Sentences with phrase «of years of experimenting»

But unlocking its secrets is a massive undertaking, one that would take brilliant minds millions of years of experimenting.

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In 2011, when Justin Woolverton began experimenting with a dessert of frozen Greek yogurt blended with fruit, he wasn't trying to start a business — much less one that would draw in revenue of $ 49 million in 2016, up almost 21,000 percent over a three - year period.

It is building on the concept of compressing fuel to heat it until it triggers a fusion reaction, an idea experimented with for years in large - scale government programs.

Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $ 70,000 minimum wage at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments... before Hollywood agents, reality - show producers, and book publishers began throwing elbows for a piece of the hip, 31 - year - old entrepreneur with the shoulder - length hair and Brad Pitt looks... before Rush Limbaugh called him a socialist and Harvard Business School professors asked to study his radical experiment in paying workers... an entry - level Gravity employee named Jason Haley got really pissed off at him.

Except for our experiment in democracy, each of our plans lasted for at least two to five years.

Over the course of that year and after a few experiments, performance began to increasingly pick up.

Between 1988, when VW abandoned a 10 - year experiment making a U.S. version of the Golf at an old Chrysler factory in Pennsylvania, and 2011, when it opened a new plant in Chattanooga, the company didn't make a single car in the U.S..

Gates is certainly not alone in the entrepreneurial world — in fact, most successful entrepreneurs, especially in the tech sector, were only able to reach those heights after years of struggle and countless failed experiments.

In August 2010, nearly two years after conceiving of Bitcoin in a landmark white paper, Satoshi Nakamoto, the project's pseudonymous, as yet unidentified creator (or creators), proposed a thought experiment.

Amazon has been experimenting with a new delivery service of its own that is expected to see a broader roll - out in the coming year.

Twitter will also experiment with linking to AMP articles next year for users of the social messaging service, explained Michael Ducker, head of publisher products for Twitter (TWTR).

This hands - on experimenting led Bouchard — who urges anyone considering UC to take advantage of these trials — to a cloud - based UC platform from California vendor Zendesk, which QuickContractors adopted late last year.

Other experiments that have improved my life beyond my expectations include doing burpees daily (I haven't missed a day in almost five years and am in the best shape of my life) and to go one week only eating food with no packaging (which increased my fresh fruit and vegetable intake ever since, and did I mention the best shape of my life?).

Before my experiment of a year without flying, I would have seen not flying as deprivation and sacrifice, but my experience taught me that my happiness, joy, adventure, cultural exploration, and so on didn't depend on flying.

Stanford professor Baba Shiv conducted an experiment several years ago that vividly showed the effects of distraction.

Every year, hundreds of them submit the results of their experiments for judging and a winner is chosen.

This matrix thought - experiment is actually a bit like some ideas of Descartes and Berkeley, hundreds of years ago.

«We did a bit of an experiment eight years ago when a number of airlines came to us back during a GDS negotiation, and they said, «You do our shopping for us.

Some of the above software solutions, such as Google Experiments, are free, while others can cost a few thousand dollars a year.

Drawing on his 20 years of engineering experience, Chamtech Technologies founder Anthony Sutera began experimenting and eventually created a liquid composed of nanoparticles, that when dried, could function as a highly efficient antenna — whether painted onto a building or injected directly into the molding of a cell - phone case.

The original plan was for us to spend the first year establishing the brand and experimenting with different types of reporting techniques.

While most winemakers focus on the quality of the grapes and the effect that soil and weather conditions have had on each year's harvest, Lee and his partners — Mardonn Chua (who like Lee has a biotech background) and Josh Decolongon (a sommelier)-- view the creation of wine as a chemistry experiment, bonding a combination of amino acids, sugars, ethanol and other elements together.

«In a year where politicians traffic in anti-immigrant rhetoric, there is also a Broadway musical reminding us that a broke, orphan immigrant from the West Indies built our financial system, a story that reminds us that since the beginning of the great unfinished symphony that is our American experiment, time and time again, immigrants get the job done.»

State Street's experiment comes as financial firms prepare to bring more blockchain systems out of testing and into implementation in the new year.

The company's acquisition of 39 Zellers sites from Target last year gives it an opportunity to experiment with new formats.

So they pulled out all the stops by experimenting with an in - store cafe, free Wi - Fi, monthly book swaps, a children's play area, entertainment, more than 200 in - store author readings a year and community forums on topics of interest to customers.

This year, all businesses will be experimenting with a variety of online, localized and mobile marketing initiatives.

The test is one of several blockchain experiments State Street and other financial institutions have been working on over the past year as Wall Street grows increasingly hopeful that the technology, first developed to run cryptocurrency bitcoin, can help them increase efficiency and cut costs.

The experiment had a surprising dividend: offering key lessons for Whole Foods» new «365» chain — smaller, lower - priced versions of the flagship brand that will begin rolling out next year.

One series of experiments run by the two - year - old Marine Warfighting Laboratory, in Quantico, had 18 squads of marines fanning out over 1,500 square miles of desert.

Heading into the new year, we will see more businesses experiment with new gTLDs and take advantage of the creative ways to use domain extensions in branding.»

Until a couple of years ago, negative rates were largely seen as an academic experiment, likely to be seen in textbooks and economic research papers, but never actually in the real world.

The negative publicity around the Cold Fusion experiments 20 years ago, which promised an electrochemical method of producing energy, will overshadow all future claims about fusion.

What's potentially very intriguing about the Y Combinator experiment is the proposed time frame of five years.

And beginning this year, well - funded, large - scale, long - term experiments in Finland and Kenya will examine whether providing a guaranteed income is an effective way to relieve poverty and cushion the effects of economic dislocation without encouraging idleness and sloth.

A. J. Jacobs, author of My Life as an Experiment and The Year of Living Biblically «It may sound like hyperbole, but it's true: Medicine is undergoing its biggest revolution since the invention of the germ theory.

For years, Twitch.tv has been the web's go - to for gaming live streams, crowd - sourced experiments like Pokémon playthroughs and commenter - controlled investment portfolios, and other bits of acceptably time - killing content.

The climate - denying government of Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has pulled the plug on a six - year, A$ 90 - million - dollar experiment with «clean» coal, reluctantly acknowledging the...

Ford Motor Co. is experimenting with its own ride - sharing initiatives: the company last year started offering a network of shared cars in London to tap the growing market for on - demand driving.

Biosphere 2, a massive science facility tucked away in the desert foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains, was built originally for controversial space exploration experiments (such as whether astronauts could survive in a closed environment for two years).

The first year of America's experiment in electing a president who had no idea what he's doing went a lot better than I expected.

Our approach was and continues to be to take a long - term approach, modeled after the way we experimented and invested in a lot of things during the early years at Zappos (and made a lot of mistakes along the way), and then eventually scaled from almost no sales in 1999 to over $ 1 billion in gross merchandise sales in 2008 (9 years)-- and continuing to grow and scale afterwards.

I experimented with different workouts and diets throughout the years; most of them felt like going to the dentist.

Long story short, with 2009 under my belt as a bounded tentpole of a worse case real world experiment, I envisage a 1 - year bonded income equivalent tranche of emergency funds backed by a 2 - yr income equivalent tranche dividend fund (Vanguard's low - cost dividend growth, for ex.).

Year 2 — 2013 — fund / experiment — fire a lot of «bullets» (make a lot of investments) in a lot of different areas, and see which ones hit

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Consider this experiment, in which researchers looked at forecasts from the 22 Chief Market Strategists of the top banks on Wall Street, issued each January, predicting the closing price of the S&P 500 for that year.

If a one year experiment cuts working life from (say) 40 years to 39 years, the effects of a lifetime of basic income will be 40 times bigger than measured by a one year experiment.

You might need to run the experiment for three score and ten years to get some idea of the life - cycle effects.

Generally understood as a provision permitting companies to test or experiment with patented inventions prior to an FDA submission - such as a generic drug maker prior to submission of an ANDA - the provision's scope has expanded over the years.