"We're double Sun," Wang cackles, adding contemptuously: "We can certainly outperform the Intel machines".
Though this claim is not entirely proved, empirical methods certainly outperform in this regard rationalist, or symbolic, methods.
They may very well be right: Blu-ray is certainly outperforming HD-DVD in terms of sales and support, and may be headed for the victory stand when it's all said and done.
An "intelligent" random walker, which can choose between a variety of behaviors according to the situation, or is capable of sensing the target (for instance through chemotaxis [14], vision or smell), will certainly outperform a random walker lacking these capabilities.
As we mentioned, the choice of classifier was based on empirical evidence suggesting that SVMs have superior performance in different high-dimensional "omics" datasets [19] [21] as well as in SNP data [4] and they certainly outperform unsupervised classification methods such as PCA [27], [28].
A metric that incorporates process measures (for example, elevation of the head of the bed, oral care, possibly alimentary tract decontamination) and severity-adjusted mortality rates will almost certainly outperform even severity-adjusted VAP rates.
Unless oil futures boom in 2010 and the financial sector gets its act together, growth certainly could outperform in a normalized economy my call, but not by much.
IBM certainly hasn't been timid about laying off its own employees, even as it has consistently outperformed earnings projections through quarter after quarter of the recession.
Certainly this is a short time period, especially when you recall that small-caps have dramatically outperformed large-caps for more than seven years now.
On Monday, Parcells outperformed.
