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Teams rotated Scrum Master roles, agile coaches dropped in to give feedback on the teams, and Microsoft – which had just acquired Skype – was interested in taking inspiration from the speedup in delivery.
Since then, we have acquired 500 brains and found over 300 of them had CTE.
I have been teaching for a long time, and in doing so have acquired a body of knowledge about kids and learning that I really wish more people would understand about the potential of students.
What I had was a very particular set of engineering skills, skills I'd acquired over my career (Laughter) that were new to people who had been working on the air pollution problem for so many years.
But in fact, it turns out that some time around 200,000 years ago, when our species first arose and acquired social learning, that this was really the beginning of our story, not the end of our story.
And in any species that acquired it, it would behoove you to hide your best ideas, lest somebody steal them from you.
Once we have language, we can put our ideas together and cooperate to have a prosperity that we couldn't have before we acquired it.
There was a little local difficulty in some of our minor colonies, but ... (Laughter) "China seems to have been long stationary, and probably long ago acquired that full complement of riches which is consistent with the nature of its laws and institutions.
But that is where the Tasmanian devil cancer has acquired an absolutely amazing evolutionary adaptation.
Any time there is a program that's better at surviving in this world, due to whatever mutation it has acquired, it is going to spread over the others and drive the others to extinction.
And this type of activity goes on for quite a while, until the main easy things have been acquired by these programs.
And then about a year and a half ago, Google actually acquired this company.
The observatory had just acquired a new book, written by a Russian cosmologist by the name of Joseph Shklovsky, and then expanded and translated and edited by a little-known Cornell astronomer by the name of Carl Sagan.
And soon enough, they start building this body of meanings, but meanings that were acquired within the realm of social interaction.
Those are meanings that are acquired as part of their shared experiences with others.
In fact, it wasn't until the late 1980s that they acquired a right to a lawyer during the third chapter of the story.
And, as sometimes happens, this blog acquired first dozens of readers, and then hundreds of readers, and then thousands of readers, as people tuned in to watch her rate her school lunches, including on my favorite category, "Pieces of hair found in food."
This high school dropout died at the age of 82, a formidable intellectual, cofounder and first CEO of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and founder of Schocken Books, an acclaimed imprint that was later acquired by Random House.
The 20th century, the last hundred years, is riddled with disastrous examples of times that one school or the other tried to explain the past or predict the future and just did an awful, awful job, so the economics profession has acquired some degree of modesty.
Well, she did that because she, at that time, had acquired a new arm.
And the company was unable to adapt, and it got acquired by our largest competitor.
And right now, we started with the first 14, but we have several that are coming up, and the reason why we haven't acquired them yet is because you don't acquire just the game.
So the way we acquired the games is very interesting and very unorthodox.
She acquired a nurse's uniform, and she snuck in every night to sit by my side.
Well recently, Nepal acquired a new tool in the fight against wildlife crime, and these are drones, or more specifically, conservation drones.
Bit by bit, we build the foundations of the social brain so that by the time we're three, four years old, most children, not all, have acquired the ability to understand the intentions of others, another prerequisite for empathy.
LP: Yeah, so Deep Mind is a company we just acquired recently.
But in the zoo, they had lost most of that diversity and had acquired some other set of microbes.
For our second goal, to reduce the use of expensive medical imaging technologies to screen patients, we started with a standard, white light photograph, acquired either from a DSLR camera or a mobile phone, for the patient.
To summarize our approach, instead of using 10,000 very expensive medical images, we can now train the AI algorithms in an unorthodox way, using only 50 of these high-resolution, but standard photographs, acquired from DSLR cameras and mobile phones, and provide diagnosis.
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