Future Perfect

Davis SM. Future Perfect. Reading, MA Addison-Wesley, 1987. 

But physicalism has come under severe criticism and is now seen as suffering from two major drawbacks. In order to defend the claim that mental or chemical properties are determined by the physical, when this cannot yet be achieved by recourse to current physics, the defendant of physicalism appeals to a future perfected physics. However this claim appears to be vacuous because we may never reach the point of a perfected physics. 

It is first called Ablution of Water, because the matter, in comparison with its future perfection, is still moist and cold. 

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Davis, S. M., Future Perfect, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1987. 

Mass customization was first coined by Stan Davis in Future Perfect (Davis 1987) and later... 

Another thing or two to remember when distilling is to wrap aluminum foil around the reaction flask. This will help stop heat loss so that things will distill quicker and at lower temperatures. Sometimes, if one is going to distill a solution that is just solvent and product, all that pure solvent that comes over first is perfectly reusable and should be saved for future extractions. 

A researcher studying a specialty chemical business or a specific specialty chemical company should pay particular attention to these nidiments innovative talents, service faciUties and performance, marketing abiUties, and responsiveness to customer needs. Of these, the last may be the key criterion in most cases. A company that frequendy is first with the solution to a customer s problem (even if the solution is sometimes less than perfect) usually holds the customer and a dominant market share against future competition. 

All the authors and their editor know that this work is not perfect. But we also know that this handbook had to be written. Our greatest hope is that we have given those that will follow us, in future editions of this handbook, sound basic material to work with. 

Aluminium-sprayed coatings on steel have been exposed for over 20 years in very severe atmospheric conditions (such as those at Congella near Durban) and have given perfect protection the only result of long exposure has been the appearance of a few small nodules of aluminium oxide which appear to have little or no significance as sites of future corrosion. 

WiUiam R. Newman, Promethean Ambitions. Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Future (2004), Chicago University of Chicago Press, 73. 

The potential of morphologically controlled metal nanoparticles should be expanded by further improvement of their preparation method. It is highly required to develop preparation methods to obtain a better morphological control, i.e., perfect facet control on the particles of optional size. Better morphological control of metal nanoparticles is expected to be achieved in near future and the obtained metal particles will find new exciting applications, not only in catalysis but also in other technically important fields. 

We chose the number of PCs in the PCR calibration model rather casually. It is, however, one of the most consequential decisions to be made during modelling. One should take great care not to overfit, i.e. using too many PCs. When all PCs are used one can fit exactly all measured X-contents in the calibration set. Perfect as it may look, it is disastrous for future prediction. All random errors in the calibration set and all interfering phenomena have been described exactly for the calibration set and have become part of the predictive model. However, all one needs is a description of the systematic variation in the calibration data, not the... 

Both the determination of the effective number of scatterers and the associated rescaling of variances are still in progress within BUSTER. The value of n at the moment is fixed by the user at input preparation time for charge density studies, variances are also kept fixed and set equal to the observational c2. An approximate optimal n can be determined empirically by means of several test runs on synthetic data, monitoring the rms deviation of the final density from the reference model density (see below). This is of course only feasible when using synthetic data, for which the perfect answer is known. We plan to overcome this limitation in the future by means of cross-validation methods. 

The next case to be considered is the ideal continuous stirred tank reactor. The key to the derivation of the F(t) curve for this type of reactor is the realization that the assumption of perfect mixing implies that upon entry in the reactor an element of volume can instantaneously appear in any portion of the reactor. Therefore its past or its future history cannot be derived from its position. Furthermore, the prob-... 

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