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A less confrontational vision of scientific discovery is proposed by Adloff He suggests that hindsight criticism of the early publications should be mitigated by the nascent state of radiochemistry, highlights the prudence of Debierne's claims in the original papers, and notes that nobody can contend that Debierne's substance did not contain actinium.
In our current understanding of physics, the Bohr model is called a semi-classical model because of its quantization of angular momentum, not primarily because of its relationship with electron wavelength, which appeared in hindsight a dozen years after the Bohr model was proposed.
With hindsight, the machine lacked the RAM ( a typical program would need to fit in only around 20 kB once display memory is subtracted ) and processing power to take on the prevailing Sinclair ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64.
According to Thomas Bushnell, the initial Hurd architect, their early plan was to adapt the 4. 4BSD-Lite kernel and, in hindsight, " It is now perfectly obvious to me that this would have succeeded splendidly and the world would be a very different place today ".
To read it now, with the hindsight of another age, is to feel premonitions of the critical achievement to come ...
This is also known as the " extraordinary in hindsight " rule.
As the inventor of the prototype of what is now called Boolean logic, which became the basis of the modern digital computer, Boole is regarded in hindsight as a founder of the field of computer science.
Having this hindsight, some ten years later, CEPT chose eight bits for framing the European E1, although as feared the extra channel is sometimes appropriated for voice or data.
This was written years after the campaign and is affected by hindsight, both of the results of the battle and of the postbellum criticism of the Lost Cause authors.
In hindsight, there is no need to quibble, since this theory is only the leading semiclassical approximation.
In hindsight, the Lindros trade is seen as one of the most one-sided deals in sports history, and a major foundation for the Nordiques / Avalanche franchise successes over the next decade.
The discontent reported by the chronicles may have been the result of hindsight, however ; there is no sign that the established nobility objected to the ennoblement of Gaveston at the time.
This criticism must be viewed in the context that it is provided in hindsight.
At the time it was seen as a continuing success story, but with hindsight it is considered that during Sir Richard Greenbury's tenure as head of the company, profit margins were pushed to untenable levels, and the loyalty of its customers was seriously eroded.
He points out that it is an important component of open-mindedness as it allows one to hold different perspectives at the same time and therefore avoid hindsight bias.
Whilst with hindsight it is clear that Hodeir had accurately perceived the exceptional features of Barraqué's music — notably its searing Romantic intensity, which distinguishes it from the contemporaneous works of Boulez or Stockhausen.
Generally, a learning algorithm is said to overfit relative to a simpler one if it is more accurate in fitting known data ( hindsight ) but less accurate in predicting new data ( foresight ).
Although his account of the meeting is weighted with hindsight ( when captured he sought to distance himself from the affair ), he asked Catesby what support for the Catholics would be forthcoming once the king had been killed.
In hindsight, the operation is also credited with defining the Western boundary of Soviet communism ; had the Allies not advanced, it is conceivable that the Soviet Union would have controlled more of Europe than it eventually did.
Allowing for circumstances under which a person must act urgently is important to preventing hindsight bias from affecting the trier of fact.

hindsight and possible
With historical hindsight it is possible to see that Taylor was essentially inventing something like the highest-level programming for industrial process control and numerical control in the absence of any machines that could carry it out.
Perhaps it is only possible with hindsight to see the overall cultural zeitgeist that ( indirectly ) connected the budding Fordism to the rest of the efficiency movement during the decade of 1905-1915.
When remembered this image is reactivated, and the ability for editing and alteration of the memory is possible which takes place in hindsight bias when new and correct information is presented.
Since we of course know this only by hindsight we can understand that Petermann was not daunted in his endeavors to reach the North Pole and demonstrate a possible passage to the Pacific Ocean, even when this expedition had partly failed.
In 1918 the British Admiralty analysed shipping losses, but was unable to draw clear conclusions ; with hindsight, too many factors ( choice of colour scheme ; size and speed of ships ; tactics used ) had been varied for it to be possible to determine which factors were significant or which schemes worked best.
There were numerous possible solutions and with hindsight the game might be regarded as one of the first examples of ' emergent gaming '.
With the benefit of modern hindsight it is possible that, even though the full US experience would not be replicated, " gauge corner cracking " ( the formation of microscopic cracks in the rails that was the primary cause of the Hatfield rail crash of 17 October 2000 in the UK ) could have been a possibility if the schedules had been adhered to.

hindsight and make
He established a fiercely independent Commissioner's Office that would go on to often make both players and owners miserable with decisions that have been seen in hindsight as being in the best interests of the game.
Part of their argument was that the Union troops were completely demoralized by their defeat earlier in the day, but Ewell's men were also disorganized, and decisions such as they were propounding are far simpler to make in hindsight than in the heat of battle and fog of war.
They did not make such a mistake even though they were under severe strain and did not have the benefit of hindsight as in the above exercise.
We do this with the benefit of hindsight, to make things quicker.
In hindsight however, especially for nostalgia fans, many of its kitschy aspects make it fascinating, and film historians consider it an interesting record of the times in which it takes place.
Evolution largely hoards hindsight, as variations unwittingly make " predictions " about structures and functions which could successfully cope with the future, and participate in an audition which culls the also-rans, leaving winners for the next generation.
Much of the humor of the series comes from Hank as narrator shamelessly attempting to make himself seem more competent with hindsight than he really was, but the reader is rarely fooled.
" In hindsight, it would perhaps have been preferable to leave the voter to make up his own mind ," Madraiwiwi said.

hindsight and better
Wild also concluded there were internal factors that in hindsight could be seen to have hampered the project: he believed the chosen corporate structure of a joint venture lacked the governance strengths and focus of a company ; too many project delays had occurred ; and it would have been better to buy TGVs " off the shelf " than to proceed, as they had, with a train that was to be designed and built in Australia.
At this event, Pounder helped to launch what became an intractable, international health crisis over the measles, mumps and rubella, MMR vaccine, stating with regard to the three-in-one inoculation: " In hindsight it may be a better solution to give the vaccinations separately.
With hindsight, Douaumont was much better prepared to withstand the heaviest bombardments than the Belgian forts that had been crushed by the 420mm Krupp Gamma howitzers in 1914.

hindsight and true
In hindsight, the disunion of 1929-30 and the effects of Un Cadavre had very little negative impact upon Surrealism as Breton saw it, since core figures such as Aragon, Crevel, Dalí and Buñuel remained true the idea of group action, at least for the time being.
The person must recall the original information with hindsight bias and misinformation effect while a person that has a false autobiographical memory is expected to remember the incorrect information as a true memory.
With hindsight, and considering uninsured banks ' precariousness, this appears to have been true.

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