Ability
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I'm very, very stoked to be here today, representing my kinfolk and all those that haven't managed to make a career out of an innate
ability
for inhuman noisemaking.
The
ability
to recognize sounds and identify their location is possible thanks to the auditory system.
But the orchestra were wowed as well, and the press of the world were fascinated by your
ability
to play these fantastic pieces.
And it's that ability, that
ability
to hear simultaneous sounds, not only just single sounds, but when a whole orchestra is playing, Derek, you can hear every note, and instantly, through all those hours and hours of practice, reproduce those on the keyboard, that makes you, I think, is the basis of all your
ability.
It's no use having that kind of raw
ability
without the technique, and luckily, Derek, you decided that, once we did start learning, you'd let me help you learn all the scale fingerings.
What we know is that, if after you've tried to learn a task, and you sleep-deprive individuals, the
ability
to learn that task is smashed.
What's turned out to be really exciting is that our
ability
to come up with novel solutions to complex problems is hugely enhanced by a night of sleep.
And some had no
ability
to regulate their sleep by the light-dark cycle.
But I came to a realization about my own
ability.
Well, along with this
ability
to plant memories and control behavior obviously come some important ethical issues, like, when should we use this mind technology?
And if it's the case that we can reach that level of complexity, if our
ability
to program molecules gets to be that good, then that will truly be magic.
The world I believe in is one where we're measured by our
ability
to overcome adversities, not avoid them.
In reality, the relationship between the living and the dead has its own drama in the U.S. healthcare system, where decisions about how long to stretch the thread of life are made based on our emotional and social ties with the people around us, not just on medicine's
ability
to prolong life.
Very few of us have the
ability
to be totally and brutally honest with ourselves.
And government has many ways in which it could impact the willingness and the
ability
of companies to compete in this way.
What then happens is not an across-the-board reduction in all your mental capacities, a sort of blunting of your cognitive
ability.
Now, when that area's damaged, you lose the
ability
to see faces, right?
It's a completely useless ability, if you think about it.
Well, think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common, the
ability
to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such as, "It is the east, and Juliet is the Sun."
It's a primitive form of abstraction, and we now know this happens in the fusiform gyrus of the brain, because when that's damaged, these people lose the
ability
to engage in Bouba Kiki, but they also lose the
ability
to engage in metaphor.
In most of these places, the government is completely absent, leaving inhabitants with no choice but to reappropriate found materials, and while these communities are highly disadvantaged, they do present examples of brilliant forms of ingenuity, and prove that indeed we have the
ability
to adapt to all manner of circumstances.
In the same span of time, computers
' ability
to recognize people in photos improved by three orders of magnitude.
What happens when you combine these technologies together: increasing availability of facial data; improving facial recognizing
ability
by computers; but also cloud computing, which gives anyone in this theater the kind of computational power which a few years ago was only the domain of three-letter agencies; and ubiquitous computing, which allows my phone, which is not a supercomputer, to connect to the Internet and do there hundreds of thousands of face metrics in a few seconds?
But then very quickly, I started to underestimate my mustache growing ability, and it got way too big.
Well-functioning markets provide choices, and ultimately, the
ability
to express one's pursuit for happiness.
The great Indian economist, Amartya Sen, was awarded the Nobel prize for demonstrating that famine is not so much about the availability of food supply, but rather the
ability
to acquire or entitle oneself to that food through the market.
And that actually has huge implications for the
ability
of markets to quickly respond to price signals, and situations where there are deficits, for example.
I believe it is his
ability
to identify and seize a new opportunity.
But the real power of the CAO is its
ability
to capture the actual building blocks of ecosystems.
It's really advancing our
ability
to save forests and to curb climate change.
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