It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther . . . —F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby Further definition What’s the difference between further and farther? The definition of further does overlap with farther, but first let’s ...
Precision medicine refers to the tailoring of medical treatment to the individual characteristics of each patient. It does not literally mean the creation of drugs or medical devices that are unique to a patient, but rather the ability to classify individuals into subpopulations that differ in...
Dr. Adam Back:So I mean the miners’ fee so far is public because you don't know which miner will win the block. You know, in principle, you could encrypt it and (inaudible 00:11:11) and, you know, maybe disclose it to a miner later, but there would be some kind of technical ...
While this may alleviate stress in the short term, you can be sure that colleges will see those grades and take them into consideration. When in doubt, ask your guidance counselor whether your school uses a weighted or unweighted GPA or if there are any other unique factors you should know...
(1992:2 cited in Denzin and Lincoln 2003:11), and Flick (2007:ix–x), have recognized that the term is problematic: BActually, the term 'qualitative research' is confusing because it can mean different things to Qualitative Sociology (2019) 42:139–160 141 different people^ (Strauss and ...
In other words, there is a hierarchy, and reason is higher in the hierarchy than logic. Reason doesn’t have to involve logic, but it generally does. Meanwhile, pure logic doesn’t require much if any reasoning. So, with all that said, the point I was trying to make with the quotes...
I got to know Steve Jobs during a period when success eluded him. When he’d left Apple, and founded NeXT Computer, Inc. In 1989, a few friends and I started a software company, Lighthouse Design, that devoted itself to the NeXT platform. Whether any of us admitted it at the time,...
It’s not obvious how the capacity to visualize objects and to figure out numerical patterns suits one to answer questions that have eluded some of the best poets and philosophers. Clearly, intelligence encompasses more than a score on a test. Just what does it mean to be smart? How much ...
(It would therefore be natural to call a tropical semiring, although the precise axiomatization of this term does not appear to be fully standardized currently.) The ordered (log-)vector space structure of in particular opens up the ability to prove asymptotic implications by (log-)linear ...
In the field of psychology, there has long been a certain haziness surrounding the definition of creativity, an I-know-it-when-I-see-it attitude that has eluded a precise formulation. During our conversation, Mark Beeman, a cognitive neuroscientist at Northwestern University, told me that he us...