Sentences with phrase «theory than a theory»

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In theory, it would actually restore hearing rather than just amplify sounds.

One business for which this entire discussion is more than theory is Dymax of Wamego, Kansas.

«Its theory seems to be: Let's get lots of people to push for all sorts of things and the world will get better, it's kind of a shot gun approach rather than a targeted one.

The key to the Body by Science approach is to perform reps reaaallly slowly, keeping muscles under load for an extended period of time, and to keeping working until failure — which is even tougher in practice than it sounds in theory.

YouTube Kids, an app that is purportedly more well - policed than YouTube's own website, contains videos promoting debunked and frightening conspiracy theories.

For more than a year, Chuck Jeannes, CEO of Vancouver - based Goldcorp — the world's largest gold miner by market value — has posited his «peak gold supply» theory.

We need to have a better response for workers than, «In theory, you'll be okay.»

Last year, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets concluded that a single episode of The Big Bang Theory was more valuable to advertisers than an entire week's worth of viewing on YouTube.

There's no definitive answer as to why female founders raise less venture capital than male founders, but one of the main theories is the lack of female VCs.

The intuitive notion of harnessing the body's own immune system to fight the enemy within is more than a century old — and seemingly, each time researchers have seemed close to turning that theory into reality, a new stumbling block appears.

Or you could think of it as a version of the greater fool theory — you want to be sure there's at least one bigger sucker than you willing to buy your goodies when you finally get over your growing greed and decide that it's time to go.

First, the rationale behind this theory is that markets swoon more often than not during summer months.

My theory was simple: buy enough rental properties to produce more income than I needed to live, and I wouldn't need to wake up early.

«It makes sense to point to an increase in the number of travelers as one likely reason, but other than that, we have no theories.»

It was a far different experience than the one his father had 15 years ago — for what in theory was the same operation.

This notion was studied extensively by Eliyahu Goldratt, an Israeli physicist turned management guru who defined the Theory of Constraints, which can be summed up by the ancient adage that no chain is stronger than its weakest link.

Clayton Christensen, author of the «Jobs to be Done» theory of innovation, pointed out that of 20,000 products launched between 2012 and 2016, fewer than one percent thrived within two years.

The theory of the Hedonic Treadmill applies and when the negative feelings came forth, just as the theory suggests, it was felt times two because, as humans, we always feel loss more than we feel gain.

In essence and in theory, the human brain is capable of solving and computing problems much quicker than a computer.»

More than 60 % of the 117 CEOs agreed with the theory.

My theory is that it is more than just a fear of missing out.

Some gadgets work better in theory than practice.

Economists treat parental leave, both for women and men, as a simple cost - benefit problem: in theory, at least, if a woman's wage is greater than the cost of replacing her in the home, then she should spend her time working and hire someone else to care for her children.

We say in theory, because, despite companies such as IBM and Intel pursuing light - based computing, the transition is easier said than done.

There is strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats analysis (or SWOT thinking) and more than a fair share of theoretical or academic quadrants within which you can plug your business challenge and find a solution — in theory anyway.

Clearly China has bought into the nascent industry theory: that by generating demand for a sunrise industry, a country or region can come to dominate it, more than justifying the cost to ratepayers and taxpayers.

He's talks basketball, sure, but he's also a management guru who appeals to people who would rather read about Scottie Pippen than MBA theory.

I know that using flying books, misbehaving watches, and binary dust patterns are much more dramatic means of communication, but explaining a completely new unified theory of gravitational force would be much easier with equations and diagrams than with a seemingly random set of binary data.

Because, as the recent uproar in Europe shows, supporting austerity in theory is quite a different matter than staying behind it in practice.

The study, titled «Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk,» found that loss aversion «expresses the intuition that a loss of $ X is more aversive than a gain of $ X is attractive... for example, most respondents in a sample of undergraduates refused to stake $ 10 on the toss of a coin if they stood to win less than $ 30.»

Restless Bandit, named for a problem in decision theory, has aggregated more than 100 million job descriptions and 30 million resumes to train its algorithms, which are now being used by such clients as Gannett, Adidas, Applebee's, and comScore.

A major question is how plausible its economists» estimates are on key parts of its theory: how many of company A's customers would drop their cable subscription without Turner's networks, how many would switch to DirectTV (rather than just cutting the cord), and how profitable would the new customers be.

Rather than leading an automated race to the bottom, Boomerang's tools push retailers into the realm of game theory and psychology — anticipating what competitors» responses to their moves will be, and how shoppers will perceive them.

Their Game Design degree, like many other schools that offer such a degree, focuses on visual communication and game design theories, rather than the culture and businesses behind gaming environments.

Perhaps my interpretation is nothing more than a harebrained fan theory, or maybe there is something deeper to the stanza.

Quantum theory explains the behaviour of particles and energy at extremely small scales — smaller than atoms that were once considered the building block of all matter.

Meanwhile on the TV side, the site TorrentFreak found that for the third year running, HBO's Game of Thrones is the most pirated program of 2014 with more than 8 million downloads from BitTorrent, followed by AMC's The Walking Dead (4.2 million), and CBS's The Big Bang Theory (3.6 million), the consistently most watched cable drama and network comedy.

HBO's «Westworld» is a series unlike any other, the first season of which provided fan - theory - enthusiasts with more fodder than any single person could digest.

Testing hypotheses and trading arguments about theories often works better than planting a flag and asking team members to try to topple you from opinion mountain.

But Gundlach's theory that tech stocks lost along with Hillary Clinton on election day is somewhat more simplistic than that.

And the pros on Wall Street are unleashing every new age theory than can conjure to undermine its validity.

Valdis Krebs of Orgnet explains that «Schools are still stuck on teaching 20th century math for building things rather than 21st century math for understanding things» and suggests that curriculums focus less on the mathematics of engineering (e.g. algebra and calculus) and more on the mathematics of patterns (e.g. set theory, graph theory, etc.).

The course at George Brown demands more than 250 hours in the classroom and covers everything from winemaking theory to rules for food pairing to the proper technique for opening Champagne (whisper, yes; pop, no).

Many technology companies like Facebook (fb) and Google have similar programs under the theory that it's better to be hacked by a trusted party as a preventative measure rather than being unknowingly breached by criminals.

In theory, this makes for more powerful computers that can work faster than what's generally used today.

The theory is that giving people money would be more efficient and allow them more autonomy than the current system.

Value per user If a bigger audience means greater opportunity for growth and monetization, then in theory, Facebook's (NASDAQ: FB) user base should be worth more than either Google's (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google + or Twitter.

You can bet that Gen Y would much rather have a professional job linked to their major than settle for a job at the mall that, in theory, a teenager could do.

In theory, each of these ideas would be best tested across more than just one building or street, and all of them would be more easily implemented together.

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