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I was sitting in my car, looking in the rearview mirror, trying to
figure
out which friend I could call to call in a bomb threat, so I didn't have to go back in the building.
And we were trying to
figure
out how we were going to fix this whole thing of this money situation, and she said, "Hey, babe, I've got a great idea."
I wanted to be like the explorers I'd read about in the book, who went into the jungles of Africa, went into the research labs and just tried to
figure
out what this deadly virus was.
And one article that really stood out to me when I was just reading about this, trying to
figure
out why cancer doesn't go to skeletal muscle, was that it had reported 16 percent of micro-metastases to skeletal muscle upon autopsy.
And I think the real challenge is to
figure
out where are the cases in our lives where conflicts of interest work on us, and try not to trust our own intuition to overcome it, but to try to do things that prevent us from falling prey to these behaviors, because we can create lots of undesirable circumstances.
So we thought, well, wouldn't it be fun to get together with some of the smartest design guys in the world and try to
figure
out if we could make the cubicle better?
And so since we use devices to
figure
out how to relate to the world these days, I actually made a device called the Glacier Embracing Suit.
We can actually
figure
it out using really basic signal processing.
But no one had done a systematic survey of these things and tried to
figure
out: How do they actually affect the user's experience of sitting at the computer?
And the way you
figure
that out is: the diameter of the button plus the width of the button, plus a little bit of ease.
But what I quickly realized was I wasn't just trying to
figure
out what happened to Vicky.
I was trying to
figure
out what happened to me.
So in trying to understand and solve hate, I read every book and every research study I could find, but I also went and talked to some former Nazis and some former terrorists and some former genocidal killers, because I figured if they could
figure
out how to escape hate, surely the rest of us could.
And she started this whole citizen science campaign, collected data and drove awareness for sea-star wasting syndrome, to try and
figure
out what was happening there.
And it's becoming increasingly important that we
figure
out how to extract these raw materials from these extremely complicated waste streams.
So about 20 years ago, I literally started in my garage tinkering around, trying to
figure
out how to separate these very similar materials from each other, and eventually enlisted a lot of my friends, in the mining world actually, and in the plastics world, and we started going around to mining laboratories around the world.
You become a
figure
of fun.
One thing that this baby could be thinking about, that could be going on in his mind, is trying to
figure
out what's going on in the mind of that other baby.
After all, one of the things that's hardest for all of us to do is to
figure
out what other people are thinking and feeling.
And maybe the hardest thing of all is to
figure
out that what other people think and feel isn't actually exactly like what we think and feel.
On the other hand, 15 month-olds would stare at her for a long time if she acted as if she liked the broccoli, like they couldn't
figure
this out.
So I think those babies are actually making complicated calculations with conditional probabilities that they're revising to
figure
out how the world works.
I view art as the gateway to help us bridge this gap between human and machine: to
figure
out what it means to get each other so that we can train AI to get us.
So, to explore this, I created a piece of art, an experience, that asked people to share a memory, and I teamed up with some data scientists to
figure
out how to take an emotion that's so highly subjective and convert it into something mathematically precise.
And after piecing together this, this and this, this way of actually trying to
figure
out what happened for myself eventually evolved into this, and it actually became this project.
So we've got to
figure
out how they're living their lives.
But of course, I could never say anything, because the uncle is a respected
figure
in the Indian family.
She was very much onstage and I couldn't
figure
out why she was doing it.
We were going to plan an event called the Rescue of Joseph Kony's Child Soldiers where participants would come in a hundred cities worldwide and rally in their city center until a celebrity or a political
figure
came and used their voice on behalf of these child soldiers, and at that point each city was "rescued."
So I was basically just willing to settle for just reading the next Wired magazine and finding out how the experts were going to
figure
out how to solve all these problems for us in the future.
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