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When I get six- and seven-year-olds in a group, I have to
figure
out how to keep them quiet.
Initially, it does some random motion, and then it tries to
figure
out what it might look like.
Puberty had hit, and I had no idea what being a girl meant, and I was ready to
figure
out who I actually was.
And ever since those results came out, policymakers, educators, researchers from around the world have tried to
figure
out what's behind the success of those systems.
They set very ambitious standards, but then they enable their teachers to
figure
out, what do I need to teach to my students today?
Because we can actually
figure
out every asteroid that's out there, and if it might hit Earth, and when it might hit Earth.
Part two of the solutions: we need to
figure
out how to blow up an asteroid, or alter its trajectory.
Well, I spent a lot of my early career trying to
figure
out how insect wings generate enough force to keep the flies in the air.
I would posit that one frontier in neuroscience is to
figure
out how the brain of that thing works.
I was trying to
figure
out, what do happy families do right and what can I learn from them to make my family happier?
And you can look far back into the past, but if you look at present-day schooling the way it is, it's quite easy to
figure
out where it came from.
The way you would put it to a nine-year-old is to say, "If a meteorite was coming to hit the Earth, how would you
figure
out if it was going to or not?"
So the city planners, they get together and they
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they're going to change the name South Central to make it represent something else, so they change it to South Los Angeles, like this is going to fix what's really going wrong in the city.
It's kind of like landing on Mars and looking out the window of your spaceship at all the little green men who are surrounding it and trying to
figure
out, "How do I find out if they have emotions or not?"
You have to
figure
out exactly what genes matter.
And so I tell people, well, I was trying to
figure
out the fastest way to turn a large fortune into a small one.
And I wanted to
figure
out how I could take the blessing of these resources and share it with the world.
But if you understood how important meaning is, then you would
figure
out that it's actually important to spend some time, energy and effort in getting people to care more about what they're doing.
I didn't try to
figure
out what one does with that.
And before I knew it, I was involved and thrown into this six months of tests and trials and tribulations with six doctors across two hospitals in this clash of medical titans to
figure
out which one of them was right about what was wrong with me.
We have just begun to try to
figure
out how do we take this very complex machine that does extraordinary kinds of information processing and use our own minds to understand this very complex brain that supports our own minds.
This book I wrote because I want to
figure
out life.
Assuming a typical bit rate, we can
figure
that a minute of YouTube video is going to need to involve about 10 million electrons on your device.
Plugging all those electrons and the energy it takes to hold them in the correct place for you to see the video, into that formula, we can
figure
out that one minute of YouTube video increases the mass of your computer by about 10 to the negative 19th grams.
Online harassers also work to
figure
out what will resonate with another human being.
There are other companies that will place a camera like this — this has nothing to do with Facebook — they take your picture, they tie it to the social media, they
figure
out you really like to wear black dresses, so maybe the person in the store comes up and says, "Hey, we've got five black dresses that would just look great on you."
UNICEF thinks that that's good news because the
figure
has been steadily coming down from 12 million in 1990.
It took him over two minutes to
figure
out that he was doing things to the television.
Now, one way to crack the code is to interpret these signals and
figure
out what they mean, but it's a difficult job, and we actually don't have a Rosetta Stone yet.
And my last example of how constraints can boost creativity comes from the green, because this is a weird color, a crazy color, and you need to replace the green screens eventually and you must
figure
that out sooner rather than later.
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