Sentences with phrase «tested against the past»

The revised estimate for sea - level rise comes from including new processes in the 3 - dimensional ice sheet model, and testing them against past episodes of high sea - levels and ice retreat.

We can't wait for 30 years to see if a model is any good or not; models are tested against the past, against what we know happened.

Likewise, shouldn't someone have been in a position to assess the state of climate models and justify if these were ready to be used to make a prediction, rather than simply be tested against past data?

We can't wait for 30 years to see if a model is any good or not; models are tested against the past, against what we know happened.

Not exact matches

The rogue state has been on a growing standoff with the world, in particular with the United States for the past months, after proceeding with nuclear tests and being vocal against Washington.

In the West, Arizona will be tested by No. 9 Oklahoma State in the second round, but the Wildcats should have enough athletes to defend the perimeter against the Cowboys to get past them.

Their first test will come on the road against a Bulls team that has won four of their past five games, including impressive victories over the Eastern Conference's top three teams (Boston, Cleveland, and Toronto).

Arsenal have had moderate success in their new formation, winning four of their five past five league matches and reaching the FA Cup final with a gutsy fightback against City, and they passed another test here, recovering when the injured Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain had to be replaced by Héctor Bellerín before half - time.

In the past two weeks, hundreds of thousands of parents across the state staged a parental uprising against the Common Core curriculum and culture of over-utilization of high stakes standardized tests and exercised their right to refuse to have their children take the grades 3 - 8 ELA and math exams.

This is a tried - and - tested formula that has worked wonders for the party in the past but the odds are stacked against it this time.

The charter school network, which routinely outperforms district schools on standardized tests and maintains strict disciplinary policies, has faced off against similar criticisms in the past.

For the past three years, Finch says he and the minority Republicans in the state Assembly have voted against tying teacher evaluations to how well students do on the state standardized tests.

Testing on chimps has been a huge boon for humans in the past, contributing to the discovery of hepatitis C and vaccines against polio and hepatitis B, among other advances.

During the past two years, activists have conducted a crusade against Huntingdon Life Sciences, a laboratory that tests drugs and other products on animals.

If the vaccine also proves safe and effective in subsequent tests in humans, it might be possible to mount a containment strategy similar to that used in the past against smallpox.

After developing the computational algorithms that predicted the historical order in which the senses of a word have emerged, the team tested these predictions against records of English over the past millennium using the Historical Thesaurus of English, a large database in which each of a word's many senses is marked for its date of emergence into the language.

In order to understand how El Niño responds to various climate forces, researchers test model predictions of past El Niño changes against actual records of past ENSO activity.

For the past year, the DNP has tested eagles» prowess against flying drones, collaborating with a private company called Guard from Above that trains raptors to snatch drones out of the sky.

The first thread integrates the geological record of past environmental changes to quantify our understanding of the past and provide data sets against which to test the models used to make projections of future global change.

In the past four years, the Houston school system has also been giving the Stanford 9 test to students in order to benchmark the achievement of its students against students nationwide.

Duncan said he is committed to working with the GOP on a rewrite of the 14 - year - old law, itself a reauthorization of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and gave a nod to the growing national movement against standardized testing, urging Congress to set limits on how much time students should spend on state and district standardized testing — and to report to parents if they blow past those limits.

Over the past several years, many parents and students have begun to launch movements against overtesting and the high stakes testing movement.

Negotiators on the platform committee met this past weekend in Orlando (you can watch here, starting at the 31st minute) and changed an earlier draft of the K - 12 education plank (one of five education sections) that had drawn criticism from activists who wanted the Democrats to take a stand against some of the key elements of corporate reform, including on charter schools and test - based accountability.

Researchers issued a strong caution against using what they called the «modest improvement» in test scores over the past four years as evidence that mayoral control had improved learning in District schools.

Among the biggest shifts this year, Elia said, is that student test scores will not count against teachers in their annual performance reviews as they have in the past.

In the past two weeks, hundreds of thousands of parents across the state staged a parental uprising against the Common Core curriculum and culture of over-utilization of high stakes standardized tests and exercised their right to refuse to have their children take the grades 3 - 8 ELA and math exams.

We tested an AWD Jeep Cherokee with standard Firestone AWD tires against a Toyota Highlander (2007) with Bridgestone Blizzak winter tires this past winter in snow and were shocked by how well the Cherokee did.

The wife and I test drove one against a Range Rover HSE Sport just this past weekend.

We decided to pit a popular, but affordable five - door hatchback against an upmarket, but still popular hatch, just to test a theory — that consumers needn't walk past affordable cars anymore.

However, those records are typically derived by «back - testing» the program against past data.

With this study we have set out to confound our trend following system by testing it against 3 of the most difficult market periods of the past 140 years:

Use these battles to test decks and strategies, and to play against your own decks to find flaws that may have slipped past your notice in the building phase.

Jensen's paintings of the past half decade have become larger, and his paint — previously characterised by parsimony or absence — thicker, as if he were testing his language against the demands of another context, and from within rather than vicariously or remotely.

There is mostly no actual past temperature series to compare, and so the techniques you cite are of little relevance — what model is Frank supposed to do a chi - square test against?

A valid coding frame is developed based on past research and further refined by pilot testing against a diversity of example articles.

It is true that the model replications of past conditions are not perfect, which is to be expected given the chaotic variations of the climate about its now - changing baseline; however, the ensemble of model simulations has been tested against previously observed perturbations to climate (such as the response to volcanic eruptions) and overall they correspond well with what is observed to occur.

A: Climate models are tested against what we know happened in the past and they do accurately map past climate changes.

Once people see the record of the past as an estimate or more precisely as a PREDICTION of what should have been recorded, then the next step is clear: create your estimates (predictions) with a reduced dataset, and then test your prediction against held out data.

My past life involved helping to build, operate and test the most sophisticated models we had for predicting the performance of imaginary aircraft fighting against imaginary threats in an imaginary world.

Regrettably we never see the test of the skill of the Hansen model against the latter (it clearly has greater skill than either Hansen or the prediction based on the latest observation) because in the past this model hasn't been a good predictor of the future.

We've seen a few copycats pop up over the past couple of days, but now we finally have the performance test we've been waiting for as the iPhone 7 is pitted against Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 in a real - world speed test.

Although ethereum's march past $ 1,000 occurred against a backdrop of a wider altcoin surge, at least a portion of its movement is likely tied to the announcement that the Casper consensus algorithm had entered alpha testing, complete with a public testnet, paving the way for the network to transition from proof - of - work (PoW) to proof - of - stake (PoS).

Key Points Bitcoin cash price declined this past week and tested the $ 600 support zone against the US Dollar.