What's the difference between rudder and rudderless?
Rudder
Definition:
(n.) A riddle or sieve.
(n.) The mechanical appliance by means of which a vessel is guided or steered when in motion. It is a broad and flat blade made of wood or iron, with a long shank, and is fastened in an upright position, usually by one edge, to the sternpost of the vessel in such a way that it can be turned from side to side in the water by means of a tiller, wheel, or other attachment.
(n.) Fig.: That which resembles a rudder as a guide or governor; that which guides or governs the course.
Example Sentences:
(1) But that is informed consent – which users can’t see, but I’m putting in quotes.” Asked by the host, Alex Goldman, if OKCupid had ever considered bringing in an ethicist to vet the experiments, Rudder said: “To wring his hands all day for a $100,000 a year?”.
(2) Christian Rudder accepted blame for stoking the fires around the topic, admitting that his initial blogpost was “sensationally written”, but stood by the argument that experimenting on users was “just part of the scientific method”.
(3) Lee was nervous about attempting to land using "stick and rudder" flying skills.
(4) Speaking to On The Media’s TLDR podcast , Rudder said that there was no consideration given to letting users opt-in to experimentation, because “once people know that they’re being studied along a particular axis, inevitably they’re gonna act differently.
(5) OkCupid doesn’t really know what it’s doing,” writes Rudder in the most recent blogpost .
(6) The final experiment Rudder describes has proved more controversial, however.
(7) "If they had wanted to stop us they could have attacked our rudder and propeller, instead they preferred to send masked commando soldiers to attack us.
(8) It uses pallets dropped by parachute and guided by GPS navigation and a rudder.
(9) Perlmutter thanks Bernanke for his steady hand on the economic rudder.
(10) Experiments are how you sort all this out.” Rudder refers specifically to Facebook’s troubles over its experimentation, when the firm tweaked the content of users’ news feeds in an effort to discover what their reaction was to a higher proportion of positive or negative posts.
(11) That’s how websites work.” The first experiment Rudder describes occurred in January 2013.
(12) "Maybe this time they'll attack the rudder and the propeller, we'll see."
(13) However, abdominal ruddering did not contribute to yaw turns.
(14) And we all know what Silicon Valley feels about ethicists : they know what’s ethical and what’s not already, so why hire one “to wring his hands for $100,000 a year”, as OKCupid’s Christian Rudder put it.
(15) With failing engines, ruptured fuel tanks and a damaged rudder, Air Force One finally lunges into the Caspian Sea and breaks apart; just in time, Ford is safely yanked on to a hovering Hercules turboprop, which, as its pilot beamingly announces while the theme appropriated by Trump blares out one last time, at once becomes Air Force One.
(16) 21st CENTURY AIRSHIPS The Zeppelin flies again How it works: Rigid or semi-rigid compartment lifted and held aloft by lighter-than-air gas (hydrogen, helium, hot air), driven usually by gas-burning engine, steered by rudder State of play: Technology with a (mixed) history, once considered defunct, now enjoying major R&D revival, various prototypes in development, first actual passenger-carrying flights underway Latest action: Modern small airships developed by a German company (Zeppelin NT, no less) and others offer sightseeing tours for small groups in London, San Francisco, Switzerland and Tokyo – weather permitting Downsides: Image overshadowed by the Hindenburg fire and other 1930s disasters; relatively slow speed, especially into headwind; stability issues, unusable in bad weather; still burns fuel Likeliest prospects: Advertising and tourism (already demonstrated), observation, heavy lifting, eg for military equipment, short-haul travel competing with ferries Long-term vision?
(17) The rating typically proves accurate, but, Rudder writes, “in the back of our minds, there’s always been the possibility: maybe it works just because we tell people it does.
(18) And that’s the kind of, again the kind of conversation that I think Facebook on accident, and OkCupid on purpose, is trying to kickstart.” Rudder had weighed into the conversation with a blogpost in late July detailing the ways in which OKCupid performed experiments to assess the value of its service.
(19) For now though, policy makers are holding the rudder steady, hoping for the storm to blow over.
(20) The crews of Sea Shepherd ships also drag metal-reinforced ropes in the water to damage propellers and rudders, launch flares with hooks, and point high-powered lasers at the whalers to annoy crew members.
Rudderless
Definition:
(a.) Without a rudder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Senior sources said on Monday that the vacancies had left it in effect rudderless, and unable to introduce any significant reforms.
(2) This makes an effectively rudderless Athens in the run-up to elections on 25 January more daunting for the “troika” of creditors at the EU, ECB and IMF.
(3) Newcastle may have spent more than £80m in the last two transfer windows but they have lost their last six away matches in the Premier League: rudderless and bereft of confidence, Monday can surely only go one way.
(4) Democracy scorecard (scale of 1 to 10): 1 Libya The facts: the overthrow and death of Muammar Gaddafi has been followed not by a new democratic dawn but by continuing political instability exacerbated by the weak performance of a rudderless National Transitional Council, feuding between heavily armed rival militias, continuing human rights abuses, allegations of fraud, and a growing east-west divide.
(5) NBC wanted to breathe some new life into it and wanted to switch directions on the show – and we just became kind of rudderless at some point.
(6) The meetings of political leaders in the framework of exploratory mandates, is among other things, aimed at reducing political tension.” Indicative of the fevered mood, the former prime minister Antonis Samaras accused his successor of acting like a “drunk captain of a rudderless ship.” The ballot, called barely eight months after Tsipras stormed to power promising to fight austerity mandated by Greece’s EU partners, would be catastrophic, Samaras predicted.
(7) I had a glimpse this week, sitting on The People's Inquiry for London's NHS looking at the capital's rudderless attempt to rationalise services.
(8) It’s our job to put in place the best protection we can to make sure that when the next financial crash does come – and we can be sure eventually there will be one – that we are as prepared as we possibly can be for it.” McDonnell told Today: “We now have a body that is almost rudderless.
(9) It is not explicitly political … but there is great discontent at the direction of travel of the country and it feels rudderless,” said Ben Shepherd, an expert in Congo at London’s Chatham House thinktank.
(10) He accused Clinton and Barack Obama of “reckless, rudderless and aimless” behaviour in the Middle East and said he would place American security above all else, replacing “chaos with peace”.
(11) She has since gone on to make Rudderless , the forthcoming directorial debut of actor William H Macy , but says: "I know they wouldn't have even have looked at me if it weren't for Spring Breakers .
(12) His sudden departure, it is argued, left the party rudderless and vulnerable to an untested electoral system that allowed tens of thousands of people outside the party to vote for Corbyn.
(13) The rudderless retreat of the Labour years is over.
(14) "Last summer, officers who faced orchestrated and frenzied loyalist attacks were left feeling isolated and rudderless.
(15) Miliband is becalmed while the Tories are rudderless.
(16) Without a powerful commitment to goals and values, governments are rudderless and ineffective'.
(17) This should be combined with an interim appointment to avoid leaving the regional arts council "rudderless" in the meantime, suggested Jacobs.
(18) But what kind of message does it send to the world when we have such a rudderless bunch of idiots in government?"
(19) Clive Black, retail analyst at City stockbroker Shore Capital, welcomed the chairman’s departure because “a powerhouse of international retailing has been reduced to a rudderless corporate entity” on his watch.
(20) The shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, said he was deeply worried that the FCA had been influenced by the chancellor, George Osborne , to take a softer approach to the banks and was now “almost rudderless”.