#measure

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power. ↗

— J. G. Holland

#except #measure #never #person #power

One important measurement issue concerns the fat tails problem that I mentioned earlier. VAR is concerned with extreme outcomes. If the tails of the probability distributions we are using are too thin, our VAR measures are likely to be too low. ↗

— John Hull

#concerns #earlier #extreme #fat #i

There are challenges in terms of the measurement of VAR for what are known as nonlinear derivatives, where things like gamma and vega are important dimensions of the risk. ↗

— John Hull

#derivatives #dimensions #gamma #important #known

One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief. ↗

— Gwen Ifill

#agree #debt #everybody #measure #needs

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#atheist #deny #faith #great #greater

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#calculation #common #common sense #composed #experience

Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge. ↗

— Carl D. Anderson

#both #charge #counting #electric #great

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. ↗

— Richard Bach

#conscience #honesty #listen #measure #selfishness

Skin is made in large measure of a protein called collagen. ↗

— Michael Behe

#collagen #large #large measure #made #measure

That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#because #does #ecological #financial #financial systems