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National Academy of Sciences has gone on the record, saying that “the Federal government should not rely on polygraph examinations for screening prospective or current employees to identify spies or other national security risks because the test results are too inaccurate.” With as little as fifteen minutes of training, people have been able to
... See moreEric Barker • Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong
First, combine interventions. For flu shots, we knew trust was important to address and faith-based efforts had a lot of support. We also knew that physical availability and convenience were important to reducing inhibiting pressures around physiological and actual costs. So we took the intervention of faith-based support and the intervention of a
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Firms that sought growth by entering small, emerging markets logged twenty times the revenues of the firms pursuing growth in larger markets.
Clayton M. Christensen • The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change)
Another factor to be considered in the face of a paradoxical response is the time frame of the memory or image involved. If a test subject is holding in mind a given person and their relationship, the response will depend on the period the memory or image represents. If he is remembering his relationship with his brother from childhood, he may have
... See moreDavid R. Hawkins • Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior
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The choice The world divides in two. On one side: utility, stripped of mystery, measured in speed, cost, and precision. Frictionless. On the other: meaning, full of ambiguity, judged by story, risk, and personal intent. AI is conquering the first. It should. Let it drive the bus, draft the forms, color-correct the photo, and sand some of the
... See moreevery.to • In the AI Age, Making Things Difficult Is Deliberate
Second Law of thermodynamics . Keep on finding patterns for life.
So what we do is recognize that the levels of risk premium, growth expectations, and inflation expectations are unknowable AND more importantly if known they are not useful to begin with as they are coincident valuation metrics. None of these factors are predictive of future returns.
kaustubhs • Risk_Premium_201
The four key Electric Stack technologies were invented at various points between the 1960s and 1990s in America, Japan, and the UK, and reached critical maturity around the same time in the 1990s.
Then, in many cases, we sold the future. GM sold its neo magnets division, Magnequench, to China for $70 million. A123 Systems, which invented the Lithium
... See morePacky McCormick • The Electric Slide
To solve the puzzle, you must first have a sense of the picture as a whole.
Maria Konnikova • Mastermind
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All TFT did was cooperate on the first Prisoner’s Dilemma round, then in every subsequent round, it did whatever the opponent did previously—that is, if on the previous round the opponent cooperated, it cooperated on the next round; if the opponent betrayed, it betrayed on the next round. This simple program decimated the competition. So Axelrod
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