Sentences with phrase «useful models rather»

He defines theology as reflection on the faith of the people of God — a second - order activity that provides useful models rather than the scientific deduction of intellectual truth from a mother lode of truth in scripture.

Not exact matches

The objective of these models would not be to provide a precise forecast of the future (an impossible task), but rather to capture enough of the behavior of the educational system to make useful qualitative predictions.

However, Takebe's liver bud has the advantage of being grown from iPS cells, rather than, for example, the primary human hepatocytes used in Bhatia's graft, which could make it useful in modelling rare diseases or examining the specific genetic backgrounds of the iPS cell donors.

If we really want to improve teaching, we should look to develop such models of effective evaluation rather than pursuing problematic schemes that mis - measure teachers, create disincentives for teaching high - need students, offer no useful feedback on how to improve teaching practice and risk driving some of the best educators out of the profession.

The Pilot's upright body makes it one of the most useful and versatile in this size class — versus models like the Toyota Highlander, Ford Explorer and Nissan Pathfinder — because its rather low cargo floor and flat - folding seats allow easy loading or combinations of people and gear.

He thinks they'd be a lot more useful if they were designed to work with the TFSA structure rather than the traditional RRSP model.

I typically do scenarios rather than simulation models because the simulations are too opaque, and I am skeptical that the historical relationships of the past are all that useful without careful handling.

If it is a useful goal to give the interested viewer a comfortable understanding that the physical model is logical, sensible, and correct / reliable, rather than to convey a firm everyday grasp of the precise details to most, then it seems to me that animating the mathematics could help toward that end.

Instead, we got a post by Tomas, who based on the comments by Jeff and the references in jstults» blog, seems rather ignorant on the research and literature in the field saying that «Hey, climate is chaotic and climate scientists are doing it wrong», and insinuating therefore that all current models aren't useful.

It is also likely that models will be more useful when the deviations are modest and / or gradual rather than sudden and extreme in amplitude.

In terms of longer timescales (decadal to century), once the focus becomes regional rather than global, historical and paleo data becomes more useful than global climate model simulations (no matter what type of «right - scaling» methods are attempted).

It might be very useful to run a computer model simulation in which the ENSO is constrained to follow its known historical behavior, so we can see how it might have affected actual history rather than a gereric «earth system.»

So ISk can be thought of as cultural resistance to that which threatens our identity; a useful model (per section 1 invoked by L2016) although it tends to make us think more about those with opposed rather than merely unaligned values.

So now, in effect you are just asking if it would not be more useful to use a very simple model rather than a full fledged GCM.

In the dendro area, models with pitiful R2 values of.15 or.2 are used as if they were predictive of anything (rather than merely providing some useful food for thought).

Aaron Street: Yeah, I guess rather than an analogy to cars I think maybe a more useful way of thinking about this is more like an insurance sales person or even more a financial advisor, wealth manager, where you are engaging them for the purpose of giving you advice and it turns out that their business model, though it involves giving advice, also includes things like selling you product and this isn't to denigrate law firm IT consultants, or tech consultants in general, it's just to make sure that people are aware of how their business model works and then to make sure that you're using them in a way that acknowledges that.