Mr. Beirne's switch, in 1997, to Benchmark, notable for its early investment in eBay, the online auction company, was not as big a jump as it might have seemed.
His parents were among the last generation born into Southern slavery, and his own birth in 1883 was notable for another benchmark: At 16 pounds, he was the biggest baby ever recorded in North Carolina.
Also notable are the benchmarks on which progress stalled after earlier improvements.
Nevertheless, there is a notable lack of suitable benchmark problems on which to assess and compare competing analysis and design methods.
Another notable difference between the benchmarks is that the count vector forms of the four circular fingerprints with diameter 4 and 6 improved the results for the single-assay benchmark, but were uniformly worse for the multi-assay and Riniker Landrum benchmarks (except for a single instance where the value not was significantly different).
Compared to the multi-assay benchmark, the most notable difference in the results depicted in Fig. 11a is that the atom pair fingerprints, AP and HashAP, move from being average and poor (respectively) to being the best performers.
Not to overstate it, but if these reports are in fact true, it's a notable vote of confidence from Benchmark and shows what they think of his track record.
When sending in their data, it was notable that they asked for benchmark results.
The company had previously raised $3 million from Silicon Valley notables including Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz Andreessen Horowitz Kevin Compton and Doug Mackenziezie (KPCB); Dave Beirne and Bruce Dunlevie (Benchmark); Jeff Jordan (OpenTable) and Mike Volpi (Index Ventures).
The optimization procedure was aimed at maximizing the device thermo-hydraulic performance and compactness index, benchmarked with respect to other notable designs so as to highlight the current design soundness.
The difference is notable, though not as clear-cut as the Benchmark tests suggest.
