities and level of business in the firm?

One of the easiest ways to keep your sanity (and your financial situation) in check when living in housing for students is to invest in student renters insurance.

«We performed additional sanity checks of the data utilizing publicly available historical Mt. Gox trading data from bitcoincharts.

This type of scam can be easily avoided with some quick sanity checks.

For me, to keep my sanity in check, I have discovered the importance of pausing.

Performed regularly scheduled checks of network health, server sanity, and backup logs.