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The goal in my life has always been to make more and more products in the least
amount
of time and resources.
But we have something that plays the same role, with much more elegance though: the trees, our good old friends that, like geysers, can transfer an enormous
amount
of water from the ground into the atmosphere.
That's not a huge
amount
of people reading, but 28 people matter.
I mean, the brain is this intensely active organ that produces a correspondingly large
amount
of waste that must be efficiently cleared.
A series of recent clinical studies suggest that among patients who haven't yet developed Alzheimer's disease, worsening sleep quality and sleep duration are associated with a greater
amount
of amyloid-beta building up in the brain, and while it's important to point out that these studies don't prove that lack of sleep or poor sleep cause Alzheimer's disease, they do suggest that the failure of the brain to keep its house clean by clearing away waste like amyloid-beta may contribute to the development of conditions like Alzheimer's.
Here is a fact that might surprise you: 413 billion dollars, 413 billion dollars was the
amount
of remittances sent last year by migrants to developing countries.
Monthly remittances, on average, to Somalia is larger than that
amount.
Migrants send money home, but they also save a large
amount
of money where they live.
And so it's not just big data that causes challenges of interpretation, because let's face it, we human beings have a very rich history of taking any
amount
of data, no matter how small, and screwing it up.
Now, with my job, there's above-average
amount
of risks that are involved.
And as we get our cars more fuel-efficient, that's going to be reducing the
amount
of revenue that you get off of those gas taxes, so we need to charge people by the mile that they drive.
Someone who earns the minimum wage would have to work for 15 months to save this
amount.
Howard Florey had managed to synthesize a very small
amount
of penicillin, a drug that had been discovered 12 years before by Alexander Fleming but had never actually been used to treat a human, and indeed no one even knew if the drug would work, if it was full of impurities that would kill the patient, but Florey and his team figured if they had to use it, they might as well use it on someone who was going to die anyway.
Tucked away on the right-hand side, you will see a dot of a country with a lot of GDP but not a huge
amount
of social progress — that's Kuwait.
And you will see, the
amount
of corn planted this year will be up dramatically from last year and there will be that much more habitat because we've decided ethanol is going to help us.
So vision scientists know that the
amount
of information that we can see at any given point in time, what we can focus on, is actually relatively small.
So we had some 21st-century gear, but the reality is that the challenges that Scott faced were the same that we faced: those of the weather and of what Scott called glide, the
amount
of friction between the sledges and the snow.
We had a finite
amount
of food in the sledges to make this journey, so we were trying to string that out by reducing our intake to half the calories we should have been eating.
Now the key thing there is, we've been able to take a large
amount
of information from many Chinese speakers and produce a text-to-speech system that takes Chinese text and converts it into Chinese language, and then we've taken an hour or so of my own voice and we've used that to modulate the standard text-to-speech system so that it would sound like me.
So think of this: In 100 years, we lost the same
amount
of forest in the tropics that we lost in 2,000 years in temperate forests.
After the intervention, no more discrimination: the same
amount
of stickers to their best friend and the least favorite child.
We know this because in tightly controlled experimental studies when learners are given material to learn, either in their preferred style or an opposite style, it makes no difference at all to the
amount
of information they retain.
This is significant, because every tumor bigger than a cubic millimeter or two has five times the
amount
of blood as normal flesh.
You need access to the same phones, devices, connectivity, and even where you don't, where you can find a proxy agent, usually they require a certain
amount
of capital to participate.
Today, the average person has an astounding
amount
of personal information online, and we add to this online information every single time we post on Facebook, each time we search on Google, and each time we send an email.
These C.O.s play a big factor in these young people's lives for x
amount
of time until a disposition is reached on their case.
What I'm saying is that getting some of these symptoms doesn't
amount
to a mental disorder, and when psychologists come up with a disorder that's so vaguely defined, the label eventually becomes meaningless.
Now, part of the reason for this is that we've invested a huge
amount
in nuclear deterrents.
Now, some of you may still feel a little queasy about viral genes in your food, but consider this: The genetically engineered papaya carries just a trace
amount
of the virus.
Last season, farmers reported they were able to reduce their insecticide use by a huge amount, almost down to zero.
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