Yammer tweaks the question, asking, "What are you working on?" The goal, said its chief executive, David Sacks, is to make offices more productive.
"What unique perspective does a minority student bring to a physics class?" he wondered, but later tweaked the question: "I'm just wondering what the benefits of diversity are in that situation".
With simple tweaks, the same questions can be used to engage people, rather than discourage them.
At first, adapting his microRNA project to make it more translational meant puzzling through the question of how to tweak the flu virus's genetic code.
The question, for the creators, is when to tweak and when to leave be, a decision made by interpreting tiny fluctuations in the response of an audience.
$40 spent, a few tweaks, and we ended up with this:" There is also the question of scale.
The company is focused not only on applicants but also on employers, who pay to list jobs and can customize interview questions and otherwise tweak the platform to suit their needs.
In designing its model, the nation's second-largest school district has wrestled with myriad questions: whether to tweak the model to account for the students in a class who don't speak fluent English, for example, or for those who moved from one school to another during the academic year.
My question is, can you tweak the "read to me" so that it highlights each word as it is read, to make it easier to follow along?
But such measures tweak the system rather than fixing it.The first big question is whether to change the law.
A new calendar was rolled out which will tweak the Republican campaign a bit (if, that is, all the states follow it -- which remains a big unanswered question).
