Sentences with phrase «run by math»

Renaissance Technologies, run by math and physics PHDs, has historical returns in excess of 30 %.

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«Podcast rates are hard to come by, but I'm aware of a few podcasts a quarter the size that are earning somewhere in excess of $ 10,000 / episode; presuming proportionally similar rates (which may be unrealistic, given the broader audience) The Bill Simmons Podcast, which publishes three times a week, could be on a > $ 6 million run rate, which, per my envelope math in the footnote above, could nearly pay for a 50 - person staff a la Grantland.»

«One of the most interesting things we've noticed over the last decade is the ability of math and machines to replace human judgment, particularly expert judgment,» Rabois said on Founder Calls, a new podcast run by Box CEO Aaron Levie.

However, I recently ran across a March 6, 2017 article by Wade D. Pfau warning that DALBAR's math is wrong.

When schools are run by government bureaucrats... the details of 9th - Grade biology classes, the propriety of patriotic rituals & religious observances, speech / dress / behavior codes... and every other possible issue — from how to teach math & reading... to vending machine contents & cafeteria menus — becomes a POLITICAL issue.

For 15 years, one of the biggest suppliers of alternatively certified science and math teachers to the Chicago Public Schools system was a program called NU - TEACH, run by Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

The math is simple: The number of replies divided by the number of times sent for each message gives you your response rate, which you can track on a running basis in a spreadsheet.

Having run into trouble at Princeton for his ties to online gambling and now in debt for thousands, math whiz Richie Furst (Timberlake)-- whose once - promising Wall Street career was killed by the»08 economic crisis — discovers he's been cheated out of his money by an offshore gambling site.

Making sure students are entered into maths competitions, like those run by UKMT, and giving them time to practice and prepare for them.»

The results in all three schools run by the high - performing Bedfordshire - based Trust which have Year 6 pupils are well above the national average in writing (grammar, punctuation and spelling), in reading and in maths.

These tasks are designed to improve students» mathematical reasoning and were created as part of the Mathematical Reasoning at GCSE project run by Cambridge Maths Hub.

Launching on Wednesday 20 to Friday 22 June, KidZania — the indoor city run by kids — will be hosting an action - packed STEM Fair, promoting Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths skills and careers through curriculum - based activities to bring the school syllabus to life.

SHINE — Let Teachers SHINE 2015 Run in partnership by the Shine Trust and TES, Let Teachers SHINE is a national competition that aims to find some of the country's most innovative teachers with brilliant ideas to raise attainment in English, maths or science among disadvantaged students.

The restaurant in Hampton Hill, Richmond, is run by children aged eight and nine years old and aims to help them improve their maths, science and cooking skills.

The field tests of the assessments produced by the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium were intended to be a practice run for the full rollout this spring, when all of California's 3rd - through 8th - grade students, along with 11th graders, will take the assessments in both English language arts and math for the first time.

The study, commissioned by the NAEP Validity Studies Panel, an independent panel run by the American Institutes for Research, was published in advance of this week's release of the 2015 NAEP reading and math scores for 4th and 8th grade students.

We find some evidence that the Focus designation led to small, short - run reductions in the within - school math achievement gap — but that these reductions were driven by stagnant performance of lower - achieving students alongside declines in the performance of their higher - achieving peers.

As the reporters write, «The new vision, championed by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, who used to run Chicago's schools, calls for a laser focus on standardized tests meant to gauge student skills in reading, writing and math.

At Clara E. Westropp Fundamental Elementary School in Cleveland, for example, a family resource center run by parent and community volunteers encourages students to borrow materials to take home to improve their literacy and math skills.

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Also, by our math, the car costs more to run on electricity, so it didn't break out hearts to be driving in hybrid mode for much of the week.

A fun fiction read - aloud about kids who take on the running of a local apple orchard is The Year Money Grew on Trees by Aaron Hawkins, which incorporates some real - world math problems.

With hard - copy runs you have to commit to a certain number so the math is set, but with digital copies perhaps it will have to be by the issue.

Do the math, and see how much you'll save in the long run by refinancing.

However, I recently ran across a March 6, 2017 article by Wade D. Pfau warning that DALBAR's math is wrong.

If you're in a position to run quite a bit of money through credit cards - and - you live in a town that's either captive to or well - served by Delta, it might be worth doing the math to see whether it's worth it.

Pressure stability of the first generation engines was tested by detonating four sticks of dynamite in the combustion chamber while the engine was running at full throttle — but it was (mostly) engineering, based on extensive understanding of the underlying science (physics, chemistry) and math.

What began as an epic quest to find a solution to running a whole country without oil, by developing an ambitious electric car battery swapping scheme, ended up becoming a cautionary tale of spectacular failure which was fueled by creative math and the willful ignorance of its CEO.

The office's math: Halting federal funds to Planned Parenthood would shrink spending by $ 520 million in the short run — but, over the first decade, it would cost taxpayers an additional $ 650 million.

Ron James, who entertained us at the opening ceremonies, might have had Mr. Dean in mind when he said, «The world is being run by people who told on me in math class!»